Orlowski fights back, Rheinard spins out early, Völker second!
We have three different drivers with a TQ run now after Cayote Modified Q3. Ronald Völker was leading the field out of the gate ahead of Rheinard who immediately spun out while entering the first hairpin after the long sweeper. Rheinard dropped back in the running order and was only able to recover to third place until the end of the run.
Out front, Michal Orlowski was getting up to grips when he took over the lead from Völker. Orlowski`s car looked way better than yesterday – he invested many hours into a complete setup change which seems to work good for him now.
Orlowski took the win in Q3 ahead of Völker with the two being separated by half a second in the end. Völker was not unhappy with his run but once again said that it was “tricky out there as the track felt a bit more slimy”.
Behind Orlowski, Völker, and Rheinard, we saw Dominic Greiner (4), Lucas Urbain (5), and Alexander Hagberg rounding out the top six.
With one round still to go, we have three drivers battling it out for the overall TQ here in Daun. Mugen Seiki`s Völker has the fastest runtime to his favor now and he needs to defend his spot against Orlowski and Rheinard.
Saturday morning, 8am: Kretschmer wins Pro Stock Q3
The third round of Pro Stock qualifying happened on a very early Saturday morning when all drivers had to show up from 7am. Once the top heat was hitting the track at 8, Awesomatix driver and Q2 winner Louis Kretschmer took another win ahead of Schumacher`s Jesper Rasmussen. The Danish ace was bringing on the heat and the lead changed many times between himself and Kretschmer. In the end, Kretschmer had an advantage of 0.096 seconds to snatch Q3 away from Rasmussen.
Adam Izsay took third for the round and 2025 Daun winner Sören Sparbier (4) finally posted a top 5 result with his Mugen car. Jan Ratheisky had a solid run to P5 in the b-sort and championship leader Bultynck came out of Q3 as the sixth fastest driver.
Langner claims hard-fought FWD pole position in Daun
The first driver who was able to seal the TQ for the weekend was Phil Langner in the FlySky Frontwheel class. After winning the first two rounds early today, he could also take Q3 with an advantage of 0.6 seconds ahead of Gergö Valent (Xray), the Awesomatix of Kevin Schmid, Frederik Hovgaard`s Yokomo, and the ARC of Luca Romondia. It is so cool to see many different cars battling for the top spots in the FWD class which is the biggest this weekend with 140 entries.
Mugen driver Stadler wins Q3
The very last heat on Friday evening saw the top dogs of the 40+ Masters class hitting the track. Toni Mateo had a good run in the second fastest group again, but his result was only good enough for a P7. When the top group got underway, an intense battle between David Ehrbar, Michel Zierold, and Philipp Stadler was going on. The lead between the top three changed multiple times throughout the run and it was sooo close.
After five minutes, Austrian Mugen Seiki driver Philipp Stadler was able to post his first TQ run after a brilliant drive. Stadler won the race by a gap of 0.4 seconds over round two TQ David Ehrbar, and winner Michel Zierold. The overnight ranking list showed Ehrbar ahead of Stadler, Mateo, Zierold, Morgen, Thalheimer, Baggendorf, Sommer, Hagnauer, and Boje.
RC Maker strikes back when Antes wins Q3 on a late Friday evening
After we had seen ARC driver Luca Romondia dominating the event until now, Q3 mixed things up a bit. Romondia was not able to finish the run (after he got unlucky tapped by a competitor) and the RC Maker duo of Daniel Anthes and David Reip was able to secure a first and third place for the round.
Daniel Anthes, a former winner of the stock class at the LRP touring car masters (back in the day) won Q3 with an advantage of 1 second over Xray racer Pawel Trella (runs in the b-group), and RC Maker teammate Reip. Christian Lütjen finished in fourth place and Matheo Buchhalt completed the top five. What will happen on Saturday? Who will TQ the event? Will it be Anthes, or Romondia?
Ehrbar again in Q3 – decision for pole shifted to Saturday
After his win in Q2, David Ehrbar had another run full of confidence and scored his second consecutive TQ run of the event. Andreas Stiebler was second again with his Schumacher car and was kind of Xray sandwiched with Martin Hudy right behind him (gap 0.546). Balint Rajki was fourth fastest and Samir Nukicic drove to fifth place for the round with his runtime coming from the second fastest group.
David Ehrbar is our “overnight TQ” here in Daun but the decision for the overall pole position in the Formula class will be on the line during Q4 on Saturday as Stiebler is still in the fight for it!
