Title rivals Jochen Hahn and Adam Lacko shared the spoils in the four races over the weekend at Zolder, but it was Hahn’s superior points scoring which has seen him open up a 35 point gap in the FIA European Truck Racing Championship chase.
 
The races in Belgium saw typically entertaining races with fender-to-fender action throughout the field. But it was at the very front of it where all eyes were fixed as Hahn and Lacko scrapped furiously throughout the quartet of races.

Race 3

Jochen Hahn took an unexpected second Zolder victory, after long-time leader Adam Lacko retired late in the race.

Lacko started from pole and immediately pulled away from Hahn to take a 0.730s lead over the German at the end of the first lap. He increased that margin to almost four seconds by lap 8 and seemed to be on his way to an easy victory, when suddenly his Buggyra International Racing System Freightliner stopped on track.

A faultless Hahn inherited the lead and the Team Hahn Racing MAN went on to take the race win, his tenth of the season. As a result of his second victory of the weekend, and Lacko’s no-score, Hahn has extended his championship lead to 36 points over Lacko.

The two Reinert Racing trucks, which are also prepared by Hahn, came across the finish line to take second and third. René Reinert finished in second place, 3.295s behind the race winner, while Steffi Halm secured yet another podium finish. Her third-place means she has now moved up into fifth place in the championship.

Hungarian Norbert Kiss managed to limit the damage in the battle for third in the championship, by claiming fourth place after 12 laps of racing around the 4-kilometer track. The reigning FIA ETRC champion is now five points clear of René Reinert.

Gerd Körber and his Team Schwabentruck Iveco were able to keep the Lion Truck Racing MAN of Anthony Janiec behind to take fifth place, while Sascha Lenz secured seventh place and a front row start for Race Three.

Race 4

Adam Lacko took a commanding victory in Race Four of the FIA European Truck Racing Championship weekend at Zolder, making up for his non-finish in Race Three earlier on Sunday.

The Buggyra International Racing System Freightliner started the race from the seventh row of the grid, but was already up into eighth place at the end of the opening lap. By lap three Lacko had moved into fourth, which became third on lap five when he passed Frenchman Anthony Janiec.
 
The Czech rapidly closed the gap to second-placed Steffi Halm and race leader Sascha Lenz and in lap six he passed Halm at turn four. An unstoppable Lacko then overtook Lenz to take the lead into turn two on the next lap and soon disappeared over the horizon. Lacko eventually crossed the line 8.813s clear of the second-placed truck.
 
Behind Lacko, Lenz was unable to fend off Halm and Jochen Hahn. Hahn had lost a couple of places in the early stages, but fought his way back to the front and after passing Janiec in a clinical move which started at turn one and was completed by turn two; he overtook Lenz to take third.
 
Hahn, however, was not satisfied with third place and began to chase down Halm. On the final lap Hahn managed to pass her at turn five and came across the line to claim yet another impressive podium finish.