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EOS 17/18 Championship Winning Cars

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:06 AM PDT

Michal Orlowski (2WD)

Schumacher Cougar KC – LRP X22 6.5T – LRP FlowX – LRP Lcg 3500mAh – Aerox body – Sanwa transmitter – Sanwa Servo

Michal Orlowski (4WD)

Schumacher CAT L1 – LRP X22 5.5T – LRP Flow X – LRP 3500mAh Ultra LCG – Aerox body – Sanwa transmitter – Sanwa Servo

Video – 4wd A-main Leg 3

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:04 AM PDT

Orlowski is double EOS Champion

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:04 AM PDT

Michal Orlowski has pulled off the championship double at the Euro Offroad Series season finale in Germany. Have retained his 2WD title yesterday at Arena33, the Schumacher driver won the opening two A-Mains of 4WD to take both the first ever outdoor EOS encounter and the overall title. Only the third driver in the championship’s history to do the double, the Polish driver would definitely earn the victory. With himself and Top Qualifier Joern Neumann pulling clear of the field in A2, they would battle hard with the team-mates clearly given free reign to battle irrespective of the title being at stake for Orlowski. A mistake by Neumann which would collect Orlowski’s car would see the later go to the front with the German putting him under immense pressure over the final 2 laps with them drag racing one another to the line. With a 0.092 margin it was Orlowski who took it which together with his much easier A1 win took the vital overall win that was his only option in terms of taking the title from defending champion Bruno Coelho. Both drivers would end the season on the same points but Orlowski’s win gave him the tiebreaker – 3 wins over Coelho’s 2.

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Orlowski is double EOS Champion

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:01 AM PDT

Michal Orlowski has pulled off the championship double at the Euro Offroad Series season finale in Germany. Have retained his 2WD title yesterday at Arena33, the Schumacher driver won the opening two A-Mains of 4WD to take both the first ever outdoor EOS encounter and the overall title. Only the third driver in the championship’s history to do the double, the Polish driver would definitely earn the victory. With himself and Top Qualifier Joern Neumann pulling clear of the field in A2, they would battle hard with the team-mates clearly given free reign to battle irrespective of the title being at stake for Orlowski. A mistake by Neumann which would collect Orlowski’s car would see the later go to the front with the German putting him under immense pressure over the final 2 laps with them drag racing one another to the line. With a 0.092 margin it was Orlowski who took it which together with his much easier A1 win took the vital overall win that was his only option in terms of taking the title from defending champion Bruno Coelho. Both drivers would end the season on the same points but Orlowski’s win gave him the tiebreaker – 3 wins over Coelho’s 2.

‘I have been volunteer marshalling all weekend, this is the karma’, was Orlowski’s reaction to his second title in 2 days. The 16-year-old continued, ‘I cant thank enough everyone around me. Trish, Jurgen, my dad, they have been with me every EOS race and I wouldn’t be were I am now without them’. With today’s race victory his 4th in 4WD, he said, ‘I had a good night sleep for today. Qualifying went well. 2nd is good for me and then myself and Joern had a great fight. I was lucky in the first one but in the second one we broke away. Joern was pushing hard after his mistake and I could feel the pressure for sure’. With Neumann only joining the team from the second round of the EOS and getting his first win for more than 3-years in 2WD yesterday, long time Schumacher driver Orlowski said, ‘Joern was very quick here and I’m looking forward to the competition. We showed here our car is really good and I think there will be even more competition next season between us’.

Not even making the podium on the championship’s first astro turf event, Coelho believes they lacked preparation for the race. He said, ‘for sure I’m not happy with the result but I can’t ask for more. I couldn’t practice for the race because of my schedule. I had no time other than 2-days before in Vienna. I also missed one race because of the TITC’. Having been the first driver ever to hold an ETS, ENS and EOS title all at the same time, he continued, ‘this one is already done so we need to focus for next season. One year ago and even the first race of the season our car was so much quicker but the other brands caught us so we need to improve. Qualifying third, he said, ‘In qualifying I was lucky, the traction was different but in the finals I need to force a lot to follow them and which I can’t do without mistakes’.

Winner of A3 to make it a 1-2 for Schumacher at Arena33, Neumann summed up the result as, ‘Pretty good, a 1-2 for Schumacher in the race and 1-3 in the championship’. Having had mistakes in A1 & 2, both of which cost him the lead, he said, ‘In the last main I drove at only 85% be be safe and make no mistakes’. Summing up what was effectively on a part season as he didn’t attend Round 1 and then only got hold of his new Schumacher cars in January, he said, ‘this season I didn’t do the first race and then have all new cars I need time to tune them to my liking and we got there this weekend. You can see the improvements each race. At the Hudy Arena I got a podium, then in Wels I got second and here I got the TQ and second. I think next season both me and Michal will be very strong’.

