Euro Touring Series » ETS 11/12 Rd4 Poznan Poland

April 14, 2012

SÃ¼dhoff takes 3rd qualifier

Freddy SÃ¼dhoff

Awesomatix team driver Freddy SÃ¼dhoff has taken the third round of qualifying at the Yokomo Euro Touring in Poznan, Poland. The 22-year-old, who is being tipped to be a strong title contender at this year’s upcoming World Championships, is the first driver to top the time sheets as early event dominator Ronald Volker rolled his Yokomo out of a TQ run before pulling up after a second mistake in Q3.

Having described his A700 as feeling like a drift car in Q2, ‘Fast Freddy’ said a change to his tyre prep gave him the start pace he had been looking for but added that by the end of the 5-minutes it was starting to get a little loose. Having tried different tyre preparations for each of his runs so far this weekend the German, who just set the fastest lap of the weekend with 12.708, said he thinks now its time to focus on the set-up of the unique dampers on the Russian designed car.

Alexander Hagberg

Losing out on a TQ run to SÃ¼dhoff by 15/100ths following a messy final lap, Alexander Hagberg was still very upbeat about his latest run. The Swede has been fighting with his own driving since arriving in Poland but believes he has now got that under control. Admitting he lost out on taking the round due to some small mistakes in the final few laps, the Round 3 podium finisher said his Xray is working well and with his confidence coming back up he is determined to redeem himself in the final two qualifiers.

Marc Rheinard

Another driver to throw away a TQ run was Marc Rheinard. The World Champion caught a dot coming onto the straight on his penultimate lap losing 1-second to finish third fastest 4/10th off the TQ pace. The Tamiya driver switched his front tyres from left to right for Q3 and said it reversed the problem he had in the opening two qualifiers of the car being ok through left corners and a handful when turning right. The German, who said the mistake was his own doing, also tried a front geardiff for the round but said he thinks he will revert to a spool for his next run.

Magnus VÃ¤ssmar

With his Xray a bit of a handful in Q2, Magnus VÃ¤ssmar said he changed his tyre prep and rebuilt his shocks for the third round which slightly improved it but it was still too hard to drive and once again lead him to make a mistake. Taking fourth for the round which currently puts him fifth in the qualification ranking he plans to try a number of changes to the set-up for his penultimate heat. Making it three Xray’s in the Top 5 young German driver Marco Kaufmann drove a strong round to set the fifth fastest time ahead of championship leader Christopher Krapp, the pair running in the second fastest of the heat groupings.

19-year-old Krapp said his Kyosho was the same as in Q2, in which he was 16th, only this time round he made no mistakes. Admitting his is still someway off the pace of front runners the German plans to try make the TF6 easier to drive for Q4 in the hope that he will be able to push a little harder without taking too much risk. He added that he is also starting to get more confident with the carpet track so all in all things are starting to look a lot more positive about making the A-Main.

Still the only driver to record 24-laps around the huge track here at the Poznan MotorShow, Volker ran the same set up for the third heat and said he wasn’t sure if his traction roll was due to him driving a little to aggressive or due to a change in track conditions. After his roll the ETS Champion said he tried to make back the time but pushed too hard resulting in a second mistake after which he decided to pull up.

Oliver Franke

In the Xray Pro-Stock class we also saw a change at the top after the top qualifier from Q1 & 2 Zdenko KunÃ¡k also rolled his Xray. This left the door open for HB driver Oliver Franke to post fastest time. The German driver who rolled in the opening two qualifiers leaving him well down the order glued up his front tyre walls and opted to go for a clean rather than fast run and said the end result was ‘near perfect’. Defending Champion Martin Hofer took second for the round with Polish Tamiya driver Michal Orlowski completing the Top 3.

