Masterclass of RC racing in A1 when Völker drove to the win ahead of Rheinard and Orlowski
On the famous “sound of the tone”, top qualifier Ronald Völker was immediately in control of the race when he was bringing the field around the first laps on the challenging ETS carpet track. Völker posted the fastest lap of A1 directly in lap 2 with a 13.632 and built a small gap over the Awesomatix of Rheinard and the Schumacher car of reigning ETS champion Orlowski. After two minutes, Rheinard could drive away from Orlowski and started to close the gap to Völker`s LRP powered Mugen MTC-3 in front of him.
Rheinard chipped of some hundreds of a second every lap and was able to reduce the gap to Völker down to half a second when they entered the last two laps of the race. Rheinard was pushing super-hard but Völker was able to hang on and took the win in A1 by a margin of 0.346 seconds under the applause of the audience around the track.
Schumacher`s Michal Orlowski drove in third place for the entire race and defended it against the Serpent of Dominik Greiner who was right behind him when they crossed the finish line.
Alexander Hagberg (Xray) finished fifth ahead of Sören Sparbier (Mugen), Simon Lauter (Awesomatix), Patrick Gollner (Mugen), Yannic Prümper (Schumacher), Pekko Iivonen (Schumacher), and Lucas Urbain (Awesomatix).
It was a great first Modified A-Main and we are already excited for A2 which is scheduled to happen at around 10:50 on Sunday morning – don`t miss the show on RC Racing TV.
Izsay wins eventful first Pro Stock A-Main after Kretschmer crashes hard!
The first Awesomatix Pro Stock A-Main was very entertaining – but not for TQ Louis Kretschmer. The Awesomatix driver had a great start, but the Xray of Adam Izsay never disappeared from his rear-view mirror. Adam was creating a lot of pressure on Kretschmer who was defending like a lion with perfect lines which did not allow Izsay to go by.
Lap 15 was a complete change of events when Kretschmer was making a mistake leading him to hit a track barrier in the left side section of the track after the fast right turn. Kretchmer’s A800RR rolled over and he was lucky that the car somehow survived the crash. However, Kretschmer dropped back and finished in 7th place only.
Adam Izsay took full advantage of the Kretschmer crash and jumped into the lead, followed by Olivier Bultynck. The Awesomatix driver from Belgium was now in the hunt and managed to close in on Izsay in the last minute of the race. But Bultynck got caught on the line while Izsay made the extra lap to win A1 after showing a great performance. Bultynck finished in second place ahead of Rasmussen, Sparbier, Ratheisky, and Kriz.
Langner dominates FWD A1 from pole position
Phil Langner drove a perfect race with his Awesomatix A800FXR and took the win in the opening A-Main of the FlySky FWD class. Xray driver Gergö Valent was able to stay close to Langner in the first lap before Langner started to stretch his legs. The German youngster checked out from the rest of the field and was able to build a gap of four (!) seconds until he crossed the finish line. Gergö Valent finished in second place after an amazing battle with Awesomatix racer Kevin Schmid while the two ARC drivers Henrik Heitsch and Luca Romondia took P4 and P5 away from the first FWD final.
Ehrbar converts pole into A1 victory
David Ehrbar did what he is good at – he won the first A-Main of the 40+ Masters class with his Xray X4`26 from tone to tone and left no doubt that he still is the man to beat in this hard-fought class. Mugen Seiki driver Philipp Stadler had a great run as well and was able to defend his second starting position until the end against Caspar Morgen, Toni Mateo, and Michel Zierold.
Halfway there as Romondia takes first final from Anthes
It was easy to see that Luca Romondia was a bit nervous when he started from a pole position at the ETS for the very first time. Romondia touched many curbs in the first two laps but managed to keep his tires to the carpet. Daniel Anthes saw some daylight and was following the ARC A11 in front of him with his RC Maler SP1 car. But after some laps, Romondia found his rhythm and drove away from his competitors. Romondia made no further mistakes and won the first final with a gap of 2.1 seconds over the RC Maker duo Daniel Anthes and David Reip. Pawel Trella finished on a string fourth place in front of Mugen driver Radek Ruszkowski.
Xray`s David Ehrbar wins Formula A1
In a final with 10 Xray cars, it was all about Schumacher driver Andreas Stiebler to be the hardest competitor of TQ David Ehrbar. Ehrbar was leading the race from start to the finish, but he needed to push his car to the absolute limit. After Stiebler found his way around Martin Hudy (who started on P2), he started to hunt Ehrbar down lap after lap. Stiebler`s car was flying but he ran out of time and Ehrbar could hang on for the win in a very fast and nice first Formula A-Main!
