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1st GT 12 HOURS GRAND PRIX, OSLO (N) - February 2-3, 2007 (IOC-RACE) |
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| 1. Glenn Wennerberg/Børge Haug/Roy Bråten/Kai Torgvær | Mobil 1 Honda NSX 1998 | 3399 |
| 2. Jostein Vandas/Jan Øystein Andersen/Morten Momsen/Stig-Atle Eriksen | Inno Total Ferrari 575 GTC 2004 | 3330 |
| 3. Christer Burström (S)/Leif Nilsson (S)/Lasse Jansson (S) | Porsche 911 GT2 1999 | 3203 |
| 4. Gabriel Inäbnit (CH)/Tamar Nelwan (NL)/Henri van Gool (NL)/Marcel Oosterling (NL) | Phoenix Aston Martin DBR9 2006 | 3180 |
| 5. Alvaro Sarabia (E)/Rafael Maestro (E)/Jesu Melgar (E) | Hypo Aston Martin DBR9 2006 | 3128 |
| 6. Kristian Hottran/Frank Rødahl/Anders Skar/Rune Ytterdahl | PSI Corvette CR6 2006 | 3113 |
| 7. Henrik Hasager (DK)/René Andersen (DK)/Oliver Andersen (DK) | Vitaphone Maserati MC12 | 2916 |
| 8. Lars Solli/Rolf Andersen/Tom Solberg/Alf Lærum | GLPK Corvette CR6 2006 | 2715 |
| 9. Tor Øvind Andersen/Harald Knutsen/Glenn Bråthen/Roy Johanessen | Raybrig Honda NSX 2001 | 1031 |
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18th MERLIJN 24 HOURS, WEZENBEEK-OPPEM - March 30-31, 2007 (NO IOC RACE) |
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April 18,
2007 - I noted with great pleasure that Slot-Racing Club
Merlijn returned to its real roots. In the early 1980s they
started to fit hard plastic bodies from static kits to
motorised chassis, in a period that pure model car racing
was completely death. Now, a quarter of a century later
Raymond van Campenhout and his guys organised again
their famous 24 hour race for real model cars. At once
several racers, having stopped active racing returned. Among
them Chantal Aerts, Hubert Jacob, Philippe Destrée,
Philippe Laudet, etc. Most Belgian clubs were unaware of
that radical change in the club's slot-racing policy,
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1st LE MANS LEGENDEN, HAMBURG (D) - April 13-14, 2007 (NO IOC RACE) |
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BÖHLENDORF/KRIEGER WIN ON PLAFIT |
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April 15 - The SCR
Hamburg organised this week-end an interesting international race
with legend Le Mans Group C cars (period 1984-1992). There was a
good entry with 38 racers from 3 different countries. The two Dutch
Jaguar teams came to win, but received even for the start a 15 laps
sanction since their front wheels were not regu-lar. After one
quarter of the race TQ-ing Jaguar XJR8 was leading the two Dutch
Jaguars by 2 laps. Krieger's Porsche was only 7th at 9 laps. At
mid-race, however, his 956 was already leading with the Jaguar XJ12
of Nick in the same lap. During the third heat the two Dutch Jaguars
lost again from Krieger's 956, so that the difference was already 4
laps. Parke was fastest during the last heat but failed to catch the
956 of Krieger and Böhlendorf. On coming home the Dutch racers were
extremely pleased by the subtle sense for humour of their hosts.
