published: 2018-06-29 22:52:31 (18751) Author: Willy Wuyts |
EFRA 1/10th Electric Track Euros 2018 - Qualifying Report |
 Rain stays away - for today!TC stock qualifying Max Machler demonstrated his intent from the outset, taking round one of qualifying by just over four seconds from Martin Hofer, then backed up that performance by taking round two by 0.5 seconds from Jan Ratheisky to guarantee himself a position on the front row for Saturday's A final. A mistake and retirement from Max in round three allowed Olivier Bultynck to take the round, before Jan took round four to set up a final round shootout for TQ between himself, Max and Olivier. A thrilling final round saw Max take the win by just over one tenth of a second from Jan to secure pole for the finals with Jan taking second on countback from Olivier. |
 Formula OneJan Ratheisky and Olivier Bultynck resumed their battle from TC stock, these two drivers having a pace advantage over the rest of the field. Olivier looked to have the slightly faster car over a single lap initially, but his car looked a little harder to drive round the Wiener Neustadt Circuit than Jan's car. Small mistakes from Olivier allowed Jan to take all five rounds of qualifying to guarantee himself pole position for the finals, with Olivier having to settle for a front row start. Martin Hudy rounds out the top three having had a bit of a lonely day, driving away from the majority of the field while the top two pulled away from him. |
 Modified TC
With round one of modified qualifying having been rained off on Thursday evening, an early morning team managers meeting resulted in a decision to run rounds two to five of modified qualifying in their normal places, then the missing 'round one' to be rerun at the end of Friday's action. A gust of wind caught Bruno Coelho unawares on lap one of the first run of the day, causing him to put his car on the grass at the top of the circuit and allowed the entire field to stream past. This allowed Alexander Hagberg to take the round from Victor Wilck and Ronald Volker. Ronald took round three from Bruno by a little less than a second, before also taking round four from Bruno again, this time by little over a tenth of a second. The two round wins from Ronald guaranteed him a front row start, but a win from Bruno in round five set up a shootout between him, Ronald and Alex in the round one rerun for the overall pole position. A fantastic drive from Alex saw him take the final round from Ronald, but Ronald's earlier efforts earned him the TQ position on countback, with Alex matching him on two round wins taking second on the grid and Bruno third. |
