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EPC 2008 Rnd
#2 - 10th
DPM, ERZHAUSEN (D) - May 1-3, 2008
(IOC-RACE) |
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R.SEIF/A.ORTMANN/CAROLINE SCHNITZLER ONCE MORE |
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Top Success:
192 racers spread over 64 teams at the start! Upgraded to
level 1. |
May 3, 2008 - The 10th
edition of the DPM was a splendid success story. Indeed no
less than 192 racers from at least 12 different countries came at the
start. Apart from a majority of German racers we ,noted 21
racers from Spain, 3 from the USA, 3 from Canada, 3 from
France, 3 from Switzerland, 3 from Italy, 3 from Denmark, 3
from Japan, 3 from Austria, and single racers from Holland
and Luxembourg. Of those 64 teams 24 had to contest the
semi-finals, giving the 8 first the right to enter the
eventual race with 48 teams.
Racers having not
survived the Semis could have among them a kind of
consolation race on a wooden four laner.
New for 2008
was that the race could easily be followed at the internet
with the so-called Slot Race Life Ticker. If we are
well informed this system was introduced by Keld Høfler
of Racefun from Denmark. The system lets see each x
minutes the computer screen with the standings after
each segment of each heat. In Germany some-one added short
comments - both in German ànd English - so that the
spectator was always well-informed about the reasons why
some teams lost at once one or more laps. This very
interesting system is still highly unknown among
slot-racers, since at no moment there were more than 92
viewers. Nevertheless it should be interesting to use that
system at the upcoming 20th IMCA Worlds. We should
contact Keld Høfler for more info. It could also be used at
round #3 of the EEC 2008. Here Tamar Nelwan already
contacted Racefun Danmark. |
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SEMI FINALS
Of the 8 teams surviving the
Semi-Finals the winning team of dr. Slot will later finish
the race in 11th position. Kraner 2, who finished 4th at the
Semis, will finish the race as 16th OA. L.E. Slot, having
finished 6th at the Semis will finish eventually 21st
overall, ahead over NASCAR having finished 2nd at the Semis.
Franken 1, having finished the Semis as 3rd will be 24th OA.
Of the others no team finished among the top-25 O.A.
QUALIFICATIONS At the DPM the qualifications are
extremely important, because they decide in which of the 6
heats a team can start. Ultimate goal, of course, is
finishing among the top-8. Foreign teams coming from the
USA, Canada, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Japan and
Austria were free of the Semis. So everybody was curious how
well they could perform at the Qualifications.
However, it became obvious that none of those teams, except
for the several Spanish, was a
potential contender on winning the eventual race. Very
disappointing was the result of the Japanese team. Last year
a Japanese team still finished as runner-up with Koudu
Nobuhisha, Katsnori Sekine and Hideaki Suzuki (having
finished in 2006 already 5th OA). The 2008 Japanese team was
certainly not so professional as the previous years, since
they finished 48th on 48 in 11"891. The USA, France and
Austria did hardly better, since they qualified res. as
46th, 45th and 44th.
Switzerland, Italy and Canada (with Mark Campbell!) did
slightly better, qualifying res. as 38th, 37th and 35th.
Only the Danish (with Keld Høfler and young Christian Høfler)
was competitive, qualifying as 25th in 8"053. Disappointing
was the team of Nick de Wachter (SG Stern): they qualified
as low as 27th. Disappointing to was the time realised by
Manfred and Oliver Stork, finishing with 8"084 as 29th,
being condemned to start in the third lowest heat. Top
qualifiers were Michael Niemas/Philipp Kremer/Christoph
Kremer (Bad Boys). Of them Niemas won already
three times the DPM. They realised an extremely sharp time
of 7"600. Second qualifiers were Sebastian Nockermann/Jan
Uhlig/Lucas Neumann of the Plastiquäler team in
7"609, followed by Kevin Krollmann/Martin Bartelmes/Peter
Oberbillig (No Limits) in 7"619. The very young Dr.
Slot Juniors, who caused last year a stir by finishing 6th
OA, confirmed their brilliant performance. Now they
qualified as 4th. It concerns Maximilian Hollenberger/Armin
Seldmayr/Tobias Munchenberger of Dr. Slot Juniors..
Among the four other teams having qualified in the top-8 we
found (of course) the A.C.R. of Rallph Seif,
Alexander Ortmann and Caroline Schnitzler, having already
won last year's DPM and this year's DKMP. They qualified as
5th in 7"641. This year there was also a second
Plastiquäler team - Plastiquäler 2 with
Jochen Fußmann)/Jan Schaffland/Marcel Wondel. At the 2008
DKPM they finished as 6th. Now they qualified as 6th.
Biggest surprise at the qualifications came from #51
Bahnmeister (Patrick Brau/Ralf Seldmeyer/Jochen Fußmann).
They qualified as 7th, enough to go to the last and fastest
heat. The lonely strangers among the top-8 were the Spanish
racers of CricCrac with Icker Santos and Roger Suñe. |
HEATS #4 AND #3 In heat #4 we
have a Spanish team (Cursa Sport) and the Danish team
of Keld Høfler and Christian Høfler. Interesting too is that
we find here three teams having been very unlucky at the
qualifications: Nascar Slot Racing of Manfred Stork,
X-Rookies of GuRi (Günther Riehl, having won earlier
twice the DPM) and SG Stern with Nick de Wachter
(NL), winner of five world championships and earlier
vice-winner of the DPM. The three remaining teams are
locals. Patrick Meister (Nascar Slot-Racing) is
pulling away like a rocket. After 5 minutes in the first
segment he has already one lap over Nick de Wachter's team
and 5 over GuRi's. At the end of the first segment 94 laps
were achieved, a new record. Nick de Wachter is second, 1
lap down. Then follows the Spanish team at 4 laps. GuRi lost
7 laps and is 7th, Keld Høfler of the Danish team 11.