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The two splendid Jaguars of Racing for Holland were assembled a few hours before the start. Although they are looking great, they received only 15 and 16 concourse points from the German jury. Although the rules say nothing that the SLP Plafit chassis should be forbidden, the race direction disagreed with the front suspension of the cars. After it was obvious that the two splendid Dutch Jaguars could not be refused for that, the Germans found another reason to punish them. Although the front wheels of the cars were 5mm wide, they found that the tread of the front tyres was too narrow. So the Dutch cars were sanctioned with 15 laps even before the start. It's always the same problem with German racers. Alone on the world they refuse to follow the internatio-nal rules respected in all other countries. They created their proper rules. Whilst all other nations use the ProSlot Mk1 motor of Dan Debella, the Germans use the powerless Fox motors. Then they fail to understand why no first class internationals show at their meetings. It's a fact that Nelwan & Co showed only at Hamburg to make a deal: "We come to your race, so now we hope that you come end June to our race at Alsdorf to run under international rules." It didn't work, since Parke already said he should pass ...to have a look on it. That shows their hyper nationalist spirit. Tamar & Co try to safe the Euregio track at Alsdorf and count on the Germans to race on it before it's sold or destroyed. It should be wiser to contact the guys for who this track was built: the Germans, Dutchmen and Belgians from the Euregio (Urtrack, Eupen, Diepenbeek, Merlijn, etc). And they, they drive modern cars with real motors. |
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1st SOUTH-AFRICAN MODEL CAR NATS, DURBAN (RSA) - April 27-8, 07 (NO IOC RACE) |
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JAN ROESTORF IN THE ROLE OF HAWKEYE |
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May 2, 2007 - Thanks to the efforts of Al Paterson and his friends model car comes in the picture in South-Africa. Up to now only sale racing and 1/32 plastic racing were popular, but after excellent perfor-mances at the Barcelona Worlds (by Paterson himself having won the modeler's world championship, and by Gustav Heymann having won the EuroNats) model car racing is growing in the South of Africa. It's not already the type of model car racing as we know it from the rest of the world since they race lexan bodies instead of hard plastic, resin or GFK bodies. Main reason for that is the weak position of the national cur-rency: prices asked for some resin bodies are completely out of budget of the most racers. A way out could have been racing Tamiya JGTC or Autobacs Super GT bodies having the advantage that they are relative-ly cheap, that they are easy to assemble, and above all that they are fully legal, what's not the case with most handcraft resin bodies on the black market. South-African racing is above all linked to the country's great past in racing. That past that remains the Springbok Series where top racers from England, Australia, Belgium and Holland were present with very attractive cars as the Ferrari 512M, the Ferrari 330 P4, the Ferrari 250 LM, the Ferrari 250 GTO, the Ford GT40, the Lola T70 Spyder and T70 Mk3 GT, the Ferrari 312P, the Porsche 917, the Porsches 906, 907, 908 and 910, the Ferrari Dino 206S, the Mirage Ford, etc. More info about the former Springbok series can be found here and here. Since most of those cars exist in the cheap lexan version, it was decided that only lexan copies of former Springbok cars were allowed to enter. Then you expect that someone should have entered at least an Elfin or a GSM Dart (typical South-African cars existing in lexan at scale 1/24th), but nothing of that. Instead two top racers showed with the Sunoco Ferrari 512M having been never raced at the Springbok Series. Some other showed with a horrible Mirage M1 in the wrong colours. None of the Porsches 906 was in correct colours. Although two of the four races were called a model car version of the famous Kyalami 9 Hours not half of the cars were true Springbok cars. However it was a first attempt to promote model car racing in the country and it deserves all our respect. Perhaps they should learn how to laminate lexan bodies. Once they manage those technique the quality of the bodies can be strongly improved. After Rudi Oldendaal won concourse, one started the first of the four races. Coming from Australia Jan Roestdorf was the fastest man on the track, the Paul Hawkins of the meeting, but unfortunately not with Hawkeye's Team Guston Ferrari 350 P4 Canam, but with the Sunoco Ferrari 512 having won ... the Sebring 12 hours. Craig Strydom with the correct Hawkeye machinery was runner-up and Paul Erlo on another Sunoco Ferrari third. Of the other entrants only young Tyrone Strydom on a Porsche 917 could follow the three leaders. Annetje Walburg - also responsible for the catering - caused a stir by finishing a fine fifth at the first race. The second race was again fully dominated by Jan Roestorf, now finishing ahead over Craig Strydom and Paul Erlo. Since Tyrone Strydom was delayed with technical woes fourth place went now to Dave Greer with ... an orange McLaren M8 of the Canam series instead of the Springbok series. |
