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| Race report by Alexander Hagberg |
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| The 3rd round of the popular Euro Touring Series was held on the Spanish holiday island Gran Canaria. The race was run on the beautiful asphalt circuit located in the city of Telde. The organizer had recently resurfaced the track, but unfortunately it had caused the traction levels to become extremely low - this made it difficult to find a good feel for the car as well as set-up, since the cars became very insensitive to set-up changes. |
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| Most of the XRAY team were in attendance. Adrian Berntsen showed an early quick pace with his T4'14 as well as myself, also with a good feeling for the car in the early practice rounds. As qualifying commenced, it seemed that Ronald, Adrian and myself were a bit spaced out in pace from the others, but it was difficult for us to challenge Ronald as he seemed to have a lot of traction compared to anyone else. |
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| For the Sunday's finals the organizer made an much respected and fair decision to introduce a tire impound - basically meaning that the tires could not leave the impound except for when they were ran at the track - with spec additive/cleaners being available as well. This was done upon request from drivers to try to make the event as fair as possible to anyone. |
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In A1, Adrian could pull away and win fairly easy as Ronald spun in the first corner. In A2, Adrian was again much faster than Ronald. Eventually they came together about midway through the run - I could benefit from this to take the win in A2. This made things look very good for our team going into A3 as it was simply only me or Adrian who could take the overall win. In the end we ran an uneventful race where Adrian finished 2nd and myself 3rd which meant that Adrian would be the overall winner and I finished 3rd overall. It was great to see Adrian take his first ETS win and having two XRAYs on the podium in this tough competition.
Magnus Vässmar also made the A-final for XRAY, finishing 9th overall. Marco Kaufmann narrowly missed out on the show, but drove great in the B-main to take a convincing win there. |
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1. Adrian Berntsen - XRAY T4'14
2. Ronald Völker
3. Alexander Hagberg - XRAY T4'14
4. Christopher Krapp
5. Naoto Matsukura
6. Andy Moore
7. Marc Fischer
8. Marc Rheinard
9. Magnus Vässmar - XRAY T4'14
10. Viktor Wilck |
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In the Pro Stock class, pre event favourite Marek Cerny drove flawlessly in qualifying to take a dominant TQ position. In the finals he was however beaten by a flying Jan Ratheisky who outpaced Cerny to take the win in A2 & A3, giving him the overall and much deserved win for XRAY! It was great to see Jan and Marek fighthing for the win.
Pro Stock top 10:
1. Jan Ratheisky - XRAY T4'14
2. Marek Cerny - XRAY T4'14
3. Toni Mateo
4. Lars Hoppe
5. Antimo Eugenio Valiente
6. Henrik Heitsch
7. Michael Kiesewetter
8. David Nemcek - XRAY T4'14
9. Beni Stutz
10. Pavel Staszweski |
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XRAY also won the Formula class with Jan Ratheisky coming out on top with his XRAY prototype! It meant that XRAY had won all three categories for the 2nd consecutive time!
Formula top 10:
1. Jan Ratheisky - XRAY prototype
2. Olivier Bultynck
3. Thomas Pumpler
4. Francesco Martini - XRAY prototype
5. Martijn van der Heijden
6. Gabor Forrai
7. Magnus Sl?ttsveen
8. Eric Mulder
9. Espen Fjaeldver
10. Krist Bultynck |
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| We hope to continue on this winning form! Thank you all XRAY drivers for your hard work! We hope to see you again soon. |
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