Jochen Hahn took his fourth pole position of the season during Saturday’s qualifying session held at the Slovakia Ring...
Jochen Hahn clinched his fourth pole position of the 2019 FIA European Truck Racing Championship season during Saturday’s qualifying session held at the Slovakia Ring.
Norbert Kiss will join the Team Hahn Racing driver on front row of the grid in his Team Tankpool24 Racing Mercedes-Benz machine. The Hungarian ace went nearly 0.3s off 2:43.399 set earlier by the reigning champion.
Steffi Halm in the second of the IVECO trucks was third fastest in the Team Schwabentruck IVECO racer. The German team cleared steering issues she suffered on Friday that made her miss Free Practice 2 participation.
Halm will have Adam Lacko in Buggyra Racing-run Freightliner for company on the second row of the grid, with an all-MAN row three behind them comprised of Antonio Albacete (Truck Sport Lutz Bernau) and Sascha Lenz (SL Trucksport 30).
The fourth row of the grid will be shared Rene Reinert in his Reinert Racing IVECO and the fastest of the GRAMMER TRUCK CUP participants, Luis Recuecno driving the second of the Truck Sport Lutz Bernau’s MANs. Recuenco topped his category despite suffering turbo problems in the warm-up session held this morning.
The top 10 is competed by second in the GRAMMER TRUCK CUP, Jamie Anderson, and André Kursim of Don’t Touch Racing. Both drivers had their lap time cancelled due to exceeding track limits.
Halm tops Timed Practice
Steffi Halm went quickest of all in the Timed Practice 1 held directly before, setting a best lap of 2:43:735. She was 0.114s faster than fellow-IVECO driver, Jochen Hahn.
Norbert Kiss was a close third, 0.177s off Halm’s time, with Antonio Albacete fourth. The Spaniard was however over 0.3s off the fastest time.
The following places granting a Super Pole participation went to André Kursim, Adam Lacko, Sascha Lenz, Rene Reinert and Luis Recuecno, who was the fastest driver in the GRAMMER TRUCK CUP.
The top 10 was rounded out by Jamie Anderson, who was at the same time second in the GRAMMER TRUCK CUP. The Anderson Racing driver was, however, nearly 0.7s off Recuenco’s time.
The following places went to Oly Janes of Buggyra Racing, Tankpool24 Racing’s Fabio Citignola, the sole Reboconort MAN truck of Eduardo Rodrigues and Dominique Orsini in his family-run all-black Mercedes-Benz truck, who will be the final starter in the race that’s set to take place at 14:20 local time.