Coelho caps off ETS title season with win No. 4
Bruno Coelho has capped off his title winning Yokomo Euro Touring Series campaign with a fourth win, the Xray driver wrapping up victory at the season finale at Hudy Arena with another tone to tone win in A2. Top qualifier at the Xray team’s home event, Coelho led home team-mate Alexander Hagberg with Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski the only one able to run with the Xray pairing. With the Top 3 finishing in the same order they started, the gaps between them evenly stretched out. Behind it was Ronald Völker who was the top mover of the race taking fourth ahead of Yokomo team-mate Christopher Krapp at the finish from 6th on the grid.
Commenting on his race, while Coelho was pleased with the win, he was less happy with how his car ran in A2. Having struggled a little in A1 yesterday, allowing Hagberg to almost get within striking distance, the 3-time back to back ETS Champion put that down to something being off in the car after he had an off in the final qualifier. He said, ‘at the start again the car was not so good. I struggled for the first 3-laps. After this the car was very good and I was able to pull away. It’s just the first 1-minute is the problem. I want to find out what the problem is so I will run the last final to try find it’. Reacting to his 4th win of the season and his 4th in succession at the Hudy Arena, Coelho said, ‘finishing here with a win is the best way to end the ETS’.
‘I thought I had a pretty good car but after the first 3-minutes it fell off a little. Maybe I overheated the tyres’, was how Hagberg summed up A2. He continued, ‘Bruno didn’t make any mistakes this time but it was a solid second and shows our cars work well. I hope I can secure second in the last one’.
Orlowski described A2 as, ‘the same as the first one, a boring race, I was just sitting there’. The EOS Champion continued, ‘I was glad I had a big gap behind. Viktor was struggling and held up the field but there was nothing I could do about the Xrays’. Putting in an impressive ETS performance this weekend despite it being only his second outing of Season #11, the Pole said, ‘the sweeper before the straight I am losing the time to Bruno and Alex and this is something we need to improve for next season. For the last one I will drive the best I can and see what happens’.
The second round of A-Mains would also see the 40+ Masters and Pro Stock winners decided. In 40+, Thomas Oehler was again the class of the field and with his win becomes the inaugural Champion of the class that was introduced this season. In the Xray Pro Stock class, outgoing champion Alexander Duchet took an emotional win. The Frenchman has endured a tough season and being able to finish out the season back at the top after intense pressure from new champion Rathiesky clearly meant a lot to the Xray driver. After a clash with Jan Rathiesky in A1 that allowed Simon Lauter through for the win, Olivier Bultynck took the A2 win in Formula from Rathiesky and Lauter meaning it goes to A3 to decide the overall winner.
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