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1st CANADIAN GRAND PRIX, TORONTO (CDN) - May 12, 2007 (NO IOC RACE) |
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May 20, 2007 - In Canada
Mark Campbell and Ernie Mosetti are
working hard to promote model car racing. For the
Canadian Grand Prix Mark prepared six identical
Corvettes of Carrera on a Schöler chassis equipped with
the ProSlot Mk1 motor. Here follows the report on the
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The last
two heats would determine the winner with both Team
Leaders, Mark Campbell and Brad Goodbody facing off. On
lap 35 Campbell found himself with some back markers and
no chance for a safe pass and Goodbody was able to make
up the better part of a lap. Going into the final heat,
the win was still open as Goodbody found himself on the
fast green lane and Campbell was left to drive his last
heat on the tight inside yellow lane. Lap by lap,
Goodbody was clawing back the lead however Campbell was
able to push the yellow lane to within .011s of
Goodbody’s lap times. As both racer’s entered the final
minute of the heat, it was clear that Campbell needed to
continue his pace and not deslot. A collision between
some backmarkers in the final few seconds of the heated
threatened the result, however Team Campbell hung on to
take the win by a little less than 2 meters over Team
Goodbody (see image SRC_Corvette_14.jpg). A duel to the
finish after 3 hours and 1680 laps of racing! The final
place on the podium went to Team Plachecki 2 seven laps
back of the leaders. The 2007 Corvette Challenge will
go into the record books as great race and a pivotal
event. Canadian Model Car Racing has been running for
many, many years on a club level however this was the
first major event held by Scale Racing Canada to IMCA
specifications . . . and also one of the best! LEFT PICTURE: Mark Campbell (right) and his co-driver Peter Czerwony. Roger Kroo is missing on the pic. |
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Teams: Registration was open to a total of 18 drivers on a first come basis. The top 6 drivers (based on previous racing history) were selected as Team Leaders (indicated below with an asterisks). The remaining 12 drivers where drawn randomly and assigned to each of 6 teams on a sequential basis and without preference as follows, Final Results: 1. Team Campbell Mark Campbell*, Peter Czerwony, Roger Koo — 1680.70 laps 2. Team Goodbody Brad Goodbody*, Brant Snow, Jim Toye — 1680.60 laps 3. Team Plachecki 2 Marek Plachecki*, Terry Dalton, John Boker — 1673.70 laps 4. Team Walker Chris Walker*, Amo Grazie, Victor Czerwony — 1666.20 laps 5. Team Plachecki 1 Matt Plachecki*, Tony Canini, Keven Field — 1665.70 laps 6. Team Paris Guy Paris*, Gary Burella, Bob Bainborough — 1636.70 laps Fastest lap times: Chris Walker 6.028s Mark Campbell 6.045s Matt Plachecki 6.080 |
Race Director: Ernesto Mossetti Format: 3 Hour Team Enduro. 36 x 5m heats. Cars remain on lanes. Teams rotate. Controllers provided and fixed to each lane. All drivers in Race T Shirts. Track: Ogilvie wooden 6-laner (delivered Sep 2007), 20m short track road course designed by Chris Walker. Technical Rules for Cars: IMCA for FIA GT Article 7. (variances: Art.7.4.b Gearing 9:45 to accommodate shorter track, Art. 7.5.d Rear Tyres Wiesel to accommodate Raceworld track surface). Car Specifications: Body: Corvette C6R by Carrera Chassis: Scholer Striker 5513D Motor: Proslot Euro Mk1 26,100 rpm Double Sealed Axles: Sakatsu 3mm solid Bearings: Jens Full Race Open Spur Gear: JP 45t Pinion: Sakatsu 9t Guide: Slick 7 Graphite Cutdown Front Wheels: Monza 21mm OD x 20mm ID Rear Rims: Monza 21mm OD x 20mm ID |
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12th DIETER JENS LE MANS CHALLENGE, SIEGEN (June 23-24) (D) (NO IOC RACE) |
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July 21, 2007 - It's pretty late, but not too late to write a short
report on the 12th Dieter Jens Le Mans Challenge. Let I repeat that
I consider Jens as the founding father of modern model car racing.
