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Posted: 22 Jun 2019 09:38 AM PDT FacebookTwitterPin It |
Neumann wins exciting A1 in Austria Posted: 22 Jun 2019 09:37 AM PDT Joern Neumann has won an exciting opening A1 at the EOS Season Finale in Austria. Starting from the TQ, the Schumacher driver was under intense pressure from Bruno Coelho off the start, leading to a mistake from the German midway through the race that let the Xray driver through. Once in front however, it was Coelho’s turn to face the pressure as Neumann came back at him forcing him into also making a mistake. While Neumann would get caught up in that mistake, he came out of it in the lead which he would hold on to until the finish. Joona Haatanen would also get by Coelho but they quickly touched and Coelho had to wait to let the Associated driver through which dropped them both one position. Unfortunately for Haatanen he would make mid air contact with Hupo Honigl and drop from 2nd to fourth on the last lap while Coelho went from P5 to second. Putting in a clean race, Schumacher’s Wesley van Helmond would come through from 6th to complete the Top 3 with his team-mate Michal Orlowski continuing to have a tough time as having made his way up to 2nd had a mistake and ended up 6th. Agreeing it was an exciting race, Neumann said, ‘I felt Bruno was much quicker than me in the first few laps and I hit the pipe and he passed me. Then when I was behind him, he must have felt I was much faster and had a crash. It seems on this track it is easier to follow than lead’. Chasing his second consecutive EOS win in the 4WD after a long period without wins, Neumann is hoping he can seal the overall win in a A2 saying, ‘the car is good, everything is good so I will go the same again and try to stay in front’. ‘A very intense final’, was how Coelho summed up the opening A-Main. Looking more and more likely to secure the overall title here in Steyregg, he continued, ‘who is at the back is faster and that race was proof of this. I looked faster than him when I was behind but when I passed him it looked like I forgot the layout of the track. It is much easier to follow’. The former World Champion added, ‘Like I said before everything can happen. I was maybe 5th starting the last lap but then I was second. It’s still all open’. Asked about his race, van Helmond said, ‘I don’t really know what happen that I ended up 3rd. The car is good and I had a clean run. I had just one small mistake that’s all’. Looking to A2, the Dutch driver said, ‘I followed the rest and the rest made mistakes so I will try to put in another clean run and see what happens’. Describing his race, Haatanen said, ‘the start was pretty good and I was right behind Bruno and Joern. Then Bruno had a mistake and I got by but something happened between us and we crashed. He had to let me go but Hupo got by and then on the last lap we hit in the air and I ended up 6th’. The Team Associated driver concluded, ‘what happened out there was my own stupid mistakes and without them I would have had an easy 2nd. I believe the car is good but I still want something better for the bumps’. View the complete event results here. View our event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterPin It |
Neumann takes overall TQ at EOS Austria Posted: 22 Jun 2019 08:15 AM PDT For the second race in succession it is Joern Nuemann who is the 4WD Top Qualifier at the Euro Offroad Series. The Schumacher driver secured the TQ from title favourite Bruno Coelho in the final round of qualifying in Austria with the Q4 time giving the German pole on the the tie break by 3/100ths of a second. Coelho would end up qualifying with a P4 run after mistakes in the second half. Behind the two former champions it will be Joona Haatanen who will start third on the grid. The Team Associated driver enjoyed his best run in Q4 to set the second fastest time ahead of Schumacher’s Wesley van Helmond. With Hupo Honigl lining up 4th on the grid, reigning champion Michal Orlowski will have his work cut on to retain his title from 5th on the grid, the Schumacher driver needing the win to take the championship. ‘Not the best run but the others (drivers) were even worse’, was Neumann’s reaction to taking Q4. With the drivers set to go straight into their finals tonight at ERT Steyregg due to heavy rain being forecast for Sunday, the EOS most winning driver said, ‘I just need to keep it on its wheels to fight for the win. Of course Bruno is very strong here but I think I can match him for the win. The track is quite difficult so it is easy to make mistakes and be overtaken but I hope that doesn’t happen’. Coelho summed up Q4 as ‘a tough qualifier’. The Xray driver continued, ‘I started slow as to make no mistakes and when I saw Joern, who was the only one who could TQ, flipped I tried to calm down my driving but he came back strong. I tried to keep pace with him but I flipped and he passed me. As we seen in 2WD everything is still open but starting first is beneficial to Joern. I will try to put pressure on him at the start to try get him to make a mistake’. Qualifying in the same position as he did for 2WD yesterday, Haatanen said, ‘the car is quite good so I can’t complain’. On his P2 run in the final