In a weekend when he could claim his first ever FIA World title, Mattias Ekstrom ended the first day of competition at the German round of World Rallycross at the Estering top in the Intermediate Classification. Ekstrom posted the fastest time in Free Practice at the very end of the hour-long session, but was beaten in his Q1 race by Janis Baumanis by the smallest of margins, and was also headed on the time sheets by EKS team mate Toomas Heikkinen. However, Ekstrom won the last race of Q2 after making the best start from the middle of the grid and surviving the infamously difficult first corner squeeze to be fastest and moved into top overall, as Baumanis finished second on track to be...
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