Meister improved the track record with a fastest lap in
7"553, better than the pole position time of the Bad
Boys. During the second segment Cursa Sport realises
92 laps (just as Stork), moving up into rank 2. SG Stern
looses 5 laps in the second segment and is now 3rd. By
completing 90 laps the Danish Racefun moves from rank
8 to rank 4. GuRi is in problems and looses again 4 laps. At
mid-heat Stork's Nascar Slot-Racing achieved already
... 370 laps, good for 740 in total if they can keep the
pace at the same speed. Cursa Sports is always 2nd,
but already at 8 laps, AG Stern always 3rd, but now
at 15 laps. Danish Racefun (only 85 laps in segment
4) drops in the standings to rank 7, being now 22 laps down.
In front the Storks and Meister still accelerate.
X-Rookies with GuRi are now 3rd after 6 segments, 2 laps
down to Cursa Sport in rank 2 and 23 to the leaders.
During segment 7 X-Rookies loose more than 10 laps in
the pits. With one segment to go Nascar Slot-Racing
has already 22 laps over Cursa Models and 23 over
AG Stern. X-Rookies drops into the last place. This time
no GuRi miracle as so often in the past. Eventually
Nascar Slot-Racing will achieve 740 laps over the 8
heats, that's only 3 laps less than achieved by the winners
last year. They realised a supreme race and several
spectators predict that they'll be the final winners. After
the 6 heats it becomes obvious that this is ... just not the
case They'll be 6th OA. During his final run Patrick Meister
realises a new track record in 7"517. Cursa
Sport from Spain is 2nd at 26 laps, enough for a 19th
rank OA. They are immediately followed by Nick de Wachter's
AG Stern, finishing 20th OA The Danish team, with
Keld Høfler as fastest racer, will finish 32nd overall.
In heat #3 we find 3 Spanish teams at the start: Tim
Comarca with Ivan Basas (last year 11th), Slot
Terrassa (last year21st with the 2006 world champion
Dani "Giesse" Gonzalez) and ALGT Team with Valentin &
Israel Gil, last year 35th. During the two first segments
L.E. Slot, survivor of the Semis, will lead, to being
passed during the 3rd segment by Team Comarca from
Spain. They'll hold the lead until the end of the 7th
segment. But then they are passed by Kraner Racing Team 2,
having achieved (only) 719 laps, 27 less than the Storks &
Meister. They'll finish 16th OA, Team Comarca 18th
OA, ALGT 25th overall and Slot Terassa 28th
overall. With 4 heats gone Nascar Slot-Racing is a
strong OA leader with their 740 laps, followed by
Mittelrhein with 725 laps and Kramer 2 with 719
laps. Now the big guns will come in action, among them 3
famous Spanish teams, one of them being Marina Alta
of the three Checas, having finished 4th OA at this year's
DKPM. |
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HEAT #2 In the one but last
heat we find 2 Spanish teams: Marina Alta with the
Checas and Tim Abina with Josep Ruiz/Julio Moya/Miguel
Cortez. Dr. Slot of Trier, with Martin Bartelmes is
fastest away, but will passed during the second segment by
Kraner Racing Team of Duisberg, probably with Andreas
Laufenberg (the eternal student; nobody seems to know what
he's studying). Thomas Nötzel is this year no member of the
team since he drove for Kraner 2. During the same
second segment Kraner 1 improves the track record
with a 7"413. At mid-heat - despite a weak run on
lane 5 - they have already achieved 375 laps, 5 more than
the Storks & Meister did. They seem on their way to make 750
laps, i.e. 7 more than last year's winners. They have
already 7 laps over Dr. Slot and Jäger Team
from Saarbrücken (Joahim Welsch/Pierre Stein/Mark Kiefer).
Marina Alta of the Checas is 5th at 10 laps, followed
6 laps further by Tim Albina. During the 6th segment
KIK Racing (with Dietmar Schmeer) can pass Dr.
Slot for the second place. The following segment
Jäger Team passes on its turn Dr. Slot. Kraner
has now 9 laps over KIK Racing, 14 over Jäger Team
and 15 over Dr Slot, with two segments to go.
Eventually Kraner will win in a fabulous
747 laps, 4 more than last year's winners. KIK Racing
follows at 11 laps. During the last segment Dr Slot
succeeded to pass Jâger Team for the third place.
The Checas come 3 laps short to take the third place.
Eventually they'll finish 13th overall, Tim Abina
17th overall. After the last heat it will appear that 747
laps was not enough for outright victory. Kraner will
finish 2nd overall, KIK Racing 9th overall and Dr.
Slot 11th overall.
HEAT #1 It's 21h40 (9.40 pm) when the 8 fastest
cars align for the final heat. For Bad Boys Michael
Niemas will start, for Plastikquäler Lukas Neumann,
for No Limits Kevin Krollmann, for Dr. Slot
Juniors Maxi Hollenburger, for A.C.R. Ralph Seif
himself, for Plastikquäler 2 Jan Schaffland, for
Bahnmeister the three-long Patrick Brau and for the
Spanish CricCrac team X.X Bad start for Kevin
Krollmann and Ralph Seif, both deslotting a couple of times.