Completing the podium and another driver to join a new manufacturer in 2018, Martin Wollanka claimed Sworkz’ first ever EOS podium at only his second attempt. Debuting for the team at previous round in Austria, where he finished 5th, the Austrian was strong throughout the weekend in Andernach. Opening with a 3rd in A1 he would back that up with second in A2. Fourth in A3, he would tie on points with Team Associated’s Neil Cragg who took 2nd in A3 but with his A1 time 6/10th quicker he denied the 2WD Vice Champion his first EOS podium finish in 4WD. ‘Super happy’ with his podium finish, Wollanka, who is currently running a prototype buggy said he is looking forward to a full season of EOS with the production car’.

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Video – 4wd A-main Leg 2

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 07:57 AM PDT

Video – Modified Truck A-main Leg 2

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 06:11 AM PDT

Chassis Focus – Joona Haatanen (Mod Truck)

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 06:00 AM PDT

Chassis: Team Associated T6.1
Motor: Reedy 6.5T
ESC: Reedy Black Box
Batteries: Reedy Zippers 5800 mAh
Radio/Servo: Sanwa/Reedy
Tires: Schumacher (handout)
Body: Kit
Remarks – Finnish rising star Joona Haatanen is attending the support Mod Truck Class here at the Arena33 in Andernach behind the wheel of Team Associated’s latest Truck release T6.1. Sharing most of the platform with the B6.1 buggy, Joona’s example is equipped with a front brass bulkhead and a steel weight plate under his electrics.

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Chassis Focus – Lee Martin

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 05:59 AM PDT

Chassis: Yokomo YZ-4 SF
Motor: Scorpion 5.5T
ESC: Scorpion Vanguard
Batteries: Yokomo 5000 mAh
Radio/Servo: Sanwa/Xpert
Tires: Schumacher (handout)
Body: Kit/LMR 27 V.2 Rear Wing
Remarks – Team Yokomo lead driver Lee Martin is here at the Arena33 running a pretty standard version of the Japanese YZ-4SF. Sporting a setup obviously adapted for a surface Lee is used to but different to the usual EOS carpet, his car is only equipped with Titanium Screws and turnbuckles and an aluminium servo mount.

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Video – 4wd A-main Leg 1

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 05:57 AM PDT

Orlowski takes important A1 win

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 05:53 AM PDT

Michal Orlowski has taken an important A1 victory at the EOS finale in Germany, the Schumacher driver going to the front on the opening lap after a mistake by team-mate & Top Qualifier Joern Neumann. Chased by title rival Bruno Coelho, the Pole then got a further break when the defending champion traction rolled allowing Orlowski to take control of the race and even survive a small mid race roll. With Neumann and Coelho’s incidents dropping them down the field it would be 6th place starter Martin Wollanka who would finish second. The Austrian would see off a strong challenge from Neil Cragg who completed the top 3 ahead of AE team-mate Joona Haatanen, Neumann and Martin.

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Orlowski takes important A1 win

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 05:46 AM PDT

Michal Orlowski has taken an important A1 victory at the EOS finale in Germany, the Schumacher driver going to the front on the opening lap after a mistake by team-mate & Top Qualifier Joern Neumann. Chased by title rival Bruno Coelho, the Pole then got a further break when the defending champion traction rolled allowing Orlowski to take control of the race and even survive a small mid race roll. With Neumann and Coelho’s incidents dropping them down the field it would be 6th place starter Martin Wollanka who would finish second. The Austrian would see off a strong challenge from Neil Cragg who completed the top 3 ahead of AE team-mate Joona Haatanen, Neumann and Martin.

Needing to take the overall win today to do the title double, Orlowski said, ‘Joern got a good start and had a small gap on me I and I had a small gap on Bruno but Joern then had a small error and the pipe caught his car and the marshal didn’t see him. I knew Bruno was behind me so I kept cool but then he made a few mistakes and dropped back so I could make a small gap. I had a small roll before the double but apart from that I could drive my own race and that’s what I will try & do again (in A2)’.

‘That was very good’, was how a pleased looking Wollanka summed up his second place. The Sworkz team driver continued, ‘I got places because some guys ahead made mistakes and then I could over take Lee.’ Only his second EOS outing with his new team and preferring to do his talking on the track, he concluded, ‘the car is perfect’.

Cragg described his A1 as ‘pretty good that’. He continued, ‘I had a bobble while running second which let Wollanka through. He drove a good race to be fair. I put him under a lot of pressure but he drove well and I couldn’t get by’. Openly admitting 4WD is not his discipline, he concluded, ‘we’re not fast enough to win but maybe we can get a sneaky podium today’.

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Schumacher 1-2 as Neumann TQs EOS Finale

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 04:11 AM PDT

Schumacher will start 1-2 on the grid for the Euro Offroad Series championship deciding 4WD A-Main, with Joern Neumann continuing his reign at the EOS’ first ever outdoor event at Arena33. Top Qualifier and winner of 2WD, the German claimed the 4WD pole with his second TQ run in the fourth & final qualifier while, having TQ’d Q3, title contender Michal Orlowski will start 2nd. The only other driver with a TQ run but having a fraught Q4, defending champion Bruno Coelho will line his Xray up third ahead of the Associated of Neil Cragg and Yokomo of Lee Martin.

