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In the most important start of the weekend, Baumanis kept up with the leaders and beat Anton Marklund with a great trajectory crossing maneuver, who fell behind a moment later with technical problems. After the first lap, Jānis was in the third position behind the hosts Bakeruda and Evjena. After a tense battle for several laps, he failed to find a way past Evjen and finished in an honorable third place.
The stability in the first three stages of the season has allowed Jānis Baumanis to keep the second place in the overall championship standings with 35 points and to beat leader Anton Marklund by one point, who scored 52 points this year. The winner of the Norwegian stage, Andreas Bakkeruds, is two points behind Baumans.
“We started very optimistically. Practice and first qualifying went very well. It could have been even better if I hadn’t slipped a bit in one of the turns, where I lost more than a tenth of a second. That was enough for Marklund to get ahead of me. After warming up the tires, we relaxed the procedure a bit for the start of the second race and due to own error, the start failed.
The second day started very well already from training. In the third qualifying, the speed on the track seemed good, but the car did not listen as one would like. It seemed that it was at the expense of the tires, so we put three new tires on in the semi-final, but the old troubles continued, which prevented us from going faster. We made a couple of changes to the car between the semi-final and the final, but not enough to improve the speed. I fought as much as I could with the car. Third place is not as sweet as one would like, considering the events at the start of the final. Be that as it may, the first podium this season has been achieved and there is a little joy about it. Norway continues to be a relatively successful place for us. “
Latvian rallycross pilot
