MOST, Czech Republic – Tobias Dauenhauer completed a perfect weekend with his second-straight EuroNASCAR 2 victory Sunday at Autodrom Most.
The 23-year-old led all 14 laps after a perfect start. He pulled away from his competitors while several hot battles in the midfield delighted the fans.
With his third win of the season, Dauenhauer extended his championship lead and kept the red Whelen banner on the No. 50 Mustang. With three wins, six top-five results and two poles, the German made a statement on his way to win the EuroNASCAR 2 Championship at the halfway point of the season. With three events to go, the Hendriks Motorsport driver still needs to stay focused as the other competitors are hungry to enter the battle for the title and anything can happen in the second part of the season.
“I’m very happy at the moment and it was just a perfect weekend,” Dauenhauer said. “As a team we showed such a great performance the whole weekend long – in the dry and in the wet. The car was just perfect, the Hendriks Motorsport team did a phenomenal job. I just gave my best and I have no words left to say but that it was a perfect weekend.”
Francesco Garisto said before the race that he wanted to stay out of trouble and that proved to be the best strategy on his way to second place. The 42 Racing driver avoided chaos in a wild opening portion of the race to settle in second and finish on the podium for the first time this season. Vladimiros Tziortzis completed the podium in third.
DF1 Racing’s Justin Kunz followed in fourth place after an exciting race for the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series veteran. The German was right in the battle for fourth, when Tziortzis and Paolo Valeri got together. While Tziortzis and Kunz continued, Valeri spun and collected Naveh Talor and both were shuffled down the order, while Tziortzis took over third and Kunz fourth.
EuroNASCAR 2 returnee Gil Linster also avoided any contact when the Italian and the Israeli spun ahead of him to take over fifth and score a strong top-five finish for DF1 Racing. Talor recovered and limited the damage by ending up sixth. DF1 Racing’s Ian Eric Waden crossed the finish line in seventh and won the Legend Trophy ahead of CAAL Racing’s Max Lanza.