Although he co-operates closely with the Chief-Rabbi of the Amish
people of North-Germany, there is quite a difference among them two.
Jens is a full pro, a former wing car racer having contested dozens
of international races. Still in 1995 he finished as fourth at the
USRA Nats, what's an excellent visit card. Earlier, in 1988 he won
the first round of the 1/24th Model Car Endurance World Championship
in Chicago. Contrarily to the Chief-Rabbi of the Amish, being a
simple-minded peasant, an amateur without connections in the world
of pro racers, Jens is highly respected b y nearly all pros of the
world. So it remains for me a mystery why his Le Mans Challenge
became never an international event. In 2004 I did an effort to
bring Nick de Wachter and "Piki", two world
champions in model car racing to Siegen, hoping that this could be
the start of an internationalisation of the Le Mans Challenge. Their
entry, however, was a big deception: in such style of racing without
aggressive motors, they could not defend their chances. They had to
drive some old cars which I bought at the last minute from Thomas
Spicker and from others, and although the road holding was far
from good, both counted on the fact that they never deslot, to move
up in the rankings. However, with such motorless cars nobody deslots,
so there was no way to take any advantage from their professional
experience. In 2005 I tried to convince Salvatore Noviello, Dani
Gonzalez, Tamar Nelwan and many others to do the Le Mans
Challenge - especially now that we had our own cars with excellent
road holding - but nobody was hot to show. |
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For the first time in the history of the Le Mans Challenge someone
succeeded to win the three classes: Dieter Sommer. As far as
I can see it was his first entry in the Le Mans Challenge. In the
three races he was outstanding, winning once three laps ahead, once
one lap ahead and once one and a half lap ahead over his nearest
competitor. So there was only close racing for the three our four
following places. Contrarily to former years the three races went
over 6 x 7 minutes instead of 6 x 5 minutes. It stirs that most of
the so called "modern" prototypes went all slower than the pre-1964 GT & T cars. With the years the Le Mans Challenge got
something
droll. Among the "modern" prototypes no Audi R10 TDi, no Bentley EX
9, no Pescarolo C60 Judd, even not one actual car, but nearly
exclusively cars being a quarter century or more old. The most
recent cars, a Ferrari F550 Maranello and an Audi R8 finished ... at
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DIEPENBEEK 24H OF SPEEDLINES (June 30-July 1) (B) (WAS CANDIDATE IOC RACE) |
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July 1, 2007 - Scheduled as the second IOC model car race of 2008,
the 9th Diepenbeek 24h absolutely not deserved such status. More
than half of the cars should have been refused since model of
nothing existing. There were only racers from Belgium and Holland
(not of minimum six nations as stipulated by the IOC rules). A
decent final result was not available: we even don't know exactly
who were the racers; of some entrants only the first names were
published, etc. Fully understandable Racing for Holland decided not
to enter such race having more and more the status of a simple rural
fairground attraction. No wonder that racers from Spain, Germany,
Denmark, Norway, etc. all preferred to do some-thing else than
smelling the perfume of fatty Flemish frites. The several teams
showed even without team shirts, being all but publicity for
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2nd EUREGIO EUROPEAN ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP, ALSDORF (July 26-27) (D) (IOC RACE) |
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Very enjoyable race with Fola, Hernández & Stüdemann as revelation |
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August 1, 2007 - The
Spa 124 track, now installed at the Titanic Bowling in Alsdorf, was for
the third time in the recent slot history the theatre of an important
international race. Early 2006 the track was used for the (Euregio)
European Endurance Championship (EEC 2006), a race won by Christoph
Kremer/Geert Mertens/Jan Gürtzgen, ahead over Michael
