A star is born – Pruemper wins in Poland
In practice he impressed everyone with his super fast laps, in final qualifier he snatched TQ honours from some of the best in the sport and now in the Finals young Yannic Pruemper has completed the perfect weekend by claiming overall victory for Round 3 of the Euro Touring Series. Having won the opening Leg of the A Main, the rising German talent once again beat the quality field behind him for win No.2 and his first big international race success.
The 15-year-old resisted intense pressure from his senior Tamiya team-mates Jilles Groskamp and Marc Rheinard but both made mistakes in their quest to take the fight for overall victory to the third A Main. If the pressure of having all these World class drivers chasing him down wasn’t enough Pruemper had to contend with adrenalin pumping commentary of the legendary race announcer Scotty Ernst.
After the race Pruemper was clearly emotional with taking his first big race win over his idol Marc Rheinard. The German was short of words but was quick to thank his mentor and mechanic Toni Rheinard for his support and expert guidance.
Behind Pruemper and Rheinard the big battle was for third between Groskamp, Teemu Leino, Andy Moore and Paul Lemieux. Eventually it was Groskamp who took the spot from the leading Xray of Leino.
In Pro Stock we had an exciting second A-Main that kept the large crowd of spectators on their feet. An ETS podium finisher last year Miek Niemann was in search of his first win having won Leg 1. All looked to be going to plan when Daniel Wohlgemuth made a mistake giving Niemann the break he needed but his nerves appeared to kick in in the dying moments of the race and he rolled his Xray twice allowing Wohlgemuth to close right up the gap from almost 5 seconds to less than 2. Holding it together however Niemann took a popular win to also claim his first big race victory.
We have one more round of Finals to go here at the very well prepared OSM Club track in Warsaw where the lower podium placings are still up for grabs.
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