Champion Rheinard takes first 2010/11 win
Current ETS champion Marc Rheinard secured his first win as champion of the series today by claiming the top step on the podium at Apeldoorn in the Netherlands. The fifth & penultimate round of the 2010/11 Yokomo Euro Touring Series, the Tamiya Racing Factory driver took the win over Yannic Prumper, winning of the day’s third A-main, and Top Qualifier Jilles Groskamp.
With Groskamp taking the opening final and Rheinard the second ahead of Ronald Volker, the trio all went into the last race of the event with a chance of the overall win. Making his first ETS appearance of the season former champion Groskamp looked very much on target to repeat his win from the last time the series visited the superb Apeldoorn track but it was not to be. Having established a comfortable lead over the Yokomo of Prumper and his TRF team-mate Rheinard, Groskamp’s gear diff started to slip. Trying to continue the now Thailand based driver eventually had to pull up.
Volker’s challenge did not even last a lap as he got pushed onto the grass on the first run down the main straight. The incident, which saw four cars get stuck on the grass, resulted in a rear shock spring retainer being knocked off the champion elect’s Yokomo, ending his race. With Groskamp and Volker out this automatically gave Rheinard the overall win but enjoying a run of success, including victory at the Reedy Race in California two weeks ago, he wanted to find a way passed Prumper but the teenager held on to take maximum points and the first podium finish of the 2010/11 season for the former race winner.
Commenting on his first ETS win since taking victory at last season’s finale 11 months ago, Rheinard said this had been a really positive weekend for Tamiya thanks mainly to the technical input of Groskamp who he said was the fastest car all weekend but was just hit with bad luck. Fitting a new gear diff to his car Groskamp, who is widely respected as one of the hardest working drivers in the sport, said they knew the shimming of the gear diff is vital but having fitted a new one for the last run he said they still have find more accuracy.
Having dominated the first three race of the season, Volker said he was disappointed at not having had a clear chance at battling for the win in Leg 3 as his car felt ‘really good’ in the warm-up. Pleased to see Prumper on the podium and Cyril N’diaye finish fourth overall thanks to his third place in A-Main 3, the Yokomo No.1 was happy with the progress they made having found themselves well off the pace at the beginning of the weekend.
With John Bruins having secured a very popular overall victory in the Xray Pro Stock class, allowing him to sit out the third main, this left Martin Hofer to take an easy win over Daniel Wohlgemuth. The result meant the German pair joined Bruins, who secured the first ever TQ and first ever win in the Pro Stock class for Tamiya, on the podium.
A great first outdoor race of the 2010/11 Yokomo Euro Touring Series, drivers now have four weeks to prepare for the season finale at Andernach in German where one of the most star studded entries of the season is expected to take part.
Xenon Modified A-Main Leg 3 results
1. Yannic Prümper – 19 Laps in 5:01.723
2. Marc Rheinard – 19 Laps in 5:01.865
3. Cyril N’diaye – 19 Laps in 5:04.350
4. Steen Graversen – 19 Laps in 5:09.330
5. Juho Levanen – 19 Laps in 5:11.683
6. Frederik Südhoff – 19 Laps in 5:12.743
7. Jilles Groskamp – 14 Laps in 3:44.685
8. Viktor Wilck – 12 Laps in 3:29.287
9. Christopher Krapp – 7 Laps in 1:56.266
10.Ronald Völker – 1 Lap in 0:33.964
Xray Pro Stock A-Main Leg 3 results
1. Martin Hofer – 17 Laps in 5:02.589
2. Daniel Wohlgemuth – 17 Laps in 5:04.981
3. Sandro Kuriger – 17 Laps in 5:06.862
4. Oliver Franke – 17 Laps in 5:07.125
5. Jens Kröger – 17 Laps in 5:07.320
6. Steffen Leinburger – 17 Laps in 5:09.809
7. Tony Streit – 17 Laps in 5:10.201
8. Ivan Laptev – 17 Laps in 5:10.833
9. Michael Spiering – 17 Laps in 5:11.169
10.John Bruins – DNS
Xenon Modified Overall Result
1. Marc Rheinard (DE) – Tamiya/Speed Passion – 3 pts
2. Yannic Prümper (DE) – Yokomo/Speed Passion – 4
3. Jilles Groskamp (NL) – Tamiya/Orion – 5
4. Cyril N’diaye (FR) – Yokomo/LRP – 8
5. Steen Graversen (DK) – Awesomatix/Speed Passion – 10
6. Ronald Völker (DE) – Yokomo/LRP – 11
7. Christopher Krapp (DE) – Kyosho/Orion – 11
8. Viktor Wilck (SE) – Tamiya/Thunder Power – 12
9. Frederik Südhoff (DE) – Hot Bodies/LRP – 12
10.Juho Levanen (FI) – Associated/Reedy – 13
Xray Pro-Stock Overall Result
1. John Bruins (NL) – Tamiya – 2 pts
2. Martin Hofer (DE) – Schumacher – 3
3. Daniel Wohlgemuth (DE) – Hot Bodies – 5
4. Oliver Franke (DE) – Hot Bodies – 6
5. Sandro Kuriger (CH) – Tamiya – 7
6. Steffen Leinburger (DE) – Xray – 9
7. Jens Kröger (DE) – Kyosho – 10
8. Tony Streit (DE) – Xray – 11
9. Michael Spiering (DE) – TOP – 14
10.Ivan Laptev (RU) – Awesomatix – 16
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