Pruemper sets final practice pace
15-year-old Yannic Pruemper remains the fastest man here in Modified at the third round of the Much More backed Euro Touring Series. The Tamiya Junior team driver topped the time sheets for practice number 7 coming to within 4/100th off the outright fastest lap of the event which the German set yesterday in the fourth session. Pruemper used the opening run of Day 2 here in Warsaw to scrub in new tyres for the qualifiers and once the tyres came up to speed he pulled up early.
Closest to the rising young star was fellow countryman Marc Rheinard who managed an 11.11 second lap. The current World Champion said his car was a little loose but plans to run the same set-up for the first of the five qualifiers. Jilles Groskamp was next up. The defending ETS Champion ran special bulk heads on his Tamiya which had been designed for the World Championships, a tarmac event, but the Dutch driver didnt like the feeling of the car on the carpet so will revert to the standard versions.
Xray’s Steven Weiss set the fourth fastest lap despite trying a different tyre additive for the run which he felt wasn’t as good as the CS Tyre additive. The German said his T2 009 feels good and other than reverting back to the additive used yesterday he will run the car the same for the opening qualifier. Teemu Leino and Paul Lemieux completed the top six. Andy Moore complained of a few incidents with traffic running new tyres on his factory Hot Bodies Cyclone TC to posted the seventh best lap time.
In Pro Stock Corally driver Dominik Reschke was fastest from the Tamiya of Dai Sakaguchi setting a best lap of 12.00 seconds. Reschke said his car could be better, working well only for 4 to 5 laps. The German National Pro Stock front runner will try harder shocks for his first qualifier. Fastest overall in practice with a 11.93 lap, Daniel Wohlgemuth played around with tyre additive on his Tamiya managing only the 11th fastest time but the German is confident he will be strong over 5 minutes.
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