qualifier, the Finnish said, ‘it was a good run but on the last couple of laps Joern got by’. Asked about his approach to the finals, he replied, ‘If I have the pace I will try to make a pass or if not I will wait like I did in 2WD yesterday’, the teenager taking A2 after the two leaders made mistakes. With victory the only way he can close the deficit on Coelho in the championship standings, a win today would be his third of the season and this would give him the title on the first tie breaker, Orlowski said, ‘I’m starting 5th but I have the pace to win’. Again retiring from the final qualifier with the same drive shaft issue as he had in Q2 after a roll, the 2WD Champion said, ‘the drive shaft came out which was bad luck and in Q3 I had trouble with traffic but we still have a chance in the final. I need to win so that’s what I am aiming’. View the complete event results here. View our event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterPin It |
Neumann takes Q2 at EOS Austria Posted: 22 Jun 2019 05:44 AM PDT Joern Neumann has TQ’d the second round of 4WD qualifying at EOS Austria, the Schumacher driver quickest from Q1 winner Bruno Coelho by 9/10th at ERT Steyregg. Returning to his former championship winning form at the previous round of the championship at Arena 33 where he took the TQ & Win, Neumann took over the TQ pace in the later half of the run helped by a bad lap from Coelho and a fastest lap time that was 2/10ths faster than that of the championship leader. Both factory Schumacher drivers would show great pace with Orlowski setting an almost identical fastest lap time to his team-mate but much earlier in the heat, before a mistake resulted in the Pole retiring after he popped a rear ball cup. Also showing very strongly in the early part of the qualifier, Joona Haatanen would finish with some difficult laps but his early pace meant he would still stop the clock with the 3rd fastest time. Commenting on his TQ run, Neumann said, ‘It took a couple of laps to adapt to the high traction but then it was good’. The multiple former champion added, ‘because we had to stay in silver (compound) tyres we changed to a harder front spring and ran a little lower ride height. It worked good’. With the announcement that with the track now dry drivers will have to run the yellow compound handout Schumacher tyre for Q3, Neumann is confident that will suit his car even better adding they just need to ‘make small changes, nothing major’. Coelho said, ‘we change the car for the dry conditions but didn’t go 100% with the set-up and we should have had, especially for the silver tyre’. The Xray driver continued, ‘I was on two wheels everywhere and trying to fight with Joern but at the end he was quicker’. Asked about switching to the yellow compound the former World Champion said, ‘we should be good. We’ll get the car ready for that’. ‘Now I had even more speed’, said a pleased looking Haatanen. The Team Associated driver went on, ‘I ran a harder spring in the rear and went higher with the diffs which made the car more stable and improved the corner speed. The Silver (compound) was too soft and towards the end the car wanted to flip so I had a couple of mistakes on my last few laps’. Looking to the penultimate qualifier he said, ‘the car will be much better on yellows and I’m ready to mix it for a TQ run’. View the complete event results here. View our event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterPin It |
Posted: 22 Jun 2019 05:40 AM PDT FacebookTwitterPin It |
Coelho gets 4WD underway at EOS with TQ run Posted: 22 Jun 2019 04:36 AM PDT Having dominated yesterday’s 2WD qualifying, taking all four rounds, Bruno Coelho has got 4WD underway at the EOS Season Finale in Austria with a TQ run. Setting the pace in practice, the championship leader topped the times from Round 5 winner Joern Neumann by 1.2-seconds with 2WD podium finish Hupo Honigl completing the Top 3. With the astro turf track getting drier and drier each run after over night rain all drivers reported Q1 conditions as tricky. The only driver who can challenge Coelho for the 4WD title, reigning champion Michal Orlowski set the fourth fastest time with Joona Haatanen opening qualifying with a P5. Summing up his TQ run, Coelho said, ‘I had a mistake and got stuck on the pipe but luckily everyone had mistakes’. The driver who holds a 2-point lead in the championship standings continued, ‘the car is working good but the conditions are changing every hour. It’s getting drier and drier so you don’t know what to expect for the next one’. ‘Tricky, tricky conditions. The car was very edgy’, was Neumann reaction to Q1. The Schumacher driver continued, ‘overall second was a better start to 2WD when I crashed too many times’. With drivers running the silver compound of the EOS’ Schumacher handout tyres, the German said, ‘If we change to yellow I will leave the car the same but if we continue on silver I need to change the set-up’. Describing his P3 effort as ‘very good’, Honigl said it was hard work out on track. ‘I ran my complete dirt set-up on the car but the track dried up so it was super difficult and I drove super careful’. Looking to Q2 the Austrian Xray driver said, ‘I need to change my set-up for the next one’. 