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STANDINGS

SPOTLIGHT

A crew of five people worked

throughout Saturday night at the

Hungaroring to repair a damaged car.

Their hard work was rewarded with a

podium finish in Sunday’s Race 2; the

first in the TCR International Series for

Jens Reno Møller and his Reno Racing

team.

Less than twenty-four hours earlier,

the Danish driver had made a mistake

that could have cost him dearly.

Having successfully made his way

through to Q2, Møller put his left

wheels on the kerb while braking at

the end of the main straight. His

Honda Civic swerved to the left and

crashed, head-on, into the barriers.

Møller was unhurt, but upset and

discouraged and said the team

wouldn’t even try to repair the

wrecked car. However, everything

changed when the Stewards disallowed

all Qualifying times from two other

drivers, which promoted Møller from

12th to 10th and so into pole position

on the reverse grid for Race 2.

“On Saturday afternoon we were

looking at a severely damaged car and

almost packing to go home… But then

JENS RENO MØLLER

From despair to delight

“It has been a fantastic comeback! I

made a great start and tried to build a

gap, I think I did quite a good job.

Tassi could only pass a few laps from

the end, when I made a small mistake

at turn 12. By then my tyres were

dead, and eventually also Oriola

passed, but third is a great result,

given that our target is the European

trophy finale in Adria…”

His podium, together with Stian

Paulsen’s eighth place in the same

race, prove that smaller teams can

compete on equal footing with more

professional outfits in TCR, because

the cars are all the same and may be

run (and repaired…) with affordable

budgets.

we just told ourselves that we could

not let the opportunity go of starting

from pole in Race 2 and decided to

have a go at fixing the car… We are a

small team, with five guys that

worked until 5 am to repair everything

and did it wonderfully!”

And the effort paid off! Starting from

pole position, Møller led the race for

ten out of the 14 laps and eventually

finished third behind Attila Tassi and

Pepe Oriola.