Ride Modified Qualifying Round 3
1. Freddy SÃ¼dhoff (DE) â€“ Awesomatix â€“ 23/5:00.562
2. Alexander Hagberg (SE) â€“ Xray â€“ 23/5:00.714
3. Marc Rheinard (DE) â€“ Tamiya â€“ 23/5:00.964
4. Magnus VÃ¤ssmar (SE) â€“ Xray â€“ 23/5:02.668
5. Marco Kaufmann (DE) – Xray – 23/5:03.095
6. Christopher Krapp (DE) – Kyosho – 23/5:03.432
7. Eric Dankel (DE) â€“ Yokomo â€“ 23/5:03.615
8. Martin Hudy (SK) – Xray – 23/5:05.092
9. Tim Wahl (DE) – Xray – 23/5:06.250
10.Elliot Harper (GB) â€“ Tamiya â€“ 23/5:06.271

Xray Pro-Stock Qualifying Round 3
1. Oliver Franke (DE) – HB – 22/5:06.563
2. Martin Hofer (DE) – Schumacher – 22/5:06.736
3. Michal Orlowski (PL) – Tamiya – 22/5:08.648
4. Steffen Leinburger (DE) â€“ HB â€“ 22/5:09.009
5. Denis Zuykov (RU) â€“ Awesomatix â€“ 22/5:09.541
6. Jens Kroger (DE) – Kyosho – 22/5:09.616
7. Rob Janssen (NL) – Tamiya – 22/5:09.958
8. Tony Streit (DE) â€“ Xray â€“ 22/5:10.497
9. Marek Cerny (CZ) â€“ Yokomo â€“ 22/5:10.583
10.Fabian Boucher (DE) – Xray – 22/5:10.595

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April 14, 2012

Q2 Update

Modified Grid

The second round of qualifying at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series saw a repeat of last night’s opening heat with Ronald Volker again fastest in the Ride Modified class while Zdenko KunÃ¡k continued to set the pace in the Xray Pro stock class.

Having made a shock change to his LRP powered Yokomo BD5, Volker said it gave him the steering he lacked in Q1 allowing him to become the first driver to post a 24-lap run. The defending champion said after the first minute race announcer Scotty Ernst stopped giving the gap and while he knew he was the pace setter he had no idea how close the others were forcing him to drive more aggressively than normal. At the end of the 5-minute the result was a time that over 3-seconds quicker than Marc Rheinard who took second for the round.

Marc Rheinard

Rheinard said his Tamiya was still the same as yesterday and his run to second was just a ‘lucky’ one as most of the others made mistakes. Suffering a lack of traction he said he changed the set-up on his Speed Passion powered TRF417 but it made no difference and having used his practice tyres in the morning’s open practice in which the car felt good said it has to be the tyres that are his problem.

Not happy with how his Awesomatix felt at the start of his Q1 run, Freddy Sudhoff used tyre warmers ahead of Q2 but he said while he made the A700 work well for the start in the middle of the run it felt like a drift car. Despite this the German still improved on his time opening time to again set the third fastest time. Sudhoff said he wont be using his tyre warmers for Q3 but wants to talk with the rest of the growing Awesomatix team to see what to try so as he has a more consistent car over the run.

Alexander Hagberg

Setting the fourth fastest time Team Xray’s Alexander Hagberg summed up his start to Day 2 in Poland as ‘much better’. Having struggled more with his own driving yesterday the Swede said things felt ‘more normal’ today. Making a front roll centre change on his T3 2012 and running a smoother power curve on his ORCA speedo he said it was much nicer to drive. Making one mistake he said apart from Volker the rest of the field was very close with himself, Sudhoff and Rheinard separated by 7/10ths.

Team-mate Magnus VÃ¤ssmar, the star of yesterday’s proceedings, said he made the mistake of not changing his car from yesterday. The larger than expected rise in traction over Q1 caught him out and with the car very edgy he had a roll leaving him to finish 6th for the round. The Swede said he will go for a safe set-up for his next run. Right behind VÃ¤ssmar by just 19/1000ths was Martin Hudy, the man responsible for the development of the T3. The Slovak driver said he went from a hard to a soft shock oil for Q1 but he went too far but running in between the two this morning it was much better. Due to his poor opening run he said he drove a safe second round but believes there is more speed in the car. Changing to a harder diff oil for his next heat he said he will also drive harder this time round.

