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ETS Season#9 Championship Winning Cars

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 09:22 AM PDT

Bruno Coelho (Volante Modified)

Xray T4 ’16 – Hobbywing – EZ Power – Montech – Sanwa

Jan Ratheisky (Xray Pro Stock)

Xray T4 ’16 – Muchmore (handout) – LRP – Montech – Sanwa/Savox

Jan Ratheisky (Serpent Formula)

Xray X1 ’16 – Hobbywing (handout) – LRP – Xray – Sanwa/Savox

Video – Modified A-main Leg 3

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 09:11 AM PDT

Hagberg & Viljami end season with 2nd podium

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 09:10 AM PDT

With new champion Bruno Coelho already wrapping up the win in A2, the final A-Main encounter of the 2015/16 Yokomo Euro Touring Series Season at the Hudy Arena would see Alexander Hagberg and Viljami Kutvonen cap of their seasons with a second podium finish. Leading away the field in A3, former race winner Hagberg would take a straight forward win to secure his first asphalt podium finish having last finished on the podium indoors at Round 2 in Germany. Having only secured his first ETS podium finish at Round 4 in Italy, Viljami was made to work a little harder for 3rd overall in Slovakia with Ronald Volker shadowing his every move before an attempted pass by Luxembourg race winner Jilles Groskamp tapped both drivers into a spin. This left Viljami to take an easy second with Yannic Prümper completing the Top 3 – a position that was to secure the VBC Racing driver 4th overall, his best result of the season. An intense battle for 4th in the leg would see Marc Rheinard punt Volker into the grass coming out of the second last corner. Crossing the line-up fourth as Volker’s Yokomo sat on the grass, the Taimya driver was later given a time penalty to put him behind Volker who was classified 8th.

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Video – Pro Stock A-main Leg 3

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 09:09 AM PDT

Video – Formula A-main Leg 3

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 09:08 AM PDT

Hagberg & Viljami end season with 2nd podium

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 09:02 AM PDT

With new champion Bruno Coelho already wrapping up the win in A2, the final A-Main encounter of the 2015/16 Yokomo Euro Touring Series Season at the Hudy Arena would see Alexander Hagberg and Viljami Kutvonen cap of their seasons with a second podium finish. Leading away the field in A3, former race winner Hagberg would take a straight forward win to secure his first asphalt podium finish having last finished on the podium indoors at Round 2 in Germany. Having only secured his first ETS podium finish at Round 4 in Italy, Viljami was made to work a little harder for 3rd overall in Slovakia with Ronald Volker shadowing his every move before an attempted pass by Luxembourg race winner Jilles Groskamp tapped both drivers into a spin. This left Viljami to take an easy second with Yannic Prümper completing the Top 3 – a position that was to secure the VBC Racing driver 4th overall, his best result of the season. An intense battle for 4th in the leg would see Marc Rheinard punt Volker into the grass coming out of the second last corner. Crossing the line-up fourth as Volker’s Yokomo sat on the grass, the Taimya driver was later given a time penalty to put him behind Volker who was classified 8th.

‘It’s good to end the season with a podium finish’, was Hagberg’s reaction after the race. The Swede added, ‘doing well this weekend is a good feeling going into the Worlds’. On his A3 win which made it a 1-2 for race hosts Xray, he said, ‘It was alright, car was more stable that time. I was able to control (the) race just like I planned’.

A driver who made a noticeable improvement this season as he stepped up to the role of lead driver at Awesomatix, establishing himself as a consistent front runner, Viljami was ‘super happy to end championship with a podium’. The Finn continued, ‘overall it’s been a super season as I made the A-Main 5-times and had 2 podium finishes on asphalt. I’m super happy’. Struggling in A2, for A3 he said his LRP powered A800 ‘was good again’ adding his previous issues were as he suspected due to a bad set of tyres. After he ‘almost spun coming on the straight’, he said this allowed Volker and Jilles Groskamp to get close but once Volker tried a pass and failed it was ‘then easy’ to finish second.

With the Pro Stock and Formula Round 6 winners being decided in A3, it would be Tom Krägefski who would claim his first ETS win ahead of Xray team-mate and new champion Jan Ratheisky. Starting from the TQ, Krägefski would get passed for the A3 win by P2 qualifier Noah Asendorf who would win the leg to complete an all Xray podium line-up at their home track.