2WD Champion Orlowski said, ‘the track changed quite a lot. There was a lot of grip in some place and not a lot in others. The pace was good but I made a mistake’. Matching title rival Coelho on wins this season, with 2-each, the Schumacher driver continued, ‘we will change quite a lot on the car now. The rain is coming so it’s a tough one to hit the right right set-up’. ‘Not too bad but I had a few mistakes’, was Haatanen’s summary of his first of four qualifying attempts. The Team Associated driver continued, ‘we changed the car for Q1 and it was much better and it has put us on the right way with set-up, but the grip got higher so the track was difficult but still we got a Top 5 out of it’. For Q2, the Finnish teenager plans to raise the diffs higher for less roll and may also try a different spring. View the complete event results here. View our event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterPin It |
Posted: 22 Jun 2019 04:25 AM PDT Chassis: Xray XB2 ’19 Remarks – Young Austrian driver Lucas Grainer had a great EOS debut here in Steyregg, qualifying third overall in the 2WD class and ending up fifth after the finals behind the wheel of his Xray XB2 ’19. His car is pretty much out of the box, the only option part he’s using being the battery mount. Image Gallery FacebookTwitterPin It |
Chassis Focus – Joona Haatanen Posted: 22 Jun 2019 02:51 AM PDT Chassis: Team Associated B6.1 Remarks – The only factory driver representing the American brand here in Steyregg, Joona Haatanen concluded his EOS campaign winning A2 to finish second on the Austrian astroturf track. The Finn was behind the wheel of a pretty standard version of the B6.1, only equipped with an aluminium steering system and steel weights under the Lipo and the servo. Joona was also using a full JConcepts aero kit, with the F2 bodyshell and Aero rear wing. Image Gallery FacebookTwitterPin It |
Posted: 21 Jun 2019 03:18 PM PDT FacebookTwitterPin It |
Coelho wraps up EOS season with second 2WD win Posted: 21 Jun 2019 01:18 PM PDT Bruno Coelho has wrapped the 2WD racing of EOS Season #8 with his second win in the category. Having dominated qualifying and the opening A-Main on the championship’s first visit to the Austrian ERT Steyregg track, the Xray driver would bring on an extra workload with an error filled A2 that forced things to go to A3. With main rival Joona Haatanen, winner of A2, having a bad start to A3 it looked like Coelho’s race was going to be easier but a mistake by the EOS Poland winner would let Champion Michal Orlowski to hit the front. In this order the overall result would favour Haatanen, thanks to the Team Associated driver having a faster A2 winning time but Orlowski couldn’t hold on and handed the lead back with a mistake three laps later. Unfortunately for Orlowski the error also cost him a podium to cap off his title winning campaign, with Hupo Honigl filling the final step to return to the EOS podium after a long absence. ‘It was a tough final but luckily and fortunately I was able to take it home’, was Coelho’s thoughts on A3. His 5th 2WD EOS career win he continued, ‘we worked good in practice, took all four qualifiers so to not take the final would have been cruel. It can happen though, so I’m super happy for sure’. He added, ‘we are using a prototype car we are working on for the Worlds and today all the Xray’s in the final showed we are working in the correct way’. Commenting his A3 performance, Haatanen said, ‘I had a mistake on the first lap when I hit the pipe and then everyone hit me. I was hoping Michal would win because then it would have been a win for me. Anyway it is my first time to finish second in the EOS so I am happy with that’. Travelling to Austria without his father this weekend and with team-mate Neil Cragg unable to attend because of British Championship commitments, the teenager concluded, ‘I am happy that I’m alone here and the car works good’. Overall Haatanen ends the season 3rd overall in the points losing out on second to Coelho who was runner-up thanks to the only TQ of his campaign which he claimed today.ù ‘I’m super happy. I think it is almost 5-years since I had my last EOS podium’, was Honigl’s reaction to his third overall. The former 2WD race winner admitted he was starting to think his podium days were over, ‘I’m really happy because I didn’t think it would happen again’. Rating the track as being one of his all time favourites, when asked about 4WD the Austrian replied, ‘I think 4WD will be harder but let’s see, we will see even more crashes in 4WD’. Summing up his 2WD result, Orlowski said, ‘we finally found what we were looking for at the end of qualifying which was a bit late’. He added, ‘we didn’t start well but at the end we had the pace to win so I’m happy with that but I made too many mistakes in all the finals’. For this weekend we prepare a lot for 4WD. I would’ve liked to win 2WD but you can’t be at the top all the time. I’m excited for 4WD. It is supposed to be wet and I quite like that. Last year at the season finale I finished 4th in 2WD and won 4WD so I am confident for tomorrow’. View the complete event results here. View our event image gallery here. FacebookTwitterPin It |
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