Volker takes first Leg
Top Qualifier Ronald Volker has won the opening leg of the Xenon Modified A Mains in what was a pretty uneventful race. The Yokomo driver got out of shape over the dots at the first corner but managed to stay in front despite Marc Rheinard’s best efforts throughout the race, the pair finishing well clear of third placed Freddy Sudhoff.
Volker said he gave himself a scare at the first corner and paid tribute to Rheinard for being so patient over the opening few laps as he got back into his rhythm, his BD5 having a lot more side traction than he had expected. Rheinard said even though Volker was slow through the first corner there was no room to get by without causing a crash so he opted out of attempting a pass. Running Tamiya’s new TRF417 the World Champion said his car was better than Volker’s BD5 through the fast corners but the European Champion had the advantage in the slow section making it very hard to set-up for a pass.
With Volker and Rheinard in a different league, the other battle of the race was for third spot. Xray’s Alexander Hagberg was looking strong until lap 10 when he made a mistake and flipped his T3’11 off a corner dot which benefited Freddy Sudhoff and Team Associated’s Juho Levanen. Trying to find a way passed Sudhoff’s Hot Bodies, Levanen said German was slower than him in the early part of the race and this allowed the pack to catch up forcing him to switch to a defensive driving style to protect his fourth position. The track in Hrotovice is proving very difficult to pass on and Hagberg, frustrated by his own mistake, was further frustrated at being faster than Levanen but unable to get passed the Finn’s TC6.
In Pro-Stock Alexander Stocker took the opening leg of the A-Main from Martin Lissau. The current ETS champion said his plan was to just wait and see what happened over the opening laps but the German didn’t have to wait long. At the third corner Martin Hofer hit the back of Top Qualifier Eric Dankel. Having been hit by the Yokomo driver at the very same corner in the final qualifier Dankel felt the contact was intentional but Hofer said it was a racing accident as Dankel was very slow out of the second corner. Hofer was made wait to allow Dankel back through, the Xray driver recovering to finish third.
Xenon Modified A-main leg 1 results
1. Völker Ronald – 26 Laps in 5:02.114
2. Rheinard Marc – 26 Laps in 5:02.384
3. Südhoff Frederik – 26 Laps in 5:06.874
4. Levanen Juho – 26 Laps in 5:07.387
5. Hagberg Alexander – 26 Laps in 5:07.560
6. Leino Teemu – 26 Laps in 5:08.282
7. Wilck Viktor – 26 Laps in 5:10.390
8. Harper Elliott – 26 Laps in 5:11.261
9. Prümper Yannic – 26 Laps in 5:11.750
10.Fleischmann Dominik – 25 Laps in 5:00.270
Xray Pro Stock A-main leg 1 results
1. Stocker Alexander – 25 Laps in 5:08.684
2. Lissau Martin – 25 Laps in 5:10.100
3. Dankel Eric – 25 Laps in 5:10.409
4. Hofer Martin – 24 Laps in 5:03.112
5. Rajki Balint – 24 Laps in 5:03.411
6. Tschupp Philip – 24 Laps in 5:04.547
7. Streit Tony – 24 Laps in 5:06.957
8. Wohlgemuth Daniel – 6 Laps in 1:21.758
9. Kuriger Sandro – 0 Laps in 0:00.000
10.Wiessmann Felix – 0 Laps in 0:00.000
Full results can be found here.
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