Völker wins A1 ahead of Orlowski as both were putting on a show!
The first A-Main is always the most magic moment of the weekend when the best in the business are going for it. And so it was during the first Cayote Modified final at Arena Nova in Wiener Neustadt. The track was fully crowded before the start and the stage was set for some of the best drivers in the world to go for it.
Top qualifier Ronald Völker was bringing the field around the first corners with his LRP powered Mugen car after all racers had a great start. Völker and Orlowski managed to quickly open a small gap over the two Awesomatix A800RR cars of Marc Rheinard and Simon Lauter, while David Ronnefalk was running in fifth spot with his Xray X4`26.
Out front, Völker was driving a perfect race (hot lap 15.416), but Orlowski seemed to have a similar pace (hot lap 15.437)and his car looked really strong in all sections of the track too. Orlowski was charging super hard behind Völker and was always in striking distance. The crowd watched the race with a lot of excitement as both drivers were putting on a great show. In one lap, Völker was a tenth quicker, in the next one it was Orlowski.
The Schumacher driver was all over the Mugen car of Völker for many, many laps and was only a few centimeters away from Völker’s rear bumper – a masterclass from both drivers. Orlowski chased like a champion, Völker was defending like a hungry lion.
In the last lap of the race, Orlowski was still super close and Völker “almost” had a bad last corner allowing Orlowski to stick his nose to the inside. But somehow, Völker could hang on and took A1 from Orlowski. The crowd was going nuts and Völker celebrated with many fist pumps before he was shaking hands with Orlowski.
Behind the top duo, Marc Rheinard took third place in A1 ahead of Lauter, Ronnefalk, Greiner, Sparbier, Krapp, Hagberg, Brunet, and Havranek. What a race is was…. with two more to follow on Sunday. Make sure to not miss it and watch out live stream on RC Racing TV and our Social Media channels!
Xray`s Kriz Jun. continued to shine when he took A1 from Izsay and Sparbier
Jaroslav Kriz Jun. earned his first Pro Stock TQ in qualifying and had a great start ahead of his teammate Adam Izsay. Sören Sparbier ran in third spot, followed by Mark Valent and Ollie Bultynck. Kriz was right on the money and posted the fastest lap of the final (16.058) in the first minute of the run.
It looked like “business as usual” for Kriz and Adam Izsay was not able to come closer than 6 tenths of a second to the car in front of him. The two Xray drivers showed a real masterclass in front and Jaroslav “Jerry” Kriz brought home the win in A1 by a gap of 2.8 seconds over Izsay after a fantastic drive.
Sören Sparbier finished third in the first final and was followed by Bultynck, Valent, Kretschmer, Benson, Ratheisky, Jung, Ellerbrock, and Schmid.
Schmid wins FWD A1 after an epic battle with TQ Buchhalt
After a clean start, Matheo Buchhalt was leading the race from his hard fought TQ spot. Kevin Schmid was right on the money as well with his Awesomatix car and tried to stay as close as possible with Buchhalt. The running order behind the two leaders saw no changes with Phil Langner in third, Adam Southgate in the four, and Luca Romondia in the five.
In lap 6 of the race, Schmid dived to the inside of Buchhalt at the end of the straight, made a pass, to just lose the position again to Buchhalt who countered the attack in the next corner. Nice and clean from both drivers – that`s how respectful driving should look like.
In the last two minutes, Buchhalt was able to open a small gap of 0.8 over Schmid and had at least some breathing room with his Iris car. But in the last minute of the race, Buchhalt got a bit nervous, made some small bobbles, and Schmid was all over him again.
20 seconds before the end of the run, Schmid made a great pass on Buchhalt and took the win in A1 under the applause of the audience. What a great show of FWD racing from Schmid and Buchhalt. The story will be continued on Sunday in A2 and A3…don`t miss it!
Anderson converts pole position into A1 victory after brilliant drive!
Right after the start, the top 3 drivers checked out from the rest of the field. Ehrbar made a lot of pressure on Stankowitz while Anderson was able to pull a little gap running out front. Eric Anderson drove smooth lines and looked really confident on track with his Awesomatix A800RR.
Stankowitz and Ehrbar had a great fight for second and third and Ehrbar found no way around the Mugen of Stankowitz in the first three minutes. In lap 10 of the race, Ehrbar was able to pass Stankowitz at the end of the straight and jumped into second place.
Ehrbar then tried all he can to close the gap to Eric Anderson in the last 90 seconds of the race, but Anderson did not slow down and brought home the win in A1 some 1.3 seconds ahead of David Ehrbar, Manuel Stankowitz, Renè Kölbel, and Philipp Stadler.
Anthes holds off hard charging Jensen to win A1
After the sound of the tone, top qualifier Daniel Anthes was leading A1 with his RC Maker SP1 ahead of a very hard pushing Kristian Jensen (Xray). Both opened a huge gap over the rest of the field while Krystian Kopacki was running in third place followed by David Reip, and Aurelien Threhout.
Once the leaders approached some lapping traffic, Jensen was able to come very close to Anthes and both were running nose to tail around the track in the last minute of the race. But Anthes was able to use all his experience from his entire RC racing career and managed to win A1 from Jensen and Kopacki.
Hudy executes a perfect first final ahead of Ehrbar
After a perfect start off the line, Xray car designer Martin Hudy took over the lead and started to post some very fast lap times on the challenging track at Arena Nova. David Ehrbar was the only one who could match Hudy`s pace and stayed within a gap of half a second as both cars drove away from the rest of the field.
Michal Wojcik was running in third spot while Andreas Stiebler and Jacques Libar enjoyed a nice battle behind him for positions 4 and 5.Out front, nothing changed as Hudy and Ehrbar were equaling out themselves matching lap times lap after lap. After the five-minute run, Martin Hudy took the win in A1 ahead of David Ehrbar, Andreas Stiebler, Jacques Libar, and Michal Wojcik.
