Thomas Krasonis is one step away from the championship in OPEN
Thomas Krasonis is even closer to achieving his big goal, which is none other than winning the NASCAR Euro Series OPEN Championship! The 23-year-old driver took the victory in Saturday’s race in the OPEN class at the Zolder circuit in Belgium and is now very close to becoming Champion in his class and making history, achieving something that no other Greek racing driver has not achieved so far, namely to win the title in a European motorsport championship.
The OPEN race went perfectly for Krasoni, who started from the front row of the grid. Just at the first corner, however, poleman Thomas Toffel made a mistake, locked the brakes and was off the track, leaving Krasonis in the lead. And there he stayed for the 15 laps of the race. Despite a track-wide yellow flag with seven laps to go due to another driver retiring, Krasonis on the restart handled the situation perfectly and cruised to his sixth win of the season in the OPEN class, increasing his points lead in the standings to 45 points over Doubek (476 instead of 431). It should be noted that in Sunday’s OPEN race, Krasonis will start from pole position.
As for the PRO, Thomas Krasonis finished fourth in Saturday’s race, after a great battle with Gianmarco Ercoli for the last step of the podium. The winner was Vittorio Ghirelli, who reached 462 points and is +30 ahead of Ercoli with one race to go before the season finale. Krasonis is in 4th place in the PRO with 393 points.
On Sunday, the start of the second race of the OPEN will be at 12.30 p.m. and will be 15 laps long. The curtain will fall at 3.45 p.m. with the start of the second PRO race, which will be 18 laps long. All the aforementioned times are Greek times. ANT1+ will bring its subscribers all the action from both Saturday’s and Sunday’s races, with a description in Greek! At the same time, there will also be live coverage via the official EuroNASCAR YouTube channel.
Thomas Krasonis is participating this year in both the PRO and OPEN NASCAR Euro Series categories, driving in all races the number “13” Chevrolet Camaro of the Championship’s top team, the Belgian PK Carsport.
Supporters of Thomas Krasoni’s effort in the NASCAR Euro Series are Costamare Shipping Company and the “Dodoni” Dairy Industry, while medical coverage is provided by the Athens Medical Group.
