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Michael Shin and Jose Garfias were the winners of Euroformula’s two Sunday races at the Hungaroring.
Nielsen Racing’s Ed Pearson had reversed-grid pole for race two, and was immediately defensive against a fast-starting Michael Shin. After sweeping across down the pit straight, a big lock-up at turn one then sent him and Shin off but they rejoined the track at the front. Behind, Motopark’s points leader Yevan David rose from eighth to fifth.
Pearson had another big turn one lock-up on lap two, then was very unstable under braking on lap three. Shin swept past him safely, then the Motopark driver pulled away to win by 11.921 seconds and move one point ahead of David in the title fight.
David overtook team-mate Garfias on lap three, then got stuck behind Pearson. After BVM Racing’s Tymek Kucharczyk also cleared Garfias on lap five, he closed in on David.
Pearson began to gap himself from his pursuers in the race’s second half, while David repeatedly went wide at turn four but managed to hold Kucharczyk off.
Garfias and his fellow Mexican Diego de la Torre squabbled mid-race, with their Motopark team-mate Fernando Barrichello getting involved on lap eight with two passing attempts. He tried again on the penultimate lap, diving down the inside of de la Torre at turn one and getting ahead but also sending him off.
BVM’s Benjamin Berta started race three on pole and took the widest line possible into the opening corner. Garfias, from fourth on the grid, tucked in on the inside to take the lead as Shin moved up to third ahead.
Kucharczyk took fourth at turn two as front-row starter de la Torre fell down the order and David got up to fifth.
Shin had to defend from Kucharczyk at the start of lap two, and a lap later Kucharczyk darted to the inside at the chicane. The corner was cut by Shin and he remained ahead, and they dropped out of sight of Garfias and Berta.
Kucharczyk’s next overtaking attempt was a turn one dive on lap eight. He locked up, collided with Shin, sent both of them off but did get ahead. However his front wing was broken, and he swiftly fell down the order before pitting.
David then followed Shin, with one look at a move on lap 13, and the latter’s championship lead grew by three points by finishing third. However by the end he was eight seconds behind Berta, who in turn was eight seconds behind Garfias.
Results round-up
Race 2 (17 laps)
1 Michael Shin Motopark 27m18.536s
2 Ed Pearson Nielsen Racing +11.921s
3 Yevan David Motopark +14.629s
4 Tymek Kucharczyk BVM Racing +15.167s
5 Jose Garfias Motopark +18.200s
6 Fernando Barrichello Motopark +20.017s
7 Diego de la Torre Motopark +21.864s
8 Shawn Rashid Nielsen Racing +24.154s
9 Benjamin Berta BVM Racing +25.782s
10 Everett Stack Motopark +29.641s
Fastest lap: Shin, 1m35.497s
Race 3 (17 laps)
1 Garfias 27m26.122s
2 Berta +8.184s
3 Shin +16.066s
4 David +16.723s
5 Stack +19.304s
6 de la Torre +23.117s
7 Barrichello +31.605s
8 Pearson +33.423s
9 Rashid +35.113s
10 Finley Green Nielsen Racing +54.264s
FL: Garfias, 1m36.028s
Chamionship standings
1 Shin 198 2 David 194 3 Kucharczyk 168 4 Garfias 153 5 Pearson 133 6 Barrichello 99 7 Stack 88 8 de la Torre 73 9 Rashid 41 10 Vladislav Ryabov 27