Toth takes eNASCAR Truck laurels at SimRacing Expo Frankfurt

David Toth won SimRacing Expo Frankfurt’s biggest LAN event of the weekend: the 80-lap eNASCAR Euro Show Race. The Hungarian won the race at Charlotte Motor Speedway by nearly five seconds ahead of Issam Er-Rabhi and Eryk Mitus.

The race was a repeat of Charlotte’s own SimRacing Expo in May, which put on an event at its virtual Speedway for North American drivers in iRacing. For this week’s Expo in Frankfurt, only European drivers were allowed in the online Qualifying phase for this competition, which took place late afternoon on Sunday to round off the weekend.

Trucks at Charlotte is one of the more difficult 1.5-mile combinations because of the challenging nature of turn four, specifically. The Trucks generally get tight through the turn, and so it feels as if the turn four wall jumps out at the drivers just as they exit.

And after David Toth had taken pole in Qualifying, the difficulty of the day’s race was put straight into perspective, as the race lasted just metres before the first caution came out. The first restart of the day was much better, and the field settled into single-file running quite quickly.

The second stoppage came after nearly 10 laps under green, and offered the first proper chance for drivers to make pitstops. Er-Rabhi from second took that chance, although he was one of relatively few. Noah Osbaldeston had also taken the chance to stop, and on the fourth green run of the race was able to chase down Toth and overtake the Hungarian for the first lead change of the race.

The pack of drivers on newer tyres was so large that soon Toth was down to fourth; his older tyres stood no chance keeping drivers behind him. Respite would come with another caution soon after, which the leaders got involved in. As the yellow was waved for an incident down in the field, Louie Hesketh and Osbaldeston made contact, spinning themselves around.

In any case, almost everyone would use the caution to make a pitstop, but Marco Honegger stayed out on very old tyres. His slower pace made the next restart impossible, and a caution followed after seconds.

After another caution on lap 44, the sixth restart of the day turned out to be the last. David Toth led with compatriot Adam Meszaros in second, and an almighty battle for third behind. When that three-way battle ended in the wall down the backstretch, everyone thought there’d be another yellow, but it never arrived.

And with fewer Trucks in the race, and a spread-out field, another one became very unlikely, which was music to Toth’s ears. Meszaros was run down in the end as Eryk Mitus made the pass for second with 10 to go, and Er-Rabhi followed two laps later.

Er-Rabhi would get up to second, but there was no catching Toth, who took victory by nearly five seconds. A thoroughly deserved win for the Hungarian, who really dominated the final event of the Expo.