Two-from-two for Renaud Kuppens at Assen, as points leader DNFs

Renaud Kuppens followed up on his win in Sprint Race 1 at Assen with a victory in the second race, while it was not all smiles for Boutsen-Ginion Racing, as their other two cars, including championship leader Stéphane Lémeret, retired on the first lap.

Kuppens won the race, again held in wet conditions, ahead of Maxime Potty’s Team WRT Volkswagen, building a five second lead, while Sam Dejonghe retired after one lap in the WRT SEAT.

Boutsen-Ginion pair Michael Verhagen and Stéphane Lémeret retired on the first lap, with the incident under investigation by the stewards. The damage to Lémeret’s championship was minimised however by a quiet result for chief rival Frédéric Caprasse, who picked up just six points after finishing seventh in the DG Sport Opel Astra TCR.

Meindert van Buuren followed up on his great result in Race 1 with a podium in Race 2 in his Bas Koeten Racing-run car, with team boss Bas Koeten himself finishing in fifth position in the sister car, sandwiching Guillaume Mondron’s Delahaye Racing SEAT.

Lémeret still leads the championship on 364 points, now just 25.5 ahead of Fred Caprasse and Pierre-Yves Corthals, with Sam Dejonghe and Denis Dupont 80 adrift.

Lémeret’s car will be driven by WTCC driver Norbert Michelisz for the final two races of the day, with the Hungarian starting from pole position for Race 3, which gets underway at 16:55 CET.