
Völker wins again, Orlowski misses TQ run by four tenth, Ronnefalk grabs strong P3, Rheinard only fourth

The second round of Modified qualifying saw once again Mugen driver Ronald Völker taking the win. This time, it was Michal Orlowski who was in second place – only four tenths behind Völker. But as the race was finished, Orlowski (fastest lap of the race 15.292) came down the drivers stand with a very disappointed face when he walked to his Marshall position.

Also, Völker said after the run that he is somehow “happy to TQ again”, but that there “was so much on the table to do even better” as he was not 100% happy with his own driving. However, Völker secured his second TQ run for the weekend.

Behind Völker and Orlowski, we saw a very strong David Ronnefalk taking third place ahead of Marc Rheinard, Simon Lauter, Alexander Hagberg, Christopher Krapp, and Dominic Greiner. Ronald Völker is the overnight TQ in Austria with two more rounds of qualifying coming up on Saturday!



Kriz Junior steps on the big stage an wins Pro Stock Q2

He raced 21.5 Stock last year, and now managed to TQ the second round of Pro Stock qualifying at the ETS season finale in Austria – what a great story. “Jaroslav Kriz Junior is a name we will hear many times in the future” – this is what his Xray teammate Adam Izsay had to say about him…

Kriz Jun. took the win in Q2 b a gap of 0.6 seconds ahead of Mugen Seiki driver Sören Sparbier, Adam Izsay, Mark Valent, and Jan Ratheisky. Kriz Jun. also posted the fastest lap of the race (16.108) and his car looked very good on track. Can he claim the pole position tomorrow?



First ever ETS TQ run for Iris racer Matheo Buchhalt

Matheo Buchhalt came out on top of FWD Q2. The Iris racer from Austria had a super good pace and made no mistakes on the big and technical track layout at Arena Nova. It was a special moment for Matheo as he had never posted a TQ run at an ETS race before. Q1 winner Kevin Schmid finished two tenths behind Buchhalt, followed by Phil Langner, Luca Romondia, and Loris Buchhalt.



Stankowitz fights back and takes Q2 from Ehrbar and Anderson

The second round of 40+ Masters qualifying saw top seed Manuel Stankowitz performing on the highest level. Stankowitz is driving a Mugen MTC-3 since a couple of weeks, and he was absolutely flying around the track. Xray`s David Ehrbar and Awesomatix racer Eric Anderson had been super-fast as well, but Stankowitz was able to hang on and brought home the TQ with the small advantage of two tenths over Anderson. At qualifying half-time, the top 5 of the class are Stankowitz, Anderson, Ehrbar, Stadler, and Kolbel!



Dinger takes Q2 and mixes up the 21.5 Stock class

Ulrich Dinger won the second round of 21.5 Stock qualifying. Dinger, who raced in the 40+ Masters class most of the time, is now mixing up the 21.5 Stock class where he managed to win Q2 by 0,153 of a second ahead of Krystian Kopacki, and round one TQ Kristian Jensen. Awesomatix racer Daniel Hiesch and Cadric Gridelet completed the top 5 on Friday afternoon.

In the ongoing battle for the championship, things are swinging a bit into the direction of Kristian Jensen. He is 6 points behind Reip in the standings but as Reip (currently 8th) and Gridelet (currently 6th) are both struggeling a bit, Jensen can have some real hope again to lift the big trophy on Sunday. Can Reip find his mojo again and move up the rankings?



Hudy sets new TQ time and wins second round of qualifying

After losing Q1 to David Ehrbar, Martin Hudy was on top of his game in Q2 in which he postet a new fastest overall runtime. Hudy won the heat by a massive gap over the rest of the field and is overnight TQ in the Formula class now. Behind Hudy and Ehrbar, it was Jacques Libar who took third place from the round in front of Robert Kampehl, and Andreas Stiebler!



Dominik Ruf
Ditte Jensen
John Trottmann