Rheinard takes second from Orlowski, Völker cruises to A2 victory
After the sensational Cayote Modified A1 on Saturday evening, the crowd expected another close battle between Völker and Orlowski. But once the race got underway, the closest battle was going on between Rheinard and Orlowski as the Awesomatix driver had a much stronger pace than in yesterday’s first fun.
Rheinard was putting on a lot of pressure on Orlowski and found his way by in lap 13 of the race when Orlowski made a small mistake before coming onto the straightway.
Orlowski struggled a bit with his car in A2 and needed to defend his third place against Simon Lauter until the very end of the run. Marc Rheinard was running in second place behind the LRP powered Mugen of Ronald Völker for the last 7 laps but could not come close enough to lead Völker into a mistake.
Völker executed another perfect run and took a well-deserved overall win away from the finale of ETS Season #18. It was Völker`s second win in a row after he won RD4 in Daun 6 weeks ago. Völker was very strong the whole weekend and won three rounds of qualifying and the first two A-Main finals – a strong statement from the Mugen driver who is absolutely back “on winning ways”.
With the result from A2, Michal Orlowski has secured the overall Cayote Modified championship title – his third in a row. Orlowski needed to score at least a fourth place overall this weekend, and nobody can kick him out of the top 4 anymore – no matter how the A3 results will look like. A very important day for the Schumacher lead driver and the whole ETS crew likes to congratulate him and the Schumacher team for another amazing achievement!
Behind the top four drivers Völker, Rheinard, Orlowski, and Lauter it was the Xray of David Ronnefalk in fifth spot followed by Sören Sparbier (Mugen), Dominic Greiner (Serpent), Christopher Krapp (Yokomo), Alexander Hagberg (Xray), Oliver Havranek (Xray), and Antoine Brunet (RC Maker) rounding out the field in the second Modified A-Main!
THE perfect weekend – Kriz Jun. takes maiden Pro Stock victory at Arena Nova!
Jaroslav Kriz Jun. had another clean start and was hammering down some hot laps. Adam Izsay was able to follow him and Kriz made a little mistake in lap 3 of the race. Kriz could feel the pressure as Izsay came closer and closer to the tail of his car.
Sparbier was running in third spot with his Mugen car ahead of Mark Valent`s Schumacher and the Awesomatix of Ollie Bultynck.
After two minutes, Kriz Jun. was completely in “the zone” and pulled a gap of 1.2 seconds over Izsay. Kriz simply executed another perfect final and celebrated his first ETS Pro Stock victory after a brilliant performance all weekend long. Congratulations for this big achievement. Behind Kriz and Izsay, the finishing order in A2 was Sparbier (3), Valent (4), and Bultynck (5).
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Buchhalt takes earls morning A2 from Schmid, A3 will the decider!
After losing A1 to Kevin Schmid on Saturday, Matheo Buchhalt was under pressure when the second final started. The Austrian Iris driver had a good launch off the line and was leading the race ahead of Kevin Schmid and Phil Langner.
Buchhalt posted a hit lap in lap 4 (18.975) and had already a gap of one second over Schmid. But the German Awesomatix racer Schmid was not giving up and tried everything to close in on Buchhalt again.
Once the race progressed, the top 2 had been able to break away from third placed Phil Langner and the crowd was fully focussed on the battle for the win. This time, Matheo Buchhalt had his nerves under control and made no single mistake. He took the win in A2 ahead of Schmid, Langner, Southgate, and Dobnikar. The decision for the overall win went down to the line in the last final of the day between Kevin Schmid and TQ Matheo Buchhalt.
Anderson wins the Master`s class at ETS Season Finale
In lap one of A2, Manuel Stankowitz made an early mistake and lost three positions. David Ehrbar took over the second place and was chasing race leader Eric Anderson. Ehrbar looked really fast with his Xray car and was able to cut away some tenths of a second here and there.
After two and a half minutes, Ehrbar was only one second behind Anderson and pushed super-hard. Behind the leaders, the Mugen duo of Philipp Stadler and Manuel Stankowitz was running tin third and fourth spot.
Meanwhile, the gap between Anderson and Ehrbar remained the same and it was US racer Anderson who took the win in A2 to seal the overall victory here at the season finale of ETS Season #18 2025/26 at Arena Nova in Wiener Neustadt. A massive win for Anderson and important points for Awesomatix in the battle for the constructor’s championship.
Anthes wins 21.5 Stock class for RC Maker
Top qualifier Daniel Anthes (RC Maker) won the first leg of finals on Saturday and had the chance to seal the overall win already in A2. On the sound of the tone, Anthes brought the field around the first lap where he was followed by the Xray of Kristian Jensen, and the Awesomatix of Ulrich Dinger.
Cedric Gridelet moved up to P3 quickly and out front we saw a close battle between Anthes and Jensen for the lead in A2. Jensen had a stellar pace, but Anthes was on the same level as well. Both posted 17.0 lap times and opened up a gap of more than 4 seconds over the rest of the fielduntil half-time of the race. The gap between Anthes and Jensen remained between 6 and 8 tenths of a second lap after lap and Xray driver Jensen simply had no chance to close in on the RC Maker car of Anthes.
Once the time had expired, Daniel Anthes crossed the line and celebrated his first ETS victory, and the first one for RC Maker as well – what a magic moment. Kristian Jensen finished second in A2 ahead of Gridelet, Dinger, Kordick, and Threhout. The second leg was a nightmare for championship contender David Reip as he suffered from a unlucky DNF.
Impressive performance as Hudy wins Formula class
Martin Hudy left no doubt that he was the quickest F1 racer this weekend. He converted his pole position into a dominant win ahead of David Ehrbar with his gap being at some very impressive 5 seconds at the end of the run.
Hudy celebrated a well-deserved race win here at Arena Nova and was really happy with it when he was coming down the drivers stand. David Ehrbar and Michal Wojcik finished A2 right behind him in second and third spot.
