Cold as ice – Orlowski executes perfect A1 to hold off hard charging Awesomatix duo Urbain and Rheinard
The first A-Main of the FlySky Modified class was a demonstration of clinic driving from Michal Orlowski, Lucas Urbain, Marc Rheinard, and Ronald Völker. Top qualifier Orlowski launched his Schumacher Mi9 off the line and never looked back. He was driving like a real iceman and brought home a well-deserved win on Saturday evening. His gap to Awesomatix factory driver Lucas Urbain was at 0.263 seconds after five minutes which is not a lot to be honest.
But as Orlowski made no single mistake, Urbain just never had a chance to go for a move on him. Urbain also had a lot of work to do when the car of his teammate Marc Rheinard appeared in his rear-view mirror. Rheinard posted the fastest lap of the run (16.764) and had an amazing pace. But the same here – Urbain was not offering any chance for a move to Rheinard and everybody was keeping their positions.
Behind the top-3 freight train, Mugen Seiki`s Ronald Völker had kind of a lonely race to fourth place. He could not match the pace of the top-3, but the rest of the A-Main drivers could not follow him either. Yannic Prümper was best of the rest and finished fifth in A1 ahead of Ellerbrock, Hara, Lauter, Callens, Brunet, and B-Main bump up driver Greiner.
Kretschmer and Ellerbrock putting on a SHOW in A1
The first A-Main of our highly competitive ProStock class was a true show of stock touring car racing at the highest level. Lukas Ellerbrock and Louis Kretschmer raced nose to tail on track for the entire five minutes and Kretschmer found no way and no chance to pass the car of his teammate in front of him. Ellerbrock won the race by a super small margin of 0.102 seconds and the crowd was spending a lot of applause for them.
Behind the race leaders, Mugen racer Sören Sparbier found his was to third position from fifth on the grid while Kevin Schmid (Awesomatix) moved up from eight to fourth place. Reigning ETS Pro Stock champion Olivier Bultynck had a run to forget and dropped down from third to fifth position.
Bad luck for TQ Libar in the corkscrew – Valent brothers taking 1-2 in first final
After the start, TQ Jacques Libar was leading the race with his Xray car. The hometown boy was looking good on track and behind him it was Jitse Miedema who was able to overtake Mark Valent in lap 3 at end of straight – what a nice pass it was. After that, Jitse Miedema tried all he could to close the gap to Jacques Libar and was all over him in lap number 6.
Both their cars collided going down the hill into the corkscrew corner and Mark Valent (Schumacher) took over the lead ahead of his brother Gergö (Xray). Jacques Libar and Jitse Miedema finished the race in third and fourth place behind the lucky Valent brothers Mark and Gergö. A tough pill to swallow for top qualifier Jacques Libar who wanted a different ending from A1 for sure.
Amazing “corkscrew move” earns Zierold the win in A1
David Ehrbar brought the field around the first corners while Eric Anderson had to open the door for Michel Zierold in front of the driver stand. Zierold started to pressure Ehrbar very hard in the next laps and was all over Ehrbar in lap 4. They showed great driving before Zierold rolled his car coming into the infield section. Zierold lost some time but was lucky to stay in second place ahead of Anderson and Choque. Zierold was able to close in on Ehrbar again and was on his tail when they entered the last minute of the race. When they entered the famous corkscrew corner for the last time, Zierold made a ball move on Ehrbar coming down onto the straightway and took over the lead. Zierold was then able to bring home the win with Ehrbar right in tow and the crowd was spending a lot of cheers and applause to both of them for a great race on track.
Jensen takes eventful opening A-main from Kriz and Gehrig
Pole setter Kristian Jensen had a perfect start and was leading the race from tone to tone. Jaroslav Jun. Kriz pushed extremely hard behind him, but Jensen was able to bring home the win in A1. Third place starter and championship leader Timo Siebert lost a lot of time and finally stopped his race allowing Jan Gehrig to take over third place. In the last minute of the race, leader Jensen crashed while driving all alone and made the race interesting again. Jaroslav Jun. Kriz came close again but didn`t get a shot to overtake Jensen. The top 5 finishing order in A1 was Jensen, Kriz, Gehrig, Schneider, and do Pinhal.
Ehrbar takes opening leg of Formula A-Mains
The first Formula A-main was a copy of qualifying when David Ehrbar was in control of the race. Michal Wojcik took a strong second place ahead of Andreas Stiebler, Luka Jovicic, and Patrik Sadrinna. Ehrbar is one win away from sealing the big deal here in Luxembourg and ther is no doubt that he will bring it home somehow!