In the Serpent Formula class, Roche driver & A2 winner Olivier Bultynck put in a sterling effort to be the first driver to beat back to back champion Ratheisky this year but it wasn’t to be as having looked to have got to the front himself and Ratheisky touched allowing David Ehrbar to go to front with 2-laps to go. With second in A3 enough for Ratheisky to claim his 5th win of the season in as many race, Bultynck would get second overall while Ehrbar completed the podium.

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Chassis Focus – Patrick Gassauer

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 05:21 AM PDT

Chassis – Team Magic E4 RS III +
Motor – Muchmore (handout)
ESC –Muchmore (handout)
Batteries – EZ Power 7200mAh
Tires – Volante (handout)
Radio/Servo – Sanwa
Bodyshell – Blitz LSF
Remarks – German driver Patrick Gassauer is running strong in the ProStock division driving an updated version of the E4 RS III + from Team Magic. His car is equipped with prototype bulkheads that are 1mm lower than standard and pre-production springs with an hardness between the previously available ones. He is also using aluminium screws on the top of the car.

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Video – Modified A-main Leg 2

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 05:19 AM PDT

Video – Pro Stock A-main Leg 2

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 05:18 AM PDT

Video – Formula A-main Leg 2

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 05:18 AM PDT

Coelho caps off ETS title victory with 3rd win

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 05:11 AM PDT

Having clinched the Yokomo Euro Touring Series title yesterday when he claimed his third TQ of the season, Bruno Coelho today capped off his title winning campaign with a third win. Winning one of the most static A-Mains in the ETS’ 51 race history yesterday, not one position change taking place over the 5-minutes, Coelho again headed an Xray 1-2 to wrap up an early win at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. While up front the race was a repeat of A1, after initially looking like another 10 car procession the race came to life as Ronald Volker tagged Viljami Kutvonen as the pack backed up behind the Awesomatix driver. Surviving the tag to maintain third the Finn would later spin out at the end of the straight, him reporting afterwards he felt he got a bad set of tyres highlighting his 7th place starting team-mate Freddy Sudhoff being 4/10th a lap faster than him. While Volker, who said his car was ‘amazing’ would recover two of the positions lost after his contact with Viljami, an attempt to pass to Marc Rheinard for third ‘didn’t work out’ dropping the outgoing champion to P6. A much improved Rheinard would hold on to third followed by Yannic Prumper and the Serpent of 9th place starter Viktor Wilck.

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Coelho caps off ETS title victory with 3rd win

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 05:09 AM PDT

Having clinched the Yokomo Euro Touring Series title yesterday when he claimed his third TQ of the season, Bruno Coelho today capped off his title winning campaign with a third win. Winning one of the most static A-Mains in the ETS’ 51 race history yesterday, not one position change taking place over the 5-minutes, Coelho again headed an Xray 1-2 to wrap up an early win at the Hudy Arena in Slovakia. While up front the race was a repeat of A1, after initially looking like another 10 car procession the race came to life as Ronald Volker tagged Viljami Kutvonen as the pack backed up behind the Awesomatix driver. Surviving the tag to maintain third the Finn would later spin out at the end of the straight, him reporting afterwards he felt he got a bad set of tyres highlighting his 7th place starting team-mate Freddy Sudhoff being 4/10th a lap faster than him. While Volker, who said his car was ‘amazing’ would recover two of the positions lost after his contact with Viljami, an attempt to pass to Marc Rheinard for third ‘didn’t work out’ dropping the outgoing champion to P6. A much improved Rheinard would hold on to third followed by Yannic Prumper and the Serpent of 9th place starter Viktor Wilck.

Commenting on his A2 win, Coelho said, ‘It was again a bit easy. Alex made a mistake at the beginning and this gave me a lot of space’. Posting the fastest lap of the race with an 18.293 to pull clear, the Portuguese driver would control the race, even able to finish with a slow 19-second last lap before celebrating with a victory donut, his second consecutive ETS season finale victory at his team’s home track. Summing up the weekend, the offroad World Champion who goes into the Touring Car World Championships in China next month as one of the title favourites, said ‘my car was perfect all weekend’. He added, ‘I made no mistakes and had no problems with the car. It was a great way to finish the championship’.

