2017 European Truck Racing Championship Explained

The 2017 FIA European Truck Racing Championship was a motor-racing championship using highly tuned tractor units. It was the 33rd year of the championship. Adam Lacko won the championship with Freightliner.^{[1] [2]}

Teams and drivers

Team	Manufacturer	No.	Drivers	Rounds
Buggyra International Racing System	Freightliner	33	Alen Draganović	1
			Enes Draganović	2
			David Vršecký	3-9
		55	Adam Lacko	All
Czech Truck Racing Team	MAN	91	Frankie Vojtíšek	4-6, 9
David Bermejo	MAN	25	David Bermejo	9
EK Truck Race	Scania	15	Erwin Kleinnagelvoort	1, 3-9
	DAF	51	Henry Tijhuis	3, 7
Heinz-Werner Lenz	Mercedes-Benz	36	Heinz-Werner Lenz	3
Lion Truck Racing	MAN	6	Anthony Janiec	3
OXXO Energy Racing	MAN	88	Ryan Smith	1, 5-6
Pedro Ignacio García	Iveco	26	Pedro Ignacio García	9
Reboconorte Racing Truck Team	MAN	11	Eduardo Rodrigues	1-6, 9
		14	José Rodrigues	All
		38	José Eduardo Rodrigues	7-9
Reinert Racing GmBH	MAN	44	Stephanie Halm	All
S.L Truck Racing Team	MAN	30	Sascha Lenz	All
T-Sport Racing	MAN	37	Terry Gibbon	1
Team 14	Renault	76	Grzegorz Ostaszewski	6
Team Cees Zandbergen	Scania	45	Cees Zandbergen	3, 8
Team Hahn Racing	Iveco	1	Jochen Hahn	All
Team Luxo Sport	Volvo	94	Manu Rodrigues	3, 6, 8
Team Oliver Racing	MAN	17	Shane Brereton	5-6, 8
Team Orsini Racing	Mercedes-Benz	19	Dominique Orsini	2, 4-7
Team Robineau	MAN	21	Thomas Robineau	2, 7
			Jeremy Robineau	3
Team Schwaben-Truck	Iveco	27	Gerd Körber	All
		28	Markus Altenstrasser	1
			Steffen Faas	3-4
Team Tankpool 24 Racing	Mercedes-Benz	24	Norbert Kiss	All
		42	André Kursim	All
Truck Sport Lutz Bernau	MAN	23	Antonio Albacete	All
Vitry Truck Racing	Renault	22	José-Manuel de Sousa	3, 7
		99	José Teodosio	3, 7
Ultima Vuelta	Mercedes-Benz	13	Orlando Rodríguez-Ruiz	9
		35	Enrique Alberto Vila	9
		66	Jose Alberto Vila	9
align=center colspan=5	Entries ineligible for points
Team Digraph Racing	MAN	69	David Jenkins	8

Calendar and winners

Round		Circuit	Date	Pole Position	Fastest Lap	Winning driver	Winning team
1	R1	Red Bull Ring	12–14 May	Jochen Hahn	Stephanie Halm	Jochen Hahn	Team Hahn Racing
	R2				Jochen Hahn	José Rodrigues	Reboconorte Racing Truck Team
	R3			Stephanie Halm	Jochen Hahn	Stephanie Halm	Reinert Racing GmBH
	R4				Jochen Hahn	Jochen Hahn	Team Hahn Racing
2	R1	Misano World Circuit	26–28 May	Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko
	R2				Adam Lacko	Jochen Hahn	Team Hahn Racing
	R3			Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
	R4				Norbert Kiss	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
3	R1	Nürburgring	30 June–2 July	Jochen Hahn	Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
	R2				Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
	R3			Norbert Kiss	Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
	R4				Race cancelled
4	R1	Slovakia Ring	14–16 July	Norbert Kiss	Norbert Kiss	Norbert Kiss	Team Tankpool 24 Racing
	R2				Norbert Kiss	Antonio Albacete	Truck Sport Lutz Bernau
	R3			Jochen Hahn	Norbert Kiss	Norbert Kiss	Team Tankpool 24 Racing
	R4				Norbert Kiss	Stephanie Halm	Reinert Racing GmBH
5	R1	Hungaroring	25–27 August	Norbert Kiss	Norbert Kiss	Norbert Kiss	Team Tankpool 24 Racing
	R2				Jochen Hahn	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
	R3			Norbert Kiss	Norbert Kiss	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
	R4				Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
6	R1	Autodrom Most	1–3 September	Jochen Hahn	Adam Lacko	Jochen Hahn	Team Hahn Racing
	R2				Stephanie Halm	Ryan Smith	OXXO Energy Racing
	R3			Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
	R4				Ryan Smith	Shane Brereton	Team Oliver Racing
7	R1	Circuit Zolder	15–17 September	Adam Lacko	Norbert Kiss	Norbert Kiss	Team Tankpool 24 Racing
	R2				Antonio Albacete	André Kursim	Team Tankpool 24 Racing
	R3			Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
	R4				André Kursim	André Kursim	Team Tankpool 24 Racing
8	R1	Bugatti Circuit	22–24 September	Stephanie Halm	Stephanie Halm	Stephanie Halm	Reinert Racing GmBH
	R2				Sascha Lenz	Norbert Kiss	Team Tankpool 24 Racing
	R3			Sascha Lenz	Sascha Lenz	Adam Lacko	Buggyra International Racing System
	R4				Sascha Lenz	Gerd Körber	Team Schwaben-Truck
9	R1	Circuito del Jarama	6–8 October	Antonio Albacete	Antonio Albacete	Antonio Albacete	Truck Sport Lutz Bernau
	R2				Jochen Hahn	David Vršecký	Buggyra International Racing System
	R3			Norbert Kiss	Norbert Kiss	Norbert Kiss	Team Tankpool 24 Racing
	R4				Jochen Hahn	Antonio Albacete	Truck Sport Lutz Bernau

