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June 23, 2018

Chassis Focus – Michal Orlowski

Chassis – Schumacher Mi6 Evo
Motor – LRP X22 4.5
ESC – LRP Flow X
Batteries – LRP Graphene 2 HV Lipo 6400
Tires – Volante (handout)
Radio/Servo – Sanwa/Sanwa
Bodyshell – Montech Racer Lightweight (racing on track)

Remarks – Making his first ETS appearance this season, Michal is running Schumacher’s Mi6 Evo which is fitted with a new pre production version of an upcoming optional shock set-up the UK company will offer.  To be known as ‘Ultra Short Shocks’, this comprises of new shock towers front and rear and new short big bore shocks.  This new set-up gives a better CG and better dampening characteristics.  Other interesting things on Michal’s car are the use of Schumacher 1:12 track rods which Schumacher designer Andy Murray says have a nicer fit when using titanium balls plus they are lighter.  The other key item on the car is the 46mm wide front pivot box which also sits lower in the car.

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June 23, 2018

Coelho on pole at ETS Netherlands

Bruno Coelho will start on pole for tomorrow’s Yokomo Euro Touring Series fifth round at Apeldoorn, the Xray driver’s fourth TQ of the season moving him to within touching distance of his third consecutive ETS title.  Having convincingly set the pace in controlled practice yesterday, Coelho got the day of to the perfect start by taking the opening qualifier but he couldn’t keep his car on the track in Q2 & 3.  This allowed Ronald Volker to TQ the second and Christopher Krapp to top Q3 meaning it would all come down to the fourth & final qualifier.  Initially it was Volker who set the pace but Naoto Matsukura now had a quick car going to the top of the timing screens but all the time Coelho was getting into his rhythm conscious he couldn’t afford another roll.  While Volker would push him hard, in the end Coelho’s earlier form was back and he completed the 5-minutes well clear with Nicholas Lee coming through for a P2 run ahead of Matsukura and Volker, who will line up 2nd tomorrow.  In what has been a strong weekend for Yokomo, Christopher Krapp will start 3rd with team-mate Yannick Prumper fourth. With Coelho’s TQ eliminating team-mate Alexander Hagberg from the title fight, now only Marc Rheinard remains but he must win tomorrow which is looking like a tall order from 5th on the grid.

Reacting to his TQ, this weekend his first time to the famed Dutch track, Coelho said, ‘I knew the car was good and if I drive it more careful I can make first.  I flipped in the second qualifier and in the third one it was not really my fault, the car traction rolled. I also had back luck when coming off the grass because I touched Lucas (Urbain). I had no chance to do anything but it was my fault and I apologised to him for that’.  Looking to tomorrow, the Portuguese ace is quietly confident he can wrap up the championship with his 13th ETS career win. He said, ‘If the track is like today I will try to manage the race.  The car worked well and I like the track layout but the weather can change and there is also the wind. So we’ll have to wait and see’.

Volker said, ‘The set-up didn’t worked as well as expected but I think if it had the tyre strategy would have paid off.’  The World Champion added, ‘We will have to make changes for A1 to try and get extra steering to have at least a chance of the win’.  Very much undertaking the role of team leader at Yokomo following changes within the team, he said, ‘I am super happy for our team. Not only have we the most cars in the final with 4 drivers on the grid but we are lining up 2, 3, 4 and 6th’. Asked about the possibilities to overtake he replied, ‘it is difficult to pass because it’s a high speed track so you have force mistakes from each other’.

‘I pretty happy that on used tyres I was only 1-second off Ronald on new tyres’, was Krapp’s reaction after Q4, the former race winner secured his 3rd place on the grid with a P4 in Q2 and TQ in Q3.  He added, ‘I am pretty happy with third on the grid and I hope I can make the podium’.  Managing to finish second at ETS Spain from fourth on the grid, he echoed his team-mate Volker’s thoughts on his team performance this weekend saying, ‘I am super happy how the team has done because it shows all our team work pays off’.

