Rheinard & Stocker extend championship lead in Poland
Marc Rheinard and Alexander Stocker came to Poland at the top of the Euro Touring Series standings and this evening they go away with an even greater advantage over their rivals after notching up their third win of the 2009/10 season at the Arena Ursynow. Stocker wrapped up the Pro Stock win early, taking victory in the opening two legs of the A-Main but in Modified things went down to the wire with no less than half the grid still having the potential to claim the overall victory.
Starting from pole, Rheinard was to be the class of the field in the closing race, quickly establishing a comfortable buffer but the German almost threw it away. Three corners from the finish line he flipped his Speedpassion powered Tamiya, loosing 2.5 seconds, but luckily for the two time World Champion his lead was big enough that he could still take the win. The big battle of the race was for second between last year’s winner Yannic Prumper and Leg 1 winner Viktor Wilck. Having struggled all weekend it was a case of too little too late from the German teenager. Moving his shocks to a lower position the 16-year-old finally showed the the kind of pace we saw 12 months ago when he took his first international victory. Starting fourth on the grid he found a way passed Steven Weiss and eventually got ahead of Wilck for second, lifting him to fourth overall. Expected to really push Rheinard for the win, Wilck fitted a fresh rear diff to his TRF416 X for the final race but it was to slip costing him any chance of closing the standings deficit which has now grown to 5 points.
Fourth in the final leg, Team Yokomo’s Steven Weiss would take the final step on the podium thanks to his second place finishes in Leg 1 & 2. His first ETS podium, the German said it was a very encouraging weekend and had been very beneficial for him in terms of getting to grips with the BD5.
In Pro Stock while the weekend belonged to Alexander Stocker we witnessed some great driving from Zdenko Kunák. Having pushed the German all the way in the opening leg, the Slovak teenager put in another great performance in the third leg with a very mature drive to take a well deserved second on the podium. Making it two Xray’s in the Top 3 Oliver Franke also put in a fine performance with his second top three finish of the day in Leg 3 to secure the final step on the podium. In the Hobby class Michal Orlowski upheld the honour of the Automobilklub Polski by cruising to victory, winning all three A-Mains from pole, and his talents were further recognised when he was presented with the Speed Passion ‘One to Watch Award’ by race director Scotty Ernst.
Round 4 of the Xenon Racing backed Euro Touring Series has been completed with the polish hosts OSM putting on a first class event. The event also brings to a close the indoor part of the 2009/10 season with the championship returning to Heemstede in the Netherlands for the first outdoor round on May 21-23.
Modified overall A-main results
1. Rheinard Marc – 2pts
2. Wilck Viktor – 4pts
3. Weiss Steven – 4pts
4. Prümper Yanni – 8pts
5. Ehrbar David – 8pts
6. Lnenicka Sacha – 9pts
7. Gollner Patrick – 9pts
8. Hudy Martin – 11pts
9. Bok Michal – 13pts
10. Treder Lars – 17pts
Pro Stock overall A-main results
1. Stocker Alexander – 2pts
2. Kunák Zdenko – 4pts
3. Franke Oliver – 6pts
4. Gehrig Jan – 7pts
5. Wohlgemuth Daniel – 9pts
6. Lepelaar Michael – 10pts
7. Bergfeldt Tommy – 14pts
8. Orlowski Blazej – 14pts
9. Sakaguchi Dai – 15pts
10.Wiessmann Felix – 18pts
Full results can be found here.
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