From the beginning of the winter season, Tom Maquel is running the brand new touring car from Team C : the TC10.
Tom is supported by Team C and Absima, so is running a prototype speedo : the Absima Revenge CTS10, with a LRP X20 stock spec 10.5 motor.
No surprise in mod class as multi European champion Ronald Volker do the job to TQ the first qualifying round. The german ace drive flawlessly and end the run with a respectable gap in front of Freddy Sudhoff.
So Yokomo made the double as we can find two LRP powered BD7 on the top spot in the stock and in the mod class.
Second line on the grid is fully booked by ORCA powered Xray’s of Marco Kauffman and Tim Wahl. Eric Dankel and Julian Borowski took the spots on the third line. First non-german driver is Lucas Urbain who bring his VBC Racing Wildfire D06 to 7th place ahead of Nik Weyers (Xray) from Belgium. An other french guy, Manu Wagner, a MRC driver, bring his Much More powered Xray T4 2014 to the 9th place in the A main, as Dominic Vogl from Austria join him at the 10th place.
Nico Schwendimann, french Stock champion is B main top qualifier, where we can find some disappointed drivers as David Ehrbar, Yannick Prumper or even Cyril N’Diaye ends up in the B main.
Q1 ends up for stock drivers in Longwy, as Germany’s Steffen Leinburger put his Yokomo BD7 on top of the grid. The german ace made a strong run, despite a little mistake while being under pressure in the mid half of the run. An other german guy that put great pressure on Steffen all the run long is Todtmann Thilo. The 1/8th track German champion also made a mistake in the end of his run, and bring his WRC STX 2014 to the second spot of the grid.
A former GP3F champion, Joe Streff from Luxembourg do his best to get the 3rd spot behind the two german. Despite driving very clean lines, Joe seems unable to have the speed to challenge the two frontrunners.
4th place goes to Markus Kreder, a driver that came to previons month round of MRC Winter Series to learn the track. An other Winter Series frontrunner is Max Machler that put his Awesomatix A700 to the 5th place behind the team C TC10 of Tom Maquel. The Luxembourg driver, who is a contender for the title of MRC Winter Series champion seems a lot slower than usual. Hopefully he can solve his lack of speed for the next heat to be a challenger for the top spot.
Best french driver is Nico Lemoine from MRC Longwy. Being mechanised by Loic Jasmin, Nico who is a former GP finalist had a great run in the group 10 to reach the top of the provisional standings, and bring his Speed passion powered Yokomo to the A Main.
Cyril N’Diaye, former French mod champion, is running a LRP Powered Yokomo BD7. The frenchman will be an outsider to follow as he seems to have the speed to get a good place in the Mod A main.