After 5 minutes Neumann and Niemas lead the field, followed
at 1 lap by Seif, Hollenburger and Krollmann, at 2 laps by
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HEATS #6 AND #5 In heat #6 we find the teams of Japan
(New Wave), France (Dream CH'Team), Austria
(Grenzlandslot) and the USA (Nighthawks). During
the first segment the Japanese loose already 15 laps
on Leo Chilli Racing (Frank Schüler/Carsten
Starke/Bernd Starke). At the end of the first segment
we find the foreign teams in ranks 4-5-6-8. Leo Chilli
Racing, last year still 10th OA with 722 laps - but now
victim of qualification woes - takes immediately the lead
and will maintain it until the end, winning heat #6 with 711
laps. The Swiss team will finish as third, but 29 laps down
to the heat winners. The Japanese will come 5 laps
further in 4th position. The French team will finish 6th of
the heat, 59 laps down to the winners. The American team
suffered the whole race from a bad set-up (too much grip)
and finished as 7th at 61 laps. Later it will appear that
Leo Chilli Racing is 23rd OA. The Austrian team will be
41st OA, the Japanese 43rd and the American 46th and the
French 48th. Probably the Frenchies lost 30 extra laps due
to a too low clearing. In heat #5 we have the teams of
Canada (Canam Queens), Italy (Engage Model
Racing), and Switzerland (Slot Connection),
together with 5 German teams, of who Piccomat is the
best known. Indeed, Picomat is since the mid 1960s a
slot-racing shop in Köln. In the mid-1980s I could find
there original Cox kits (of the Lotus 40, Chaparral 2D and
Ford GT) at unbelievable low prices. Now you pay easily $
1,000 US or more for such collection items. The
Canadians, with Mark Campbell, took a real bad start,
loosing 15 laps during the first segment. In front
Mittelrhein (Hans Werner/Peter Juchem/Dirk Wolf), having
finished last year 16th, are pulling away up from the start.
For the Canadians things go hardly better during the second
segment, since they loose again 20 laps. In front of them,
at place 7, we find the Italians who already lost 26 laps in
two segments. Things go better for the Swiss racers, taking
rank 3. Piccomat, with the famous Nascar racer
Nezih Durukanli (winner of several rounds at the Manfred
Stork races in Kôln) had a hoorible segment on lane 8,
making them loosing 18 laps in only two segments. Positions
change no more and Mittelrhein wins with 725.04 laps which
will be enough for a 15th place overall. The Swiss will
finish 4th of the heat, enough to finish 36th overall. The
Italians will finish one but last of the heat, finishing 50
laps down to the winners. They will be 44th OA. The poor
Canadians are last of the heat, finishing 64 laps down to
the winners. They'll finish 45th OA, heading the Americans
by 26 laps. |
Fastest lap after 5 minutes is
for Kevin Krollmann in 7"465 - not enough to improve the
race record. During the second half of the first segment he
will lower his time into 7"424. ?eumann leads Seif, Niemas,
Hollenburger and Krollmann by 1 lap after the first segment.
Schaffland follows at 2 laps, the others at 3. During the
second segment Bad Boys (Niemas, Philipp Kremer,
Christoph Kremer) take the lead, letting nobody on the lead
lap. Dr. Slot Juniors and Plastikquäler follow
at 1 lap. CricCrac (7th) and Bahnmeister (8th)
are already 8 laps down. During the third segment the Bad
Boys, with reigning world champion Philipp Kremer, are
lapped twice by Plastikquäler so that Christian
Schnitzler is now 2 laps aherad over them and the
astonishing very young Dr. Slot Juniors. Caroline
Schnitzler of A.C.R. is 4th, but already at 4 laps.
During the 4th segment Christian Schnitzler of
Plastikquäler looses his rear spoiler ...and the lead.
New leaders are now the unbelievable strong youngsters of
Dr. Slot Junior. Philipp Kremer and Christian Schnitzler
follow at mid-race at 1 lap, Carolinee Schnitzler is always
4 laps down. During the following segment both
Plastikquäler cars loose precious time. The #12 with a
broken spoiler, the #57 after a short cut (5 laps lost).
Both try to make their come back, improving their best lap
times. After 5 segments the #12 is again second, just as
Bad Boys and A.C.R. one lap down to the leading
Dr. Slot Juniors. No limits follows at 2 laps after
having quit the track, falling on the floor, CricCrac
at 5. During segment 6 Ralph Seif of A.C.R.
passes all cars, taking the lead. Bad Boys follow at
1 lap, having passed the Dr. Slot Juniors.
Nockermann/Christian Schnitzler/Neumann of Plastikquäler
are 4th at 2 laps. Final victory will go among those 4
teams and... Kramer Racing with its fabulous 747
laps. CricCrac is 5th, but already at 5 laps. For
No Limits chances on victory seem small after their
crash. They too are 5laps down. In the last but one
segment A.C.R. Racing holds the lead with 654 laps, 1
lap more than the Bad Boys. But Kraner Racing
realised also 653 laps after 7 segments, so that they are
still in the top-3 OA. No Limits and Dr. Slot
Juniors follow already at 4 laps, CricCrac at 6,
the Plastikquäler cars res. at 8 and 10.
Alexander Ortmann - at my opinion the next model car
world champion in Herentals! - will do the last segment for
A.C.R., Niemas the last segment for Bad Boys.
I have no info what happened but 3 minutes later Niemas was
at once 5 laps down to Ortmann, having even been passed by
Kevin Krollmann of No Limits. No 4th DPM for Niemas
thus. Later he'll be involved in a collision with
Krollmann's car. Eventually Seif/Ortmann/Caroline
Schnitzler are the winners with 2 laps more than
Kramer Racing. |
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BEST
INTERNATIONAL RACE ON THE CALENDAR Although not without a
commercial conotation, I consider the DPM as the best
organised of all international races. Eventually I see only
two things which still can be improved: (1) It takes
always several weeks before the press knows who were the
three entrants per team. That implies that it is not
possible to publish the eventual results. Below one finds
such provisional results. It's not impossible that there are
mistakes in the names of the racers, due to the fact that
the names of the racers having not been published. That's an
easy point to correct for the future. (2) Foreign racers,
having had not enough time to practice, have always problems
to realise a good result at the DPM. Perhaps it should be a
good idea to add an extra day where non-German teams can
practice and do the correct set-up of their cars. Now many
teams complain that they had nearly no occasion to do that. |
DPM
UPGRADED TO IOC-LEVEL "1", i.e. THE HIGHEST LEVEL
The success of the DPM is so overwhelming that we decided to
upgrade the DPM from an IOC level 2 event to an IOC level 1
event. That means that the DPM is up from this year
considered as a race with the same high standards of a world
championship.Top-8 finishers win now res. 30, 22.5, 18,
13.5, 9, 4.5, 3 and 1.5 points instead of 20, 15, 12, 9, 6,
3, 2, 1 for former editions. The
IOC-list has been
updated. Niemas has now 393 points on rank 18, Philipp
Kremer 346.5 points on rank 23, Seif 244 (moved from rank 41
to 36), Christoph Kremer 244 (moved from rank 40 to 37),
Laufenberg 109 (enters the top-100 after a move from 103 to
87), Krollmann 90.5 (moving from 119 to 101), Ortmann 82
(moving from rank 162 to 109), Christian Schnitzler 73
(moving from rank 130 to 124), Caroline Schnitzler 71.5
(moving from rank 194 to 126), Oberbillig 61.5 (moving from
rank 190 to 144), Manfred Stork 56 (moving from 168 to 156),
etc. Caroline Schnitzler is now the first female racer on
the IOC-list. After her DPM win she passed tthe legendary
Corinna Gianotti. |
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DEFINITIVE
RESULTS (ONLY TOP-10 OUT OF 64 TEAMS)
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Racers |
Car |
Laps |
Qualif |
IOC
pts |
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1. Ralph Seif
(D)/Alexander Ortmann (D)/Caroline Schnitzler (D) |
#11 A.C.R. Porsche 911
GT1 |
749.41 laps |
7.641 (5th) |
30 IOC pts |
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2.
