Dominant Sunday performance earns Coelho the win in the Netherlands
The overall win was on the line in A3 and it was Intinity`s Bruno Coelho who took the win from pole position. Coelho showed a very dominant performance on Sunday and won A3 with a gap of 1.1 seconds from Schumacher driver Michal Orlowski. Bruno also posted the fastest lap of the heat with a 13.573 and clearly showed that he deserved the overall win in Apeldoorn this weekend.
Michal Orlowski took second in A3, and second overall behind Coelho and was the only driver able to really give Bruno a challenge. Even if it was not enough for P1 (after winning in Apeldoorn three times in a row), Michal clearly was second fastest throughout the weekend even when suffering from feeling sick since Friday.
Mugen Seiki`s Ronald Völker jumped onto the last spot of the podium with a second place from A1 and a fourth position in the second leg. A great recovery for Völker who had higher hopes coming into the event with his LRP powered Mugen MTC-3.
Simon Lauter was (maybe) the most unlucky guy this weekend. He missed the posium by a very small margin after qualifiyng third and performing very well in the finals However, P4 is still a good result which he can be proud of.
Dominic Greiner finished 5th overall for Serpent, Marc Rheinard took P6 at his Xray debut ahead of his old Awesomatix teammates Lucas Urbain and Eric Dankel, while Alexander Hagberg (9), Yannic Prümper (10), and Tim Wahl completed the A-Main results in Apeldoorn!
Bultynck with the perfect start into the season as he collects maximum points from Apeldoorn
Olivier Bultynck had a perfect start into A3 and was leading ahead of Jan Ratheisky, Timon Coenen, Louis Kretschmer, and Rob Jansen. Kretschmer passed Coenen after 2 minutes and was running in thrid palce showing a great pace behind Ratheisky. But as all the drivers made no mistakes out front it was Olivier Bultynck who celebrated another perfect start into a season with adding another ETS race win in Apeldoorn after a great and thrilling set of A-Main finals.
Xray`s Jan Ratheisky was able to split the Awesomatix podium when he secured P2 ahead of Timon Coenen who had an amazing weekend in Apeldoorn achieving his first ever podium.
Schulz takes the overall win in Apeldoorn after P2 in the last final!
After Elibert Sievers and Stefan Schulz both had been able to win one A-Main, the decision for the win was on the line in the last final of the weekend. Schulz brought the field around the first lap while van Gog was (once again) chasing Elibert Sieves around the track in teh battle for second. After one minute, tha gap between the top three had been at only 0.5 seconds and Sievers was looking for a way to attack Schulz. Behind the top three,Ronald Arts and Max Weffers had a great race for P4 and P5. At the 2-minute mark, a contact between Sievers and Schulz handed the lead over to van Gog.
The constellation had been very exciting as Schulz needed to defend his second spot against Sievers for the overall win then. Schulz had the faster A-Main winning (from A1) time to his favour before the race and he was able to win the FWD class in Apeldoorn while being tied on points with Elibert Sievers.
van den Berg and Thalheimer joining Ehrbar on the winners podium
The tird A-Main of the 1up Racing Masters class was all about the remainign podium positions behind race winner David Ehrbar. Michael van den Berg jumped into the lead and had to defend like a lion against a very fast looking Torsten Baggendorf. Mirco Thalheimer and Manuel Stankowitz also joined the party and we saw a nice four-horse race in A3. After Baggendorf dropped back in th running order, it was Thalheimer who was running in second place – but he was already a straightway behind Michael van den Berg who brought home the win in A3 to seal a strong second place behind race winner Ehrbar.
Oversloot and Weffers securing podium positions in the last A-Main
Race winner Levi Berkenbosch was enjoying A3 watching from the tribune and saw his fellow countrymen Richard Oversloot winning the last final to seal second place overall on the podium. Max Weffers and Daniel Hiesch had an excellent fight behind him for second in A3 and the last remaining spot on the podium.
Both drivers showed a lot of respect for each other and it was great to watch this fight on track – thank you Max and Daniel. Unfortunately, Daniel rolled his car onto the roof in the last seconds of the race. Oversloot was driving a perfect race and took A3 ahead of Weffers, Zühlke, Stenger, Kappes, Anthes, and Hiesch.
Stiebler, Libar, and Kampehl on the Formula podium
Xray driver Jacques Libar was taking the win in the third and last A-Main to secure his second overall position behind race winner Andreas Stiebler, and ahead of overall third place finisher Robert Kampehl who was very happy to make it onto the podium in Apeldoorn!
