Albacete Triumphs at Nürburgring
Antonio Albacete has become the fourth different winner of 2024 taking Race 4 victory ahead of Jochen Hahn at the Nürburgring.
The win was taken off the start as, getting a better run into Turn 1, Albacete passed Steffi Halm to take the lead, something he would hold onto until the chequered flag. Quickly Halm got swallowed into a podium battle allowing Albacete to build a lead.
She looked like she would be able to hold off the attack, but once Jochen Hahn had passed her to push Halm to third, it didn’t take long for Sascha Lenz and Norbert Kiss to hand her the same treatment. Halm managed to hold back the attack from André Kursim to take fifth overall.
Kiss found himself in his second hard fight of the day, this time trying to pass Lenz for third and keep up his clean sweep of podiums for 2024. Try as he might, Lenz was defending too well and this time Kiss couldn’t get the job done, missing out on his first podium of the year.
Kursim was sixth ahead of Chrome class winner José Eduardo Rodrigues. Rodrigues made it a double Chrome victory as he, once again, held off Lukas Hahn who had to settle for second. This win also gave Rodrigues victory in the Young Drivers Cup this weekend over Lukas Hahn and Bradley Smith.
Mark Taylor was again on the Chrome podium, putting him ever closer to Steffen Faas in the class championship. Faas was fifth in class with Clemens Hecker separating the pair. The deficit comes down by another two points due to the lesser scoring system in Race 2 and 4 over the weekend.
John Newell finished sixth in class, 12th overall ahead of Jonathan André, Smith and Luis Recuenco to complete the classified drivers.
Unfortunately, Luke Garrett was unable to take the start of Race 4 after another steering issue befell him. He broke down on his way to the grid, having to be towed back to the paddock before the lights went green.
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