Niemas/Philip Kremer and Nick de Wachter/Tamar Nelwan/Gabe
Inäbnit. At the end of the year the same track was used for the (too
early) Farewell Race of Tamar. Entry was at a lower level than on May
26-27, 2006 at the 1st EEC, so that it was not registered as an
IOC-event. Now the Kremers (father and son) won ahead of De
Wachter/Nelwan/Inäbnit. Last week-end the track was used for the 2nd
(Euregio) European Championship. Venue was excellent with racers from
Germany, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Nigeria and Venezuela. It
was at the same time the Anniversary Race for Tamar and Gabe. No less
than 13 teams showed, all with FIA GT cars of 2007 (4), 2006 (4) and
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This is the Maserati MC12 of Michael Niemas/Christoph Kremer and Philip Kremer (team The Bad Boys). It was not the fastest car on the track, but it was superbly raced by the three Germans. For Christoph Kremer it was already his third win on three outings at the Spa 124 track. Philip Kremer could not do the whole race since he was also expected to defend the team's colours at an RC Race. The Kremers and Niemas are very serious favourites at the upcoming IMCA Worlds in Mechelen. Moreover the team is favourite for the upcoming DPM in Darmstadt, where Niemas can win for the fourth time: an absolute record. |
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1st DANISH PLAFIT CHAMPIONSHIP (DKPM), COPENHAGEN (Sept 16) (DK) (NO IOC RACE) |
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September 18, 2007
- In the neighbourhood of Copenhagen, at the new
slotracing centre RACEFUN, owners Keld Høfler and Gorm Nørregaard
organised a classy version of the real first Danish PlaFit Championship.
Several Danish top racers were in place, among them Christian Høfler ,
Martin Borch and good old Thorkild Hjorth. During years the last named
was the lonely Danish racer with international fame. Absent were Henrik
Hasager and Pål Hanson, the two best
ranked racers, living in Denmark, on the IOC-list. Entry was certainly
below expectations, but nevertheless it was a strong field, a national
championship worth. At the real last moment a team from Sweden and from
Norway cancelled their entry. So we found eight teams at the start. Of
them four opted for Carrera's Ferrari 575 GTC, three for a Porsche 911
GT1 Evo and one for the Toyota Supra JGTC. |
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![]() Podium with.f.l.t.r. Palle Bering, Carsten Grønemann, Søren Thomsen (Team Senior) – Christian Høfler, Keld Høfler (RaceFun 1) – Finn Thomsen, Lars Jacobsen, Thorkild Hjort (Superslot1). |
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third heat was won by Christian Høfler, increasing the advance of
the Racefun #23 Porsche at once from four to eleven laps, due to the
fact that the #44 Senior Team Porsche finished last of the heat at 15
laps. In the general standings the #23 has now eleven laps over the new
second, the #96 Ferrari 575 GTC of Superslot 1. Senior Team follows
already at nineteen laps, but maintains its third place one lap ahead
over HMC and three more over Viking. |
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1st BMW PROCAR RACES (ROUNDS #1-#2) AMSTERDAM (Sept 9) (NL) (NO IOC RACE) |
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September 26, 2007
- We had to wait a very long time, but now it
happens at least. Amsterdam has a nice competitive club where the first
races of the BMW Procar Series were contested a good week ago. Let's
remember that the club let made 25 BMW M1s as raced in 1979 and 1980 on
Saturdays preceding a F1 Grand Prix. It were famous racers where nearly
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8th DEUTSCHE PLAFIT MEISTERSCHAFT (DPM) ERZHAUSEN (Sept 28-29) (D) (IOC RACE) |
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SEIF, ALEX ORTMANN & CAROLINE SCHNITZLER WIN |
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Japanese team second - Niemas & Kremers only 11th - Fola 15th |
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October 3, 2007
- We wrote it earlier: Kurt Petri is probably
the best slot-racing organiser in the world. He organised the DPM for
the 8th time and again we hear nothing but positive reactions.
