Attila Tassi doubles-up and takes the championship lead in Hungary

Attila Tassi has taken his second win of both his career and the day at the Hungaroring, and has launched into the championship lead in a dramatic race at the Hungaroring, with three cars eliminated in a first corner incident.

Jens Reno Moller led from the reversed grid pole position, while the Volkswagen of Giacomo Altoè held on to second despite a slow start, with Attila Tassi catapulting from eighth to third before the first corner.

On the way in, Stian Paulsen in the SEAT came together with WRT’s Rob Huff, with the Volkswagen driver forced into a half-spin, which was a catalyst to the incident which followed, with Gianni Morbidelli going wide at Turn 1 in his WestCoast Volkswagen, rejoining the track next to WRT’s Jean-Karl Vernay, who was squeezed between Davit Kajaia’s Alfa.

Kajaia was spun across into Morbidelli’s car, with Dan Lloyd’s SEAT caught up as well, with all three cars out and the safety car deployed.

When the race restarted on lap four, Moller began to pull away from Altoè’s Volkswagen, with the 16-year-old defending against 18-year-old Tassi’s Honda for two laps, before Tassi made the move at Turn 3 on lap six, while behind Craft-Bamboo’s Pepe Oriola made his way past Roberto Colciago’s Honda for fourth at the same corner.

Outside the top ten, Comtoyou Racing’s Stefano Comini was battling with Rob Huff’s recovering Volkswagen to hold 11th, with the two joined by Mat’o Homola’s Opel, who again started from the back of the grid.

Huff made a move up the inside of Comini on lap ten, hitting the rear of the Swiss driver’s Audi, scattering debris on the track, with Homola then hitting Huff a lap later as he battled for the position.

The three remained in the same order, with Comini elevated to tenth when team-mate Frédéric Vervisch retired from tenth with a steering problem with three laps to go.

Tassi overtook Moller’s Honda during the closing stages, with Oriola also closing down the Dane and making his way past on the penultimate lap.

Tassi’s second win of the day moves the young Hungarian into the lead of the championship, six points clear of team-mate Roberto Colciago, heading to the next round of the championship in three weeks’ time at Oschersleben, where Tassi will carry the maximum 30kg of success ballast.