Rheinard secures Budapest victory
Marc Rheinard is the winner of the Hungarian round of the 2009/10 Euro Touring Series after the World Champion backed up his win in the opening leg of the A-Main with another convincing victory in the second here in Budapest. With Top Qualifier Ronald Volker again struggling to keep his Yokomo on four wheels, Rheinard found a way through at the end of lap four and once in front stamped his authority on the race. Setting a new fastest lap for the event of 12.200 the German headed home Teemu Leino with Volker recovering to claim third.
After a super clean start which saw the entire field get safely round the opening lap, lap 2 would see the demise of ETS Round 1 winner Viktor Wilck. Running third the Swede’s Tamiya got tipped in the rear by Leino’s Xray at the first corner sending it crashing into the barriers forcing him to retire a couple of corners later with a broken car. The big battle of the race was for third between Volker, Andy Moore, Elliot Harper and Yannic Prumper. Moore managed to get to the front of the group when the World Championship runner up got up on two wheels, but the pass was reversed when the British ace himself got a huge amount of day light under his Cyclone allowing Volker back through. In the end Volker did enough to hold on for third followed home by Moore who pulled off a number of great saves while up on two wheels. After the race Volker said he was lost as to why his car was so on edge having changed nothing since his TQ run this morning that secured him pole. Rheinard has opted to sit out the final leg of the final allowing Leino, Wilck and Volker to have a straight fight for the runners up spot.
In Pro Stock Yukijiro Umino completely turned things around by going from finishing last in Leg 1 to winning the second of the three A-Mains. The Japanese driver was helped when Stocker came undone while lapping traffic but he was still very happy to bag a win on his ETS debut. Admitting that Stocker was the class of the field, the Yokomo employee is hoping he can get another good result and secure a place on the podium. Hungary’s Gabor Forrai continued his strong showing on home soil with third for the Leg.
Modified A-main Leg 2 results
1. Rheinard Marc – 25 laps in 5:04.485
2. Leino Teemu – 25 laps in 5:04.847
3. Völker Ronald – 25 laps in 5:10.642
4. Moore Andy – 25 laps in 5:11.151
5. Harper Elliott – 25 laps in 5:11.456
6 Prümper Yannic – 25 laps in 5:11.951
7. Hudy Martin – 24 laps in 5:00.433
8. Lein Sebastian – 24 laps in 5:02.377
9. Kunák Zdenko – 24 laps in 5:03.122
10.Wilck Viktor – 3 laps in 0:27.618
Pro Stock A-main Leg 2 results
1. Umino Yukijiro – 24 laps in 5:14.262
2. Stocker Alexander – 24 laps in 5:14.503
3. Forrai Gabor – 23 laps in 5:02.832
4. Faur Cristian – 23 laps in 5:05.346
5. Rajki Balint – 23 laps in 5:08.832
6. Juhász Viktor – 23 laps in 5:09.989
7. Miko Peter – 23 laps in 5:11.765
8. Orlowski Blazej – 23 laps in 5:12.716
9. Kunák Zdenko – 23 laps in 5:12.727
10.Ashton Chris – 9 laps in 2:01.099
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