After setting the fastest laps in yesterday’s testing and this morning’s practice the two Chevrolet Cruze cars run by Campos Racing topped again the overall classification and the TC2T class. Karamyshev improved significantly from 1:35.022 to 1:33.964, inflicting a one-second gap to his team-mate Igor Skuz (1:35.021). BMW drivers Franz Engstler (1:35.493) and Mat’o Homola (1:36.114) were classified in third and fourth respectively.

Norbert Kiss placed his Team Unicorse Alfa Romeo 156 in fifth overall and on top of the TC2 class with a lap of 1:36.670, beating the BMW cars of the Krenek Motorsport duo of Petr Fulín (1:37.098) and Michal Matĕjovský (1.38.198).

 

In the Single Make Trophy, SMP Racing’s Dmitry Bragin pipped Andreas Pfister with a last lap of 1:37.956 that was also good enough for the eighth position overall; Pfister remained second (1:38.235), while young Finn Aku Pellinen took third (1:38.290).

 

In the Super 1600 class the best lap time was set by Ulrike Krafft in her Ravenol Team Ford Fiesta (1:49.819); the German girl literally outclassed her competitors, leaving her team-mates Christian Kranenberg (1:51.702) and Patrick Wolf (1:51.741) nearly two seconds behind.

 

Gilles Bruckner, runner up in the 2013 S1600 ETCC was forced out of the meeting following an engine failure that hit his Ford Fiesta car during Friday’s testing.

 

Race 1 starts at 12.45 local time tomorrow with Race 2 beginning at 13.50.