With the Constructors Championship have been new at the ETS last season, we have almost forgotten to let all of you know who won the title. For counting the points we used the results of our RC Manager game which are made up of various results over the course of a complete race weekend. Perfect for the manager game – not the best fit for the constructors ranking list.

We noticed that using the points from the RC Manager game was not transparent enough for the people who are just interested in the ETS Constructors Championship without getting in touch with the RC Manager game. Therefore we have made some major adjustments for the Constructors Championship for the new season which we can share with you today. These changes will make everyting more easy and clear for racers, teams, the media, and everybody who is looking onto the ETS from a distance!

Xray wins first official ETS Constructors Championship title

The first official title goes to the city of Trencin in Slovakia where the headquaters of XRAY are located. The drivers from the Xray team have scored the most points in our very first season of doing the Constructors Championship. Xray driver David Ehrbar was responsible for naming the drivers for each race weekend during last season and after 5 races they won the title with a small advantage from Awesomatix around team manager Max Mächler.

The table shows the final rankings according to the points of the RC Manager game. The empty spaces are races in which the teams did not nominate (or forgot to nominate) three drivers before the race started. However, Xray is the official and well-deserved constructors champion of ETS Seaosn #17 2024/25 ahead of Awesomatix and Mugen Seiki – CONGRATULATIONS!

New rules for Season #18 2025/26 – more transparency and points from MyRCM

As mentioned before, last season was a “first try”. We are always aiming to optimize things and after a lot of talks with different drivers, manufacturers, and team managers, we took the best mixture out of all the information and created new rules for the Season #18 Constructors Championship.

For sure, we certainly can’t do justice to all ideas and suggestions, but we believe that the new rules are easy to understand and follow. Our main goal was to make it easy for everybody who is watching, for all team managers (as they don not have anythign to think about anymore), and also the media site of things in case of reporting about the championship.

We hope that everybody will enjoy the new season when the fight for the ETS Constructors Title will start from zero again!

Official Rules – ETS Constructors Championship

1. The season consists of five races and all of them will count for the ETS Constructors Championship.
2. We only count the results from the Touring Car classes and the FWD class. The Formula class is not included in the Constructors Championship as too many brands don`t have an F1 chassis in competition.
3. We are using the official points from MyRCM to calculate the championship rankings after each race weekend.
4. The best result of every constructor in four of the five classes count for the championship at every race.
   Example:
   A constructor takes P4 in Modified, P1 in Pro Stock, P8 in FWD, P7 in 40+ Masters, and P5 in 21.5 Stock. In this case we will not count the P8 from FWD, but all the other four results to calculate the overall points for the race.
5. A result only counts if a driver was in the A-Main.
   Example:
   The best result of a brand in Modified is P9 in the A-Main = result counts.
   The best result of a brand in Modified is P4 in the B-Main = result doesn`t count.
6. This means that every team is responsible for having a car in the A-Main of every class (in the best case). If a team only has a car in the A-Main of two or three classes (for example) the team will only get these points for the A-Main results!
7. We will report about the standings of the Constructors Championship after and before every race.
8. The winning Constructor will receive a trophy at the end of the season and earn all the glory of being the best constructor at the ETS.

As we will enter the eighteenth (!) season of the ETS on the ground of the AMCA Apeldoorn in the Netherlands in about 4 weeks, it is time to point out some highlights around this highly anticipated season opener during the next days. Here is chapter one for you!

350 – Record entries for an ETS outdoor event

We (the ETS orga team) are simply blown away by the extreme demand for our racing series. Since many years we are used to this when indoor events are on the schedule (especially in Daun). Since last season we could see a clear upwards trend with the entries for the asphalt races when our three races in Apeldoorn, Aigen, and Luxembourg counted between 250 and 270 entries.

Once we had opened the registrations for this season`s RD1 in Apeldoorn we knew that we would quickly reach the same numbers again, but we never had in mind that we would land at roughly 350 entries with many more racers on the waiting list.

As we always try to make racing possible for everybody, we faced the situation to tell people “that they cannot attend” for the first time ever in the history of the ETS. Not easy for us as this record entry is a huge compliment for the work we are doing, but also a huge disappointment for some racers in the same moment.

We hope that everybody understands the difficulty in accepting as much racers as possible while also needing enough pit spaces ane proper time schedule according to the limited amount of daylight.

AMCA Apeldoorn making it happen

Together with the AMCA Apeldoorn we have done everything possible to create more pit spaces and a time schedule which will still allow everybody to enjoy 5 practice runs, 4 qualifiers, and triple finals (fingers already crossed for good weather).

We like to thank the AMCA Apeldoorn and all people involved for accepting these high number of entries and for figuring out everything for the race – THANK YOU. If you will race in Apeldoorn, please highly appreciate the club`s work and support them as much as you can.

Fantastic sponsors for a fantastic season

Our sponsors are more than just some brands hanging banners around the track. They are our partners, and we are very thankful for each and everyone of them. The sponsors of the ETS are backing the series allowing us to do the media work on our website all year long, producing the RC TV livestream, and also having our great photographer Chris with us at each event. Beside that, our sponsors are carrying out the ETS to the world whenever sharing or posting about it.

Team Cayote – our new title sponsor

As we have announced some weeks ago, Team Cayote is the new title sponsr of the Euro Touring Series. After many years without a title sponsor we are happy and proud to call Team Cayote our title sponsor for ETS Season #18. The brand is growing fast and some of the best drivers in the world of RC are already trusting their products. The whole ETS family is shouting out a warm welcome to Team Cayote!

Welcome to new (and old) sponsors

With Xray and Infinity, we like to welcome two former partners back at the ETS. We are extremely happy to have these two very strong forces in the world of RC partnering with us again. Elceram is also new in the circle of sponsors. They joined us at the end of last season and will continue to support us, the same as Sky RC which we like to welcome to the ETS family as well!

Sponsors for Season #18

Title Sponsor: Team Cayote

Primary Sponsors: Hobbywing, Awesomatix, 1up Racing, Matrix, FlySky

Associated Sponsors: Axon, Destiny, GensAce, LRP, Mugen Seiki, Power HD, RC Maker, Ride, Schumacher, Elceram, T-Work`s, Infinity, Xray, Yokomo, Umino, Sky RC

Body Shell Supporters: Lens Bodies, Bittydesign, PIPaero, Xtreme, Zoo Racing, Blitz, Mon-Tech

Hobbywing to power 5 ETS racing classes

Chinese RC giant Hobbywing is with us since many years. We are using Hobbywing combos with great success in Formula and FWD since a couple of seasons now and from the start of ETS Season #18, we will also see Hobbywing combos in all our stock touring car classes. With this decision we have followed the call of many drivers who have been asking for Hobbywing combos for years.

After having a great experience with Hobbywing products in the ETS Formula and FWD classes, it was a no -brainer for us to select the Hobbywing products for our stock touring car classes as well.

We had a good time with ORCA and like to thank them once again for their hard work during the last years. Now, we are looking forward to the races with Hobbywing combos powering all our stock touring car classes. The products are looking brilliant and the first feedbacks are already more than promising.

Hobbywing is the leading brand when it comes to motors and speed controllers and we hope that al ETS racers will be happy with our decision. The cooperation with Hobbywing during testing and developing the new firmware and everything else was great. It was a highly professional communication showing why they are as successful as they are!
Patrick Beck / ETS Crew

Coming up next week: A look onto the stacked field of drivers for the ETS season opener in Apeldoorn – it will be an epic race!