Thomas Nötzel (D)/Andreas Laufenberg(D)/Stefan Bolz
(D) |
#14 Kraner Racing Team
Porsche 911 GT1 |
747.19 laps |
7.811 (9th) |
22.5 IOC pts |
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3. Kevin Krollmann
(D)/Lukas Hoffmann (D)/Peter Oberbillig (D) |
#16 No Limits
Porsche 911 GT1 |
744.12 laps |
7.619 (3rd) |
18 IOC pts |
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Philipp Kremer
(D)/Michael Niemas (D)/Christoph Kremer (D) |
#22
Bad Boys Porsche 911 GT1 |
743.40 laps |
7.600
(1st) |
13.5 IOC pts |
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5. Maximilian
Hollenberger
(D)/Armin Seldmayer (D)/Tobias
Munchberger (D) |
#15 Dr. Slot Juniors
Porsche 911 GT1 |
740.44 laps |
7.638 (4th) |
9 IOC pts |
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Manfred Stork(D)/Oliver Stork (D)/Patrick Meister (D) |
#18
NASCAR Slot-Racing Porsche 911 GT |
740.34 laps |
8.084 (29th) |
4.5 IOC pts |
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7. Sebastian
Nockermann(D)/Christian Schnitzler (D)/Lukas Neumann (D) |
#12 Plastikquäler
Porsche 911 GT1 |
739.37laps |
7.609 (2nd) |
3 IOC pts |
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Iker Santos (E)/Roger Suñe (E)/Armando Timoneda (E) |
#13
CricCrac Porsche 911 GT1 |
739.34 laps |
7.784 (8th) |
1.5 IOC pts |
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9. Dietmar Schmeer
(D)/Marco Prigl(D)/Christian Eckel (D) |
#17 KIK Racing Porsche
911 GT1 |
736.42 laps |
7.950 (13th) |
0 IOC pts |
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Justin Pasch(D)/Jan Schaffland (D)/Jan Uhlig (D) |
#57
Plastikquäler 2 |
734.14 laps |
7.727 (6th) |
0 IOC pts |
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EEC 2008 Rnd
#2 - BRUSSELS 24 HOURS, WEZEMBEEK-OPPEM (B) - March 29-30, 2008
(IOC-RACE) |
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NIEMAS/N.GRUND
(GT1)
& KIVEKÄS/EKSMAN
(GT2)
WIN |
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Restrictors
half solution for Maserati dominance - PS4000-IMCA not equal |
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March 31, 2008 - The
second round of the EEC 2008 was enjoyable. Although Michael
Niemas (D) and Norman Grund (D) had not the smallest
problem to win the race, the most stirring result came from Kai
Kivekäs (SF)/Henri Eskman (SF) who succeeded to finish second
with a 78mm wide Ferrari F430 GT beating - except for one - all
those 88 and 89mm wide Maseratis MC12. Another superb result was
reached by Willem Kloppenburg (NL) and Onno Griepink (NL)
with a 82 mm wide Corvette C6R. They had a horrible start in the
first day section, where Onno lost at least 60 laps, struggling with
lanes 6 and 8. But during the night section the Corvette won the
second place one Ono improved a lot on the three outer lanes. In the
morning session the Corvette was leading the session, ahead of
Niemas/Grund until the real last section, where Onno had to go to
the slow black outer lane. Just before Willem Kloppenburg gave a
demonstration when he even moved up into third position overall,
letting the Lambo of Tamar Nelwan (NL)/Gabriel Inäbnit (CH)
up to six laps behind, with the four last segments to go. At those
four we saw a struggle between Onno and Tamar, where despite of
Onno's best efforts, Tamar was the strongest. Ono started his four
runs with nine laps advance over Niemas/Grund in the morning
session. At the end he finished eight laps behind Niemas/Grund, but
could conserve his second place in the morning session. Nick
de Wachter disappointed. His Maserati was not really
competitive. In the day section, and especially in the night
section, there were serious problems with a completely unreliable
motor. Initially the motor was so slow that he lost lap after lap
nearly a full metre on the straight. And then at once the motor was
a real bomb, allowing a fastest lap in 6"301. But some
segments later the motor was again unbe-lievable slow. I saw the
same thing with the motor of Bunenberg/Van Bernheim. Another motor,
the one of Hernandez/Flick, was a pure disaster, failing to work
properly during the complete race. For the rest I saw brilliant
close racing with Hubert Jacob (F) struggling against
Borge Haug (N) during 15 minutes, without the smallest
deslotting of both. Another brilliant passus was the fight between
Philippe Laudet (with his impossible chassis bought from
Napoleon I), Remco van Waaij (NL) and Marcel Oosterling
(NL)/Henri van Gool (NL). There was some great racing at
Merlijn, and what a pitty that there were only five GT2 cars.