While he struggled with ‘zero traction’ in Q4 something he said could be down to him not adjusting his set-up for used tyres, Prumper along with all A-Main drivers having 3 new sets of tyres ruling out any tyre tactics he said, ‘I think we all have a good chance tomorrow’.  Equalling his best qualifying of the season and a huge improvement on his starting position at the previous two asphalt encounters, he added, ‘the track is not good for overtaking but hopefully everyone can move up one position’, a scenario that would make it an all Yokomo podium.

‘For old tyres it was not bad’ was a much happier looking Rheinard’s thoughts on Q4, the Infinity driver able to improve his 7th from Q2 with a P5.  A three time ETS winner at Apeldoorn, he continued, ‘luckily we went the right direction with set-up and the car is now quite good.  I would like to be starting higher but getting ahead of Yannic would have the best I could do, anyway I am happy to have a car that works again’.  On his chances to mix it at the front in the finals, he said, ‘It is hard from 5th but Bruno is making many mistakes this weekend so we will see’.

In Pro Stock it will be Jan Ratheisky who starts on pole while in Formula Simon Lauter is the Top Qualifier after producing his third TQ run of the day in the final qualifier.  Behind Ratheisky it will be Max Mächler who carries the No.2 with fellow Awesomatix driver Olivier Bultynck and Tim Benson lining up behind.  For Tamiya driver Lauter, he is going to have Ratheisky behind him with Jitse Miedema third and Bultynck fourth.  Long time ETS competitors Beni Stutz can finally call himself an ETS Top Qualifier after the Swiss Infinity driver secured pole for the 40+ Masters class. Christian Drießle will start second while championship leader Thomas Oehler will have to try and work his way through from 7th.

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June 23, 2018

Chassis Focus – Martin Hofer

Chassis – Yokomo BD8 2018
Motor – Muchmore (handout)
ESC – Muchmore (handout)
Batteries – Muchmore 8200
Tires – Volante (handout)
Radio/Servo – Sanwa/Savox
Bodyshell –Protoform Type S Pro-Lite

Remarks – Yokomo’s lead challenger in the Pro Stock class, Martin’s car features Yokomo’s optional wishbones.  The car is also fitted with AME’s backbone, Axion bearings and Racing Performance screws.  The other notable thing on the car is the flipped steering which the former champion said ‘gives the corner speed needed for stock racing’.

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June 23, 2018

Krapp tops Q3 at ETS Netherlands

Christopher Krapp has become the third different driver to top qualifying at ETS Netherlands, the Yokomo driver hitting the top in the third & penultimate round at the Apeldoorn track. With top seed Bruno Coelho once again making an error, this time on his second lap, Krapp would set the pace eventually finishing half a second up on a much improved Marc Rheinard, the Infinity driver having seeded in the second fastest heat.  Behind, Yannic Prumper would complete the Top 3 as team-mate Ronald Volker, who took the previous qualifier, opted to save his third set of allocated tyres for the final qualifier.  On used tyres Volker would finish well down the order but he goes in the deciding qualifier leading a Yokomo 1,2,3 at the top of the provisional grid standings.  After trouble in the first two qualifiers, Viktor Wilck would return to his seeding form and post a P4 for the round ahead of Marco Kaufmann and ETS returnee Michal Orlowski.

‘I’m extremely happy to score a TQ round after a long time’, was Krapp’s reaction to topping the round.  The former ETS race winner and runner-up at ETS Madrid earlier this season, added, ‘my car was awesome. I had a bit of luck Bruno had a drama, but anyway I don’t care, I was able to take a TQ’.  He continued, ‘It was warmer that time and these conditions suit our car better.  In the cold I am still struggling but when it is warm I can push more so I hope it stays warm. We are holding the Top 3 places on the grid and hopefully we can stay up there in the last qualifier’.

