Tomáš Pekař scores first victory for the Renault Mégane RS

The second event of the TCR Eastern Europe powered by ESET series, at the Red Bull Ring, marked the first ever victory for the Vuković Motorsport-built Renault Mégane RS. To achieve this first important success was the Czech driver Tomáš Pekař in the second race.
By winning the first race in his CUPRA, Serbia’s Milovan Vesnič has strengthened his leadership in the series’ standings.
In Race 1, Vesnič started from the pole and took the lead from Jáchym Galáš, Pekař and Dušan Kouřil. Vesnič was in a position to control the race, while Pekař followed two seconds behind, until he was given a drive-through penalty for track limit infringements that he served during the penultimate lap. On his first appearance in the championship, Kouřil was running third behind Vesnič and Pekař, but he also was given a drive through for a grid infringement and, as he did not serve it, was disqualified after the race.
After stalling at the start from second on the grid, Galáš elbowed his way through the field and eventually recovered to second, benefiting from the penalties imposed to Pekař and Kouřil. Jakub Wyszomirski completed the podium in third position, one second ahead of Pekař.
All drivers chose wet tyres to start Race 2 on a drying track. Once again Vesnič made a good use of the pole position and led, followed by Galáš, Pekař and Kouřil who delivered a thrilling battle.
In the second half of the race, Vesnič’s pace faded and he was passed by his three chasers. Kouřil moved into the lead on lap 7, but Galáš overtook him in the following lap, just before being stopped by a puncture. Kouřil inherited the lead, but he was passed by Pekař who pulled away and won from Kouřil and Rudi Pešovič.
The next event of the series will be at Grobnik on July 27 and 28.

Race 1
1. Milovan Vesnič (ASK Vesnič, CUPRA), 16 laps
2. Jáchym Galáš (GT2 Motorsport, Volkswagen Golf GTI), 19.457
3. Jakub Wyszomirski (ASK Vesnič, Honda Civic FK2), 21.902

Race 2
1. Tomáš Pekař (Besagroup Vuković Motorsport, Renault Mégane RS), 10 laps
2. Dušan Kouřil (K2 Engineering, Hyundai i30 N), 4.551
3. Rudi Pešovič (GM Racing, Audi RS 3 LMS), 26.578

Championship points
1. Vesnič 57 pts; 2. Wyszomirski 47; 3. Petr Čížek 34