Indeed, in GT2 there was no struggle. Kivekäs/Eskman were much too
strong, whilst Huys/Van Campenhout were too strong for Andersen/Krogtie/Bråten.
Sensatiional was the Porsche of Dirk Baele/Gerry de Roeck, on
a Slotvision chassis - a perfect SILENT car - going very fast, but
unfortunately assembled five minutes before the race (or was it
DURING the race?), thus too unreliable. Contrarily to what happened in
Oslo the new ProSlot PS4000-IMCA motors were a pure disaster.
They were unequal in a high degree. Of the 27 motors we received, 8
could not be used, most of them with a blocked armature. That's no
serious business, completely unworthy the great reputation of Dan
Debella. At any rate I refuse to use such unequal motors at the
2008 Sprint Worlds withy the Ferrari F430 Challenge cars. For those
races I'll go back to the old Bison Mk3 motors with closed
can, to be raced under 18.5 Volt with a 44/12 gear ratio. At
Igarashi one can buy 12 dozens of motors (normally used in the
medical sector) with a certificate that they function for 99.50 per
cent equally. I cannot organise a fair world championship with such
unequal motors. At Merlijn I admired such guys like Oscar
Hernandez, Chris Bunenberg, Andy Flitz and Michael van
Bernhem that they even accepted to race such fucking shit motor
as the one they received. I am 45 years involved in slot-racing, but
never ever I saw such a mess of so-called perfectly equal motors.
What we received was PURELY A SHAME! |
Nevertheless I wish to give my good old friend Dan Debella
the credit he normally deserves. For the Endurance World
Championship I'll order 48 motors of type PS4000 IMCA, hoping to
find at least 16 plus or minus equal. Indeed I'll restrict number of
cars to only 16, with 3 racers per car - 8 of them racing 12
continuous hours in GT1 and 8 of them racing 12 continuous
hours in GT2. After having lost € 6,500 sponsoring, due to
clowns - style Hugo Dekker & Cie - subscribing a half year
earlier, and then refusing to show at the real last minute, I wish
by all means to recuperate the lost money. The lonely way is to
subscribe 16 different € 500 sponsoring contracts with 16 different
FIA GT teams anno 2008. It's my intention to let the 8 GT2 bodies
anno 2008 by only one specialist [Nick de Wachter] and
to let those bodies being raced by 8 teams of 3 drivers being less
experienced than the full pros. The 8 2008 GT1 bodies [4 Covettes
C6-R, 2 Aston Martins DBR9, 1 Maserati MC12 and 1 Saleen S7R] should
be assembled by the professional experts themselves. So, for the
Herentals Endurance Worlds I have the following teams in my mind:
| #1
Vitaphone Maserati MC12 |
Børge
Haug (N) |
Glenn
Wennerberg (N) |
Francesc Reyes (E) |
| #3 SRT
Corvette C6-R |
Ralph
Seif (D) |
Alex
Ortmann (D) |
Christian Schnitzler (D) |
| #4 PK
Carsport Saleen 7R |
Jozef
Miskolci (SVK) |
Ladislav Szalai (SVK) |
Laco
Koterba jr (SVK) |
| #5 Phoenix
Carsport Corvette C6-R |
Nick
de Wachter (NL) |
Tamar
Nelwan (NL) |
Gabriel Inäbnit (CH) |
| #6 Phoenix
Carsport Corvette C6-R |
Wim
Kloppenburg (NL) |
"Piki"
van Rossem (B) |
Youri
van Rossem (B) |
| #10
Gigawave Aston Martin DBR9 |
Tim
Tyler (AU) |
Chris
Radisich (NZ) |
Fred
Hood (USA) |
| #12 Luc
Alphand Corvette C§-R |
Michael Niemas (D) |
Philipp Kremer (D) |
Christoph Kremer (D) |
| #33
Jetalliance Aston Martin DBR9 |
Fola
Osu (NIG) |
Kai
Kivekäs (SF) |
Günther Riehl (D) |
| #50 AF
Corse Ferrari F430 GT2 |
Javier
Checa (E) |
Carlos
Checa 'E) |
Jose
Javier Checa (E) |
| #51 AF
Corse Ferrari F430 GT2 |
Antonio
Ortega (E) |
Albert
Ortega (E) |
Alvaro
Sarrabia (E) |
| #55 CR
Scuderia Ferrari F430 GT2 |
Al
Paterson (E) |
Craig
Strydom (RSA) |
Anthony
Bartlett (RSA) |
| #60
Prospeed Porsche 997GT3-RSR |
Herman
James (USA) |
Mark
Campbell (CDN) |
Terry
Dalton (CDN) |
| #61
Prospeed Porsche 997GT3-RSR |
Emily
Kuipers (NL) |
Caroline
Schnitzler (D) |
Roger
Schmitt (USA) |
| #62 Ecosse
Ferrari F430 GT2 |
Kristof
Huys (B) |
Björn v
Campenhout (B) |
Hubert
Jacob (F) |
| #95
Advanced Ferrari F430 GT2 |
Gert
Klinge (B) |
Remco van
Waaij (NL) |
Rolf K.
Andersen (N) |
| #98 BMS
Italia Ferrari F430 GT2 |
Marcel
Oosterling (NL) |
Henri van
Gool (NL) |
Philippe
Laudet (B) |
For the rest we can
let the FIA GT rules like they are, incl. weight calculator and
control of it (what wasn't be done at Merlijn), under the condiition
that we see NO RACERS in the race direction stand, only technical
directors. Bob Demeyer is the ideal man to handle the weight
calculator thing. For the lonely Maserati MC12 and the lonely Saleen
I suggest the use of a 0.6 diode restrictor. The struggle between
Kloppenburg's car and Nelwan's was the best thing I saw at Merlijn.
