Mikel Azcona rues qualifying mistake at Zolder

Hyundai Motorsport N driver Mikel Azcona lamented his errors during the Pool Furious qualifying session at Zolder as the reason why he couldn’t achieve a better result from the weekend.

Azcona had to laps disallowed during the qualifying session due to track limits infractions: “I was feeling confident we would have a good event, having been fastest in Free Practice. The Hyundai Veloster N ETCR felt perfect. However then I made two big mistakes in Qualifying and it was very difficult for me to recover.”

The Spaniard had a heated fight in the semi final 2 with Cupra’s Mattias Ekström and, leading to the Pool Furious final, Azcona could only manage to finish in second place behind Maxime Martin (Romeo Ferraris), matching his best result of the season.

“I felt very strong and I was able to battle with the other cars,” added Azcona. “We have definitely taken some steps forward this weekend. We came back fighting and recovered to second place in the Super Final, which is an amazing result.”

The Spaniard was again the highest-scoring driver for Hyundai, but lies in fourth place in the drivers’ championship, 95 points behind leading driver Adrien Tambay (Cupra EKS).

“I have to say a big thanks to my team for helping me to fight at the front in the races,” added the Hyundai driver. “Now we have some good points in our pockets as we head into the next event.”