The new season is underway, and we have the first constructors championship update for you after a fantastic weekend of racing in the Netherlands. It was “game on” when more than 330 racers attended the largest outdoor ETS event we ever had. With drivers from 22 countries including 15 IFMAR world champions, the quality was as high as possible and everybody highlited the event as kind of an “Inofficial World Championship”.
Season #17 champions crowned in Apeldoorn
During the trophy ceremony on Sunday, we handed over the trophy for last season`s constructors title to Martin Hudy and the whole Xray team. They had become the champion at the end of last season and are the first team claiming this prestigeous title which was given away for the first time. Once again, congratulations to TEAM XRAY for a strong last season – they are now the team to beat in the Season #18 constructors championship!
Awesomatix and Xray tied on points after season opener at AMCA Apeldoorn!
With the start of the new season, we have slightly changed the rules of the Constructors’ Championship to make them more transparent and easier to understand for everyone throughout the five races.
We now count by points from MyRCM and the rules are easy to understand. If you like to make yourself familiar with the rules again, just klick on the link below!
OVERALL STANDINGS AFTER RACE 1 OF 5
1 – AWESOMATIX (1203 pts)
Awesomatix is tied on points with Xray, The four best results from Awesomatis drivers had been coming from Olivier Bultynck (Pro Stock | 303), Marc Rheinard (Modified |300), Roman Borschel (FWD | 300), and Ronald Arts (40+ | 300). A great start into the new season for the team around Max Mächler!
1 – XRAY (1203 pts)
As mentioned, Xray has scored the same amonut of points and is sitting first in the standings, tied on points with Awesomatix. The four best XRAY point scores came from David Ehrbar (40+ | 303), Nadine Zühlke (21.5 Stock | 302), Adam Izsay (Pro Stock | 299), and Max Weffers (FWD | 299).
3 – MUGEN SEIKI (888 pts)
Behind the leaders, we have the Mugen Seiki team sitting in third spot. They only had cars in three different A-Mains which cost them the chance for a better points haul for the weekend, However, it was a solid start into ETS Season #18 for Ronald Völker and the Mugen team. Their points for the weekend came from Ronald Völker (Modified | 297), Levi Berkenbosch (21.5 Stock | 297), Philipp Stadler (40+ | 294).
4 – IRIS (883 pts)
Fourth place after ETS RD1 is in the hands of Team IRIS around Andreas Myrberg. They also had three cars in the finals and they showed that they have stepped up their game ahead of the new season. In Apeldoorn, the IRIS points got collected from Jesper Rasmussen (Pro Stock | 293), Manuel Stankowitz (FWD | 292), and Felix Hörenz (21.5 Stock |298).
5 – SCHUMACHER (606 pts)
The team around the reigning ETS champion Michal Orlowski was able to win two classes (Modified & FWD) in Apeldoorn to score the maximum amount of points. Unfortunateley, there had been no other drivers making the A-Main in other classes leaving the team with 606 points “only” for the weekend. The points came from the results of Michal Orlowski (Modified | 303), and Robin van Gog (FWD | 303).
6 – RC MAKER (588 pts)
The RC Maker team collected 589 points during the weekend under the leadership of company owner Ryan Maker who made the trip to the Netherlands all the way from Australia. Tim Benson (Pro Stock | 292), and David Reip (21.5 Stock | 296) had been the responsible drivers earnign the points.
7 – INFINITY (587 pts)
The Inf1nity team was at the ETS with their whole team of super stars. But as they all were attending in the modified class, it was Bruno Coelho`s seventh place who was counted for the championship. Beside Bruno (Modified | 295), Arie Manten scored a tenth place (40+ | 292) to raise the score of Infinity up to 587 points.
8 – ARC (300 pts)
ARC racer Enrico Jung had the best ETS weekend of his carreer when he finished second on the podium of the Pro Stock class. But as there was no other ARC car in one of the other A-Mains, the points from Enrico Jung (Pro Stock | 300) had been the only ones for the team in Apeldoorn.
9 – YOKOMO (295 pts)
The Yokomo team is rounding out the field of teams after ETS RD1. With the absence of their top driver Christopher Krapp (honeymoon), it was only Frederik Hovgaard who managed to make the A-Main in FWD scoring 295 points. There is a lot of room to improve and Yokomo will try to climb up the ladder during the season!
