Take two

Foust gets second chance win. Skorupski and Enerberg also win.

Tanner Foust became the first double winner in this year’s European Rallycross Championship, the American adding to his Portuguese win in a dramatic A final in the Swedish round. The event also brought a maiden Super1600 win for Pole Krzysztof Skorupski and yet another TouringCar victory for Norwegian Lars Øivind Enerberg.

The Supercar A final was halted in its second lap when Andréas Eriksson rolled his Fiesta. Ludvig Hunsbedt also failed to make it back for the restart so there were just four cars left for the second attempt and again it was Sverre Isachsen who led. The champion, however, fell easy prey to Foust in the third lap, the Fiesta driver passing Isachsen whose Focus picked up a left rear puncture. Kenneth Hansen, up from the B final in his new Citroën DS3 was stuck behind Isachsen for the next few laps, the bottle neck allowing Toomas Heikkinen who had stalled on the grid to close. Then, in the last corner, Hansen took his chance and snatched second place, Heikkinen also getting past Isachsen to get onto the podium while Isachsen just made it to the finish line in fourth.

Skorupski’s domination of the Super1600 class was completed with a classy drive to his debut victory, the young Pole never appearing to be under any threat as he led from start to finish. Clemens Meyer won the B final and then made a great start to the A, running with Skorupski in the first lap but clearly unable to match the Pole’s pace. The German then settled for the place, following Skorupski all the way, even through the last lap Joker, to collect second place with Dane Ulrik Linnemann third. Norwegian Andreas Bakkerud ran third on the track until parking his overheating Clio in the fourth lap.

Enerberg was supreme in TouringCar, a very fast first lap giving him the break over Ole Håbjørg. After this, Enerberg controlled it perfectly, Håbjørg increasingly occupied by Anton Marklund who drove well here to place third. The race broke into two, three-car groups, the latter trio swapping places until John Karlsson got to the front of the group in his Mazda with Rotary engine.

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