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Two more drivers become WTCR Esports winners in Slovakia races

Redoine Messaoud and Nikodem Wisniewski shared wins in last weekend's Esports World Touring Car Cup races at the virtual Slovakia Ring, becoming the seventh and eight different winners this year

Audi driver Messaoud, who made his debut at the last round at Zandvoort, dominated the opening race from pole position and finished six seconds ahead of the Hyundai of Kevin Siggy Rebernak - who overtook both points leader Bence Banki and Veloce's Alexander Dornieden for second place on lap two.

Banki took third, while Florian Haase secured fourth ahead of Tim Jarschel and 2017 champion Dornieden, who eventually fell to sixth.

Oscaro's Attila Dencs was a season's best seventh in front of Jan Stange, Wisniewski and Andika Rama Maulana - who took reverse-grid pole position for the second race.

Williams Esports driver Wisniewski passed poleman and fellow Honda driver Maulana at the inside of the tight, twisty Turn 10, just under 10 minutes into the second race, and led all of the remaining laps to take his maiden victory of the season.

Race one victor Messaoud fell to the back of the grid on the opening lap after contact with Gregor Baldi but fought back to seal the final place in the top 10.

Dencs also had a troubled race, losing fourth position when he was forced into the gravel at the first corner with only a handful of laps left.

Out of the chaos, Dornieden took second place with Maulana completing the podium. Haase took his second consecutive fourth-place finish.

Audi Impact Racing Team drivers Stange and Jarschel were fifth and sixth ahead of Jaroslav Honzik, Banki, Rebernak and Messaoud.

Despite not scoring a podium, Haase's two-fourth places were enough for the German to take the lead in the drivers' championship, with Banki now four points adrift.

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