Four minute practice finals preceded the real business of deciding who would leave Hinckley with the title European 1:12 Champion in their back pocket. First of the A finals was the Spec Stock class, could Chris Kerswell carry his qualifying performance on the finals or would be the pressure of previous Euro champions lining up behind prove too much.
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Starting from the 2nd spot on the grid, Viktor Wilck has won the first A-Main here in Poland at the fourth round of the Xenon Racing backed Euro Touring Series. The Swedish ace took the win from Steven Weiss after Top Qualifier Marc Rheinard rolled out of the lead on lap 6. David Ebrbar completed the Top 3 for the leg.
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Well the final round of Pro Stock qualifying promised to be a showdown and it lived up to all expectations, Marc Fisher crashed out early on leaving Andy Moore and Chris Kerswell to fight it out for FTD. Andy will curse a late mistake which dropped him a few seconds, as Chris Kerswell then put in a faultless run to take FTD for V-Dezign ahead of the Corally of Marc Fisher with Andy Moore completing the top three, Markus Mobers lines up fourth in the A final with Keith Robertson completing the top five.
Marc Rheinard will start the fourth round of the Euro Touring Series from pole position ahead of his Tamiya Racing Factory team-mate Viktor Wilck. Going into the final qualifier here in Warsaw tied on 310 points each, Wilck needed to TQ the round in a faster time than that set by the German in Q4 but it wasn’t to be. The Swede could only manage the 5th fastest time while Rheinard was the only driver to record 19 laps for the round.
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Marc Fisher has taken over the lead of the Pro Stock class in round five of qualifying at the 1/12th Euros. Andy Moore led off the line but the German Corally pilot hunted him down and posted a time quick enough to knock Andy of top spot, one round to go and this could be a real showdown and one to watch. Chris Kerswell holds on to third place by virtue of his round three time while Markus Mobers posted an improved time and is fourth while Keith Robertson continues to improve and moves up to fifth ahead Mark Stiles, Olivier Bultynck Mick Farrell, Tim Altmann and Vesa Yli.
Round four of qualifying at the 1/12th Euros is done and things have gotten a bit static at the head of both classes, in Pro Stock both Marc Fisher and Andy Moore were on for an improvement then both made mistakes; Chris Kerswell made changes to his car but was not happy with the change of step up. Mark Stiles improved but stays fifth just behind Markus Mobers , next up are four drivers split by less than a second, Keith Robertson, Simon Rubet, Mick Farrell and Vesa Yli, Sam Clifton completes the top ten.
Smokem Racing has released a carbon fibre steering brace for the TRF416-series touring cars. A common tuning trick on the TRF416 is to remove the factory aluminum steering bridge to increase front end flex for more steering. But in certain cases, this can make the steering too sensitive and decrease stability. Made from 2.25mm carbon fire, the 416 Steering Brace gives you the perfect compromise of more steering but still awesome stability. Similar custom fabricated steering braces have been used by TRF drivers with great success and now Smokem Racing brings this tuning part to all TRF416 racers.
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Viktor Wilck has topped the second round of qualifying here in Warsaw, Poland at the fourth round of the 2009/2010 Xenon Racing backed Euro Touring Series. The Tamiya Racing Factory driver produced a 19 lap run in 05:11.871 with his team-mate and Q1 pace setter Marc Rheinard second with a time of 5:14.184. The Swede described the run as OK but feels there is potential to go faster after he drove on the safe side when Rheinard rolled his TRF416 X while on a potential TQ run.
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