October 25, 2014

Impressive Wernimont secures overall TQ at EOS Poland

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Carson Wernimont has become the first American to TQ a round of the European high profile Euro Offroad Series, the Schumacher driver securing pole position for the season opener in Poland from reigning champion Naoto Matsukura.  Going into the final qualifier in a three way shootout for the honour of Top Qualifier with Yokomo pairing Matsukura and Lee Martin, third behind Joern Neumann and Jesper Rasmussen was enough for Wernimont to achieve something his fellow countrymen Ryan Cavalieri, Dustin Evans and Mike Truhe failed to do.

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‘Super pumped with that’ was how Wernimont summed up the result.  Repeating the TQ that team-mate Tom Cockerill achieved last year for the British manufacturer, the 17-year-old said the final qualifier didn’t go to plan but still he was able to salvage a third out of it. With the 5-minute qualifier having ‘started off quick’ he said he pushed too hard leading to a ‘dumb mistake’ but ‘luckily everyone else did too’.  Looking to finals he said he would ‘reign things back and go for a safe race’.

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Having started out the day perfectly with two TQ runs in the first two qualifiers, once again Matsukura suffered ‘too many mistakes’.  Predicting a ‘hard’ race with passing set to be difficult without mistakes from the driver in front, the Japanese driver said he hopes for a clean & good fight with his aim to force Wernimont into an error.

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Neumann said he ‘might not have been the fastest’ but he kept the run clean.  ‘OK’ with securing third on the grid he said he hopes to capitalise should the two ahead of him tangle.  Like Martin, the championship’s most winning driver expects the jumps to cause problems as due to the flat landings the cars bounce out of line which is sure to cause problems in a closely bunched pack.

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Describing his Q6 attempt as ‘shit’ with the driver, the used tyres and his car all not good, Martin will start fourth on the grid.  Predicting the finals to be ‘a crash fest’ he said the winner is going to be the driver who crashes less with the jumps set to be at the centre of most incidents.  In terms of his car he will revert to his Q5 set-up as well as running a fresh set of tyres which he said should give hime a good package again for the finals.

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A day that has seen a lot of young stars shine, Michal Orlowski will start 5th with emerging Scandinavan talents booking their first EOS A-Main appearances.  Putting his P2 in Q6 down to his ‘first clean run’, 15-year old Team Associated supported driver Jesper Rasmussen booked 9th on the grid with the result.  Behind him 11-year-old Finn Joona Haatanen, also driving a B5M completes the 10 car grid with the other two starters being last year’s Top Qualifier Tom Cockerill (8th) and Team C’s Oliver Scholtz (7th).

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