After his best performance in the last race of the previous week, Jeff Bauer started the first race on Saturday confident and fast. The hard summer training paid off here with 4.96 seconds for the start sprint, but the Luxembourger had too many difficulties in the super tricky sixth corner. In 56.25 seconds he missed the second round by almost a second. However, Bauer’s Austrian coach Alex Auer and he himself were very satisfied with the first run on Sunday. In 54.97 he qualified in 17th for the second round and explained: “I drove the sixth corner very well and the lower section perfectly, so that I got a speed of 137.62km / h and I carried this speed through the final corners 15 and 16 which are also quite difficult at this speed. Being 17th in such a strong field was a great feeling.” In the second run he started in exactly five seconds, but lost some speed again in the sixth corner and classified himself as 19th in the run and the final result. the superior victory of the russian evgeniy rukosuev in 56.45.