Find out what the drivers said at the Hungaroring on Saturday...
Race 1
1. Jochen Hahn – Team Hahn Racing | IVECO
“I’m very happy. It’s a dream scenario to take a pole position and win a race. We had good speed since yesterday’s free practices and that transferred into today. Again, I’m very happy to win, it’s good for the championship as well as it's rewarding. It’s not good for the sport [that Adam Lacko was disqualified]. It’s a new truck [for him] and everybody is on the limit."
2. Antonio Albacete – Truck Sport Lutz Bernau | MAN
“The race was OK, I made a small mistake in the first corner, I missed a gear and that’s why Adam passed me but then I heard on the radio that he has a penalty so I just took it easy, trying not to make any more mistakes. When Adam served his drive-through penalty Jochen was already far ahead. Anyway, I knew he was too fast today to have a fight with him, so I just focused on bringing the second place home. For us it’s fantastic. I like to race here. There are many people and the circuit is very difficult.”
3. José Rodrigues – Reboconort Truck Racing Team | MAN
“I’m very happy with the first podium of the year. I hope I can achieve some more good results. Who knows, maybe it will rain tomorrow, which wouldn’t be bad for me. Let’s wait and see."
Race 2
1. Sascha Lenz – SL Trucksport 30 | MAN
“I was sitting in the truck and I hoped for a green light and I had a very good start. From then I was driving qualifying laps, I didn’t look in the mirrors, and after three or four laps I already had a big gap [over Reinert]. It wasn’t as easy as it looked like from the outside. I’m very happy for my team and for myself.”
2. René Reinert – Reinert Racing | IVECO
“I was on pole and it was my plan to have a better start but it didn’t work out perfectly. Sascha overtook me at the start. I tried to fight him, but I wasn’t fast enough, so I decided to focus on the race, making sure I won’t make any mistakes. It was a good race. At times Steffi was really close.
“Overall I’m really happy as we had a lot of technical problems and I hadn’t done too many laps before the races. I qualified only 11th because of a technical issue, so an eight and a second is a really good outcome.”
3. Steffi Halm – Team Schwabentruck | IVECO
“I was starting from fourth position and the start was very good – I was able to overtake Norbi [Kiss] but I wasn’t able to overtake René so I was third. In the beginning, I tried not to push too hard and I thought René won’t be that fast, but then I took a little bit of distance so that could open up a little bit of a gap over the fourth-placed truck and the other runners."
“Three laps from the end I tried to push again and got very close but then he fought very hard, not unfair, just hard. We lost a lot of time so I decided that we won’t fight anymore and gave him a little space so we can stay in control and don’t get the others the chance to fight us.”