Rheinard joked, ‘I just arrived’.  Having struggled to find a car set-up, the rain delay yesterday not helping his cause, he said, ‘we are still working on the car.  Every run we changed the car completely, big changes, but I think now we found the right direction. In the beginning I was fighting just to make the A-Main but we are improving every run and right now I am fifth with a 7th and 2nd. I have no new tyres left but I will try to improve on the 7th’.

‘Actually the car was good but I made shit’, was how Prumper summed up Q3.  The multiple ETS race winner said, ‘I lost too much time in the last three laps. I went wide and in the end I was 1/10th behind Marc.  The car is good I just need to improve my own performance.  Pitting next to him Volker said, ‘I was on used tyres so I didn’t expect Top 5 but mixing my two sets of used tyres my car felt tweaked’.

Wilck was pleased with his run saying, ‘At least I finished one’.  Suffering a roll coming onto the main straight half way through the opening qualifier, the Serpent driver then suffered a belt failure after two laps in Q2.  The Swede said, ‘I hope for a clean last one.  The tyres (from Q2) should be fine for the last one’.  In terms of his car he is still suffering from the car starting out fast but then slowing towards the end.  In need of a good result from the final qualifier he said, ‘I think I have to leave it the same because I have to have one more result’.

With his P5 putting him in contention for the hotly contested final spot on the A-Main, Kaufmann said, ‘I’m 11th but I still have one set of tyres left’.  The Xray driver added, ‘there are a lot of guys fighting for the last place in the A-Main and I hope not to be BQ like in Madrid’.  On his car the German said, ‘It is a little too stable so maybe I will make it a little more loose. It is super close but I am losing time at the start of the run’.

Have not raced ETS this year due to his studies along with a full Euro Offroad Series programme, double EOS champion Orlowski said, ‘I am trying to get back into the groove of touring car but the car has felt good all weekend’.  The Schumacher driver continued, ‘I think I got a bad set of tyres for Q1 because the car was completely different but then for Q2 & 3 it was good the same as yesterday’.  Suffering a roll over on his P6 run, asked if he felt he had a chance of making the A-Main he replied, ‘I have no more new tyres so I have to run used now’.  Behind Orlowski, Jilles Groskamp would set the 7th fastest time.

In the Xray Pro Stock class, Q3 also produced a third different TQ driver will Olivier Bultynck topping the times for Awesomatix ahead of team-mate & Q1 winner Max Mächler.  After taking Q2, Jan Rathiesky could only manage 5th. The Scorpion Power System Formula class would produce the first double TQ with Simon Lauter again putting his Tamiya on the top ahead of the Infinity of Jitse Miedema with the big Norwegian Helge Johannessen completing his first Top 3 run.

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June 23, 2018

Volker TQs 2nd qualifier as Coelho suffers early error

Ronald Volker has TQ’d the second round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in the Netherlands.  The Yokomo driver topped the times after a close fight with Freddy Südhoff, the two Germans separated by 4/10ths of a second. Having taken Q1 in convincing style, it was again Bruno Coelho who set the early pace but on his third lap he suffered an error on the curbing that cost him 4 & a half seconds that would leave him with a P10 at the end of the 5-minutes.  While Coelho had a bad round, for team-mate Alexander Hagberg Q2 would be a turning moment for the Swede as he completed the Top 3 from the second fastest heat. With Yannic Prumper, 3rd in Q1, another to make an error when he rolled coming onto the front straight, it was Christopher Krapp who was the next best Yokomo with the fourth fastest time but his pace was over a second off that of his team-mate’s TQ pace.  Behind him ETS Andernach runner-up Naoto Matsukura was another big improvement coming in as the fastest Infinity for the round in P5 ahead of Nicholas Lee.

‘I’m of course happy to get the TQ that round and now I already have two good results in the bag’, was Volker’s reaction after the race, the World Champion not hiding the fact the TQ was only possible due to Coelho’s error.  He continued, ‘we made some changes to the geometry which helped a bit the overall steering but we need to find some more to get better pace’.

