Jeffrey van Hooydonk wins Race 3 at Zandvoort

Jeffrey van Hooydonk won the third race of the weekend of the TCR Benelux series at Zandvoort for Bas Koeten Racing, holding of Loris Hezemans and Pierre-Yves Corthals during the race.

Van Hooydonk got the jump on pole-sitter Hezemans, both competing in SEAT León TCRs, while behind the field were lucky to avoid the Team WRT Volkswagen of Maxime Potty who’d stalled on the grid.

Hezemans challenged van Hooydonk for the lead lap after lap during the early satges, crossing the line separated by just three-hundredths of a second on lap two.

Renaud Kuppens was making fast progress in the Boutsen Ginion Honda Civic from last on the grid, but the Belgian hit trouble twice on the same lap after making his way to eighth, first running wide at Masterkurve, and then was handed a drive-through penalty for starting out of position.

Pierre-Yves Corthals put his DG Sport Compétition Opel Astra TCR ahead of Hezemans on lap four and then mounted his challenge on Van Hooydonk, but was also unable to pass the Dutchman.

Corthals best attempt came at Tarzan on lap seven, making light contact with the rear of the SEAT.

Hezemans then managed to repass Corthals on lap ten as the Belgian went wide at Masterkurve, but Van Hooydonk went to on take the win ahead of Hezemans with Corthals finishing third.

On the final lap, Alexis van de Poele in the Delahaye Volkswagen and the Team WRT SEAT of Denis Dupont made contact, with Dupont knocked out of the top ten. The stewards quickly ruled no penalty was required.

Race 4 follows with the grid as per Race 3’s result following a leading car intervention.