Andy Moore

Inbetween the Xrays, HB’s Andy Moore set the fifth fastest time while Viktor Wilck, who was fourth in Q1, ended up 10th fastest after he applied his tyre additive earlier to try make his TRF417 more aggressive but it was too much. Gran Canaria race winner and standings leader Christopher Krapp said he used the morning’s open practice to make a big step forward with his Kyosho but a ‘huge’ mistake that lost him 5-seconds dropped him from a potential Top 5 run to 16th.

Ivan Laptev

Behind KunÃ¡k in Pro Stock it was the joint championship standings leader Ivan Laptev and Martin Hofer. Laptev said a damper change to his A700 made it fast but tricky to drive. Still feeling he could improve his corner speed he said he will try something different for Q3 but said he also wants to start focusing on getting a comfortable set-up for the finals. Hofer said his Schumacher was a lot better than yesterday but he is fighting to keep it on four wheels.

Ride Modified Qualifying Round 2
1. Ronald VÃ¶lker (DE) â€“ Yokomo â€“ 24/5:10.767
2. Marc Rheinard (DE) â€“ Tamiya â€“ 23/5:01.156
3. Freddy SÃ¼dhoff (DE) â€“ Awesomatix â€“ 23/5:01.843
4. Alexander Hagberg (SE) â€“ Xray â€“ 23/5:01.942
5. Andy Moore (GB) â€“ HB â€“ 23/5:03.399
6. Magnus VÃ¤ssmar (SE) â€“ Xray â€“ 23/5:04.277
7. Martin Hudy (SK) – Xray – 23/5:04.286
8. Niclas Nilsson (SE) – Xray – 23/5:05.112
9. Eric Dankel (DE) â€“ Yokomo â€“ 23/5:05.404
10.Viktor Wilck (SE) â€“ Tamiya â€“ 23/5:05.826

Xray Pro-Stock Qualifying Round 2
1. Zdenko KunÃ¡k (SK) â€“ Xray â€“ 22/5:08.252
2. Ivan Laptev (RU) â€“ Awesomatix â€“ 22/5:09.129
3. Martin Hofer (DE) – Schumacher – 22/5:09.319
4. Tony Streit (DE) â€“ Xray â€“ 22/5:09.418
5. Matej Rehak (CZ) â€“ Xray â€“ 22/5:10.283
6. Rob Janssen (NL) – Tamiya – 22/5:11.017
7. Michal Orlowski (PL) – Tamiya – 22/5:11.622
8. Carsten Madsen (DK) â€“ Awesomatix â€“ 21/5:11.697
9. Marek Cerny (CZ) â€“ Yokomo â€“ 22/5:11.924
10.Philip Tschupp (CH) – TOP – 22/5:12.654

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April 13, 2012

Video – Qualifying Rd1 action

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April 13, 2012

Volker stamps authority on opening day

Ronald Volker

Determined to put the drama that befell him and his Yokomo team in Gran Canaria last month, defending Euro Touring Series Champion Ronald Volker sent out a clear message to his rivals on the opening day of the fourth round of the series when he stamped his authority on proceedings with a TQ run in the opening round of qualifying. The German took the first of the five scheduled qualifiers by 2.9 second from surprise man of the day Magnus VÃ¤ssmar, the Xray driver carrying his impressive practice pace through to qualifying.

Very happy with his opening qualifier and the margin he had over his rivals, Volker said while his car felt like it had a lot of understeer it was obviously not as bad as that experienced by others. With the result from Round 3, where he was classified 10th, set to be one of his dropped scores he said this weekend is an important one for getting his title defense back on target and today was a perfect first step to getting that done this weekend. Admitting that in terms of individual lap times he was not the fastest, he said his car was more importantly easy to drive for the 5-minutes. Planning to try get a little more steering for tomorrow morning’s second qualifier Volker said he will discuss tonight what changes he will make with his engineer Umino but said it will be in the set-up rather than a change to his tyre prep.

