Urbain and Orlowski putting on a show – Völker flips his car early
The second round of Cayote Modified qualifying was another great display for our sport as the drivers had been “spot on” again and delivered RC racing and pure performance on the absolute highest level. Schumacher`s top driver Michal Orlowski started first into the heat with his Elceram and Cayote powered Mi9 seeing Ronald Völker (Mugen Seiki/LRP), Lucas Urbain (Awesomatix/Orca), Marc Rheinard (Awesomatix/Cayote), and Simon Lauter (Awesomatix/ Hobbywing) hunting him down.
It was very close all the time and in lap 6 it was Ronald Völker who flipped his Mugen car on the center curb of the chicane after the straightway. Völker lost a lot of time and immediately stopped his car – bad luck for the Mugen driver
Meanwhile, Orlowski was chasing Urbain who had taken over the lead from Orlowski early in the race. Orlowski switched on the afterburners in the last minute of the race and was able to benefit from a slow penultimate lap (14.053) from Urbain to take the win in Q2 by a gap of half a second. Marc Rheinard was able to recover from his P6 result in Q1 and scored good points with P3 for the round. Simon Lauter finished on a very strong P4 ahead of Xray`s Alexander Hagberg and the Awesomatix of Tim Wahl.
The overnight top ten (counting both runs):
1. Michal Orlowski (POL),
2. Lucas Urbain (FRA),
3. Simon Lauter (GER),
4. Marc Rheinard (GER),
5. Alexander Hagberg (SWE),
6. Patrick Gollner (AUT),
7. Tim Wahl (GER),
8. Berkan Kilic (TUR),
9. Dominic Greiner (GER),
10. Akio Sobue (JPN).
These results will be the base for the third and fourth round of qualifying which will happen tomorrow, and we all know that tings can (and will) still get mixed up a lot….!!!
“Car was GIGA” – Bultynck takes Q2 on used tires
After winning Q1, Ollie Bultynck went onto the driver stand to score another TQ run – on used tires. This was a very important one for Bultynck against his competitors and he is now holding the best cards for the overall TQ in his hands. In the interview after the race, Bultynck said that his `car was GIGA` and that he couldn`t have asked for a better outcome of Q2.
Behind the Awesomatix of Bultynck we saw a very fast Enrico Jung taking second for the round with the current ARC touring car. Jung had an intense battle on track with Lukas Ellerbrock and they both “almost lost it” when they had a small collision running side by side – a clear misunderstanding between them in the heat of the race. But somehow, they both could continue without losing too much time. Jan
Ratheisky and Tim Benson rounded out the top five in Q2 on Friday evening and Helge Johannessen took P6 with his time coming out of the B-heat.
Dutch racer van Gog takes Q2 for Schumacher
Robin van Gog was in control of the second FlySky Frontwheel qualifier in Apeldoorn. The Schumacher driver was very consistent on track and took the round by almost a second from the Xray trio Max Weffers, Nicolas Delisè, and Jacques Libar. Phil Langner (Awesomatix) finished fifth and was followed by Torsten Baggendorf`s ARC.
Q1 winner Roman Borschel had a run to forget and crossed the line in ninth place. It is still all to play for in the FWD class in the remaining two rounds of qualifying which will take place on Saturday morning!
Ehrbar wins CHAOTIC late evening qualifier under the floodlights!
The last round of the day saw again David Ehrbar taking the win ahead of Ronald Arts, Michael van den Berg, and Alexander Stocker. David Ehrbar is now very close to the pole position in Apeldoorn – he can seal it on Saturday.
The run saw many guys crashing into each other and driving into the grass – it was kind of chaotic and we know that our 40+ Masters can do better. We also have our problems with drivers screaming at each other and to the race director and we had some heavy discussion about this at the end of the day. As much as we like to have competition on the track: PLEASE think about your behavior on the drivers stand all the time. You are experienced racers, and you should be a good role model for upcoming racers.
Two out of two for strong driving Berkenbosch
Levi Berkenbosch took full advantage of his first starting position and scored another win in the second round of Hobbywing 21.5 Stock qualifying. Berkenbosch drove a dominant race with his Mugen Seiki car and was six (!) seconds quicker than second placed David Reip (RC Maker), the Xray car of Kristian Jensen, the Mugen of Kai Gerhardt, and Michael Koos. Local hero Berkenbosch is our overall TQ now and he can seal his first ever ETS pole position on Saturday!
Ehrbar is overnight TQ in Apeldoorn
Another heat win from David Ehrbar secured him the overnight TQ in the Matrix Formula class. Andreas Stiebler and Jitse Miedema both pushed really hard to set Ehrbar under pressure, but they had to live with second and third place for the round again. Jacques Libar and Michael Lipperheide rounded out the top 5 and David Ehrbar is now only one run away from sealing the pole position.
