| EC MOD 1:10 El. Wiener Neustadt, Austria (28.06 - 30.06.2018) OFMAV Oesterreichischer Funk Modell Auto Verband, Austria |
published: 2018-06-30 20:46:33 (18696) Author: Willy Wuyts |
EFRA 1/10th Electric Euros 2018 - Saturday - Finals Day Live! |
published: 2018-06-30 20:38:03 (18772) Author: Willy Wuyts |
EFRA 1/10th Electric Track European Championships - Finals Report |
 StockMax Machler led away from his pole position in leg one, with an early mistake from Jan Ratheisky dropping him down the field and allowing Olivier Bultynck to pick up the chase. Despite Olivier's best efforts he was unable to pass Max who took the first leg win. Leg two saw a clean first lap for Max, Jan and Olivier, with the lead two breaking away. As the race entered its final lap Max looked to have done enough to seal the title despite immense pressure from Jan, but then a small mistake from Max entering the straight for the final time allowed Jan to take the leg win and the battle for the title into the third leg. Into the third leg then, with all still to play for. Max led away from Jan and Olivier once more, until a slow third lap from Jan dropped him to the back of the field and out of contention. After five minutes close racing Max crossed the line to take the win from Olivier, or so it appeared - just as the drivers were leaving the rostrum, the call came from the referee that Max was to have a time penalty applied for his car leaving the marked area of the circuit after the race had finished, the team managers having been warned of the penalties for this during their meeting at the start of the event. The rule was designed to prevent drivers throwing their car at the finish line at full speed with no intention of making the corner, while Max had thrown his arms into the air in celebration as he crossed the line, allowing his car to coast outside the track boundary as a result. After a nervy wait for Max his five second penalty was confirmed, promoting Olivier to the leg win, but Max's earlier scores were enough to secure him his maiden European title from Olivier, with Jan's scrappy finals allowing Martin Hofer to secure the final podium position. |
 Formula 1Jan Ratheisky set out to make up for his disappointment in the stock class by comfortably winning the first leg of this set of finals, and after Olivier Bultynck ran onto the grass on lap two Martin Hudy had an uninterrupted run to second place from Andreas Stiebler who had a great race from seventh on the grid. Leg two presented Jan with the opportunity to seal the title and he duly delivered, soaking up the pressure from Olivier for the first half of the race before edging away and crossing the line to secure his title. Leg three saw Jan take the start and lead the first lap, but a mistake in the sweeper saw him pull into an early retirement - no matter, as the title was already sealed. Olivier took the leg win to secure his second podium spot of the weekend, with Andreas Stiebler occupying the last podium position. |
 Modified Ronald Volker headed the field round from pole position in the first leg and in a great display of controlled driving soaked up all the pressure from a charging Alexander Hagberg to take a step towards retaining his title. Bruno Coelho had a quiet race by his standards to finish a couple of seconds behind the lead two. Into leg two and we saw a carbon copy of the first leg, with Alex trying to pressure Ronald into a mistake, with Bruno keeping a watching brief a couple of car lengths back. Alex was to be denied again, as an error free run from Ronald saw him become the only driver to make the extra lap, Alex just missing out on it by three thousandths of a second! Two leg wins sealed the deal for Ronald, meaning he did secure the title again. With two leg wins Ronald decided to sit out leg three, so it quickly distilled into a winner takes all battle for second overall between Alex and Bruno. In a repeat of the earlier legs Bruno was unable to overtake Alex, meaning Ronald won the title with Alex second overall and Bruno third. |
published: 2018-06-29 22:52:31 (18745) 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. |
published: 2018-06-29 22:39:28 (18670) Author: Willy Wuyts |
EFRA 1/10th Electric Euros 2018 - Friday Qualifying Live! |
| It's qualifying day here in Austria we have a days worth of action in all 3 classes at the EFRA 1/10th Electric European Championships |
published: 2018-06-28 21:44:41 (18804) Author: Willy Wuyts |
EFRA 1/10th Electric Euros 2018 - Thursday Live! |
| All the action from Austria as Qualifying starts for 3 European Championships - Electric Touring car Stock and Mod and F1. |
