Video – 1/10th A-main
Chassis Focus – Toni Gruber
Chassis – ARC R8.0 2016
Engine – Novarossi Mito WCS Ceramic
Fuel – Meccafuel
Tires (handout) – Enneti
Radio/Servo – KO Propo
Body – Blitz
Remarks – Best of the ARC drivers, German Toni Gruber is running an out of the box car equipped only with some recently released option parts. In the rear he has the new narrower rear suspension blocks, while up front he is using carbon steering arms as well as aluminium downstop registers.
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Chassis Focus – Eric Dankel
Chassis – Mugen MTX-6
Engine – Orcan “Cesare Rossi” WC Edition
Fuel – Maxima fuel
Tires (handout) – Enneti
Radio/Servo – Sanwa
Body – Protoform SRS
Remarks – Top qualifier here in Ettlingen, 2014 Champion Eric Dankel is using a number of new parts on his Orcan powered Mugen MTX-6. Eric is running prototype rear bulkheads with the camber link on the bulkhead itself instead of having it on the shock tower and a prototype chassis, which is wider in the rear with a smaller rear cutout for different flex. He is also using pre-production, harder compound suspension arms.
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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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