Martin TQs opening 4WD qualifier

Hot on the heels of winning 2WD at EOS Slovakia, Lee Martin has opened up the 4WD part of the event perfectly by topping the opening qualifier.  Normally starting on Sunday morning, due to the large entry at the Hudy Arena event the first of the four rounds of 4WD qualifying was moved to Saturday night with Martin fastest by 3.4-seconds from World Champion Bruno Coelho who would post the fastest lap.  Coelho’s Xray team-mate Martin Wollanka completed the Top 3 followed by multiple EOS Champion Joern Neumann who was the only other driver to do a 13-lap run.  Commenting on his TQ run, the Yokomo driver who topped yesterday’s practice said, ‘It took a while to get used to the car with it feeling twitchy after running 2WD all day’.  Expecting drivers to make mistakes as they got back into the rhythm of switching back to 4WD he said his aim for Q1 was to just run 5-minutes with ‘no stupid mistakes an get used to it again’.  Running much later than they had in practice he said his shock oil was a little too hard for the cooler night time conditions of the hall but added the car has good pace and everything is looking good for tomorrow.

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