Groskamp TQ’s 3rd Qualifier
Three qualifiers have been run here in Warsaw and we have a third different driver taking TQ honours with defending Champion Jilles Groskamp snatching the top spot from Tamiya team-mate Marc Rheinard. Rheinard had been on target to top the round being the only driver not to roll but on the very last lap he caught a dot flipping his car on its roof resulting in a 15.43 lap, some 3.5 seconds slower than his previous laps. This handed Groskamp, who posted a new fastest lap of the event with a 10.97, the round with 27 laps in 305.15 with the current World Champion finishing on 306.79.
After a difficult opening qualifier Steven Weiss is starting to show good form here in Poland. The 2007 European Championship Top Qualifier recorded the third fastest time for the heat just ahead of fellow Xray driver Bart Wubben. Weiss changed tyre additive which greatly improved the steering on his LRP powered T2 009 while Wubben made a series of changes that also improved the feel of his similar package.
Yannic Prumper equalled his first round with fifth fastest time while Teemu Leino completed the Top 6. Having TQ’d the second qualifier, with the fastest 5 minute run we have seen here so far, Andy Moore exited early after traction rolling off the track ending any chance of a fast time.
In Pro Stock Daniel Wohlgemuth’s run of topping the time sheets came to an end as he had to give way to Meik Niemann. The German SMI Motorsport driver didn’t match Wohlgemuth’s fastest time from the second qualifier but took the TQ for the round by a second. Dai Sakagucki posted the third fastest time.
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