Ladniak scores first TCR Germany Junior win in Civic Type R TCR
A class win and three overall podiums were the highlights for Honda Civic Type R TCR customer teams in Europe last weekend.
TCR Germany
Szymon Ladniak scored his first TCR Germany Junior Trophy win with a career-best second-place finish at the season finale at a damp Nurburgring.
On only his second event since switching to Halder Motorsport’s Civic, which is built by JAS Motorsport, the Polish teenager started second overall and - after running competitively all race - finished there to also seal his first Junior Trophy win.
He had been second in Saturday’s opener with independent Albert Legutko making it a double-Honda podium in the Juniors in his older FK2 Civic.
Honda ADAC Sachsen - whose cars are run by Fugel Sport - also scored some excellent results.
Marcel Fugel scored a superb career-best result in second overall in Race One - 24 hours after securing his first series pole.
Brother Dominik was fourth in both races; the elder Fugel having recovered from a contact-induced drive-through penalty early in Race One and fighting back from ninth.
Dominik secured third in the Drivers’ Championship with Marcel seventh and Honda ADAC Sachsen the runners-up in the race for the Teams’ title. Legutko and Ladniak finished fourth and fifth in the Junior Trophy.
FIA WTCR
Esteban Guerrieri and ALL-INKL.COM Munnich Motorsport maintained their title hopes as the Argentinian finished on the podium for the third time this season at Adria, Italy.
Having qualified ninth, Guerrieri started from the front row on Race One’s partially-reversed grid and led initially. He was barged wide towards the end of the first lap by a rival against whom no action was taken, and finished third.
He was sixth in Race Two, which moved him up a spot to third in the standings with one round to go.
Team-mate Nestor Girolami was the best Honda qualifier in sixth, but was himself run off the track on the first lap of Race Two by a rival, causing a chain reaction that put him out with damage. He was eighth in Race One.
Mechanical issues cost ALL-INKL.de’s Tiago Monteiro lots of track time on Saturday and left him down in 19th on the grid for both races. Fifteenth was his best finish, three places lower than Attila Tassi, who had his best qualifying performance since Estoril in June.
Main Szymon Ladniak, Halder Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR, TCR Germany, Nurburgring, Germany (credit: ADAC Motorsport); Lower 1 Marcel Fugel, Honda ADAC Sachsen Honda Civic Type R TCR, TCR Germany, Nurburgring, Germany (credit: ADAC Motorsport); 2(L) Dominik Fugel, Honda ADAC Sachsen Honda Civic Type R TCR, TCR Germany, Nurburgring, Germany (credit: ADAC Motorsport); (R) Albert Legutko, Albert Legutko Racing Honda Civic Type R TCR, TCR Germany, Nurburgring, Germany (credit: ADAC Motorsport); 3 Esteban Guerrieri, ALL-INKL.COM Munnich Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR, WTCR, Adria, Italy (credit: DPPI/FIA WTCR); 4 Nestor Girolami, ALL-INKL.COM Munnich Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR, WTCR, Adria, Italy (credit: DPPI/FIA WTCR); 5(L) Attila Tassi, ALL-INKL.DE Munnich Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR, WTCR, Adria, Italy (credit: DPPI/FIA WTCR); (R) Tiago Monteiro, ALL-INKL.DE Munnich Motorsport Honda Civic Type R TCR, WTCR, Adria, Italy (credit: DPPI/FIA WTCR).
About JAS MotorsportFounded in 1995, JAS Motorsport is one of the world's leading touring car teams and constructors. Initially fielding Alfa Romeos in the ITC, JAS became a technical partner of Honda in 1998 and has been at the forefront of its activities with touring cars and rallying ever since. In 2012, JAS was chosen to develop, in partnership with Honda R&D, the Civic WTCC, with which it claimed the Manufacturers' world title a year later. JAS designed and built the Civic Type R TCR, which has claimed 43 major titles so far (28 with the current model), and is also responsible for the build of the NSX GT3 Evo race car; itself a 15-time title winner. |
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