Let's make the most thrilling Endurance Worlds we can imagine at
Herentals, with the Bad Boys struggling against the Seif/Ortmann/Schnitzler
combination, with the Nelwans struggling against the Kloppenburgs,
the Slovaks against the Norvegians, the new Osu-Kivekäs-Riehl
combinat§ion against the Tyler/Radisich/Hood combination. It will 10
times better than what we had initially on paper. Biggest
deception at Merlijn were the Aston Martins DBR9. Sure, Fola Osu
won concourse with a splendid DBR9, but during the race the car
was nowhere. Already during the day section Fola had to struggle
until the last minute to maintain his car in the top-7 group for the
night section. During the night section, the car dropped into 10th
position after a complete disorganisation (at a given moment Baudach,
later Fola himself, could even not find their own controllers), and
could never come back. With their broken rear spoilers the four
Astons finished as four simple rags. That, that broke my heart of a
true Aston supporter! [JPVR] |
|
racers |
GT1/GT2 |
qualifications |
car |
chassis |
day |
night |
day |
laps |
EEC |
IOC |
|
1. Michael Niemas (D)/Norman Grund (D) |
1st
GT1 |
6"438
(1st GT1) |
#11 Sarafree Maserati MC12 |
PlaFit
SLP 3° angle |
1038 |
1012 |
1015 |
3065 |
22 pts |
20
|
| 2. Kai Kivekäs
(SF)/Henri Eskman (SF) |
1st GT2 |
6"687 (1st
GT2) |
#50 AF Corse Ferrari F430
GT2 |
MoMo SW04 |
1017 |
976 |
1007 |
3000 |
22 pts |
20 |
| 3. Tamar
Nelwan (NL)/Gabriel Inâbnit (CH) |
2nd GT1 |
6"625 (4th GT1) |
#28
Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT |
PlaFit SLP 3° angle |
993 |
978 |
996 |
2967 |
16 pts |
9 |
| 4. Wim Kloppenburg
(NL)/Onno Griepinkn(NL) |
3rd GT1 |
6"675 (5th
GT1) |
#4 PK Carsport Corvette
C6R |
PlaFit SLP 3°
angle |
966 |
984 |
1007 |
2957 |
12 pts |
6 |
| 5. Nick
de Wachter (NL)/Emily Kuipers (NL) |
4th GT1 |
6"577 (3rd GT1) |
#1
Vitaphone Maserati MC12 |
PlaFit SLP 3° angle |
999 |
945 |
986 |
2930 |
10.5 pts |
2 |
| 6. Børge Haug (N)/Glenn
Wennerberg (N) |
5th GT1 |
6"765 (9th
GT1) |
#16 JMB Racing Maserati
MC12 |
PlaFit SLP 3°
angle |
983 |
961 |
963 |
2907 |
8 pts |
- |
| 7.
Urbain Jacobn
(F)/Armin Reichelt (B)n |
6th GT1 |
6"757 (7th GT1) |
#2
Vitaphone Maserati MC12 |
Schoeler Stiyker |
974 |
919 |
972 |
2865 |
6 pts |
- |
| 8. Remco van Waaij (NL)n/Gert
Klinge (B) |
7th GT1 |
6"763 (8th
GT1) |
#12 Sarafree Maserati MC12 |
PlaFit SLP 3°
angle |
969 |
936 |
938 |
2842 |
4 pts |
- |
| 9.
Günther Riehl (D)/Frank Schüler (D)n |
8th GT1 |
6"742 (6th G1) |
#7
Amm-Inkl.com Lambo Murciélago |
PlaFit SLP 3° angle |
990 |
894 |
950 |
2834 |
2 pts |
- |
| 10. Fola Osu (NIG)/Stephan
Baudach (D) |
9th GT1 |
6"477 (2nd
GT1) |
#33 Jetalliance Aston
Martin DBR9 |
PlaFit SLP 3°
angle |
977 |
871 |
965 |
2813 |
1 pt |
- |
| 11.
Marcel Oosterling (NL)/Henri van Gool(NL) |
10th GT1 |
6"772 (10th GT1) |
#15 JMB
Racing Maserati MC12 |
PlaFit SLP 3° angle |
949 |
892 |
948 |
2789 |
0 pts |
- |
| 12. Philippe Laudet (B)n/Phil
Destrée (B)n |
11th GT1 |
6"989 (11th
GT1) |
#3 Luc Alphand Corvette
C6R |
Schoeler
Striker |
934 |
878 |
941 |
2753 |
0pts |
- |
| 13.
Kristof Huys (B)/Bj van Campenhout (B) |
2nd GT2 |
6"873 (2nd GT2) |
#52 Edil
Cris Ferrari F430 GT2 |
PlaFit SLP |
947 |
890 |
893 |
2730 |
17 pts |
12 |
| 14. Rolf Andersenn/P.Krogstien/R.Bråten
(N) |
3rd GT2 |
6"994 (4th
GT2) |
#53 Edil Cris Ferrari F430
GT2 |
PlaFit SLP |
925 |
783 |
912 |
2620 |
12 pts |
6 |
| 15. C
Bunnenberg (D)n/M.
