Völker and Rheinard in a world of their own
The second Cayote Modified A-Main was another thrilling showdown between TQ and A1 winner Ronald Völker (Mugen), and Marc Rheinard (Awesomatix). Record ETS champion Völker had a clean start and was leading the race from five-time IFMAR world champion Rheinard. Both quickly opened a small gap over the rest of the field and could focus on their own race on top.
Behind the leaders, Serpent driver Dominic Greiner was making a move on Schumacher`s Orlowski who was struggling a bit in the infield chicane during lap one. Greiner placed his car right beside Orlowski and they were going through the next turns side by side. Unluckily, the contact got heavy enough to spin Orlowski around causing him to lose some positions.
Greiner dropped back some positions as well and the referee called him also to give a spot back to Orlowski. Asked about the incident after the race, Greiner said that he “just saw Michal struggling and tried to go by. Yes, there was a contact but for me it was pure racing”.
Alexander Hagberg took the biggest advantage of the Greiner/Orlowski incident and moved up all the way to third place in front of Simon Lauter and Sören Sparbier. The midfield pack was racing very close to each other and we saw some great battles for all these positions.
Meanwhile, Mugen Seiki`s Ronald Völker was still leading the race with his LRP powered MTC-3. The crowd could see that Rheinard was squeezing absolutely everything out of his Cayote powered Awesomatix A800RR as he was sliding a bit here and there. In some laps Rheinard came closer, in others he lost some ground again. In the penultimate lap of the race, Völker could finally take a deep breathe when Rheinard was hitting the board before the chicane in the left section of the track. Rheinard lost 4.5 seconds to Völker who could take the last lap easy to seal the overall race victory in Daun.
A great day for Mugen Seiki and Völker who celebrated his last ETS race win in Hann. Münden at the end of 2022 (!) before Michal Orlowski started his impressive winning streak. It was also the first win for the MTC-3 in the ETS modified class and is for sure a great confidence boost for Völker after losing Robert Pietsch (car designer) to Infinity at the beginning of 2026.
The finishing order in A2: Völker, Rheinard, Hagberg, Lauter, Sparbier, Orlowski, Griener, Gollner, Urbain, Prümper, Iivonen
Kretschmer recovers from bad A1 and wins the second leg ahead of Izsay and Bultynck
Long story short: The first final was a hard one to swallow for TQ Louis Kretschmer. But the Awesomatix driver showed great nerves and race craft when he took an impressive win away from A2 on Sunday at lunch time. Kretschmer drove the perfect race and left no chances for Adam Izsay to create the same amount of pressure as in A1 on Saturday.
Izsay was fully on the limit and crashed his car in the last lap – but he was able to bring home P2 ahead of Olivier Bultynck, Jesper Rasmussen, and Sören Sparbier. The decision for the overall Pro Stock win here in Daun went down to the line in the last final with all eyes on Kretschmer and Izsay.
In a class of his own – Langner wins big at ETS Daun
It was a pure demonstration of great FWD driving in A2 when German youngster Phil Langner was kind of “destroying” his opponents with a clinic drive and a huge gap of 6 seconds (!) over the rest of the field. Nobody was able to match the pace of Langner`s Awesomatix car and Phil took a well-deserved second ETS career win under the immense applause of the huge crowd in Daun.
Behind Langner, it was Henrik Heitsch who moved up to second place ahead of his ARC teammate Luca Romondia after Gergö Valent had a crash with Kevin Schmid who had made a clean pass on him before. The finishing order in A2 was Langner, Heitsch, Romondia, Schmid, Kirchhefer, Valent, Bartsch, Reile, Hovgaard, Buchhalt, and bump-up driver Borschel.
Ehrbar adds one more Masters class win to a long list!
Since almost three years, David Ehrbar is the dominant driver of our 1up Racing 40+ Masters class at the Euro Touring Series. He once again showed that a race victory in this class always needs to go over his pit table. Ehrbar never looked back after the sound of the tone and won the second leg of A-finals ahead of a string driving Philipp Stadler, Caspar Morgen, Toni Mateo, and Manuel Stankowitz.
Dreams come true – Romondia joins club of ETS race winners
Luca Romondia raced RC cars in his teenage years and made a 10-year break before he came back to the hobby in 2025. He was fast back in the day – and he still is. Romondia used the new ARC A11 touring car to win the Hobbywing 21.5 Stock class after two brilliant first finals and was celebrating this great result together with his team and his father who once brought him into the sport – what a great story!
Behind the race winner we (once again) saw the two RC Maker drivers David Reip (2) and Daniel Anthes (3) taking the positions ahead of Christian Lütjen and Wolfgang Swoboda. The whole ETS crew likes to congratulate Luca Romondia for his well-deserved maiden ETS win!
Stiebler wins A2 to battle out overall victory in A3 against Ehrbar
David Ehrbar was the early leader in Formula A2, and Andreas Stiebler quickly found his way past Martin Hudy to hunt Ehrbar down again. Stiebler made a lot of pressure and once Ehrbar went a bit wide in the sweeper after the straight, Stiebler took the chance and took the lead away from Ehrbar.
In the next minutes, Ehrbar and Hudy were both hunting Stiebler around the track, but the Austrian Schumacher driver was able to bring home the win in the second final. Balint Rajki and Jacques Libar completed the top five. The last A-Main will be the decider for the win and we hope for another great show of racing!