Magnus Vassmar

Having been modest about his pace in practice 25-year-old VÃ¤ssmar managed to a crack a smile after his Q1 performance saying he was very happy with his day and at being able to keep it together for the opening heat. Making only his second ETS appearance of the season having finished sixth in the B-Main at Round 2 in Italy, the Swede said he will think about making a few small tweaks to his set-up but not before sleeping on it tonight.

Freddy Sudhoff

Despite losing around 1.5 seconds when he missed his braking and spun in front of Andy Moore who had nowhere to go and flipped the German, Freddy Sudhoff still managed to open his qualifying with the third fastest time. Making his first ETS appearance since signing for Awesomatix, the former podium finisher said his A700 was difficult at the start of the run but once the tyres came up to temperature it was ‘super good’ as highlighted by his 12.876 sec fastest lap of the day which he set on lap 13 of 23. ‘Fast Freddy’ said he will try a different tyre prep for Q2 to try and get the tyres to come in earlier in the run.

Viktor Wilck

Having struggled in timed practice as a result of which he is running in the second fastest qualifying group, Viktor Wilck ended his day on a positive taking his Tamiya to the fourth fastest time just under a tenth of a second behind Sudhoff. Happy with the result the factory Tamiya driver said his car wasn’t good to drive. Pushing at the beginning of the run by the end it was very loose possibly as a result of his tyres overheating. Unsure what changes are required to cure the problem the Swede said the only thing he knows for sure right now is that he needs to try something different tomorrow. TRF team-mate Marc Rheinard was clearly not happy with his run to the fifth fastest time. The former series Champion, who needs a win this weekend if he wants to have any chance of challenging for this season’s title, is adamant that a bad set of tyres are responsible for his drop off in pace since the morning’s practice runs.

Completing the Top 6 was Alexander Hagberg. The Swede who made two mistakes over the run but said it ‘could have been worse’. Describing his ORCA powered T3 2012 as being still too sensitive to drive he said they need to work on finding a set-up for tomorrow that gives him confidence again with the car. Team-mate Zdenko KunÃ¡k was on a potential 2nd fastest time until he rolled his car three laps from the finish. Losing 3 seconds the mistake cost the talented Slovakian 5 places as he ended the round 7th.

Zdenko Kunak

While he missed out on a top run in Modified KunÃ¡k drove a faultless opening Pro-Stock qualifier to top the times by 2.1 seconds from the HB of Steffen Leinburger, the man who beat the Round 1 winner at the second race of the season in Italy to secure his first ever ETS win. Tony Streit completed the Top 3 ahead of joint standings leader Ivan Laptev. Defending Champion Martin Hofer had a terrible Q1 after he rolled his Schumacher resulting in only 22nd for the Round while early practice pace setter Oliver Franke didn’t get off to a good start either ending up down in 29th. In the Speed Passion Formula class Germany’s Dai Sakaguchi took the opening qualifier ahead of Austrian Hebert Weber.

Ride Modified Qualifying Round 1
1. Ronald VÃ¶lker (DE) – Yokomo – 23/5:00.845
2. Magnus VÃ¤ssmar (SE) – Xray – 23/5:03.759
3. Freddy SÃ¼dhoff (DE) – Awesomatix – 23/5:04.942
4. Viktor Wilck (SE) – Tamiya – 23/5:05.037
5. Marc Rheinard (DE) – Tamiya – 23/5:05.041
6. Alexander Hagberg (SE) – Xray – 23/5:05.801
7. Zdenko KunÃ¡k (SK) – Xray – 23/5:06.107
8. Eric Dankel (DE) – Yokomo – 23/5:07.017
9. Marco Kaufmann (DE) – Xray – 23/5:07.500
10.Andy Moore (GB) – HB – 23/5:08.284

Xray Pro-Stock Qualifying Round 1
1. Zdenko KunÃ¡k (SK) – Xray – 22/5:08.593
2. Steffen Leinburger (DE) – HB – 22/5:10.714
3. Tony Streit (DE) – Xray – 22/5:11.939
4. Ivan Laptev (RU) – Awesomatix – 22/5:12.134
5. Denis Zuykov (RU) – Awesomatix – 22/5:12.793
6. Felix Wiessmann (DE) – Yokomo – 22/5:13.040
7. Marek Cerny (CZ) – Yokomo – 22/5:13.061
8. Daniel Wohlgemuth (DE) – HB – 22/5:13.224
9. Matej Rehak (CZ) – Xray – 22/5:14.536
10.Carsten Madsen (DK) – Awesomatix – 21/5:00.458