V Bernhem (D)n |
12th GT1 |
7"090 (13th GT1) |
#22 BMS
Italia Aston Martin DBR9 |
PlaFit SLP 3° angle |
809 |
885 |
901 |
2595 |
0 pts |
- |
| 16. Henrik Hasager (DK)/Mark
Sander (DK)n |
13th GT1 |
6"991 (12th
GT1) |
#36 Jetalliance Aston
Martin DBR9 |
PlaFit SLP |
930 |
791 |
859 |
2580 |
0 pts |
- |
| 17. Dirk
Baele (B)n/Gerry
de Roeck (B)n |
4th GT2 |
6"992 (3rd GT2) |
#97 BMS
Italia Porsche 997 GT3-RSR |
Slotvision Mk2 |
802 |
814 |
865 |
2481 |
10 pts |
1 pt |
| 18. Oscar Hernandez (VEN)n/Andy
Flitz (D)n |
14th GT1 |
7"256 (14th
GT1) |
#23 BMS Italia |
Aston Martin
DBR9 |
674 |
869 |
824 |
2367 |
0 pts |
- |
| 19. René
Andersen(DK)n/Oliv
Andersen(DK)n |
5th GT2 |
9"287 (5th GT2) |
#62
Scuderia Ecosse Ferrari F430GT2 |
M-Racing C1 |
758 |
455 |
700 |
1913 |
8 pts |
- |
|
 |
|
STANDINGS EEC 2008 AFTER 2 ROUNDS OUT OF 3 |
|
1. Kai Kivekäs (SF)/Henri
Eskman (SF) |
43 pts |
|
2. Michael Niemas (D) |
42 pts |
|
3. Kristof Huys (B)/Björn van
Campenhout (B) |
29 pts |
|
4. Nick de Wachter (NL)/Emily
Kuipers (NL) |
28.5 pts |
|
5. Roy Bråten (N) |
28 pts |
|
6 ex. Tamar Nelwan
(NL)/Gabriel Inäbnit (CH) |
22 pts |
|
6 ex. Norman Grund (D) |
22 pts |
|
8. Philipp Kremer (D) |
20 pts |
|
9 ex. Børge Haug (N)/Glenn
Wennerberg (N) |
16 pts |
|
9 ex.
Tom Solberg (N)/Kai Tørgvær
(N) |
16 pts |
|
11. Rolf K. Andersen (N)/Peter
Krogstie (NL) |
14 pts |
|
12 ex. Willem Kloppenburg
(NL)/Onno Griepink (NL) |
12 pts |
|
12 ex. Marcel Oosterling
(NL)/Henri van Gool (NL) |
12 pts |
|
12 ex. René Andersen (DK)/Olivier
Andersen (DK) |
12 pts |
|
15. Fola Osu (NIG)/Stephan
Baudach (D) |
11 pts |
|
16. Henrik Hasager (DK)/Gorm Nørgaard (DK)
|
10.5 pts |
|
17 Dirk Baele (B)/Gerry de
Rpeck (B) |
10 pts |
|
18. Günther Riehl (D) |
8.5 pts |
|
19. Morten Hagen (N)/Rune
Ytterdahl (N) |
8 pts |
|
20. Christoph Kremer (D) |
6.5 pts |
|
21 ex.
Christer Bunström
(S)/Leif Nilsson (S) |
6 pts |
|
21 ex. Hubert Jacob (F)/Armin
Reichelt (D) |
6 pts |
|
21 ex. Gert Klinge (B)/Remco
van Waaij (NL) |
6 pts |
|
24 ex.
Jøstein Vandås
(N)/John Øystein Andersen (N) |
2 pts |
|
24 ex. Frank Schüler (D) |
2 pts |
|
|
STANDINGS CITATION CUP AFTER 2 ROUNDS ON 3 |
|
1. Remco van Waaij (NL) |
28 pts |
|
2. Urbain Jacob (F)/Armin
Reichelt (B) |
24 pts |
|
3 ex. Henri Eskman (SF)* |
20 pts |
|
3 ex. Onno Griepink (NL) |
20 pts |
|
5 ex. Philippe Laudet
(B)/Philippe Destrée (B) |
14 pts |
|
5 ex. Michael van Bernhem
(D)/Chris Bunnenberg (D) |
14 pts |
|
7 ex. Frank Schüler (D) |
10 pts |
|
7 ex. Kristian Hottran
(N)/Frank Rødahl (N) |
10 pts |
|
9 ex. Tom Solberg (N)*/Kai Tørgær (N)* |
4 pts |
|
9 ex. Rolf K. Andersen (N) |
4 pts |
|
11. Mark Sander (DK) |
1 pt |
|
|
|
EPC 2008 Rnd
#1 - 2nd
DKPM, ROEDOVRE (DK) - February 29-March 1, 2008
(IOC-RACE) |
|
R.SEIF/A.ORTMANN/CAROLINE SCHNITZLER WIN |
|
Great
performances by Manfred Stork (2nd) and the Checas (4th) |
 Winners with f.l.t.r.
Ralph Seif(D), Caroline Schnitzler (D)and Alexander Ortmann(D) |


 |
|
Runners-up are Patrick
Meister (D), Manfred Stork (D) and Uwe Bönisch (D) |
|
Racers |
Car |
Laps |
Qualif |
IOC
pts |
|
1. Ralph Seif
(D)/Alexander Ortmann (D)/Caroline Schnitzler (D) |
#14 A.C.R. Porsche 911
GT1 |
976.49 laps |
5.632 |
20 IOC pts |
| 2.
Manfred Stork (D)/Patrick Meister (D)/Uwe Bönisch
(D) |
#17
Nascar Slot Racing Porsche 911 GT1 |
968.61 laps |
5.708 |
15 IOC pts |
|
3. Andreas Laufenberg
(D)/Thomas Nötzel (D)/Stefan Bolz (D) |
#16 Kraner Racing Team
Porsche 911 GT1 |
962.94 laps |
5.730 |
12 IOC pts |
| 4.
Javier Checa (E)/Jose Javier Checa (E)/Carlos Checa
(E) |
#12
Marina Alta Porsche 911 GT1 |
949.31 laps |
5.729 |
9 IOC pts |
|
5. Philipp Kremer
(D)/Michael Niemas (D)/Christoph Kremer (D) |
#22 Bad Boys Corvette
C6-R |
945.27 laps |
5.749 |
6 IOC pts |
| 6. Jan
Uhlig (D)/Jan Schaffland (D)/Marcel Wondel (D) |
#34
Plasticquäler II Corvette C6-R |
944.64 laps |
5.686 |
3 IOC pts |
|
7. Kurt Petri
(D)/Thomas "Boum-Boum" Hahnel (D)/Ivan Basas (E) |
#13 Tim Comarca
Porsche 911 GT1 |
942.68 laps |
5.748 |
2 IOC pts |
| 8.
