Tangling on the remaining hairpin on the ultimate lap price a double podium for the Crimson Bull vehicles and allowed Kristoffersson’s team-mate Ole Christian Veiby to steal the underside step forward of Kevin. Timmy took second.
Timmy mentioned: “I felt quicker than Niclas. I attempted to play with my strains to have a greater exit than him to attempt to do one thing within the braking for the subsequent nook, however I couldn’t fairly get to him.”
Speaking about that sibling rivalry, he admitted he’d tried to open the hole within the remaining nook to assist his brother out – however they have been each in peril from the lurking Veiby.
“He actually tried to shut the door on me, so I needed to come out of the throttle, however I used to be at all times there and I knew coming into the nook that the one approach we might get two and three as a crew is that if I again down, however on the identical time you’ve obtained to race! I stayed within the hole. I hope he doesn’t really feel too unhealthy.”
Kristoffersson handed Klara Andersson for fifth place late within the race, however the opening skirmish within the ‘Battle of Applied sciences’ was all electrical.
A lot to the delight of the packed crowd, it was Portuguese Joao Ribeiro (Audi) who gained Euro RX3 along with his countryman Andre Sousa (Audi) second. It was one other Audi one-two for Yury Belevskiy and Damian Litwinowicz in Euro RX1.
