Starting from pole position, reigning champion Likas Sundahl has won the first of the weekend's three heats in the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia in Anderstorp ahead of Pontus Fredricsson and Hampus Ericsson. In a messy race with several departures, the Danish guest driver Jan Magnussen advanced to fourth place from starting box line.

Lukas Sundahl is a hard man to beat at Scandinavian Raceway in Anderstorp. He showed it again in the second round of the season. After a strong qualifier, he took the start from pole position and soon put a gap between himself and the chasing competitors.
My start could have been better, but the race was otherwise okay. It was a fairly calm journey, stated Sundahl, who has now gained a lead of 40 points before Saturday's both races in Småland.

Pontus Fredricsson, who was closest behind Sundahl in the qualifiers, really tried to challenge in the start. I made a good start and it got really tight. I did my best, but unfortunately I did not manage to get past Lukas, says Fredricsson, who admitted that he is starting to get tired of second places. Hampus Ericsson did not come off at all as he had hoped for. A difficult start on my part. Unnecessarily, it makes the race so much harder, he stated.

Emil Persson, who shared the second starting line-up with Hampus Ericsson, slowed down on the first lap and his departure started a chain reaction in the field. Thomas Karlsson, Hugo Andersson, Prince Carl Philip - they all took the road through the gravel in the sand trap and lost positions. A couple of laps later it happened again. In an incident, the Norwegian Roger Hermansen ended up off the track where he rolled his car several laps. Hermansen did better without serious injuries, but with the car it was in a worse state. The prospects for him to start tomorrow are largely equal to zero.

Palltrion Sundahl, Fredricsson, Ericsson had a fairly large gap to fourth-placed Jan Magnussen. However, the Dane was the race's high climber. With his experience, he managed to avoid getting into trouble. Behind Magnussen, Edvin Hellsten took the finish flag in fifth ahead of Christoffer Bergström, who took won the Masters Cup, the class for amateur drivers over 40 years in age. Bergström was pressured for a long time by Lars-Bertil Rantzow (second in the Masters Cup) and in the end he had to defend himself against the above-mentioned Emil Persson to guard his sixth place.

Prince Carl Philip finished tenth overall and third in the Masters Cup. Along with Hermansen, it was Hugo Andersson who lost out the most. After a less successful qualifier, where he was the tenth man, he had ambitions to advance, but the incident on the first lap put a stop to all such plans. I tried on the inside, but there it stopped. Maybe I was a little overwhelmed, says Andersson who with a sprained car had to settle for a modest 13th place. With only three points on the account, he lost from second to sixth place in the table.