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July 2, 2010

Groskamp TQs opening qualifier in Burgdorf

Jilles Groskamp

Jilles Groskamp has TQ’d the opening round of qualifying here at 2010 IFMAR Touring Car World Championships heading a Tamiya 1-2 from team-mate & defending World Champion Marc Rheinard. The current European Champion took the round comfortably finishing 2.4 seconds ahead over the field, a gap that covers the difference between the next 8 driver for the round. The Dutch ace described the run as ‘the perfect start’ but said over the opening laps his driving was not so perfect as he caught the curbs too many times. With conditions extremely hot here today in Burgdorf the track is slower than yesterday’s practice but Groskamp said the balance of his Orion powered TRF416 remains really good and his set-up is not hard on the controlled LRP tyres. Tyres are the big talking point here with drivers allowed 3 sets for the 6 qualifiers. With the tyres much faster on their first run a lot of tactics are expected from the bigger teams.

Tamiya Crew

Rheinard said his Speed Passion powered TRF416 starts pretty good but suffers bad understeer by the end. The German is running a very similar set-up to his team-mate but thinks Groskamp may be easier on the tyres at the beginning of the run allowing him to get a more consistent lap times over the full run.

Yannic Prumper

Setting the third fastest time was new Yokomo signing Yannic Prumper. The 16-year-old German didn’t really feature in yesterday’s practice but switching to a gear diff in the rear of his Speed Passion powered BD5 this morning has turned things around. Prumper said the car now feels a lot easy to drive and he can carry more corner speed. Running a safe round he feels he may have been too cautious but encouraged by his position he plans to push much harder in the second qualifier.

Paul Lemieux

Having ended the practice day just outside the Top 10, Paul Lemieux turned in the fourth fastest time for the opening qualifier and summed the performance by saying ‘Got to be happy with that’. The RC America team driver, who is run an Xray T3 with a prototype chassis plate, said the car’s balance felt good and that the run was also the best he has driven at the event so far.

Ronald Volker was next up but the German was not happy with the handling of his factory Yokomo. Switching back to the gear diff in the rear of his LRP powered BD5, the Warm-up race Top Qualifier was unable to get the same balance as his team-mate Prumper.

Kyosho’s Christopher Krapp set the sixth fastest time describing the run as ‘clean and safe’. The young German said the track feels really slow today but the set-up on his Orion powered TF6 is perfect and the plan for the next qualifier is to push harder. Krapp’s team-mate Shin Adachi pulled up early to save tyres after making a number of mistakes.

Christer Andersson

Fastest of the Team Associated factory squad is young Finnish driver Christer Andersson who made a radical set-up change to his new TC6. Lacking corner speed yesterday the teenager said the car was much better today and although happy to start the day with the seventh fastest run he feels he could have pushed harder. Another of the Associated team to record a Top 10 time was top British Championship front runner Olly Jefferies who set the 9th fastest time just 7/1000th behind TRF driver Viktor Wilck. Xray’s Alexander Hagberg completed the Top 10.

Third fastest in yesterday’s practice, Hot Bodies Atsushi Hara didn’t have a good start to the day saying a switch of tyre additive was the wrong was to go as he ended up only 16th fastest hust behind new German team-mate Freddy Sudhoff. Running the same additive team-mate Andy Moore pulled up early to save tyres.

Top 10 Qualification Ranking after Rnd 1
1. Jilles Groskamp (Tamiya TRF416) – 24/5:04.753 (155)
2. Marc Rheinard (Tamiya TRF416) – 24/5:07.145 (153)
3. Yannic Pruemper (Yokomo BD5) – 24/5:07.864 (152)
4. Paul Lemieux (Xray T3) – 24/5:08.454 (151)
5. Ronald Völker (Yokomo BD5) – 24/5:08.607 (150)
6. Christopher Krapp (Kyosho TF6) – 24/5:09.428 (149)
7. Christer Andersson (Team Associated TC6) – 24/5:09.483 (148)
8. Viktor Wilck (Tamiya TRF416) – 24/5:09.491 (147)
9. Olly Jeffries (Team Associated TC6) – 24/5:09.498 (146)
10.Alexander Hagberg (Xray T3) – 24/5:10.129 (145)

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