Everything goes smooth, no stress, only fun. This year again 48 teams of
3 drivers (144 in total) were at the start, spread over three classes:
experts, amateurs and rookies. This year pace was very high since no
less than four teams succeeded to beat last years record of 735.18
laps. Among the entrants we found all the best German racers,
but also the reigning world champion Dani "Giesse" Gonzalez and
the former world champion Geert Mertens. Other notorious racers
as Fola Osu, Christian Hofler, Keld Hofler, Pal Hanson, Iker Santos,
Ivan Basas, etc. were all present. This year there were
racers from such different nationalities as Japan (3), Spain (12),
Denmark (3), Austria (3), Norway (3), Belgium (3), USA (1), Luxembourg
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This year the DPM has been upgraded as IOC-race and fits now in category 2 (20 points for the winners) and no longer in category 3 (10 points for the winner). Already shortly after the start it became obvious that Niemas's car was unable to follow the pace. Shortly after the teams of Manfred Stork and Bartelmes had to let go the front runners. At mid-race still six teams out of 48 had winning chances: the team of Andreas Laufenberg, of the Dr Slot Youngsters from Trier, of CricCrac, of Sebastian Nockermann and of Ralf Seif. Last year Seif finished second overall, just as his team mate Axel Ortmann. This year they opted for young Caroline Schnitzler as team mate. She is the sister of the 2005 European champion and 2006 DPM winner Christian Schnitzler. Last year she finished already sixth overall. The Schnitzlers are a famous slot-racing family in Germant with Klaus Schnitzler and Manuela Schnizler as other racers of the clan. This year Caroline was more in the picture than brother Christian. Nobody could believe his eyes when they saw that Caroline went just as fast as her team mates. This year Ralf Seif thus opted for two young and promising team mates, together hardly thirty years old. Towards the last quarter of the race number of candidate winners was down to four after both Laufenberg's team and the Trier youngsters lost more than four laps on the pace setters. Up from now it was obvious that final victory should go to one of those teams: CrricCarc's, Seif's, the Japanese team of Koudu and Nockerman's. They were separated by less than three laps. |
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Compared with last year racing in front was much closer. Indeed in 2006 Laufenberg/Christian Schnitzler/Jan Gürtzgen won still nine laps ahead over the second. This year the top four was split by less than three laps. The first to 'crack" was ... CricCrac (yes, Shakespeare: what's in a name good old fellow), shortly later followed by Nockerman's (THE revelation of the 2007 DPM). So we found during the last heat two teams in ... the very same lap: Seif's and Koudu's. Most PlaFit supporters were hoping that the Japanese team should offer big boss Noro Ono his first all-Japanese DPM. So we went to a breath-taking final with two cars struggling side by side. The eventual winners were, however not the Japanese, but the Germans. For Ralf Seif/Alex Ortmann/Caro-line Schnitzler it was undoubtedly their most beautiful win. Ralf is now top favourite to win the 2007 Worlds. For next year IMCA invites also Alex and Caroline. We hope that their vacation planning doesn't coincide with July 19-23, because we wish to see them in action against the super pros. A final remark: wze can only publish very provisional results. As soon as we have the official ones we'll update the IOC-list. PS. October 18 - still no official results. [JPVR]
October 22, 2007 - Four
weeks after the event Kurt Petri published the complete results on the
DPM web site. A look at the definitive results underlines the
inter-national character of the DPM. No less than 10 nationalities were
present. There were 105 racers from Germany, 21 from Spain, 4 from
Denmark, 3 from Japan, Austria and Belgium; two from Norway; one from
Nigeria, Luxembourg and the USA. For non-German teams it takes several
years before they can struggle for the overall victory: best example is
given by the Japanese racers who year by year improved their results.
This year they realised the pole and finished second. Of the two world
champions at the start - Dani Gonzalez and Geert Mertens -
no top-results were noted. Gonzalez came no further than rank 21.