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Schumacher 1-2 as Neumann TQs EOS Finale

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 04:03 AM PDT

Schumacher will start 1-2 on the grid for the Euro Offroad Series championship deciding 4WD A-Main, with Joern Neumann continuing his reign at the EOS’ first ever outdoor event at Arena33. Top Qualifier and winner of 2WD, the German claimed the 4WD pole with his second TQ run in the fourth & final qualifier while, having TQ’d Q3, title contender Michal Orlowski will start 2nd. The only other driver with a TQ run but having a fraught Q4, defending champion Bruno Coelho will line his Xray up third ahead of the Associated of Neil Cragg and Yokomo of Lee Martin.

Pulling off an impressive save at the front double in Q4, Neumann said, ‘other than my moment at the double it was a clean run but there is something in the jump since they added the new carpet. I think something might be broken underneath’. With the race organisers now working on the jump ahead of the finals, he continued, ‘The Schumacher car is super fast and Michal & me are 1-2’. Asked about tyres, given that it was a factor in 2WD, the former champion replied, ‘tyres are no problem. I ran third run tyres in qualifying and have one set with one run and one brand new set. The car is very good on tyres’. Asked about the finals and the fact his team-mate is vying for the final win he said, ‘I will just drive and if he is faster he (Orlowski) will overtake’.

Commenting on his qualifying, Orlowski said, ‘It was good to get the TQ in the third one, the feeling of the car was much better. The last one I was very unlucky in the double. I was feeling very good but the car just kicked and I had no chance to save it’. He continued, ‘many guys are crashing there. The up ramp is not flat and its causing the cars to go sideways in the air’. Suffering a rip yesterday, a second piece of EOS carpet was placed over the damaged area to allowing racing continue and since then some drivers are having issues. Asked about the title, the 2WD Champion said, ‘I need a win. Bruno is starting behind me and I hope he will play fair like I did with Neil (Cragg) in 2WD. Joern is fast but I am too. I got the fastest lap in the last one’.

Pulling up in the final qualifier, Coelho said, ‘that was a disaster qualifying run. I had so many mistakes’. He continued, ‘Orlowski made a mistake in front of me and I was trying to see where his car was going to end up but ended up crashing and it was game over for me’ – Landing wide he would get stuck behind the track piping. Asked about the championship and challenge from Orlowski he said, ‘for sure he will force for the win and he has Neumann in front. I’m not sure if, like we do sometimes, they will play like a team like (Ronald) Volker did last weekend. We will see’. The reference to Volker is from the ETS in Madrid when the World Champion opened for team-mate Christopher Krapp in A3 to try and help him take the overall win.

‘A pretty outstanding result’, was how Cragg described his P4 starting position. The British driver continued, ‘the car has been good and the driver has been good. There is no pressure on me that’s on the other guys going for the championship. Hopefully I pick up the pieces and sneak a podium out of it’. Posting Top 3 runs in Q1 & 2, on the last two qualifiers he said, ‘I had good pace in the third one but had too may crashes so I got 8th or something. The pace was decent in the last one and I didn’t crash which got me 4th which was not too bad at all’.

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Coelho tops Q2 at EOS Finale

Posted: 22 Apr 2018 01:27 AM PDT

Bruno Coelho has opened the concluding day of the Euro Offroad Series Season Finale with a TQ run. The Xray driver topped the second round of qualifying from Neil Cragg after a late error from Q1 pace setter Joern Neumann dropped him back to 4th. After pulling up in the opening qualifier last night, title challenger Michal Orlowski would complete the Top 3 ahead of his Schumacher team-mate. A close qualifier, with 2nd to 5th all running 5:08 times, Martin Wollanka would take his Sworkz to the 5th fastest time with Joona Haatanen rounding out the Top 6.

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Neumann takes opening 4WD qualifier

Posted: 21 Apr 2018 12:50 PM PDT

Joern Neumann has taken the opening round of 4WD qualifying at the Euro Offroad Series season finale in Germany. Despite twice crashing in the same spot, the Schumacher driver would just hold on to TQ ahead of Lee Martin in a round that saw almost all the drivers make mistakes. Having topped seeding Michal Orlowski made a costly error on his second lap losing 7-seconds and following further errors eventually decided to pull off. Coelho was the early pace setter but he too had mistakes which saw him and Neumann swapping positions until he dropped 2-seconds to the German with a mistake on the penultimate lap. Martin would also run at the top of the timing screens for a time until he had a tumble in front of Neumann all of which played into the hands of 10th seed Neil Cragg who would have a clean run to get a Top 3 finish.

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