The HB on-road team was in Italy recently at round 3 of the 2015 European Touring Series. Andy Moore, Jilles Groskamp and Freddy Südhoff were there, plus HB's Hiro from the US, to put the new PRO5 car through its paces at this tricky and challenging track.

Here's the race reports from Freddy, Jilles and Andy so you can follow their weekend in their own words!

Freddy Südhoff's race report:

ETS Rd. 3 was held at the beautiful outdoor track in Riccione, Italy. Nice weather, blue sky and a lot of sunshine welcomed as. With overall more than 300 drivers, this was one of the biggest ETS outdoor events.

Every team has send their factory drivers. This time, the whole European HB team, including Andy Moore, Freddy Südhoff and newly signed Jilles Groskamp were attending. HPI/ HB team manager Hiro Kasuya was represented as well to help the team but also all owners of the newly released HB PRO 5 car.

Practice started already on Thursday morning. Due to the high amount of drivers, ETS organization decided to just ran 4 practice rounds with 4min heats. As team HB was well presented, Andy, Jilles and Freddy worked hard together to find the best setup for Friday’s qualification.

Jilles Groskamp on 7^th, and Freddy Südhoff on 8^th, were able to put there PRO 5 cars into the A-Main after 4 qualification rounds were the best 2 counted.

The finals were exciting as many action was taken by the leading cars. Jilles and Freddy used the mains to adjust the car’s setup. Everything is still new and needs to get used to it.

Overall, Freddy was able to improve his qualification place to 7^th overall. Jilles dropped down to 9^th with some bad luck in the first laps of the finals.

Team HB felt confident after the race. The new team is working very well together and we improved every run. This makes us confident for the upcoming events and we will come back stronger.