Südhoff said, ‘that was quite a good one.  I went back to my set-up from practice yesterday and I was more connected to the car now’.  The Awesomatix driver continued, ‘I had two small moments when I overshot the corner a little bit and that might have cost me the time to Ronald.  I will keep the car the same and concentrate on my driving but have to see what the weather makes and if we can have more qualifying’.

‘We went a different direction (with set-up) now and it is better for my driving style’, was how Hagberg explained his improvement adding ‘It is a bit better but we still need to find more pace’.  The Swede continued, ‘The car was too difficult to drive yesterday which is different to how it worked at the warm-up race.  Now we have made the car more stable and safer so it seems better. We just need to fine tune it now’.

Commenting on his P4, Krapp said, ‘It was a good qualifier, a solid result, but I am struggling with set-up because of the weather.  I am missing 1 to 2 seconds to Ronald and Freddy’.  He continued, ‘I am trying to get rear grip so to be able to push more.  There was a big difference between the first and the second qualifier, there was more grip but it is still slippery’.  The German concluded, ‘It is difficult to calculate which way to go but I am going one way and I hope it is the right way’.

Only 10th fastest in seeding and 8th in Q1, Matsukura was happy with his P5.  Having been running his car with ARS, he removed it for Q2 which he said has ‘made it easier to drive’.  He added he also have a better standard set-up for when running the car without ARS.  Still the Japanese driver said while it is ‘now not too bad it is still not perfect’ with him reporting the car starts to understeer after 2-minutes but the former World Champion concluded, ‘I am happy I got good points in the last one’.

Lee summed up his second qualifying attempt as ‘pretty good’.  The Singapore driver said, ‘In Q1 the car wasn’t good so I changed to a harder oil in the diff and it made a big difference’.  He continued, ‘still I need to find more. I lose a lot to the others over the first three laps I think there is not a lot I can do, I am running a stiffer chassis than them (his Yokomo team-mates).

In Pro Stock and Formula it was Jan Ratheisky who topped the second of the four rounds of qualifying.  Having sat out Q1 in Pro Stock to save tyres, the Xray driver’s gamble paid off and he got a TQ run ahead of the Awesomatix of Tim Benson and Infinity of Dominic Vogl.  After an early error, Q1 pace setter Max Mächler opted to pull up to save his tyres.  In the Scorpion Power Systems Formula class, Ratheisky was quickest from Olivier Bultynck’s Shepherd with the Tamiya of Simon Lauter, who took Q1, completing the Top 3 ahead of Jitse Miedema’s Infinity prototype.

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June 23, 2018

Chassis Focus – Jitse Miedema

Chassis – Infinity IF11 (Prototype)
Motor – Scorpion Power System (handout)
ESC – Scorpion Power System (handout)
Batteries – GensAce RS High Voltage 5500
Tires – Volante (handout)
Radio/Servo – Sanwa/SRT
Bodyshell – Xray

Remarks – A home race for Jitse, he is running what Infinity are still calling the prototype of their first entry in to the Formula market – the IF11.  He is running the car with a number of the optionals that will be released for the car, him suggesting the kit will be in production ‘at the end of Summer’.  The main optional is the top arms.  In the kit, the arms will be full carbon but he is using a turnbuckle version for greater adjustment but pointed out the downside of these are that if you hit anything ‘it will bend a lot’.

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June 23, 2018

Chassis Focus – Lucas Urbain

Chassis – Awesomatix A800X
Motor – Muchmore Feta ZX V2 4.5
ESC – Muchmore Fleta Pro V2
Batteries – Silverback 6400 Siren HV
Tires – Volante (handout)
Radio/Servo – Sanwa/Sanwa
Bodyshell – Protoform Type S Pro-Lite

Remarks – Having made the A-Main at ETS Andernach, Lucas is again enjoying a completive run on what is only his third ETS outing with Awesomatix.  Posting a P4 run in the opening qualifier, he is running quite a few option parks on his A800X such as the dual bell crank steering, aluminium screws in the top deck and bulkheads with the drive shafts also optional upgrades.  The most unusual thing about the car is the lack of sway bars which is the result of a suggestion from the cars designer Oleg Babich.  Taking out the sway bars he suggested compensating with harder springs and having tried it Lucas said he like it and now some of the other team drivers are following the idea.