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April 13, 2012

Business as usual as Volker tops practice in Poland

Ronald Volker

Practice for the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series is complete and it is so far business as usual at the carpet event for Ronald Volker as he took his Yokomo to the three fastest consecutive laps in the fourth & final practice in Poland to become the No.1 seed for the opening qualifier that will bring Day 1 of proceedings to a close.Â The reigning champion set the pace ahead of Xray’s Magnus VÃ¤ssmar and his Yokomo team-mate Eric Dankel while Marc Rheinard, who was Volker’s closest challenger in the first timed practice, failed to improve his time. Despite a simpler chicane for the final practice the World Champion was one of the few drivers not to improve their times something the German blamed on the new set of controlled tyre he ran in preparation for qualifying which left his Tamiya with a lack of steering.

Volker was surprised at the lack of difference the changes to the chicane made as the entry was still key to posting a quick lap time.Â Using the run to scrub in his qualifying tyres, the German said his BD5 felt pretty good but added it should be even better for Q1 and have more steering as the tyres come in.Â Dankel said his Yokomo was difficult to drive for the first half of the 5-minutes due to running on fresh tyres and while it started to come good by the end, allowing him to post the third fastest time, he was going to give the car a full check over as it felt as if it was slightly tweaked.

VÃ¤ssmar

Changing the roll centres and tyre prep on his Xray, VÃ¤ssmar said this had made it both faster and easier to drive.Â Planning to continue with that set-up for Q1, the Swede said the car is safe and his focus is now on keeping his driving together with the full five minutes rather than three consecutive laps that are going to count in qualifying.Â Team-mates Zdenko KunÃ¡k and Alexander Hagberg were also able to improve their times and position ending up 4th and 5th fastest. KunÃ¡k was happy with changes to his T3 2012 but still feels the front is a little soft under breaking.Â Having made a better job of his driving in the final practice Hagberg said it was still not good enough but planning to adjust the flex in his car so as to make it a little more comfortable to drive he is hopeful of further improving it in the final run of the day.

Andy Moore

Completing the top 6 was former World Champion Andy Moore. The factory HB driver, who last week signed a major sponsorship deal with Hobby Wing to use their speedos in this a World Championship year, was pleased with changes made to his TCX for the final practice.Â Changing to a lighter shock oil and adding more camber he said it gave him more overall traction and better stability in the long sweeper.Â Although the changes cost him a little steering the British Champion said he should be able to rectify that for Q1.

Christopher Krapp

Elsewhere in the Ride Modified class, standings leader Christopher Krapp improved his time to 11th just shy of 10th fastest Martin Hudy. The Round 3 winner said his Kyosho was smooth to drive but ultimately too slow.Â Although the times over 5 minutes should be better than 11th fastest he will try a different shock set-up on his Orion powered TF6-SP for the opening qualifier.Â After tweaking his Tamiya in the first timed practice, TRF’s Viktor Wilck tried a different set-up for his second run but said it made his Thunder Power backed TRF417 ‘way too loose’ resulting in a slower time despite the track’s new, faster, layout. The Swede will revert back to his earlier set-up for Q1.

Zdenko KunÃ¡k

In the Xray Pro Stock class KunÃ¡k will be the top seed for qualifying ahead of Oliver Franke.Â Fastest in the first timed practice the Hot Bodies driver had a problem with his speedo second time round but with a new replacement speedo fitted he is confident he should be ok for the first qualifier.Â Former race winner Daniel Wohlgemuth ended practice third fastest ahead of Gran Canaria winner Marek Cerny and the Schumacher of defending champion Martin Hofer.

