Practice ends with Volker on top
Ronald Volker continues to set the pace in Germany at the opening round of the 2010/11 ‘Yokomo Euro Touring Series’. The Yokomo/LRP team driver improved his 3-consecutive lap time slightly to once again top Marc Rheinard on the time sheets. The German is clearly the man to beat here this weekend but while is BD5 is working better than then opposition he said like the rest of the field he is struggling with the car getting loose on the high speed sweeper at the end of the main straight. Despite this Volker said he will not make changes to his car for the first qualifier, which has now been rescheduled to run tomorrow morning, as the car is very good around the rest of the track.
Making a bigger improvement than Volker in terms of time, Rheinard described his Tamiya as ‘pretty bad’. The reigning champion said the car is very loose and stringing three decent laps together was difficult and he has a lot to do to have a good car for qualifying. His team-mate Viktor Wilck also improved his time to set the fourth fastest time but is also struggling with a very inconsistent car.
In between the Tamiya pairing with the third fastest time was Team Associated’s Juho Levanen. Extremely happy with how his TC6 is working he said it feels really fast and his focus now is to get consistency over 5-minutes from himself as a driver. Ranked 5th at the end of practice Hot Bodies’ Andy Moore said his pace was was ‘alright’ feeling he needs to work on his tyre prep as the car starts bad, feels good in the middle and then gets loose again in the last part of the run. Completing the Top 6 was European Finalist Loic Jasmin just ahead of Adrian Berntsen who once again was the fastest Xray.
In the Xray Pro-Stock class back to back German National Indoor Champion Eric Dankel improved his time to stay on top ahead with his Xray T3 ’11 ahead of the Hot Bodies of Alexander Stocker. Setting the third fastest time was young German Tamiya driver René Klöckner who moved ahead Team Yokomo’s Martin Hofer who failed to better his P3 time. The huge Pro Stock field along with those running in the Speed Passion Hobby class have their opening round of qualifying this evening.
Xenon Modified (Top 10 after P4)
1. Ronald Volker – Yokomo – 10.044
2. Marc Rheinard – Tamiya – 10.091
3. Juho Levanen – Associated – 10.154
4. Viktor Wilck – Tamiya – 10.167
5. Loic Jasmin – Tamiya – 10.168
6. Andy Moore – Hot Bodies – 10.174
7. Freddy Sudhoff – Hot Bodies – 10.200
8. Elliot Harper – Tamiya – 10.229
9. Yannic Pruemper – Yokomo – 10.263
10.Adrian Bernsten – Xray – 10.264
Xray Pro Stock (Top 10 after P4)
1. Eric Dankel – Xray – 10.686
2. Alexander Stocker – Hot Bodies – 10.688
3. Rene Klockner – Tamiya – 10.793
4. Meik Niemann – Hot Bodies – 10.820
5. Steffen Leinburger – Xray – 10.861
6. Martin Hofer – Yokomo – 10.868
7. Carsten Madsen – Tamiya – 10.899
8. Yukijiro Umino – Yokomo – 10.902
9. Rob Janssen – Corally – 10.904
10.Tim Wahl – Xray – 10.951
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