1) Orlowski is ETS back-to-back Modified champion – will he shape a new era?
Michal Orlowski was the man of the weekend (once again). The Schumacher factory driver only lost Q4 to Ronald Völker after he rolled his car over while being in the lead. Michal Orlowski is (still) in the form of his life and scored his ninth (!) consecutive ETS race victory which is a new record in our 17 year old racing series. Orlowski changed sponsors at the beginnig of 2025 and his Elceram ESC togehter with Cayote batteries did not solw him down. His whole package worked fantastic in Daun and he always was able to stay that couple of tenths ahead of the very strong competition.
Ronald Völker was his hardest contender during the weekend with the Mugen driver really bringing the heat. But Michal Orlowski drove like a true champion and did not give anything to his rivals. He was TQ after qualifying and won A1 and A2 to take his second ETS Modified championship title in a row. With one more round to come in Wiener Neustadt, Orlowski is already thinking about the new season where his competitors will start to hunt him down for the title starting from zero again. Can he do the triple in Season #18 of the ETS?
The whole ETS crew likes to congratulate Michal Orloswki and the Schumacher team for claiming a well-deserved championship title – well done!
2) Yes they can – Mugen Seiki wins Pro Stock for the first time as Sparbier shines bright. New MTC-3 looks very promising!
They came a long way… After competing in the Pro Stock class for many years with the MTC-1 and MTC-2 platforms, Mugen Seiki finally managed to WIN a race in the highly competitive Awesomatix Pro Stock class.
The win happened in A2 when Sören Sparbier crossed the finish line under the immense applause of the audience with the completeley new MTC-3 prototype car. What a brilliant ETS debut for the new car from Mugen designer Robert Pietsch. Sören Sparbier simply delivered a brilliant job all weekend long winning all rounds of qualifying and the first two finals. Congratulations to Sören and the whole Mugen team!
The MTC-3 car was in use for the first time at the IFMAR worlds in Bakersfield (USA) in November 2024 when Ronald Völker was in the fight for the title finishing on an unlucky fourth place overall and Jacob Cruz made the A-Main after a brilliant performance. Ronald Völker was running super strong in Daun as well and was the driver closest to race winner Michal Orlowski. Both had a very similar pace and Ronald`s second place was another great promotion for the soon to be released new MTC-3 from Mugen Seiki.
3) Porsche Zentrum Basel and Awesomatix giving Nürburgring tickets away – YOU GUYS ROCK
Someting SUPER COOL happened during the trophy ceremony after the race on Sunday. With our long time ETS family member Philipp “Hagi” Hagnauer racing with us here in Daun together with his colleague Maximilian Peckel, they came up with a great idea. Both are racing real cars at the Porsche cup for the “Porsche Zentrum Basel” and they will be at the famous “24 Hours Race at the Nürburgring” this year. Hagi and Maximilian offered to sponsor tickets for the race together with Awesomatix team manager Max Mächler – isn`t that cool?
So the decision was made to give these tickets away together with our “One to Watch” and “Spirit of the Event” awards during the trophy ceremony. The “One to Watch” award went to young Xray driver Jaroslav Jun. Kriz who did a masterful job winning the Orca 21.5 Stock class. The “Spirit of the Event” award was raffled off between the 10 youngest racers of the event as the young kids are the future and clearly in the focus at the ETS.
Who won the ticket: Well, it really was the brother of Jaroslav Kriz , Benjamin Kriz…. After this amazing and super lucky draw, the guys added one more ticket for Papa Kriz, so that he can take the boys to the Nürburgring to have a great time there watching one of the most famous races on our planet!
In the name of the whole ETS crew we like to say THANK YOU to Philipp Hagnauer and Maximilian Peckel from the Porsche Zentrum Basel, and to Max Mächler from Awesoamtix for this great idea and nice gesture – it is appreciated a lot!
4) Old but gold – Ehrbar wins 40+ championship title in Daun
David Ehrbar had the chance to seal the overall championship title in the 40+ Masters class and he absoluteley delivered. After Ehrbar started the season with a third place in Apeldoorn behind Eric Anderson and Elibert Sievers, he was banging out win after win from Aigen over Luxembourg up to Daun. David was driving amazing with his Xray car and is a well-deserved champion.
Beside his strong touring car performance, David is also the top contender for the overall ETS Forumla title. Even if his only remaining contender for the title, Andreas Stiebler, would win the final race of the season, Ehrbar just needs to finish fourth in Wiener Neustadt and the title would be his. We say: Great performance and congratulations for the 1up Racing 40+ Masters title, David Ehrbar!
5) Clean racing – nothing to report from our software and FDR checks in Daun
During a weekend with 400+ entries, the guys from the technical inspection have a lot of work to do. On Thursday, Hobbywing Tech Supporter Michal Milanowicz and Olli Storm from the ETS crew checked all (!) FWD speedos for correct software and RPM limiter. Patrick Beck and Olli Storm also marked all body shells from the classes where only 0,7mm body shells are allowed to use.
As most of our classes (except Modified) are limited by motors, softwares, RPM limit, battery voltage, and gear ratio, it is almost impossible to check all these things correctly before each and every run – and we know that. Therefore, we sometimes do some deep checks immediateley after some heats which we select randomly. And this is exactly what Oliver Storm has done in Daun again. Olli checked some heats of the FWD, 21.5 Stock, Pro Stock, and 40+ Masters class in the technical inspection. He made sure that the softwares and RPM limiters had been the correct ones and he also used the MR33 FDR Checker to look after the gear ratios of the cars.
And do you know what: ALL the 50 cars he checked had been completeley fine according to the rules of the ETS. We did not expect it to be different but it is always good to double check again. We will keep doing this in the future as well to give all racers the most fair playing field on track!
