Q3 scrapped, 1/8th grid set

The Top 10 direct qualifiers for the 1:8 A-Main at Round 2 of the Euro Nitro Series have been set, organisers attempts to complete the third round of qualifying thwarted by a damp Ettlingen track greeting competitors this morning. With conditions not comparable to yesterday when they got all but the last three heats of Q3 complete, the entire round was scrapped and the grid determined by each driver’s best result of the two completed rounds.  While this didn’t effect the outcome of the Top Qualifier, that honour already secured by Team Shepherd’s Simon Kurzbuch who TQ’d both rounds, it did change the rest of the grid. Capricorn’s Dario Balestri will start second thanks to a quicker time than Infinity driver Jilles Groskamp, both drivers counting a P2, but one of the biggest benefactors of the single counting round is Bruno Coelho. With a DNF in Q1, the Xray driver was third in the second round and will line-up P4 ahead of Serpent’s Merlin Depta.  With 2 cars set to join the A-Main from the B-Main, it is Capricorn’s Robin D’hondt who completes the top half of the grid followed by ARC’s Toni Gruber and Infinity’s Lamberto Collari.  Securing the final two direct grid spots for 45-minute encounter in 9th & 10th are new Capricorn signing Rick Vrielijnck and Picco engines front man Alberto Picco.

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