Levanen wins Polish ETS encounter
The winner of the first ever ETS race back in 2007, Juho Levanen finally returned, 18 races later, to the top step of the podium with victory today in the fourth round of the 2010/11 series at Legionowo, Poland. The 26-year-old claimed the victory with his second win of the day in the third leg to beat Ronald Volker and end the German’s domination of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series.
Commenting on his first big touring car win for sometime, the three time European Champion said it was good to taste victory again and even better to give Associated’s TC6 its first major win in Europe. Following the early end to his challenge in Leg 2, Levanen took a more cautious approach going in to the final race of the day and made his move on the straight with Volker unable to respond. Although Volker reduced the gap in the later part of the race, Levanen had remained calm to take a very popular victory.
Graceful in defeat Volker congratulated Levanen on his victory saying the Finnish ace was a deserving winner having been the fastest driver since TQ’ing the final round of qualifying on Saturday evening. Switching car for the deciding A-Main, Volker said it was totally different to the previous car and was not good enough to match Levanen’s pace.
Third in the final leg Elliot Harper was very happy with his performance as he netted his first ETS podium finish. Bringing Tamiya’s unbroken run of podium finishes to 15, the English teenager described the weekend as a turning point for the TRF417 and said it was nice to come away with a good result.
Once again Team Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper missed out on a podium finish and as at the third round in Austria ended up fourth overall. Setting the fastest lap of the final leg, TITC winner Andy Moore ended the event in fifth but leaves the Arena Legionowo upbeat about the performance of his Hot Bodies TCX saying it was the best it has ever been on carpet. The pace setter in Friday’s practice, Team Xray’s Alexander Hagberg completed the Top 6, a result he will be disappointed with having started the weekend so well.
Like in the Xenon Modified class, the outcome of the Xray Pro Stock class went down to the final leg. Top Qualifier Ivan Laptev looked on target to take a historic win for the small Awesomatix operation but with a minute to go caught a piece of tape sending his A700 rolling out of contention. This allowed Schumacher’s Martin Hofer, who was closing in on the Russian, to take the win to back his maiden ETS success in Austria with a second victory for the British company. Finishing Leg 3 second ahead of Swiss driver Sandro Kuriger, Oliver Franke completed the podium for Hot Bodies.
The indoor leg of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series is now complete with the fifth round taking racers outdoors to the beautiful Apledoorn track in the Netherlands. With just under three months of a break, drivers have plenty of time to get their set-up sorted for the June 10-12 asphalt event.
Xenon Modified A-Final – Leg 3
1.(2) Juho Levanen (FI) – Associated/Reedy – 24/5:12.281
2.(1) Ronald Völker (DE) – Yokomo/LRP – 24/5:13.399
3.(3) Elliot Harper (GB) – Tamiya/Speed Passion – 23/5:00.548
4.(4) Alexander Hagberg (SE) – Xray/LRP – 23/5:00.827
5.(5) Yannic Prumper (DE) – Yokomo/Speed Passion – 23/5:01.447
6.(6) Andy Moore (GB) – Hot Bodies/Moore Speed – 23/5:01.697
7.(7) Magnus Vassmar (SE) – Xray/Nosram – 23/5:02.703
8.(8) Zdenko Kunak (SK) – Xray/LRP – 23/5:06.483
9.(9) Rene Klöckner (DE) – Tamiya/Speed Passion – 23/5:07.625
10.(10)Thomas Mirke (DE) – Xray/LRP – 23/5:08.071
Xray Pro-Stock A-Final – Leg 3
1.(2) Martin Hofer (DE) – Schumacher – 22/5:05.624
2.(4) Oliver Franke – (DE) – Hot Bodies – 22/5:07.167
3.(7) Sandro Kuriger (CH) – Tamiya – 22/5:09.383
4.(3) Zdenko Kunak (SK) – Xray – 22/5:10.198
5.(1) Ivan Laptev (RU) – Awesomatix – 22/5:11.971
6.(9) Philip Tschupp (CH) – TOP – 22/5:12.219
7.(8) John Bruins (NL) – Tamiya – 22/5:14.206
8.(6) Vasco Christiaanse (NL) – Kyosho – 21/5:03.912
9.(5) René Klöckner – (DE) – Tamiya – 21/5:05.041
10.(10)Beni Stutz (CH) – Tamiya – 21/5:06.089
Xenon Modified Overall Result
1.(2) Juho Levanen (FI) – Associated/Reedy – 2pts
2.(1) Ronald Völker (DE) – Yokomo/LRP – 3
3.(3) Elliot Harper (GB) – Tamiya/Speed Passion – 5
4.(5) Yannic Prumper (DE) – Yokomo/Speed Passion – 8
5.(6) Andy Moore (GB) – Hot Bodies/Moore Speed – 9
6.(4) Alexander Hagberg (SE) – Xray/LRP – 9
7.(7) Magnus Vassmar (SE) – Xray/Nosram – 12
8.(8) Zdenko Kunak (SK) – Xray/LRP – 15
9.(10)Thomas Mirke (DE) – Xray/LRP – 18
10.(9)Rene Klöckner (DE) – Tamiya/Speed Passion – 18
Xray Pro-Stock Overall Result
1.(2) Martin Hofer (DE) – Schumacher – 2
2.(1) Ivan Laptev (RU) – Awesomatix – 3
3.(4) Oliver Franke – (DE) – Hot Bodies – 4
4.(7) Sandro Kuriger (CH) – Tamiya – 7
5.(3) Zdenko Kunak (SK) – Xray – 8
6.(8) John Bruins (NL) – Tamiya – 12
7.(9) Philip Tschupp (CH) – TOP – 14
8.(6) Vasco Christiaanse (NL) – Kyosho – 14
9.(10)Beni Stutz (CH) – Tamiya – 16
10.(5)René Klöckner – (DE) – Tamiya – 17
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