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Alexander Hagberg and Michal Orlowski completed the podium at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series season finale this afternoon in Slovakia.  While Bruno Coelho wrapped up the overall win in A2, the ETS Champion opted to run the third A-Main at Hudy Arena after not being 100% happy with his car in A1 & 2 and again he lead home another stagnated Top 3.  Winning by his biggest margin of the three encounters, Coelho would finish 1.8-seconds up on Hagberg with the result securing Xray another 1-2 finish at their home track.  For Hagberg, today’s 2nd place would also help him to move ahead of Yokomo’s Ronald Volker in the final end of season standings to finish 3rd overall behind Marc Rheinard, the Infinity driver having another difficult weekend.  Finishing A3 over 2-seconds back on Hagberg, Orlowski would cap off an impressive weekend by securing his first ever ETS podium.  Having started his career in the ETS but moved over and becoming a star and champion of the Euro Offroad Series, today’s result should see the Schumacher driver return to his roots and become a contender for the title of both disciplines next season.

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Alexander Hagberg and Michal Orlowski completed the podium at the Yokomo Euro Touring Series season finale this afternoon in Slovakia.  While Bruno Coelho wrapped up the overall win in A2, the ETS Champion opted to run the third A-Main at Hudy Arena after not being 100% happy with his car in A1 & 2 and again he lead home another stagnated Top 3.  Winning by his biggest margin of the three encounters, Coelho would finish 1.8-seconds up on Hagberg with the result securing Xray another 1-2 finish at their home track.  For Hagberg, today’s 2nd place would also help him to move ahead of Yokomo’s Ronald Volker in the final end of season standings to finish 3rd overall behind Marc Rheinard, the Infinity driver having another difficult weekend.  Finishing A3 over 2-seconds back on Hagberg, Orlowski would cap off an impressive weekend by securing his first ever ETS podium.  Having started his career in the ETS but moved over and becoming a star and champion of the Euro Offroad Series, today’s result should see the Schumacher driver return to his roots and become a contender for the title of both disciplines next season.

Unusual for Coelho to wrap up the win in A2 and then run A3, today’s win his fourth of the season, Coelho ran it on this occasion having had slight issues with traction in the early part the opening to A-Mains.  He explained, ‘we couldn’t throw away the opportunity to check the car in race conditions’.  Running a number of warm-up laps and even doing a practice start, he said, ‘everything felt good this time.  After A1 we adjusted out additive strategy but it still wasn’t perfect so we made a set-up change for this one and it worked’.  Originally putting his loose car in A1 down to having made contact with the barrier in the final qualifier and damaged something, he said, ‘I think the weather was the main problem.  We had a lot of sun today and it was sunny too for A1 yesterday but it was cooler the days before’.

With the winners of Pro Stock and 40+ also decided after A2, the big attention of A3 was on Formula.  With a clash between Top Qualifier Olivier Bultynck and Jan Ratheisky in A1 handing Simon Lauter the win, Bultynck would get the job done in A2.  This put the Shepherd driver up against the Tamiya driver and Ratheisky’s Xray for the overall win going into A3 but once again they would make contact. With Ratheisky getting passed Bultynck on the first lap, they would make contact with the Belgian forced to wait and give back the position but more contact was to follow and it was Lauter who was the benefactor. Winning the Main from Bultynck, Lauter claimed his first ETS win with Bultynck and season Champion Ratheisky each side of him on the podium.  In Pro Stock, winner Alexander Duchet was joined on the podium by A3 winner & Xray team-mate Ratheisky with Tim Benson third.  In 40+ new champion Thomas Oehler could sit out A3 allowing Beni Stutz to come through for the win but overall it was Italian Roberto Fabiano who finished 2nd with ETS Spain winner Christian Drießle completing the Round 6 podium to secure second overall in the championship.

