Wilck wins A3 for Tamiya 1-2
Viktor Wilck made it a Tamiya 1-2 at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series finishing second overall behind team-mate Marc Rheinard after taking the win in the closing race of the Dutch event. Heading away the 9 car field, Top Qualifier Rheinard sitting out the 3rd A-Main having wrapped up the win in A2, the Swede took a tone to tone victory ahead of the Yokomo team-mates Yannic Prumper and Ronald Volker after HB’s Andy Moore spun out of a comfortable second 3-laps from the finish.
Despite setting the fastest lap of the race, Wilck said his TRF417 ‘did not feel super good’. Once Volker rolled out of second just as they came around to complete lap 5, he said he was able to cruise, focusing on keeping a constant gap between him and Moore before the British ace had an unusual incident on the pit straight. Dropping back to finish sixth, Moore had no explanation for why his TCXX spun saying he didn’t do anything different that lap and was just running his regular line when the car decided to spin out onto the grass.
Switching to his spare BD7 which featured a number of different parts and a totally different set-up, Volker said it was a big improvement on his previous car with the key point being that he had more steering. Unfortunately getting too close to the curbs, the defending champion & current standings leader would roll, landing rubber side down, but his challenge for the leg win and 2nd overall was over. Happy with third overall, maintaining his record as the only driver in the premiere Ride Modified class to finish all four rounds to date on the podium, the German said the change of car had highlighted a number of things and he is confident that they can use that knowlegde to good effect for the remaining two asphalt rounds of the championship. Despite being back to back ETS champion, Volker has never won an outdoor round of the ETS.
In the Xray Pro Stock class, former Apeldoorn event winner John Bruins won the third A-Main from new VBC signing Oliver Bultynck with Martin Hofer third. Hofer and last year’s winner Vasco Christiaanse had been fighting for the win until the pair had a coming together on the main straight on lap three. Despite this Hofer’s second place finishes in Leg 1 & 2 behind overall winner Zdenko Kunak meant the Schumacher driver would finish runner-up with Kyosho’s Christiaanse just hanging on to claim the final step on the podium on tie break with Awesomatix driver Dominic Vogl.
In the Speed Passion Formula class Roman Pichler, like Rheinard and Kunak, took his first win of the 2012/13 season. Starting from pole position the Swiss driver won all three legs with Dutch duo Michael Lepelaar and Alexander Roeleveld joining him on the podium.
Ride Modified A-Main Overall Result
1. Marc Rheinard (DE) – Tamiya – 2 pts
2. Viktor Wilck (SE) – Tamiya – 3
3. Ronald Volker (DE) – Yokomo – 5
4. Yannic Prumper (DE) – Yokomo – 7
5. Marc Fischer (DE) – Serpent – 7
6. Andy Moore (GB) – HB – 10
7. Christopher Krapp (DE) – Kyosho – 11
8. Eric Dankel (DE) – Yokomo – 12
9. Loic Jasmin (FR) – Yokomo – 13
10.Thomas Pumpler (DE) – Tamiya – 16
Ride Modified A-Main Leg 3 Result
1.(2) Viktor Wilck (SE) – Tamiya – 20/5:09.134
2.(5) Yannic Prumper (DE) – Yokomo – 20/5:10.646
3.(3) Ronald Volker (DE) – Yokomo – 20/5:10.845
4.(7) Marc Fischer (DE) – Serpent – 20/5:11.402
5.(10)Loic Jasmin (FR) – Yokomo – 20/5:12.722
6.(4) Andy Moore (GB) – HB – 20/5:14.275
7.(6) Christopher Krapp (DE) – Kyosho – 19/5:01.437
8.(8) Eric Dankel (DE) – Yokomo – 19/5:01.531
9.(9) Thomas Pumpler (DE) – Tamiya – 19/5:04.237
10.(1)Marc Rheinard (DE) – Tamiya – DNS
Xray Pro Stock A-Main Overall Result
1. Zdenko Kunak (SK) – Yokomo – 2 pts
2. Martin Hofer (DE) – Schumacher – 4
3. Vasco Christiaanse (NL) – Kyosho – 7
4. Dominic Vogl (AT) – Awesomatix – 7
5. John Bruins (NZ) – Kyosho – 8
6. Philip Tschupp (CH) – Top Racing – 9
7. Oliver Bultynck (BE) – VBC – 10
8. Tobias Vogel (DE) – Xray – 11
9. Alexander Stocker (DE) – Xray – 14
10.Valetin Hettrich (DE) – Xray – 14
Xray Pro Stock A-Main Leg 3 Result
1.(8) John Bruins (NZ) – Kyosho – 17/5:02.636
2.(9) Oliver Bultynck (BE) – VBC – 17/5:05.316
3.(2) Martin Hofer (DE) – Schumacher – 17/5:07.708
4.(3) Vasco Christiaanse (NL) – Kyosho – 17/5:07.841
5.(6) Philip Tschupp (CH) – Top Racing – 17/2:11.383
6.(10)Tobias Vogel (DE) – Xray – 17/5:11.407
7.(4) Dominic Vogl (AT) – Awesomatix – 17/5:11.811
8.(7) Valetin Hettrich (DE) – Xray – 17/5:13.117
9.(5) Alexander Stocker (DE) – Xray – 17/5:13.927
10.(1)Zdenko Kunak (SK) – Yokomo – DNS
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