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April 13, 2012

Volker sets early pace in Poznan

Ronald Volker

Defending Champion Ronald Volker is the early pace setter at the fourth round of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series in Poznan, Poland, with the German topping the time sheets ahead of Marc Rheinard in the first timed round of practice while championship leader Christopher Krapp hit problems ending up only 21st fastest.Â Running as part of the Motorshow Poznan, which is set to attract almost 50,000 visitors when it officially opens its doors to the public tomorrow morning, the host club have made full use of Hall 6 at the international exhibition venue to create a huge indoor track for the final carpet race of the 2011/12 season of ETS.

Yokomo BD5

Volker said his Yokomo BD5 lacked a little steering but otherwise felt good and was easy to drive in particular through the triple chicane where he felt he was able to make up most of his time advantage over his rivals.Â Unfortunately for the European Champion a large number of crashes through the challenging section has forced race director Scotty Ernst to change the layout to a double chicane due to concerns of damage being caused to the carpet.Â With many drivers struggling to make the chicane, the body posts of the overturned cars sliding across the carpet has result already in some rips and so as to protect it from any further damage the chicane was modified after the penultimate practice giving all the drivers one practice run to adjust to the change ahead of this evening’s opening qualifier.Â Volker said making the chicane less challenging would close things up at the front but he understood and backed the decision to make the change.

Marc Rheinard

Rheinard was surprisingly upbeat about the early performance of his Tamiya ending up just 2/10th off Volker over their fastest three consecutive laps.Â He said while his car felt ‘lazy’ to drive the lap times were OK and he will continue with the same set-up for the final practice and just fit one of his allocated sets of Ride race tyres to scrub them in for qualifying.

Causing a bit of a surprise on the time sheets was Swede Magnus VÃ¤ssmar who took his Xray to the third fastest time.Â The 25-year-old who joined the Xray team at the end of last season was modest about his performance describing it as OK but added as the grip starts to come up on the fresh carpet his T3 2012 is starting to get a little twitchy to drive.Â Planning to change his tyre prep for the final practice he like many drivers is glad to see the chicane change saying it was very tricky to get right every time.

Alexander Hagberg

Having secured his best ever ETS finish at Round 3 in Gran Canaria, team-mate Alexander Hagberg is not enjoying a good start to his event finding himself 31st on the time sheets.Â Although he didn’t complete the full practice run due to losing a drive shaft pin, the Swede said his head just stopped working this morning and he hopes the track change might help him get it back into gear.

Christopher Krapp

Christopher Krapp is another who hopes he can turn things around this evening in Poland.Â In the opening practice the German suffered with a broken sensor wire and missed out on the 5-minutes of valuable track time.Â Although he ran the second practice ok, in the first timed practice his Kyosho struggled on fresh tyres resulting in a crash through the chicane with resulted in a broken rear arm.Â Asked about his goal this weekend, the 19-year-old said racing back indoors he needs to be realistic about his chances admitting a Top 3 finishing was going to be a tall order.Â Setting his goal on first securing himself a place in the A-Main he said that was the approach he took at Round 1 in Koblenz and the end result was a podium finish.

Eric Dankel

A change of chassis helped Eric Dankel to find his rhythm in the first timed practice after he struggled in the morning’s two untimed practice rounds.Â Running a new chassis in the morning the Yokomo team driver could not get any feeling with the car and so reverted to a chassis he last ran at the Italian round of the ETS earlier this year where he made the A-Main.Â Describing it as ‘super easy’ to drive the former multiple ETS Pro Stock race winner said he will leave the set-up as is and concentrate on his driving and adapting to the track change.Â A fan of the first chicane he said it was better for everyone that they did decided to change it.

Completing the Top 6 was Xray Pro-Stock title contender Zdenko KunÃ¡k and factory Awesomatix driver Freddy SÃ¼dhoff.Â The Russian designed Awesomatix continues to grow in popularity with 16 of the A700 chassis competing here this weekend.Â Elsewhere Team Yokomo’s Yannic Prumper, one of the drivers expected to mount a challenge for a win here this weekend, has unfortunately fallen ill and has decided to return home to Germany.

