ETS Season #18 2025/26 has come to an end at Arena Nova in Austria. As always, there had been many highlights throughout the weekend and we will never be able to spot, mention, and highlight all of them in the heat of the action. But as we like to share some things from every event, we have once again put together the “5 things we have learned from ETS RD5 at Arena Nova”…..
1)…100 ETS races are in the books!
ETS celebrates 100 races with huge driver`s dinner, emotiional moments, and some spectacular greetings from all around the world!
ONE HUNDRED…. what a number. Uwe Rheinard and Scotty Ernst have organizes 100 ETS races since the very beginning, 2008 in Kastellaun (GER). Since then, the series has grown and became the most prestigeous and most highlighted competition for electric 1:10 scale onroad racing in the world of RC. The ETS has brought up many amazing racers and champions and brought a lot of joy and fun to thousands of RC racers.
To celebrate this, the ETS crew had organized a little surprise for Scotty and Uwe on Friday evening at Arena Nova. Both had no idea that it was race 100, and during the driver`s dinner they got informed about it from Niki Doppler (town official of Wiener Neustadt), Sascha Klug (1.MRC Wiener Neustadt), and Patrick Beck (ETS Media).
Both had been very surprised and showed some real emotions when a video clip was presented in which many former ETS racers had been sending some greetings and congratulations to them. Another highlight was a limited edition T-Shirt with the name of (amost) all former ETS race winners!
On behalf of the entire ETS family, we would like to once again extend our heartfelt thanks to the core members of the ETS team – Scotty Ernst, Uwe Rheinard, Hartmut Wenzel, Jutta Treder and Malu Prümper. Thank you for 18 seasons and 100 ETS races. Here’s to many more to come…
2)…Champions are crowned!
The ceremony on Sunday was the cream on the cherry as champions received their trophies
Whenever a season comes to an end, we crown our champions. Winning an ETS title is very rewarding as drivers need to fight against the best in the business for a whole season to clinch one of the sic championship trophies. We like to congratulate all racers for their achievements in Season #18 and here are the names and pictures of our overall champions!
Modified: Michal Orlowski (POL) Schumacher | ProStock: Olivier Bultynck (BEL) Awesomatix | FWD: Phil Langner (GER) Awesomatix |40+ Masters: David Ehrbar (GER) Xray |21.5 Stock: Kristian Jensen (DNK) Xray | Formula: David Ehrbar (GER) Xray
3)…Constructors title gains importance!
Awesomatix twins Constructors Championship after hard battle with last year`s champions Xray
At the end of last season, the ETS was giving a trophy for the best constructor away for the first time. It was Xray`s Martin Hudy who was able to celebrate this title with his team. This time, Awesomatix took home the big trophy after Max Mächler received it from Scotty and Uwe after a strong team performance all season long.
Mächler was super happy about the title as it was a lot of work to collect a high numnber of points constantly at each ETS event. We could also hear more and more people talking about the constructor`s chanpionship during the season. The aspect that every drivers top result can count for the teams points is really cool and many Awesomatix racers have collected important points for the overall standngs at the end of the season.
4)…New race winners found!
Anthes, Hudy, Kriz Jun. and Buchhalt celebrating first ever ETS wins at Arena Nova in Daun
We always like to see happy faces of first time ETS winners – and so we did in Wiener Neustadt. A total of FOUR drivers had been able to win for the first time which was simply wonderful.
Jaroslav Kriz Junior was the man of the weekend when he took the TQ and the win with his Xray X4`26 in the Pro Stock class against all of the top drivers – super impressive.
Matheo Buchhalt brought some tears of joy to the IRIS team around Andreas Myrberg when he managed to win the second and third A-Main of the FWD class after a hard and very fair fight with Kevin Schmid (Awesomatix).
Daniel Anthes secured his first ever ETS victory, and also the first one for RC Maker in the 21.5 class after a dominant weekend ahead of newly crowned champion Kristian Jensen (Xray).
Martin Hudy was the fastest racer in the Formula class and won the race with his Xray car from the pole position. Martin Hudy is such a well-known name at the ETS and nobody really knew that he had never won a race before.
Congratulations to all first time winners – you all did an amazing job!
4.1)…One to Watch!
Felix Reiser get`s the award…
The one to watch award for the event was given to young German racer Felix Reiser. He showed some really good progress during the weekend, finished on P48 in 21.5 Stock, and had a lot of fun together with his father Martin Reiser and the Iris team. We know that there had been many more kids who would have deserved this award, but this time it went to young Felix – congratulations youn gun. Felix was not at the trophy ceremony anymore and collected the trophy from the Ruddg headquater on Tuesday after the race. Thanks for the images!
5)…The Ghibli 3.0 is more than a contender – it`s already a winner!
Xtreme or Lens Bodies? What will Modified drivers choose from now on?
In the last 4-5 years, we have only seen Twister Speciale and Twister body shells from Xtreme doing really well in the Modified class. This weekend, the Lens Bodied Ghibli 3.0 had a strong showing with 6 from 11 drivers using the body in the Modified A-Main. The man behind the brand Lens Bodies is Nicola Marrone from the Hot Race Tires factory.
His first two Ghibli body shells had been “let`s say average”, but the Ghibli 3.0 seems to be right on the money. For sure, it looks very similar to a Twister, but it has some different lines on teh front hood and in the rear section to seperate it from the Xtreme bodies for sure.
Let`s see which body will have the upper hand when Season #19 will kick off in the Netherlands. Will we see a Twister VS. Ghibli fight in the future?
