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WORLD AND LIFE

TCR 2017

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Josh Files has made it very clear that

he wants to retain the TCR Germany

title at the wheel of his Target

Competition Honda Civic. After

winning the season’s opening race at

Oschersleben, Files scored a double

victory at the Red Bull Ring, already

building a 55-point leading margin in

the standings ahead of his closest

rival Sheldon van der Linde. Kris

Richard lies third, a further 15 points

adrift.

In Race 1, Files took his second win

of the season after making a brilliant

start from the fourth row of the grid.

He took the lead and his Honda was

then never headed, taking the win

by 3.6 seconds over the SEAT León of

Mike Halder, with pole-sitter Dino

Calcum’s Opel Astra finishing in third

Josh Files

the untouchable

place a further second adrift. Steve

Kirsch was fourth, with the

recovering Antti Buri fifth.

The race saw the Safety Car deployed

on two occasions: once when Buri’s

Audi made contact with Luca

Engstler’s Volkswagen that then had

to be recovered from a gravel trap

and again on Lap 6 when Sven

Markert’s Audi hit the barriers after

contact with Pascal Eberle’s SEAT.

In Race 2, after another superb start

from third on the grid, Files passed

the front-row Audi cars of Robin

Brezina and Sandro Kaibach to lead

going into the first corner of the

race and the Briton never looked

back. After a brief Safety Car

interruption while the SEAT of Alex

Morgan was recovered, Files

Results

Red Bull Ring, Round 3, Saturday 10

June

1. Josh Files (Honda Civic); 2. Mike

Halder (SEAT León); 3. Dino Calcum

(Opel Astra)

Red Bull Ring, Round 4, Sunday 11

June

1. Josh Files (Honda Civic); 2. Moritz

Oestreich (Honda Civic); 3. Mike

Halder (SEAT León)

managed the restart well and pulled

away to build a lead of over four

seconds until he took the chequered

flag to record his third win of the

season. Moritz Oestreich finished

second to give Honda a 1-2, while the

SEAT of Mike Halder took another

podium position after finishing second

behind Files in Race 1.

The Honda of Kris Richard was fourth,

half a second ahead of Calcum’s Opel.

TCR Germany will return to

Oschersleben on July 8 and 9

for rounds 5 and 6, where it

will share the bill with the

TCR International Series.