Kastellaun winners top practice in Czech Republic
At the end of practice for the second round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series Ronald Volker doesn’t look like letting up on his Round 1 domination, the German putting his Yokomo BD5 at the top of the time sheets here in Hrotovice. Over three consecutive laps the European Champion was the fastest of the Xenon Modified class competitors and just like in Kastellaun, where he went on to take his first win, he outpaced his arch rival and defending ETS champion Marc Rheinard.
Armed with Tamiya’s new TRF417 Rheinard said he was still playing around with small set-up changes and additive but hopes like with the TRF416 when traction comes up he will be in a position to get the better of the on-form Volker.
Following on from his strong performance at the season opener ‘Fast Freddy’ Sudhoff was very happy with his morning describing his LRP powered Hot Bodies TCX as perfect having just focused on his driving rather than chassis set-up which is the same he used to finish a very competitive fifth overall in Round 1.
Having struggled in Germany former ETS race winner Yannic Prumper is a lot more upbeat here this weekend taking his Yokomo to the fourth fastest time. Having ran gear diffs front and rear he was much happier with his BD5 in the final practice after switching back to the more conventional ball diff and spool set-up and the German teenager is quite confident ahead of this evening’s first qualifier.
Teemu Leino was best of the Xray drivers setting the fifth quickest time just ahead of junior team-mate Adrian Berntsen. Team Associated’s Juho Levanen was next up declaring himself to be ‘happy enough’ for qualifying. The Finn ran a new set of tyres in the fourth & final practice run which did suit his new TC6, the car working better on used controlled Xenon tyres.
In the Xray Pro-stock class it was also the Round 1 winner that topped the practice times with Eric Dankel setting the pace over Daniel Wohlgemuth who was the winner here last time. Dankel says practice went pretty much to plan and feels with a fresh set of rubber his Xray T3’11 is good for a TQ run in the first qualifier. Wohlgemuth said Dankel has an edge over the rest of the field but he expects things will be closer in Q1 with his plan being to push a liitle harder now that the times start to really count. Martin Hofer tried a gear diff in the final practice and said it gave his Yokomo a ‘horrible’ feeling but is confident with a ball diff back in the car all should be good for the first qualifier. Defending Champion Alexander Stocker was fourth fastest the German back at the controls of a Hot Bodies having run a Yokomo borrowed from Hofer at Round 1.
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