Defending Champion Coelho is top seed in Vienna
Qualifying tomorrow is very early so we will see how awake I am before we decide on any changes.”
Bruno Coelho
Bruno Coelho is the top seed in the Volante Modified class for the opening round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Vienna Austria, having improved upon his first round time in the 2nd controlled practice. Taking the round ahead of Freddy Sudhoff and Ronald Volker and a much improved Marc Rheinard, the Xray driver said while it was a very good run, he also made too many small mistakes. Putting them down to pushing the car to find its limits, he said ‘everything is looking good for tomorrow and we will see in the morning if we need to change anything for Q1’, the modified class having their opening qualifier first thing tomorrow morning.
Sudhoff declared CP2, ‘a little better, small steps’ as he further improved his setup and fastest time to end the round in 2nd. The Worlds finalist said his Awesomatix was improving minute to minute and if he was to pick out any issue he would say that perhaps for the first minute the car could be a little better and ‘then it would be the perfect car.’
At least it’s faster, but we are still missing something, it’s hard to drive without mistakes”
Marc Rheinard
Taking third for the run, while Volker seeded in 3rd with his CP1 time, Infinity driver Marc Rheinard felt his car was improved from the first run but they are still lacking something saying that before the car was pushing too much and now in that run it was too loose. ‘At least it’s faster, but we are still missing something, it’s hard to drive without mistakes’, ending by saying ‘we will make little changes and try to keep it on the track.’
In the Pro Stock class, defending champion Jan Rathiesky jumped to the top of the times with his Xray T4 19 to becoming top seed ahead of Simon Lauter who failed to improve in the 2nd run. Jan said ‘I used the OneTen series setup, which I also used at the AOC the week after, nothing has changed apart from the electronics’. Using Rd1 to run in his race tires, for CP2 he didn’t push, simply running a stead qualifying pace. Max Machler, Tim Benson and Frederik Mikkelsen complete the top 5 in seeding.
Andreas Stiebler is the top seed in the Scorpion Formula class, who along with 2nd placed Rathiesky had to rely on their CP1 times. The Xray driver would take the round ahead of Stiebler while Simon Lauter improved to take 3rd for the round and the seeding. Matej Dobnikar, Ben Cosgrove and Oliver Bultynck would complete the top 6 in the overall ranking.
The Infinity Masters 40+ class again saw Alexander Stocker at the front, but this time only 0.3 seconds ahead of Toni Mateo, with last year’s inaugural champion Thomas Oehler improving to take 3rd. For the Yokomo Stock class it was again Daniel Pöhlmann in CP2 with Marwin Riedelbauch jumping to 2nd in front of 3rd placed Kevin Sparbier.
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