Oliver Franke

In the Xray Pro-Stock class, HB driver Oliver Franke set the pace from KunÃ¡k and up & coming Polish talent Michal Orlowski.Â Franke said a shock rebuild for the first timed practice helped a lot with the car working a lot better when the shocks were full of oil rather than air.Â Also racing in the Ride Modified class, Franke said he does not believe the track change will effect the Pro-Stock cars as much as Modified and so is not too concerned it will change much at the top of the time sheets.

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April 11, 2012

ETS motors to Poland for second half of season

After a 6-week â€˜mid termâ€™ break, the second half of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series gets underway this weekend (13-15 April) with drivers traveling to Poland for the fourth race of six that make up the calendar for season number five of the world renowned electric touring car championship. While Poland has been a regular fixture on the annual ETS schedule, like the opening three races of the 2011/12 season another new venue awaits competitors with the countryâ€™s fifth largest city Poznan playing host to drivers from 22 different nations.Â Adding to the excitement of the Polish round is the race being a part of Motor Show Poznan, a full size car motor show which has previously attracted 46,000 visitors.

Following his hugely popular maiden ETS win in Gran Canaria Christopher Krapp is the man who sits at the top of the points standings in the premiere class ahead of current & former champions Ronald Volker and Marc Rheinard who are equal second, two points adrift of their fellow German.Â Also securing Kyoshoâ€™s first win in the seriesâ€™ history, Krappâ€™s wrapping up of the overall win on the holiday Island in the second A-Main is already the most watched race of the season with 10,000 views.Â Starting out the season with a podium finish at Round 1 in Germany and then fourth in Italy, the 19-year-old now has that first win under his belt and will be looking to continue his form which has put him right in contention for the overall championship title.

Having dominated the opening two races of the season, Volker will be looking to put the finals day drama of Round 3 to the back of his mind this weekend and try get his title defense back on track.Â Having qualified third in Gran Canaria, the factory Yokomo driver was forced to withdraw from the asphalt event following the practice final after the last of his prototype speed controllers expired.Â Back to racing on carpet in Poland, the European Champion is widely recognised as the best carpet racer in the World currently and will be looking to capitalise on this the last carpet track of the season.

World Champion Rheinard knows that this weekend is a crucial one for him if he is to have any chance of lifting the ETS title for a second time.Â The Tamiya driver has struggled to be any match for his great rival Volker and even when the defending champion hit trouble at Round 3 he could not capitalise coming away with another 3rd, the same result as he achieved at the previous race in Italy.

Outside of the Top 3 in the championship standings, Team Xrayâ€™s Alexander Hagberg and Yokomoâ€™s Yannic Prumper could spring a surprise in Poland. Hagberg was very fast at round 3 and took a well deserved second behind Krapp and the Swede is very hungry for that first ever ETS victory.Â Showing great form in Italy where he finished second to team-mate Volker, 18-year-old Prumper has a single ETS win to his credit and that came in Poland but that was three years ago. Forced to miss Round 4 due to school commitments, the German is back and more determined than ever to put an end to his winning drought.

In the biggest category of the ETS, the Xray Pro Stock class where 269 drivers have already registered championship points, the lead in the standings is shared between defending champion Martin Hofer and Ivan Laptev despite neither driver having won a race yet this season.Â Third in the standings, former Hobby Class Champion Michal Orlowski will be extra motivated to do well this weekend as he races in front of his home crowd and seeks his first ETS Pro-Stock win.Â Having missed Gran Canaria, Round 1 winner Zdenko KunÃ¡k is back this weekend as is Round 2 victor Steffen Leinburger. A surprise winner at Round 3 on his first ETS appearance of the season, Czech racer Marek CernÃ½ will be hoping he can continue where he left off.

In the new Speed Passion Formula class young Polish racer Bartlomiej Zambrzycki, who is second in the standings, will be hoping he can show his more senior rivals the way round this weekend in front of the expected large crowds. Round 4 of the Yokomo Euro Touring Series gets underway with practice on Friday and culminates with triple mains for all drivers on Sunday. All the action from Poznan can be followed live throughout the weekend on RedRC.