Orlowski closes gap as Coelho tops 1st seeding round in Bangkok
Michal Orlowski has closed the gap to defending World Champion Bruno Coelho, the Schumacher driver looking now looking like he has the best 5-minute car around the Huge RC Circuit here in Bangkok as Day 2 of IFMAR ISTC World Championships gets underway. With Coelho’s Infinity cars topping all 5 practice rounds yesterday, switching to running just a single white body shelled car in the opening seeding round this morning, while he topped the 3-laps just from Orlowski, it was Awesomatix’s Simon Lauter with the fastest complete run however take out a first lap crash by Orlowski and it looks like the Pole has the edge with just two more practice runs to go before the day ends with the opening qualifier. Suffering a big crash on the first lap, giving him a lap 23-second lap time, almost 10-seconds off his fastest lap, he would finish 7-seconds off the pace of Lauter who was 0.29 up on Coelho. Over 3-laps Orlowski was just 0.063 off Coelho’s time, a massive reduction on the 6/10ths advantage the Portugese driver had yesterday. With the official ranking for the first seeding round Coelho from Orlowski from Lauter, we would see another strong showing from RC Maker’s Antoine Brunet who set the fourth fastest time ahead of the Xray’s of Marc Rheinard and David Ronnefalk, the newly crowned 2-time 1:8 Nitro Buggy World Champion having a good showing on what is only his second ISTC Worlds appearance.
