Wilck & Stocker rule ETS opener
It was a full house of wins for both Viktor Wilck and Alexander Stocker in Germany as the duo topped of the perfect weekend with victory in the third Leg of their respective A-Mains. Having already wrapped up overall victory for the opening round of the 2009/10 Xenon Racing Euro Touring Series with victory in legs 1 & 2 earlier in the day, the two Top Qualifiers didn’t back off for the closing race of the three day Kastellaun meeting, putting in yet another dominant performance.
Wilck was handed an extra advantage, as if he needed it, just before the start of the third A-Main when Marc Rheinard’s car completely shut down on the warm up laps. Despite the best efforts of his brother Toni, the World Champion was forced to sit out the race with the problem which they still haven’t sourced. With Rheinard, the only driver expected to challenge Wilck, out the Top Qualifier was easily able to cruise to another win. Behind him the big battle was for second. Associated’s Juho Levanen held the position early on but made a mistake. This looked to have cost the Finnish ace an overall podium placing but later in the race his car would slow when his rear diff started to slip. In the end the 2007 Kastellaun winner finished fifth to claim 4th overall.
This left young Yannic Prumper and Ronald Volker to battle it out for second. Despite the best efforts of Volker, whose BD5 was transformed for Leg 2 & 3 following a switch to the standard chassis, the 16-year-old held on for second. Volker was delighted with third as it gave him second overall, something the soft spoken German never expected at the end of a very difficult qualifying. With no result in Leg 3 Rheinard’s second and third in the earlier Legs helped him claim the final step of the podium.
While Wilck claimed his first ever ETS victory today, Stocker clocked up a very impressive third consecutive Kastellaun win with the Hot Bodies driver having been on the top step of the podium since the first ever Euro Touring Series race here in 2007. Second overall in Pro-Stock went to Yokomo’s Martin Hofer who was the only man to top Stocker in qualifying while ETS Vice Champion Daniel Wohlgemuth claimed the final spot on the podium despite a terrible 3rd A-Main.
So the 2009/10 Xenon Racing Euro Touring Series has gotten off to a very successful start with over 200 drivers from 17 countries enjoying the first round. Drivers have six weeks to prepare for the next encounter as Round 2 of the six race series takes drivers to the beautiful city of Budapest in Hungary where last year we experienced one of champion elect Jilles Groskamp’s greatest passing maneuver. A 2-day event, we can expect both Wilck and Stocker, who made winning look easy today, to have to work a little harder.
Modified top 10 results
1. Wilck Viktor – 3:1, 1:1 [2:1]
2. Völker Ronald – 2:2, 3:3 [1:4]
3. Rheinard Marc – 1:2, 2:3 [3:10]
4. Prümper Yannic – 3:2, 2:4 [1:5]
5. Levanen Juho – 1:3, 3:5 [2:5]
6. Hagberg Alexander – 3:4, 2:8 [1:8]
7. Leino Teemu – 3:6, 2:7 [1:10]
8. Harper Elliott – 1:6, 3:7 [2:9]
9. Wischnewski Dirk – 2:6, 1:9 [3:9]
10.Fleischmann Dominik – 1:7, 3:8 [2:10]
Pro Stock top 10 results
1. Stocker Alexander – 3:1, 2:1 [1:1]
2. Hofer Martin – 3:2, 1:2 [2:10]
3. Wohlgemuth Daniel – 2:2, 1:3 [3:6]
4. Lang Matthias – 3:3, 2:3 [1:5]
5. Treder Mike – 3:4, 2:5 [1:6]
6. Laptev Ivan – 1:4, 2:8 [3:8]
7. Kunák Zdenko – 3:5, 2:7 [1:8]
8. Bucher Fabian – 2:6, 3:7 [1:9]
9. Jansen Stefan – 2:4, 3:10 [1:10]
10.Bergfeldt Tommy – 1:7, 3:9 [2:9]
Full results can be found here.
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