Xray`s young top gun Zalewski shines again at the EOS
Top seed Bartosz Zalewski took the win in the first heat of 2WD Buggy qualifying (hot lap 31.600) after an intense battle with Michal Orlowski. The Schumacher driver (hot lap 31.780) came short to Zalewski by just 1.1 seconds but had been on a very promising pace behind Zalewski.
David Ronnefalk took away third place from Q1 and was followed by Team Associated`s Joona Haatanen and the Xray buggy of reigning European 2WD champion Martin Bayer.
Orlowski fights back in Q2
In Q2 we saw another close battle between Zalewski and Orlowski. Martin Bayer and Joona Haatanen had been in the mix as well and showed a much improved performance on track. Out front, Zalewski was leading the race for most of the time, but made a costly mistake in lap seven of the run which caused him to drop down to fourth place.
Michal Orlowski too full advantage of it and sealed a TQ run in Q2 when he was closley followed by the Xray of Martin Bayer and the Associated of Joona Haatanen. With three more runs coming up on Friday, nothing was decided after these two qualifiers.
2WD Stock Buggy
Hofman and Bidovsky on top of the field
Daniel Hofman won the first heat of qualifying by a gap of 7 seconds (!) ahead of Karl Erik Valter, Oliver Kuuse, Sören Sparbier, and Michal Hudy. Q1 was a clear statement from Hofman who looks like “very hard to beat” this weekend.
The second round saw Ales Bidovsky takinng the TQ after Hofman made a big mistake in the penultimate lap of the race (lap 8). Karl Erik Valter, Michal Hudy, and Frederik Hovgaard finished right behind them in the top five. With the combined results from Q1 and Q2 on Thursday evening, it was Daniel Hofman, Karl Erik Valter, and Ales Bidovsky sitting first, second, and third overnight.