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Chassis – Yokomo BD8 2018
Motor – Racing Performer M3 4.5
ESC – Racing Performer BL PRO4
Batteries – Racing Performer 6000
Tires – Volante (handout)
Radio/Servo – Sanwa/Sanwa
Bodyshell – Protoform Type 6 Pro Light

Remarks – Yokomo’s top qualifier here at Hudy Arena, Christopher’s BD8 features a Raceberry chassis which is a little harder than the standard BD8 version and therefore better suited to this big outdoor track.  Also on the car is Yokomo’s new rear C-Hubs which are stiffer than the kit plastic version and give better rear rotation.  Christopher is also running Yokomo’s ARS system with the only other optional being aluminium screws and turnbuckles.

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Bruno Coelho has capped off his title winning Yokomo Euro Touring Series campaign with a fourth win, the Xray driver wrapping up victory at the season finale at Hudy Arena with another tone to tone win in A2.  Top qualifier at the Xray team’s home event, Coelho led home team-mate Alexander Hagberg with Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski the only one able to run with the Xray pairing.  With the Top 3 finishing in the same order they started, the gaps between them evenly stretched out.  Behind it was Ronald Völker who was the top mover of the race taking fourth ahead of Yokomo team-mate Christopher Krapp at the finish from 6th on the grid.

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Bruno Coelho has capped off his title winning Yokomo Euro Touring Series campaign with a fourth win, the Xray driver wrapping up victory at the season finale at Hudy Arena with another tone to tone win in A2.  Top qualifier at the Xray team’s home event, Coelho led home team-mate Alexander Hagberg with Schumacher’s Michal Orlowski the only one able to run with the Xray pairing.  With the Top 3 finishing in the same order they started, the gaps between them evenly stretched out.  Behind it was Ronald Völker who was the top mover of the race taking fourth ahead of Yokomo team-mate Christopher Krapp at the finish from 6th on the grid.

Commenting on his race, while Coelho was pleased with the win, he was less happy with how his car ran in A2.  Having struggled a little in A1 yesterday, allowing Hagberg to almost get within striking distance, the 3-time back to back ETS Champion put that down to something being off in the car after he had an off in the final qualifier.  He said, ‘at the start again the car was not so good.  I struggled for the first 3-laps.  After this the car was very good and I was able to pull away. It’s just the first 1-minute is the problem. I want to find out what the problem is so I will run the last final to try find it’.  Reacting to his 4th win of the season and his 4th in succession at the Hudy Arena, Coelho said, ‘finishing here with a win is the best way to end the ETS’.

‘I thought I had a pretty good car but after the first 3-minutes it fell off a little.  Maybe I overheated the tyres’, was how Hagberg summed up A2.  He continued, ‘Bruno didn’t make any mistakes this time but it was a solid second and shows our cars work well.  I hope I can secure second in the last one’.

Orlowski described A2 as, ‘the same as the first one, a boring race, I was just sitting there’.  The EOS Champion continued, ‘I was glad I had a big gap behind. Viktor was struggling and held up the field but there was nothing I could do about the Xrays’.  Putting in an impressive ETS performance this weekend despite it being only his second outing of Season #11, the Pole said, ‘the sweeper before the straight I am losing the time to Bruno and Alex and this is something we need to improve for next season. For the last one I will drive the best I can and see what happens’.

The second round of A-Mains would also see the 40+ Masters and Pro Stock winners decided.  In 40+, Thomas Oehler was again the class of the field and with his win becomes the inaugural Champion of the class that was introduced this season.  In the Xray Pro Stock class, outgoing champion Alexander Duchet took an emotional win.  The Frenchman has endured a tough season and being able to finish out the season back at the top after intense pressure from new champion Rathiesky clearly meant a lot to the Xray driver.  After a clash with Jan Rathiesky in A1 that allowed Simon Lauter through for the win, Olivier Bultynck took the A2 win in Formula from Rathiesky and Lauter meaning it goes to A3 to decide the overall winner.

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