Posting his fastest lap of the race on his final lap, Hagberg said his ‘car was too loose at the start’. The Nitro Touring Car World Champion who will defend that title in Italy in 2-weeks time, added his ORCA powered T4 was ‘loose on one side like it is tweaked’. Suffering ‘a small mistake on the first lap’ this ‘cost a lot of time’. Set to lead away the grid of the closing race of Season #9 as Coelho sits out the race, the Swede said, ‘I’ll try to fix the (the car) for A3 and protect my second place (for Round 6)’.

‘For sure better than yesterday’ was Rheinard’s reaction after A2. Having had trouble with his race car in the first qualifier and then switched to his spare car, the Tamiya driver reverted to his ‘better car’ which with some set-up changes helped him find 2/10ths of a second a lap. Starting behind Sudhoff, the 4-time World Champion said he lost time on the opening lap behind the ‘struggling’ Awesomatix driver. Getting by when Sudhoff made a mistake on lap 2, Rheinard said he then benefited from ‘a small crash and came out fourth’ and that become third when Viljami spun out. With his lap times now ‘pretty much same as Alex and Bruno’, he concluded, ‘maybe we went wrong with (changing) car and set-up before’.

‘At least not a boring final’ was Prumper’s view of A3. Making his first ETS A-Main appearance as a VBC Racing driver, the former race winner said his car was ‘loose on the rear at the beginning’. Also suffering from a slipping belt, the German said this left him ‘lacking forward traction’ and this is why he ‘couldn’t pass Marc’ for 3rd. Planning to ‘change everything for the next final’, he is confident he’ll have a car with which he can overtake.

In the Pro Stock and Formula classes it looked for a time that both overall race winners would be decided also in A2 however some great passes meant they go to A3. In Pro Stock, Top Qualifier & A1 winner Tom Krägefski made a break at the start but got chased down by Noah Asendorf who got by the end of the straight. It was short lived for the Swiss driver as he then made a mistake coming onto the straight. This left Marco Siegenthaler as the new challenger but he would make contact with the rear of Krägefski ending both drivers chances of the win with champion Jan Ratheisky there to pick up the pieces and take the A2 win. In the Serpent Formula encounter, Ratheisky seemed to be business as usual but Roche driver Olivier Bultynck made some impressive passes first on David Ehrbar and then on the champion to take the win and aim to become the first driver to beat Ratheisky this season to an overall win. Ehrbar won in Luxembourg but Ratheisky was forced to miss that race due to a shoulder injury.

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Georgiadis doubles at Greek Fanatix Race

Posted: 24 Jul 2016 01:55 AM PDT

The Fanatix Race was recently held at the Fanatix racing track in Greece. The event saw 1/10th Touring Modified, Touring Stock, Formula and Nitro Stock racing and in the Touring Modified class it was the Xray duo of Georgiadis and Papachristos who battled for the overall TQ with the better end for Georgiadis who would ultimately grab the pole position for the finals. Papachristos had to settle for second while Yokomo driver Amaxas rounded out the qualifying top 3.

In the finals Georgiadis continued to dominate, taking A1 and A2 in style to grab the overall win from Papachristos, who cemented his runner-up spot with a win in A3. Behind the two Amaxas had to settle for third.

Touring Modified final results:
1. Georgiadis – Xray
2. Papachristos – Xray
3. Amaxas – Yokomo
4. Batas – Xray
5. Isaakidis – Tamiya
6. Bakirtzis – Tamiya
7. Gavriilidis – VBC
8. Argi – Kyosho
9. Fotinos – Yokomo
10.Nikolakopoulos – TOP

In the Formula class, it was again Georgiadis (Xray) who came out fastest in the A-mains. The Xray duo of Kidis and Diamantis completed the top 3 result. The Touring Stock class had Voutsas leading an Xray 1-2-3 with Kazoglou and Kazoglou in second and third while in Nitro Stock it was Pappas from Diamantis and Voutas (all Xray).

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]