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8/14/2019 ETS Newsletter Round2

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I am on my way back home after series race number

2 of the Much More sponsored Euro Touring Series.

After a couple months break since our rst event

all of us from the ETS staff were excited to gets the

series rolling again. The local club, headed by Rene

Hovgaard, did an absolutely perfect job preparing the

race track and all that was needed for a great venue.

The race was held in the Vejle centre which is like a

city centre with gymnasiums, huge swimming pool

and dozens of other social halls and activity rooms.

The hall we were situated in was massive, close to30000 sq ft and this allowed the club to set up a

very large and owing layout and track design, which

worked out to make for some really close racing.

For this 2nd race of the series we added a Hobby

class which was to allow for beginners and kids to

participate in the event as well our normal Pro Stock

(19 turn) and Modied class racers. The racing scene

in Europe is going through some changes during this

early part of 2008. Some countries have switched

to brushless motors in their stock and 19 turn class

while others have continued to run brushed motors.Also changing is the battery specs, some countries

have switched all classes to 5 cells while some are

still running 6 cells in stock and 19 turn. But all have

switched modied to 5 cell which after ofciating and

announcing dozens of events all over the world during

the past year, there is no question that 5 cell modi-

ed is the correct way for all sanctioning bodies to

go. LiPo batteries are starting to be seen in Europe

also but have not been embraced or accepted much

in most countries. As far as I know only the BRCA has

allowed racers to use LiPos in some events, I am not

100% on this, but that is what I think. At this time I

dont know of any other sanctioning bodies in Europe

that allow LiPos.

We ran both practice and some qualiers on Saturday

which allowed for racers to get lots of track time andreally get a good grove in the carpet. As I mentioned

before this is not a permanent track facility so the

club sets up the track each time they run, so it takes

a round or two to get a nice groove in the layout. For

the ETS we are using the new brand of tire from Much

More called the Sweep and they again turned out to

have excellent traction. In fact, we only had a handful

of racers buy a second set of tires since the original

ones they received with their entry only seemed to

get better the more they ran them.

In the Hobby Stock division there was a good mixof drivers from age 40 down to young Frederik Hov-

gaard who was 8 years old. 2 drivers seemed to be

the class of the eld as qualifying was underway, one

was Axel Thoms from Germany and the other was

Lasse Soholt from Denmark who occupied the top 2

spots after 5 rounds of qualifying.

TAMIYA FACTORY TEAM CONQUER MODIFIED

NIELSENS RULES PRO STOCK FOR SERPENT


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We ran triple A mains for all division and it was again

these 2 drivers who battled it out in each main. In

A1, it was Axel and Lasse who traded the lead numer-

ous time during the 5 minute nal with Axel able to

take the lead with only a couple laps to go to take the

win in A1. In A2, Axel did not have such good luck. At

the tone, he and Lasse pulled away from the eld but

after a couple of laps Axels car started to slow down

and Lasse was able to pass him. Later in Axle was

forced to retire with a problem and this allowed Lasse

to have an easy win. A3 was a great battle just as in

A1, both drivers had the lead at one time, but Lasse

caught a corner dot with about 1 minute to go rolling

him over and giving Axel an easy run to the nish.

In the Pro Stock division, this was a great eld of rac-

ers, with many showing signs of brilliance during the

course of qualifying and having a chance to set the

pace and take the pole in this class. Nicolai Nielsen

claimed the early TQ title but Rasmus Callesen, whowas just as fast as Nicolai, gave him a great chal-

lenge along with Palle Hornum and Klass Trapp, at

this early stage it looked like the battle for this divi-

sion was going to be between these drivers. After

the dust settled it was Nicolai that took the top spot

after 5 rounds of qualifying with Rasmus right behind

in the 2nd spot. One driver who was faster than his

qualifying results showed was Jan Van Steeg from the

Netherlands running a TOP Sythe car. Almost all of

Jans runs were fast enough to claim TQ, but in each

run he seemed to have just 1 small mistake or a bit

of trouble that dropped him back. In the Mains, Nico-lai showed that he was the top of the class, running

near awless in both the A1 and A2 to lock up the

title for the Pro Stock division at the event. Rassmus

gave him a run each time, but just came up a bit

short.

In Modied there was one word that stands out for

this weekends event, and that word is Teamwork.

From the moment practice started the Tamiya team

of Jilles Groskamp, Marc Rheinard and Victor Wilck

all worked as a team to nd the best set up for all of

them. Talking to these guys during the day, you couldtell that they were very focused on each driver trying

something different to learn more about the chas-

sis as well as nd a setup that works the best. Steen

Graversen from Denmark driving for Team Kyosho

was also present and he had lap times as quick as

the Tamiya guys but was just coming up a bit short at

the end of each round. Qualifying was very close with

each of the top 4 racers putting in solid runs in al-

most each round, but it was Jilles Groskamp from the

Netherlands who had the fastest and most consistent

runs during the 5 rounds of qualifying to give him the

TQ spot.