Championship standings

Drivers' Championship

Each round or racing event consisted of four races. At each race, points were awarded to the top ten classified finishers using the following structure:

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Points (races 1 and 3)	20	15	12	10	8	6	4	3	2	1
Points (races 2 and 4)	10	9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1

class="wikitable" style="font-size: 85%; text-align: center" valign=middle valign=middle Driver RBR MIS NUR SVK HUN MOS ZOL LMS JAR valign=middle    1 Adam Lacko 4 4 5 2 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 C 2 3 4 4 4 1 1 1 2 4 1 7 Ret 5 1 4 7 8 1 4 2 6 3 7 381 2 Jochen Hahn 1 5 2 1 5 1 8 DNS 3 4 7 C 3 4 3 2 2 2 5 4 1 7 2 6 2 4 2 8 2 4 3 3 3 4 2 2 343 3 Norbert Kiss 6 2 10 Ret 2 9 2 3 2 9 2 C 1 8 1 3 1 Ret 2 Ret 3 17† 5 4 1 2 5 3 3 1 4 5 16† 5 1 6 315 4 Stephanie Halm 2 6 1 Ret 3 2 4 2 7 5 6 C 4 2 5 1 3 5 3 2 4 2 4 3 16† 7 4 6 1 6 5 2 5 8 4 4 298 5 Antonio Albacete 10 7 3 4 4 4 3 4 4 Ret 9 C 5 1 2 7 11 6 4 9 5 6 3 5 4 3 3 5 6 2 9 9 1 2 8 1 255 6 Sascha Lenz 5 8 6 3 6 6 5 9 5 6 12 C 10 7 7 5 5 10 7 6 7 3 6 8 3 6 6 7 5 11 2 11 7 7 6 5 184 7 Gerd Körber 3 3 11 5 7 5 6 6 8 3 8 C 8 5 8 6 7 8 8 15† 10 8 Ret 9 8 9 10 9 8 3 7 1 6 3 7 3 153 8 David Vršecký 12 15 5 C 6 6 6 8 8 4 9 3 6 5 7 2 5 10 7 2 4 5 6 6 4 1 5 Ret 150 9 André Kursim 12 10 7 Ret 9 8 11 7 10 7 4 C 7 13† Ret 9 9 9 10 8 DNS DNS DNS DNS 6 1 8 1 10 10 8 7 9 9 10 9 88 10 José Rodrigues 7 1 4 Ret 8 7 Ret 8 9 12 10 C 12 Ret 9 10 13 Ret 11 11 12 9 9 11 7 8 9 10 9 7 11 12 8 10 9 8 70 11 Ryan Smith 9 14† 8 Ret 6 3 Ret 5 8 1 Ret 10 39 12 Shane Brereton 10 7 6 7 9 10 8 1 11 9 12 10 35 13 Anthony Janiec 6 2 3 C 27 14 Thomas Robineau 10 10 7 5 9 11 11 DNS 14 15 Steffen Faas 11 8 13 C 9 9 10 Ret 8 16 Alen Draganović 14 13 9 6 7 17 Markus Altenstrasser 8 9 Ret DNS 5 18 Terry Gibbon 15 Ret 12 7 4 19 Erwin Kleinnagelvoort 13 11 14 8 16 13 17 C 13 11 12 12 15 11 Ret 10 14 12 11 13 11 13 12 12 13 13 Ret 13 DNS DNS 11 11 4 20 Eduardo Rodrigues 11 12 13 9 11 11 10 10 18 17 18 C 14 12 13 14 14 DSQ 12 13 15 14 13 14 12 13 13 14 4 21 Frankie Vojtíšek 11 10 11 11 12 13† 14† 12 11 11 10 15 Ret 11 Ret 10 3 22 Enes Draganović DNS Ret 9 11 2 23 José Teodosio 13 14 14 C 10 12 Ret 11 1 24 Jeremy Robineau 15 10 11 C 1 25 José Eduardo Rodrigues 14 15 Ret 13 14 14 13 14 10 12 12 12 1 26 Pedro Ignacio García 11 Ret 14 13 0 27 Heinz-Werner Lenz 14 11 15 C 0 28 Dominique Orsini 12 12 12 Ret Ret DNS 14 13 16 12 13 14 16 15 14 DNS 13 16† DNS DNS 0 29 Grzegorz Ostaszewski 13 13 12 12 0 30 José-Manuel de Sousa DNS Ret 19 C 12 14 13 14 0 31 Jose Alberto Vila 13 15 Ret 16 0 32 Cees Zandbergen 17 16 16 C 15 15 14 15 0 33 Enrique Alberto Vila 14 16 15 17 0 34 David Bermejo Ret 14 16† 15 0 35 Henry Tijhuis 20 DNS 21 C 15 Ret 14 Ret 0 36 Manu Rodrigues 19 18 20 C DNS 16 15 Ret 16 16 15 16 0 37 Orlando Rodríguez-Ruiz 15 17† Ret DNS 0 Drivers ineligible to score points David Jenkins 12 12 10 8 valign=middle valign=middle Driver RBR MIS NUR SVK HUN MOS ZOL LMS JAR valign=middle

Bold – Pole Italics – Fastest Lap

† – Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 75% of the race distance.

External links

• • Race and championship results as table sheets

Notes and References

1. Web site: Adam Lacko – 2017 Champion! Official Site of FIA European Truck Racing Championship. www.fiaetrc.com. 2018-01-07.
2. News: European Truck Racing Championship 2017 in Jarama: Erster Titel für Adam Lacko. whitecrossmedia. 2018-01-07. de-DE.