The seventeenth (!) season of the ETS is done and dusted. We celebrated a great season finale at the wonderful Arena Nova in Wiener Neustadt with 330 entries making it a real show all weekend long. We have seen great races on track, enjoyed awesome moments off track, and crowned our well deserved ETS champions in allour six racing classes. We like to thank everybody who was involved in this season, all the clubs, all the helping hands, and all our wonderful sponsors – see you in Season #18!
Völker wins A3 to defend second overall from Rheinard
Ronald Völker had a mission to complete in A3. The Mugen driver needed to finish ahead of Marc Rheinard`s Awesomatix to secure second overall behind race winner Michal Orlowski. Völker had the mirrors full of Rheinard in the opening laps of A3 until he was able to stretch his lead a bit.
Marc did not give up and after Völker was not hitting all the marks perfectly in the last minute of the run, Rheinard was on the back of Völker again. But Rheinard was running out of time and had to settle for second, only 0.084 seconds behind Völker. Simon Lauter took third place in A3 ahead of Ronnefalk, Sparbier, and Urbain.
A3 goes to Izsay – Sparbier is Pro Stock vice champion
With race winner Sören Sparbier not taking part in A3 anymore it was Xray`s Adam Izsay who took the win in A3 ahead of Lukas Ellerbrock, Mark Valent, Ollie Bultynck, and Kevin Schmid. The final results at Arena Nova were putting Izsay (Xray), and Ellerbrock (Awesomatix) onto the podium beside Mugen`s race winner Sören Sparbier who managed to become vice Pro Stock champion ahead of Ollie Bultynck at the end of the season!
The third and deciding A-Main was all about TQ Phil Langner, and Frederik Hovgaard after A1 winner Wiktor Smid lost some positions in the early stages of the race. Langner was leading, but Hovgaard never disappeared from his rear-view mirror with the gap always between 4 and 7 tenths of a second. Phil showed strong nerves and was able to maintain the gap to the end to celebrate his first victory in the FWD class at the ETS after winning two races in 21.5 Stock touring car last season – congratulations for a great result.
Behind race winner Langer it was Wiktor Smid who took second overall ahead of Frederik Hovgaard and our new FWD champion Mark Valent from the Schumacher team. We like to congratulate Mark Valent for a great performance all season long. Frederik Hovgaard is our season vice-champion and they both got joined by Phil Langner who secured a strong third overall for the season with his win at Arena Nova.
Zierold wins last A-Main of the season to take second at Arena Nova ahead of Anderson
Michel Zierold took advantage of the clean track in front of him as race winner Ehrbar was not on the line anymore in A3. Zierold looked sharp on track with his Awesomatix and quickly opened a gap to second placed racer Eric Anderson form the United States. Anderson had a lot of work to do to keep a hard pushing Ulrich Dinger behind him. They crossed the finish line in exactly this order and the final result of the weekend was Ehrbar ahead of Zierold, Anderson, Dinger, and Thalheimer.
Zsolt and Zühlke securing podium positions in A3
The last A-Main of the season was on the line in the Orca 21.5 Stock class and race winner and newly crowned champion Jaroslav Kriz was watching the action on track from the side-line. The remaining podium positions had been up for grabs, and it was all about Zsolt, Zühlke, Baumbach, and Jensen. Bajusz Zsolt had a clean run and was the fastest driver on track while he was followed by Nadine Zühlke and Tobias Baumbach. Wolfgang Swoboda and David Reip completed the top five in A3.
The overall race result at Arena Nova saw Bajusz Zsolt (2.) and Nadine Zühlke (3.) joining race winner Jaroslav Kriz on the podium. Tobias Baumbach and Kristian Jensen completed the top 5 at the season finale. The overall season podium was locked out by champion Kriz, Jensen (2), and Zühlke (3).
Stenger wins Formula class after mighty comeback in A2 and A3
After we saw thrilling races in A1 and A2, the attention was all on the deciding leg of finals in our Matrix Formula class. TQ Thomas Stenger was able to escape from the rest of the field with his Xray car while David Ehrbar dropped back to third place behind Michael Lipperheide. Xray was running strong with a 1-2-3 with the best non Xray car Andreas Stiebler running in fourth place with his Shcumacher car before a crash in lap 12 changed the running order again. Wojcik moved up to fourth place.
On top of the field, Thomas Stenger had everything under control and demonstrated that it is still possible to beat the newly crowned Formula champion David Ehrbar. Stenger executed the perfect race which earned him a very well deserved first ever ETS race win – congratulations! Behind Stenger, Michael Lipperheide would finish second overall with Andreas Stiebler taking third place.