A1 stated out as expected, a great start by the top

drivers with Jilles not making any mistakes and it

went the full 5 min with the top drivers seconds

apart. Marc tried numerous times to get by Jilles, buthe didnt inch. Marc tried passes in almost every

place on the track, but not once making contact with

Jilles, who led until the 4:45 mark when he made his

rst mistake, catching a corner dot 2 turns before the

straightaway which got him sideways. Unfortunately

for Marc, he was so close behind him that when Jilles

hit the dot this caused Marc to hit Jilles actually free-

ing Jilles car off the dots and causing Marc to also

loose control a bit. Marcs problems allowed Jilles to

get control again and stay in front, racing until the -

nal lap with Marc right behind Jilles who took the rst

leg win. A2 was a bit easier for Jilles, on the rst lapMarc and Victor went side by side into the 3rd turn

and bumped each other causing them to crash, this

allowed a bit of a gap to open between Jilles and the

rest of the eld. Steen had taken 2nd after the crash

and was working to catch Jilles but the Dutch driver

was not going to let this one slip by and he kept fo-

cused not putting a wheel wrong, to take the win in

A2 to give him the overall victory. More great battles

in the 3 mains came from the Eskildsen brothers, who

qualied next to each other and in all 3 mains battled

with each other, putting on a great show. In A2, fol-

lowing the crash between Marc and Victor, the broth-ers were ahead of and able to race with the former

World Champion and even keep him behind them for

the majority of the race. Talking to them after the

race they said that this was a highlight in their racing

career, being able to race with these guys was awe-

some. And that is exactly what the ETS is all about.

The 2nd round of the ETS was a great event with

some very close racing and as it comes to a close we

look forward to our next event, the rst to be run

outdoor on Tarmac when the 3rd round of the Euro-

pean Touring Series goes to Heemstede, just outsideAmsterdam in the Netherlands. We will bring you a

report from this event in next months issue but until

then take care - Scotty


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1. (1) Jilles Groskamp - Netherlands

Tamiya 416

2 points [ 1 1 3]

2. (2) Marc Rheinard - Germany

Tamiya 416

3 points [ 2 3 1]

3. (3) Viktor Wilck - Sweden

Tamiya 416

5 points [ 3 5 2]

4. (4) Steen Graversen - Denmark

Kyosho Stalion

6 points [ 4 2 4]

5. (5) Sren Eskildsen - Denmark

Schumacher Mi3

10 points [ 6 4 8]

6. (6) Johan Eskildsen - Denmark

Schumacher Mi3

11 points [ 5 6 6]

7. (8) Rob Janssen - Netherlands

Serpent S400

12 points [ 9 7 5]

8. (7) Patrick Hornum - Denmark

Xray T2 008

15 points [ 7 8 10]

9. (10) Johnni Andersen - Denmark

Yokomo BD

16 points [ 10 9 7]

10. (9) Joel Myrberg - Sweden

Associated TC5

17 points [ 8 10 9]

Modifed Overall Top 10 Result

Round 2, Denmark


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1. (1) Nicolai Nielsen - Denmark

Serpent S400

2 points [ 1 1 10]

2. (3) Palle Hornum - Denmark

Xray T2 008

4 points [ 3 3 1]

3. (2) Rasmus T. Callesen - Denmark

Corally RDX Phi

4 points [ 2 2 9]

4. (4) Klaus Trapp - Germany

Team Magic E4

6 points [ 6 4 2]

5. (5) Ronald Arts - Netherlands

Serpent S400

7 points [ 4 6 3]

6. (7) Mike Christensen - Denmark

Not Specied

9 points [ 7 5 4]

7. (8) Jan Van Steeg - Netherlands

TOP Scythe

11 points [ 5 7 6]

8.(10)Ronny Andersen - Denmark

Yokomo BD

13 points [ 8 10 5]

9. (9) Jens Frederiksen - Denmark

Hot Bodies Cyclone

15 points [ 10 8 7]

10. (6) Ole Morten Nielsen - DK

Yokomo BD

17 points [ 9 9 8]

Pro Stock Overall Top 10 Result

Round 2, Denmark


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Round 3 of the European Touring Series will bring

one of the biggest changes yet for competitors as

the event will be without a roof but we couldnt

have picked a better place to go topless racing than

the famous MACH facility near Amsterdam in the

Netherlands. Model Auto Club Heemstede have

succesfully hosted many international events including

World and European Championships and we are

priviliged to take the ETS there.

One driver who will be relishing the prospects of a

good race is ETS Round 2 winner and local boy Jilles

Groskamp. The Tamiya Race Factory ace learned his

trade at the track and will be keen to show the rest of

the eld the way round when the Much More backed

series visits on April 11-13.

If you want to race against some of the Worlds top

touring car racers, while being commentated on by

the legendary Scotty Ernst, around this great trackthen be sure to get your entry in for round 3 of the

ETS by logging onto - www.rcRaceControl.com

THANK YOUThe crew behind the European Touring Series would

like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who

made Round 2 of the series in Denmark a huge

success in particular our host club, headed by Rene

Hovgaard, who prepared a superb track.

We also want to thank all the competitors and their

support crews who travelled to Velje and we really

look forward to seeing you all again for Round 3

where another great track awaits the ETS.

The crew are, from left to right - Oisin OBriain (PR/

Media), Scotty Ernst (Race Director), Uwe Rheinard

(Logistics), Eoghain OBriain (PR/Media) and Rob

Nelson (Timing).

Dont forget for all the latest news and live racecoverage from the Much More backed ETS go to www.eurotouringseries.com

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