Petr Fulín takes comfortable win in contact-heavy first race in Slovakia

Krenek Motorsport driver Peter Fulín won the first race of the day at the Slovakiaring by a comfortable margin of five seconds, while there were incidents behind as drivers battled for the lower podium positions throughout the race.

Fulín kept the lead from pole position at the rolling start, while joint-points leader Ferenc Ficza made a great start in the Zengo Motorsport SEAT León to move ahead of the two cars of Mat’o Homola and Dusan Borkovic to be in second through the first turn.

Borkovic was soon under pressure from the TC2T class BMW of Davit Kajaia, and whilst defending fourth, the two drivers were passed by Andreas Pfister, who was chasing his perfect record at the circuit having won every time in the Single-Make Trophy class.

Borkovic fought back and passed Pfister a lap later for fourth, which became third when Ficza retired from the race on lap seven. The Hungarian had been tapped lightly on the rear by Homola’s SEAT in the final complex and slid off into the barriers, damaging the suspension on his SEAT León.

Fulín went on to cross the finish line first unchallenged, with Homola second and Borkovic securing the final podium spot with third.

Norbert Toth put on a strong charge in the second Zengo SEAT to finish fourth ahead of TC2T class winner Davit Kajaia, with Michal Matejovsky winning the TC2 class for Krenek Motorsport in the BMW 320si with eighth.

Ulrike Krafft converted the S1600 class pole into victory with 17th ahead of Nicklas Mackschin and Gilles Bruckner.

The second race follows with Matejovsky starting from pole position on the reversed grid ahead of Ronny Jost’s TopCar SEAT.