Blomqvist takes first FIA ETCR DHL Super Final win for King of the Weekend Crown

Tom Blomqvist’s super Sachsenring weekend came to fruition with the win in the Pool FAST DHL Super Final meaning he is unbeatable in the Race DE King of the Weekend standings. The CUPRA EKS driver secured maximum points through his heats and although this points tally can still be matched by his team-mate Adrien Tambay, a faster qualifying time for Blomqvist means he would win the tie-breaker.

Pole-sitter Blomqvist had another strong race with team-mate starting from P2, Mattias Ekström providing early tail-gunner duties, but Ekström was unable to drive quite as wide a CUPRA as he’d like and Hyundai Motorsport N’s Nicky Catsburg would not need a second invitation when the opportunity arose. This came at the end of the second lap, with Catsburg past on the inside, and Ekström’s left rear just touching the loose stuff meaning the rest of the exceptionally close field would stream past too, all bar Giovanni Venturini, who was very nearly through in his Romeo Ferraris as well.

Ad As Castburg now closed on Blomqvist, so Jean-Karl Vernay make his Hyundai Motorsport N Veloster N ETCR a nightmare for Maxime Martin, in third place in his Romeo Ferraris Giulia ETCR. Catsburg, once more, was the most visibily the man on a charge but Blomqvist kept his head, even as Catsburg tried every opportunity he had.

FIA ETCRSuper Sachsenring Semis for FURIOUS Tambay and Azcona in FIA ETCR finale6 HOURS AGO Further back, Martin managed to drop Vernay who was realively easy prey for a recovering Ekström who then took up the mantle of harassing Martin, with the entire field only separated by two seconds as it started the penultimate lap. On that lap Venturini found his way past Vernay, with the Frenchman down to the final dregs of Power Up