Rheinard on pole in Warsaw
Marc Rheinard will start the fourth round of the Euro Touring Series from pole position ahead of his Tamiya Racing Factory team-mate Viktor Wilck. Going into the final qualifier here in Warsaw tied on 310 points each, Wilck needed to TQ the round in a faster time than that set by the German in Q4 but it wasn’t to be. The Swede could only manage the 5th fastest time while Rheinard was the only driver to record 19 laps for the round.
The star of the last round of heats was former European Championship Top Qualifier Steven Weiss. Having signed with Team Yokomo for the 2010 season, the German was yesterday still learning the new chassis in terms of set-up but for the final two rounds of qualifying he found his way. Running in the second fastest group, Weiss produced an 18 lap run in 5:00.193 to take second in the final qualifier backing up his fourth fastest time in the penultimate round. With each driver’s best two of the five qualifiers to count Weiss jumps right into contention for a strong result this weekend, lining up 3rd on the grid.
Third fastest in the final round of qualifying and jumping from a place in the B final to seventh on the grid in the A was Martin Hudy. A previous ETS podium finisher, the factory Xray driver has struggled since crashing out in the warm-up for his opening heat but looked far more confident in Q5 and hopefully can carry that through to tomorrow. The sheer size and width of track here in the Arena Ursynow should give the Slovak driver a real chance of progressing through the field. Swiss National Champion Sacha Lnenicka was another driver to benefit from a ‘best for last’ run as he ran the fourth fastest time bumping him up to ninth on the grid.
In Pro Stock, the last round of qualifying was the first time we didn’t see Alexander Stocker’s name at the top of the list. Both he and team-mate Daniel Wohlgemuth had their cars shut down within seconds of one another, leaving Slovak talent Zdenko Kunak to TQ the round and secure second on the grid ahead of German’s Jan Gehrig who has really impressed here this weekend. Gehrig is being run by Mod racer David Ehrbar, who is also running his girlfriend Anna Wysgol in the Hobby class, and tomorrow all three of them will line up on the grid for the A-Main of their respective classes.
In the Tamiya TT01 based Hobby Class it is emerging 8-year-old Polish talent and championship leader Michal Orlowski who will start on pole ahead of Dutch driver Eric Mulder. Making his ETS debut Gerd Strenge of Durango fame will line up fourth on the gird.
Modified Top 10 final standings
1. Rheinard Marc (DE) – Tamiya/Speedpassion
2. Wilck Viktor (SE) – Tamiya/Speedpassion
3. Weiss Steven (DE) – Yokomo/LRP
4. Prümper Yannic (DE) – Tamiya/Speedpassion
5. Ehrbar David (DE) – Xray/LRP
6. Treder Lars (DE) – Tamiya/GM
7. Hudy Martin (SK) – Xray/LRP
8. Bok Michal (CZ) – Tamiya/Speedpassion
9. Lnenicka Sacha (CH) – Tamiya/Speedpassion
10.Gollner Patrick (AT) – Tamiya/LRP
Pro Stock Top 10 final standings
1. Stocker Alexander (DE) – Hot Bodies
2. Kunák Zdenko (SK) – Xray
3. Gehrig Jan (DE) – Xray
4. Franke Oliver (DE) – Xray
5. Bergfeldt Tommy (SE) – Hot Bodies
6. Orlowski Blazej (PL) – Tamiya
7. Wohlgemuth Daniel (DE) – Hot Bodies
8. Sakaguchi Dai (DE) – Tamiya
9. Lepelaar Michael (NL) – Tamiya
10.Wiessmann Felix (DE) – Tamiya
Full results can be found here.
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