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Garcia Strikes First At Hockenheimring

Garcia Strikes First At Hockenheimring
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Borja Garcia won Saturday’s NASCAR Whelen Euro Series ELITE 1 feature at the Hockenheimring. (NASCAR Photo)

HOCKENHEIM, Germany – Borja Garcia grabbed the checkered flag in the first NASCAR Whelen Euro Series race at the legendary Hockenheimring on Saturday.

Garcia led flag to flag in a tight battle for the lead with reigning champion Anthony Kumpen finishing second in the ELITE 1 feature. Garcia won for the fourth time this year and the fifth in his NASCAR career.

“I’m really happy to win my fourth race of the season and it’s really great that it’s the first win for the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series’ here at Hockenheim,” said Garcia. “I have to thank my team who worked really hard to give me a fast race car for today’s race. The car was really good at the start of the race and had great balance for the long green flag run. Towards the end of the race, the car started to slide a bit in the turns and I had work really hard to keep Anthony behind me. He was putting quite a bit of pressure on me and it was really a great battle but fortunately I was able to hold him off long enough to get the win.

“I need to get as many points as I can before the final race of the season at Zolder because it’s Anthony’s home track and he’s really good there. For the remainder of the season, we’ll just do everything we can to continue our great performance so far this season, hopefully win more races and then we’ll see what happens as we get closer to Zolder.”

Garcia started first after polesitter Alon Day was issued a 10-position penalty on the grid for contact in the previous road course race at Brands Hatch. Garcia built an early lead on Kumpen, but the Belgian caught up in the second half of the race to put pressure on the Spaniard.

With four laps remaining, the caution flag was waived to retrieve the car of Dominik Farnbacher from the gravel in turn nine, bunching up the field for a dash to the checkered flag.

Garcia kept the lead with a great restart that featured four and five wide racing action throughout the field. A red flag was displayed for a crash after turn three involving Carlo Alberto Forte and Eric De Doncker and the race was called with not enough time to complete track cleanup. Although both drivers walked away, following routine safety procedures they received medical attention.

Behind Garcia and Kumpen, Frederic Gabillon took a solid result in third and Day won the battle with his CAAL Racing teammates and finished fourth, earning the pole for Sunday’s ELITE 1 event, edging Salvador Tineo Arroyo, who won the Junior Trophy.

Source :speedsport.com

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