Foust Wins RallycrossRX Finland

American racer Tanner Foust claimed victory in Finland, the fourth round of the FIA European Rallycross Championship.

Foust had started on the back row of the grid and  made a brilliant startto be up to third by the first corner, behind semi final winners Petter Solberg and Timur Timerzyanov. Solberg had also made a good start, claiming the Monster Energy Supercharge Award for being first to the first corner, and sliding sideways around the outside of Timerzyanov to take the lead of the race.

British driver Liam Doran ran fourth, taking the joker lap at the end of lap one, followed by his team mate Andreas Bakkerud, having his best event of the season so far. Timmy Hansen started on the second row of the grid, and ran fourth when Doran jokered. Hansen took his joker on the second lap, returning to the main circuit ahead of Bakkerud, who passed Doran going into the final corner. While Solberg pulled ahead at the front of the field, Bakkerud picked up a puncture over the loose section on the third lap, blocking Hansen’s path into the hairpin, allowing Doran to sneak past the pair into fourth place. Hansen was hot on Doran’s tail, and passed the Englishman into the last corner on the fourth lap.

Solberg continued to extend his lead at the head of the field, only for a steering arm to fail on his Citroen DS3 on the loose section of the circuit. Running wide at the hairpin, Foust shot up the inside, followed by the rest of the field. Solberg valiantly tried to continue, but came to a halt in the jokerlap, unable to go any further. Foust took the lead, and by the end of the sixth and final lap had a reasonable gap ahead of Citroen pair Timerzyanov and Hansen, who finished nose to tail.

Reinis Nitiss took his second RallycrossRX Super1600 victory in a row, starting on the front row and leading the final from lights to flag ahead of Ildar Rakhatulin and Eric Faren.

TouringCar was won by Czech driver Roman Castoral who claimed this first win of 2013. Derek Tohill finished second after an eventful final, while round three winner Daniel Lundh came home third.

Victory in the JRX category was claimed by William Nilsson for the second event in succession, ahead of Magda Andersson. Kevin Hansen retired on the fourth lap.

Read more here, with full results avalible here.

Full in-depth event report to follow on here on RallycrossWorld.

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