Mertens was the one but last stranger's team, finishing 38th. |
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6th R.O.C. (SPA REVISITED), ALSDORF (Oct 13-14) (D) (IOC RACE) |
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NICK DE WACHTER & EMILY KUIPERS TAKE REVENGE |
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Again a more than enjoyable race but at a very wrong moment |
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October 18, 2007
- 36 racers from 9 different countries showed for
what was called the "revenge race" for the previous race at Alsdorf.
With the winners of the first Alsdorf race (The Bad Boys) and the
fastest man (Reyes) being absent, there was not a real revenge. The race
was a personal initiative by Willem Kloppenburg, who put it on
the calendar without worrying about the fact that the date was very
unlucky (same date as the ISRA worlds, two weeks before the start of the
IMCA worlds). After the Diepenbeek 24h were not recognised as an
IOC-event (only Dutch and Belgian racers present) it was agreed to
consider the second Alsdorf race as an IOC-event of level 3 (10
IOC-points for the winners) and to consider it as the R.O.C. (not on the
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This is the brand new Sarafree Maserati MC12, built by Gert Klinge. Tom Ooms caused a stir by taking the pole position with a car having never been raced earlier. |
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| The field on its way to Eau Riuge. | Philippe Laudet and Philippe Destrée showed with this Luc Alphand Corvette C6R. It's their first 1/24th model car which they'll race at the 2008 EEC. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| This is Rob de Ridder's Corvette C5R, not in the coulours of the Spa 24 hours, but in the colours of the other rounds of the 2007 FIA-GT series. | This is a model car version of the Carsport Holland having won the 2007 Spa 24 hours. This is Ton Jacob's car. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team Modena Aston Martin DBR9 as raced at the 2007 Le Mans 24 hours, built by Henri van Gool. The car finished ninth on 18. |
Line-up with Gert Klinge's Sarafree Maserati ahead of Nick de Wachter's #1 Vitaphone Maserati MC12. Klinge's car was first at the qualifications and last at the finish. At the left Hotlappers #68 Ferrari having finished as second. |
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IMCA'S 20th WORLDS, EURONATS & BENELUX CUP |
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10th VIKING 12 HOURS, FREDERIKSUND (Nov 15-16, 2007) (DK) (NO IOC RACE) |
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NELWAN, INÄBNIT, OOSTERLING WIN JUBILEE EDITION |
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December 4, 2007 - 24 racers from 4 different countries showed for the jubilee edition of the Viking 12 hours. The race was easily won by Tamar Nelwan (NL), Gabe Inäbnit (CH) and Marcel Oosterling (NL) having earlier qualified as first in 6"397. Gert Klinge (B), who qualified as second, had a difficult start, but made a superb come-back to 3rd overall. Second place went to Michael Kklarskov (DK), Hroar Olsen (DK) and Jørgen Rigtrup (DK) with a simple Carrera Corvette on a M-Racing C1 chassis. White Point, where Pål Hanson (N) could not start, disappointed by finishing 5th. Notorious absentees were Martin Borch and the Høflers. WQe never received the promised report. [JPVR] |
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1st BIG WHEELS G5, ALSDORF (Dec 2-3, 2007) (D) (NO IOC RACE) |
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FOLA OSU, GERT KLINGE & STEFAN BAUDACH WIN |
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December, 2007
- 36 racers from 5 different countries showed for an
interesting G5 meeting at the Alsdorf track. This meeting was scheduled
"at the last minute" (not before starting the 2007 season) following a
"last minute concept" so typical for Nick de Wachter. Nevertheless it
was a good show and an interesting meeting. Twelve teams showed with
their "Big Wheels". The race was intended as a kind of Belgium vs Holland with six Belgian teams at the start and five Dutch teams.
World champion Afolabi Osu insisted and could enter an
international team with Stefan Baudach (D) and Gert Klinge (B)
as team racers. He won Concourse and was fastest - with an in-liner
chassis! - at the
Qualifications. All cars were equipped with a C3 motor, not with the
ProSlot Mk1. There was raced at 13 Volts, not at 14.7 Volt as usual,
since the cars, with their big wheels, had too much grip, and were
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