Dominik Fugel wins the last race, but Buri takes the title

Dominik Fugel took his fourth win in the 2020 TCR Germany championship in the season finale at Oschersleben, with the Honda driver doing everything he needed to try and win the title, but Antti Buri fought back from a mistake at the start to finish on the podium and finally secured the title on his fifth attempt.
René Kircher started from the reversed grid pole in his Team Oettinger Volkswagen, ahead of Marcel Fugel and Džiugas Tovilavičius, but Marcel Fugel was quickly able to get ahead of Kircher in the quick-starting Honda Civic.
All the drama was behind, as championship contender Harald Proczyk had a slow getaway from fifth on the grid in his Hyundai, and the two Hondas of Tiago Monteiro and Dominik Fugel nearly came together as they squeezed into the gap, with Monteiro moving across the nose of Proczyk to avoid Fugel, spinning himself into the barrier and out of the race, with the safety car called on lap one.
Points leader Buri also had a terrible start, running wide at Turn 1 as he tried to go around the outside of the rival Hyundai of Jan Seyffert on cold tyres, and dropped to the back of the pack.
When the race restarted on lap four, Dominik Fugel, now up to third, quickly passed Kircher’s Volkswagen and was then let past by his brother and team-mate Marcel for the lead, while it now became a waiting game to see if Proczyk and Buri could work their way back up the order and back ahead in the points.
Kircher was passed by the guest Hyundai of Luca Engstler on lap seven; Engstler then closed on Marcel Fugel, while Proczyk and Buri picked their way through the order to be running behind the Fugel-Engstler battle.
That battle ended on lap 12, as Engstler dived down the inside of Marcel Fugel’s Honda at the final corner, with the two drivers making contact. Engstler’s car was damaged in the melee, while both Proczyk and Buri were through and into the final podium positions. Although Dominik Fugel now held a 12 second lead, he would not be able to outscore either driver by enough to win the title as it stood.
The race was then suspended behind the safety car one more time as Seyffert’s Hyundai stopped on circuit, with Fugel’s lead decimated as a result. The race resumed with a three-lap dash to the flag, with Fugel still holding on to win the race by 1.3 seconds over Proczyk, but Buri’s third was enough to win the Finn the drivers’ title.
Buri finished the year on 249 points, three clear of 2018 champion Proczyk, with Fugel six points behind at the end of the 14-race TCR Germany championship season.

Race 2
1. Dominik Fugel (Team Honda Sachsen, Honda Civic Type R FK7), 19 laps
2. Harald Proczyk (HP Racing International, Hyundai i30 N), 1.299
3. Antti Buri (Engstler Motorsport, Hyundai i30 N), 1.885
4. Nico Gruber (Engstler Motorsport, Hyundai i30 N), 3.182
5. René Kircher (Team Oettinger, Volkswagen Golf GTI), 3.940

Championship points
1. Antti Buri 249 pts; 2. Harald Proczyk 246; 3. Dominik Fugel 243 

Picture: ADAC Motorsport