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ETS round 1, first time ever not held in Germany but in Hrotovice, the destination hardest to reach last year due to a massive snowstorm, was scheduled the weekend after the qualifier.

Not a lot of time to follow my plan and have two almost identical cars built and setup to my own 100% standard. But with 3 very long evenings and supershort nights I was able to be ready and prepared leaving to Hrotovice on thursday. Straight off work, collecting Alex and Florian on the way.

After a pretty relaxed 5 hour drive we arrived at the hotel where our new teammate Thorsten Zorn already checked us in. After a quick stroll through the race venue, by that time thinking the track was looking pretty good, we went back to the hotel room and finished our cars, rebuild shocks for the morning and then went to bed.

Friday started with the alarm clock set to 06:15! Felt so wrong! Quick breakfast and then practice was underway at half past 7! Crazy schedule with this amount of people racing. Both my cars where pretty good and the griplevel was just about close to traction rolling. Well at least one car did while the otherone was very easy to drive. By that time there was almost no difference in laptimes but I could sense, that the more aggressive car would be the faster one once traction was up to race level.

Practice went fine and I was able to test a few ideas with running two cars even in controled practice! Best thing by that time: my cars where super lightweight at 1312 and 1328g! And that’s a schumacher HA! :)

Qualifying was a mixed affair. I managed to be leading every single one for a few laps and then be stuck in traffic or almost griproll or though only once hit a corner dot.

Having said that I liked the track in the beginning it soon showed, that the carpet was not well laid down / glued. there where bumps eveywhere and if you where tractionrolling you almost certainly hit one of them.

Qualified 3rd with 3 second places …

A1 was thrilling right away with Asmer plugging his battery in the wrong way and after a long messing about decided to use his teammates car which was dead slow down the straightaway. Marek and me quickly got past and I was chasing him down big time. Maybe I kept it a little too nice and clean but I wanted to pass him with no bodycontact and that was not possible which gave him a win and me a second place to count.

A2 was better. I’ve changed two tiny little things I had in mind after A1 and they proved to work a charm!

I left a little room to let Cerny and Asmer play their game but once Cerny rolled it getting to and past Asmer was handed over to be my task which was exactly what happened. Having a clear advantage getting into the hairpin at the end of the sweeper I made my move following two “practice laps” . After pulling a little gap I was able to cross the line first.

A3 was troublefull at the start. Cerny went a little wide and as I went for it I collected him … luckily it didn’t cost me much more than a little tweak in my car.

Trying to chase Asmer but at the same time not to loose second position I played it too save. Asmer managed to be a tiny bit faster than I was in the first final … and that cost me the overall win.

Tie breaks ain’t mine I come to conclude.

The next big race on my schedule will be ETS round 2 in january. Lot of time to pass untill then, and I’m sure to be using it well! Mühlheim-Kärlich will be different, with a car all prepared, tested and proven!

Pro’s from this past weekend:
- Thorsten fit’s well into our team and had his best ETS result ever!
- there actually was a team, like a lot of Schumacher drivers! Very happy to see that growth
- testing was done as a team effort. That’s how it should be
- mid-motor has been used by two drivers, while the others prefered rear motor. Seems to be a driving style thing wether it is the one or the other
- WildThing has gone public with nice stickers and products!
- Ride tires are pretty good. No sorex still, but pretty good.
- the Muchmore combo, despite loosing neutral setting once, is much better than last years speedpassion thing.
- back to back tested so many of those little, and even some major things you can only really test at big races! Very productive weekend indeed.


Motor – Muchmore (handout) ESC – Muchmore (handout)
Batteries - GM Racing
Tires – Ride (handout)
Radio/Servos – Sanwa
Remarks – Former Pro Stock Champion Martin Hofer is running a version of Schumacher’s Mi5 with a number of prototype parts which are being evaluated for future release. A new chassis plate with different carbon is stiffer despite being thinner material than previous while new even shorter shocks, now lower than the car’s wheel line, and lower shock towers help lower the car’s centre of gravity. Combined with a new motor block which brings the motor more to the centre line and a new steering system and carbon steering block arms allow the car to be pushed harder without it wanting to flip.

WildThing bits: must have optionals!

Special black edition shock mounts!

Setup never changes a cars character, geometry does!

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