Volker completes clean sweep in qualifying
He topped practice yesterday and today he remained at the top of the time sheets TQ’ing all five round of qualifying here at the opening race of the 2010/11 ‘Yokomo Euro Touring Series’. The German ace, who has been at the top of his game this season, topped the last of the 118 heats which were run over 14 hours in Kastellaun today with the fastest 5-minute run.
With Volker having already wrapped up pole for the Xenon Modified A-Main the big interest in the last qualifier was how the rest of the grid would fair out and it was Freddy Sudhoff who was to win that battle. Setting the second fastest time, the result moves his Hot Bodies up the number 2 starting position on the grid ahead of ETS Champion Marc Rheinard who ended the day with the third fastest time.
Q5 saw a very determined Viktor Wilck set a new track record as he looked to move up the grid but his Tamiya flew off the track ending the Swede challenge and he drops to fourth in the starting order. Starting behind him will be Dominik Fleischmann followed by Associated’s Juho Levanen. Deserving of a bonus from Losi for his performance here among the world class factory line up of drivers, super fast French driver Lucas Urbain will start 7th with his Speed Passion power JRX-S a car that was designed a number of years ago.
Completing the grid for the main event tomorrow are Yokomo’s Yannic Prümper, TRF’s Elliot Harper and Team Xray’s Alexander Hagberg. The unfortunate BQ honour falls to Junior European Indoor Champion Adrian Berntsen but the Norwegian faces some high class opposition in the B-Main from the likes of Martin Hudy, Teemu Leino, Andy Moore and European finalist Loic Jasmin.
After TQ’ing the final round of qualifying Eric Dankel will start tomorrow’s Pro-Stock A-Main from pole. Running his Xray T3’11, which is fitted with Spec-R gear diffs both front and rear, the German Indoor Champion claimed his fourth TQ run of the five rounds of qualifying. Although he has the number one starting position for the three leg final the 19-year-old nitro champion is not taking anything for granted tomorrow saying its not going to be easy, as racing is totally different to qualifying.
Despite his worst run of qualifying Martin Hofer, the only other driver to TQ a round this weekend, will line up second on the grid and is confident he can take the challenge to Dankel, a driver he has plenty of experience competing against. The runner-up here 12 months ago, the Yokomo driver will change to a harder front ant-roll bar on his BD5 and other than that feels the car is good enough for the victory. Behind him on the grid will be Dutch ETS winner Oliver Franke, second fastest in Q5. Two drivers at the rear end of the grid who will be ones to watch are defending champion Alexander Stocker, who has never been beaten at this race, and Vice-Champion Daniel Wohlgemuth who start 8th and 9th respectively.
Xenon Modified top 10
1. Ronald Völker (DE) – Yokomo/LRP – 310pts
2. Frederik Südhoff (DE) – Hot Bodies/LRP – 306pts
3. Marc Rheinard (DE) – Tamiya/Speedpassion – 306pts
4. Viktor Wilck (SE) – Tamiya/Speedpassion – 305pts
5. Dominik Fleischmann (DE) – Hot Bodies/LRP – 303pts
6. Juho Levanen (FI) – Associated/LRP – 301pts
7. Lucas Urbain (FR) – Losi/Speedpassion – 298pts
8. Yannic Prümper (DE) – Yokomo/Speedpassion – 298pts
9. Elliott Harper (GB) – Tamiya/Speedpassion – 297pts
10.Alexander Hagberg (SE) – Xray/LRP – 297pts
Xray Pro Stock top 10
1. Eric Dankel (DE) – Xray – 310pts
2. Martin Hofer (DE) – Yokomo – 308pts
3. Oliver Franke (DE) – Hot Bodies – 306pts
4. Tim Wahl (DE) – Xray – 304pts
5. René Klöckner (DE) – Tamiya – 304pts
6. Carsten Madsen (DK) – Tamiya – 301pts
7. Ivan Laptev (RU) – Tamiya – 300pts
8. Alexander Stocker (DE) – Hot Bodies – 300pts
9. Daniel Wohlgemuth (DE) – xray – 296pts
10.Tony Streit (DE) – Xray – 296pts
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