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November 18, 2018

Michal Orlowski bounces back in Q3

Michal Orlowski bounced back in Q3, following a bad start to 4wd qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series in Warsaw, to take the top spot, and importantly in the fastest time of the 3 rounds so far. Bruno Coelho, who took both rounds yesterday evening, would claim 2nd in front of Jorn Neumann, with British Yokomo driver Paul Crompton in 4th just ahead of a greatly improved Wesley van Helmond. Happy to get his qualifying back on track the Warsaw native said ‘I got what I couldn’t get in Q1’ a mechanical error putting him out of the lead in the opening qualifying run. Continuing ‘the car felt really good, I will stay with the same setup for Q4 and try to take the TQ from Bruno’, ending by saying ‘I think we are in the game now.’

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November 17, 2018

Coelho kicks of 4wd with TQ in Round 1

Qualification in 4wd kicked off with Bruno Coelho taking the top spot ahead of Xray team mate Daniel Kobbevik. Michal Orlowski headed the times until 3 and a half minutes in, when landing off the right side double the car went straight on, a loose screw the culprit. His Schumacher team mate and 2nd seed after controlled practice, Jorn Neumann ended 3rd with Joona Haatanen and Lee Martin completing the top 5 for the round. Winner in the 2wd class, which took place earlier today, Bruno, who lost time early in the run, said ‘I did a very big mistake in the beginning, I flipped and I lost 2 or 3 seconds, then I pushed maximum until the end and was able to catch Neumann, and I think then Orlowski stopped.’

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November 17, 2018

Bruno Coelho emerges victorious in Poland

Bruno Coelho has taken the overall victory in 2wd at the Euro Offroad Series in Poland after a mistake by pole man Michal Orlowski enabled the Xray driver to take the lead and subsequent win. Leading for the first 4 laps, the reigning Champion’s race would come undone as he got stuck up on the hairpin on the left side of the track. Coelho got hooked up on Orlowski’s car but was able to get free, inheriting him the lead and dropping the Schumacher driver back to 5th. He would eventually retire 5 laps later, breaking his car following a hard hit with the barriers at the wall ride as he tried to recover lost ground. Lee Martin would finally show some of his qualifying pace to take 2nd for the round but it was too late to salvage a top result and the battle for the final podium spot was between the two young guns, Daniel Kobbevik and Joona Haatanen, the former coming out best as he took 3rd in the final main. Talking with Bruno, he said ‘I had a small mistake in the beginning I touched the board, the car was again a little bit strange. Then I caught Orlowski very fast and he got stock on the corner and I got stuck to him but I was able to get away’ continuing ‘I had a little bit of pressure from Lee Martin after, but I was able to pull away slowly and manage the win.’

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November 17, 2018

Orlowski takes it to A3

It’s all still to play for in Poland as Michal Orlowski took an uncontested win in A2 of 2wd at the Euro Offroad Series held at the Ptak Warsaw Expo. Having made a mistake in the first A-main this morning, the young Polish driver didn’t repeat his error this time and could win by a clear 5 seconds ahead of a scrappy run by A1 winner Bruno Coelho. The current and former champions were chased home by the super quick Scandinavian pair of Joona Haatanen and Daniel Kobbevik, with Neil Cragg again completing the top 5. On his run, Orlowski said ‘My aim for this run was to beat Bruno’s time from A1, so aim achieved.’ On his Schumacher buggy he said ‘The car felt really good so I can’t complain, I had a big gap, so I just cruised around and be consistent.’ Looking to the deciding 3rd A-main he remarked ‘For A3 I will put on my set (tires) from Q4, which felt really good, and just keep Bruno behind me. Basically I’ll keep it on 4 wheels and try to win.’

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November 17, 2018

Coelho gifted A1 win as Orlowski makes late error

Bruno Coelho has taking the opening 2wd A-main at the Euro Offroad Series in Warsaw Poland this morning, the Xray driver benefitting from a late mistake by then leader Michal Orlowski that saw the Polish driver demoted to 2nd. Daniel Kobbevik came through from 5th to take 3rd at the finish just in front of Paul Crompton in 4th with Neil Cragg completing the top 5. Commenting after the race, Coelho said ‘It was a very good final, I got stuck on the first corner and think I blocked 8 guys behind me’ continuing ‘but after that it was very good. I had a small mistake during the run when I was right behind Orlowski, I tried to close a little more and made a small mistake and then he pulled away.’ Able to close the gap again, Bruno was there to pounce when the Polish driver made a mistake and could come through to take the win.

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November 16, 2018

2019 GP3F – Announcement

The 15th annual Grand Prix des 3 Frontieres will be held on the weekend of the 20th of January at the MRC Longwy club in Longwy, France. The race will be held in Touring Modified and 13.5T Stock Blinky classes and more information can be found on the club’s website here.

November 16, 2018

Orlowski to start home event from pole position

Michal Orlowski will chase a home victory in Warsaw, Poland tomorrow from pole position having ended qualifying on top, with 3 TQs from an available 4. Bruno Coelho who managed to reign in the mistakes seen in the opening 2 qualifiers took the top spot in Q3 and backed it up with 3rd in the final round to start 2nd on the grid for tomorrow morning’s triple A-mains. Lee Martin will start from 3rd on the grid ahead of Joona Haatanen and Daniel Kobbevik in 4th & 5th respectively, with former champion Jorn Neumann, Neil Cragg, the impressive Jessica Palsson, Paul Crompton and Joel Valander completing the Top 10. Talking to pole sitter Orlowski, who completed the home double two years ago at the same venue, he said of his 3rd and 4th qualifiers ‘it was good in Q3, I went on the 3rd run tires, the carpet is quite old so the tire wear is quite high so to be sure for the last one we went on the new set of tires.’ Continuing ‘the car felt good but slightly understeering so I will think about a small change for tomorrow. But it is going good so far.’

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November 16, 2018

Orlowski makes hard work of Rd2 TQ

It was more of the same in the second round of qualifying here at EOS Poland, however reigning champion Michal Orlowski had to work hard for the TQ this round having lost a lot of time in a crash at the mid way point while leading. Lee Martin would once again take 2nd for the round, less than one second back, in front of the Team Associated pairing of Joona Haatanen and Neil Cragg in 3rd and 4th, with Swedish Kyosho driver Jessica Palsson completing the top 5. Describing his run, Michal said ‘It started off really good, I looked at my lap times and I had really low 19s, I had a cushion but made a mistake on the wall’. Continuing, ‘I was stuck on the pipe and then after followed Lee around trying to push as hard as possible to put pressure on him and he made a mistake and rolled over before the double so then I just tried to make the gap to go to the lead and it took about 2 laps’. Ending by saying ‘it wasn’t a clean run, it was way tougher than the first one but luckily in the end it was another TQ so looking good so far.’

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