Rui-heng Yeh broke a 5-race period without winning by taking Race 3 at the Hungaroring this afternoon. While the lead in the championship of the Taiwanese driver of Motopark was never in discussion (he now has a 74-point margin), the drought of wins after a storming start of the season, where he took five wins in six races, was starting to raise some doubts, although Yeh never lost his composure.
Success in Race 3 was strategically built, as the Taiwanese kept his teammate De la Torre, who had taken the lead at the start, under pressure throughout the entire race, and waited for the right moment for an attack. It came at the first corner at the start of lap 15 out of 17, when tyre degradation was becoming an issue for everybody and the Mexican exited the corner a little bit beyond the ideal line.
“I stayed behind him without releasing the pressure but trying to preserve my tyres”, explained Yeh after the race, “ready to benefit from any mistake and making sure I still had something in my car and my tyres. It’s nice to be back at the top”.
De la Torre and Jesse Carrasquedo finished second and third. The two Mexicans were sitting in first row on the reversed grid, but Yeh from row two was able to pass Carrasquedo at the start. Stack was fourth ahead of Famularo, Herrera and Dobrzanski. Except for Yeh’s winning move, the order did not change, although only six seconds covered the top 7, in what was another “typical Hungaroring race”.
The only race feats to be reported were the stalling at the beginning of the formation lap of Celo Hahn, who then repositioned himself incorrectly in the grid, being inflicted a drive-through, and the contact between Jan Koller and Aaron Ferrazzano in lap 7 at turn 8 when they were fighting for ninth, an incident that ended the race for both of them.