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June 23, 2018

Coelho takes Q1 at ETS Netherlands

Bruno Coelho has taken the opening round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Apeldoorn this morning. With qualifying originally scheduled for yesterday evening until light rain put a stop to the action at the Dutch track, the morning timing of Q1 didn’t slow the Xray driver in any way with him continuing to have a distinct advantage over his rivals.  As in seeding yesterday it was Ronald Volker who would be the closest to Coelho, albeit the Yokomo driver being 4 & a half second slower over the 5-minutes.  With things much closer between the rest of the field, Yannic Prumper would opening Round 5 of the championship with a P3 run just ahead of Lucas Urbain, Jilles Groskamp and Jan Ratheisky, them all covered by just half a second.

‘It was a very good qualifying.  I felt good and the car is working very well’, was how Coelho summed up his TQ run. Looking strongly positioned to seal his third consecutive ETS championship title here on his first visit to Apeldoorn, he continued, ‘I could see Volker was not catching me in the beginning so I did not drive so aggressive.  That is it really’.

Commenting on his first qualifying attempt, Volker said, ‘The car was easy to drive and I was able to make a clean run without mistakes but it cost me too much in understeer to have a single chance to fight with Bruno so I am satisfied to finish second ahead of Yannic’.  The World Champion concluded, ‘we will make 2 or 3 changes for Q2’.

Prumper said, ‘my run was pretty good, I just had two slides in the middle of the run. Without these I could have got 2nd but 3rd is OK’.  Asked what caused the slides, the Yokomo driver replied, ‘I don’t know where they came from but maybe I was over pushing or the tyres got hot, anyway I am still pretty happy with the run’.

‘It was exactly like I said yesterday.  Bruno is in a different game but for the rest it is anyones game’, was Urbain’s reaction to Q1. The Awesomatix driver continued, ‘I missed a few times my lines and I lost out to Yannic and Ronald but I could have also ended up 9th given how close it is so I’ll take it (P4).  The car is really good and it is forgiving if I get on the curbs so I making no changes’.

Former Apeldoorn winner Groskamp said, ‘It was a good run just Bruno is too fast’.  The Infinity driver continued, ‘I was in third and it was very close but I had a few rough laps and lost 3rd to 5th.  We waited so long to get the run done with the rain and now we have more dark skies so I am happy with it. I’m happy with my pace which is close to second. Its far from Bruno but that’s Bruno’.  The former World Champion added, ‘I think I have to drive harder and take more risk. I went too easy at the beginning to save the tyres but it was so cold it didn’t effect the tyres’.  He concluded, ‘I will keep everything the same and just hope there is no rain’.

Seeding in the second fastest heat, along with two of this season’s race winners Marc Rheinard and Alexander Hagberg, Ratheisky was delighted with his P5 performance.  A busy driver, racing all three classes this weekend, the Xray driver put his improvement down to having more power.  A fan of the track, the German said, ‘I surprised myself. I adjusted the power setting and it worked very well. I think  I don’t touch the car just put on new tyres’.  Opting to sit out Q1 of Pro Stock last night to save tyres, the first round of Formula saw the former champion get pushed onto the grass but he still managed 2nd behind Simon Lauter and ahead of Olivier Bultynck.

Managing to complete their opening qualifier last night, in the Xray Pro Stock class it was top seed Max Machler who took the TQ ahead of Awesomatix team-mate Olivier Bultynck.  Former Champion Martin Hofer would take his Yokomo to P3.  In the Infinity 40+ Masters class, which ran this morning, Infinity driver Beni Stutz TQd the first round ahead of ETS Spain winner Christian Drießle.  Oliver Kaufmann completed the Top 3 ahead of championship leader Thomas Oehler.

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