As the podium presentations get underway here in Andernach, Germany, and the curtain comes down on a third successful Euro Touring Series season the big question being asked is can anyone beat Marc Rheinard. The German dominated the World Championships 2-weeks ago lifting his third World title and here at the sixth & final round of the Xenon Racing backed ETS the Tamiya star continued his rule over electric Touring Cars.
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Starting from pole position Marc Rheinard and Alexander Stocker have won the opening leg of their respective A-Mains. The pair, who will be crowned champions of the third season of the Euro Touring Series here in Andernach irrespective of today’s result, led from start to finish.
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Euro Touring Series Champion elect Marc Rheinard is the Top Qualifier for the closing race of the 2009/2010 season after topping the final round of qualifying here this evening at his home track of Andernach. The three time World Champion set the first & only 17 second lap of the event on his way to taking the round by half a second from Tamiya team-mate Viktor Wilck. This left the pair tied on points but setting the fastest overall qualifying time in Q4 the German will start tomorrow’s finals from pole.
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Team Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp has topped the second round of qualifying for the ETS finale. The young German TQ’d the run despite running a slower time than in Q1 yesterday which was only good for the 8th fastest time. Afterwards Krapp said he had only taken the round because his rivals had messed up their runs with mistakes. Running the 2.5mm LiPo chassis over the 2mm chassis he used at the Worlds, following pre-event testing, he said a change to Hot Bodies springs had made his car super smooth to drive but the end result was a slower time.
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Ardent Raceway – The UKs largest permanent indoor track announces it’s on-road winter series incorporating all forms of on-road electric RC racing. The series has attracted sponsorship from Moorespeed, Much-More Racing, RC-Disco, Schumacher Racing with main sponsor being the Motorsport mad KICK Energy drink company owned by Rally star Steve Perez. £8000 worth of prizes including high speed passenger rides in their Ford Focus Rally Car at the Chatsworth Rally show in 2011.
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Jeremy Kortz has won the 2010 Short Course Nationals hosted RC Madness. Powered by Losi / Xcelorin Jeremy took home the victory in both 4wd nitro and 4wd electric Short Course classes. Jeremy powered his nitro Hyper SC with the Losi 3.4 engine which is also used in the Losi Ten T while in electric, Jeremy powered his Hyper 10 SC with Xcelorin motor and speedo and Losi LiPo battery.
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Atsushi Hara has TQ’d the opening qualifier at the sixth & final round of the 2009/10 Xenon Racing backed Euro Touring Series. Reverting to the set-up he ran this morning, the Japanese ace topped the time sheets in Andernach ahead of World Champion Marc Rheinard and his own Hot Bodies team-mate Andy Moore. Having to pass both Rheinard and Moore during the run, the 2008 Andernach Top Qualifier & race winner finished over 1.7 seconds faster than the German despite an overshot on the penultimate lap after he out braked himself in front of the drivers’ rostrum.
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Viktor Wilck is setting the pace in practice for the sixth and final round of the Xenon Racing back Euro Touring Series here in Andernach. The Swede is fastest over three consecutive laps and also over the full five minutes around the Andernach track which is running a slightly different layout to that used last year. Behind the factory Tamiya driver is the Hot Bodies pairing of Atsushi Hara and Andy Moore.
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