Sebastian Nockermann (D)/Christian Schnitzler
(D)/Lukas Neumann (D) |
#15
Plasticquäler I Porsche 911 GT1 |
942.34 laps* |
5.609 |
1 IOC pts |
|
9. Roger Suñe
(E)/Tomas del Castillo (E)/Sergio Gonzalo (E) |
#11 CricCrac Porsche
911 GT1 |
932.91 laps |
6.544 |
0 IOC pts |
| 10.
Frank Zenk (D)/Stefan Warshow (D)/Frank Schüler (D) |
#27
Blitzstart Racing Corvette C6-R |
921.42 laps |
5.749 |
0 IOC pts |
|
11. Günther Riehl
(D)/Michael Schluckebier (D)/Patrick Brau (D) |
#23 X-Rookies Corvette
C6-R |
921.23 laps |
5.752 |
0 IOC pts |
| 12.
Nicolas Karres (A)/Vinzenz Forstthuber (A)/Stephan
Schnurr (A) |
#25
Grenzlandslot Porsche 911 GT1 |
917.14 laps |
5.745 |
0 IOC pts |
|
13. Carsten Grønnemann
(DK)/Søren Thomsen (DK)/Per Søndergaard (DK) |
#28 Senior Team
Porsche 911 GT1 |
916.69 laps |
5.810 |
0 IOC pts |
| 14.
Christian Høfler (DK)/Martin Borch (DK)/Peter Lind (DK) |
#26
Racefun.dk Posche 911 GT1 |
907.95 laps |
5.794 |
0 IOC pts |
|
15. Lars Jacobsen (DK)/Thorkild
Hjorth (DK)/Claus A. Henriksen (DK) |
#31 Superslot I
Porsche 911 GT1 |
902.52 laps |
5.800 |
0 IOC pts |
| 16.
Morten Iversen (DK)/Stephan Andersen (DK)/Regner
Olsen (DK) |
#24
Team Ichiban Racing Porsche 911 GT1 |
902.08 laps |
5.766 |
0 IOC pts |
|
17. Jørgen Rigtrup (DK)/Hroar
Olsen (DK)/Michael Klarskov (DK) |
#33 HMC Porsche 911
GT1 |
887.51 laps |
5.948 |
0 IOC pts |
| 18.
Josep Ruiz (E)/Miguel Cortes (E)/David Barbas (E) |
#18
Abina Slot Racing Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 |
879.31 laps |
5.897 |
0 IOC pts |
|
19. Henning Smed
Madsen (DK)/Jan Juul (DK)/Leif Christensen (DK) |
#36 Scuderia Pooh
Corvette C6-R |
870.46 laps |
6.006 |
0 IOC pts |
| 20.
Helmut Collard (D)/Ewald Petry (D)/Jürgen Neumann
(D) |
#21
Peco Racing Porsche 911 GT1 |
863.23 laps |
5.804 |
0 IOC pts |
|
21. Per Steen Nielsen
(DK)/Jan Andersen (DK)/Lennart Sørensen (DK) |
#32 Gimle Racing
Porsche 911 GT1 |
860.98 laps |
6.035 |
0 IOC pts |
| 22.
Henrik Bering (DK)/Palle Bering (DK)/Peter Lyngby (DK) |
#37
Van Bering Porsche 911 GT1 |
845.92 laps |
5.859 |
0 IOC pts |
|
23. Mark Sander (DK)/Henrik
Hasager (DK)/Peter Christiansen (DK) |
#38 White Mouse Racing
Porsche 911 GT1 |
818.90 laps |
5.830 |
0 IOC pts |
| 24.
John Christensen (DK)/René Schrøder (DK)/Peter
Rasmussen (DK) |
#35
Team Kunimitsu Porsche 911 GT1 |
711.52 laps |
6.032 |
0 IOC pts |
|
|
|
EEC 2008 Rnd
#1 - 2nd
BADET 12 HOURS, OSLO (N) - February 2-3, 2008
(IOC-RACE) |
|
NIEMAS/KREMER
(GT1)
& KIVEKÄS/EKSMAN
(GT2)
WIN |
|
Maseratis
unbeatable (rules to be modified) - PlaFit SLP pulverises
Schöler |
|
February 5, 2008 -
The first round of the EEC 2008 has been dominated
in GT1 by the Maseratis MC12, realising the three
first places. Overall win went to the Sarafree
Maserati MC12 of world champion Philipp Kremer
(D) and vice world champion Michael Niemas
(D). They won the Oslo 12 hours no less than 56
laps ahead over Nick de Wachter (NL) and
Emily Kuipers (NL) on a Vitaphone Maserati MC12
and 66 laps ahead over JMB Racing Maserati MC12
shared by Marcel Oosterling (NL) and Henri
van Gool (NL). In GT2 there was a close combat
between the Ferraris F430 and the Porsches 997 for
the places 2 and 3. For the first place Kai
Kivekäs (SF) and Henri Eskman (SF) were
outstanding on the F430 Ferrari GT2 of AF Corse.
They had an advance of 101 laps over the Tech9
Porsche 997 of Roy Bråthen
(N), Tom Solberg (N) and Kai Tørgvær
(N), and of 12 laps more over the Edil Cris
Ferrari F430 GT2 shared by Kristof Huys (B)
and Björn van Campenhout (B).
The Oslo 12 hours, a
co-operation of Badet Raceway, Tamar Nelwan and
IMCA, were a great success, fitting perfectly in
IMCA's policy of true scale racing, i.e. a
recon-struction at scale 1/24th of an existing 1/1
race in autosport, here, in case, the Spa 24 hours
of 2007. Only two cars were missing: the #23 BMS
Italia Aston Martin DBR9 of Oscar Hernandez (VEN)
whose flight to Oslo was cancelled due to bad
weather condition and the #4 PK Car
Corvette C5R of Raymond Kuhn (B) and
Patrick Blondiau (B). There were 23 cars and 47
racers at the start: 13 from Norway; 7 from Germany
and from Belgium; 6 from Holland and Denmark; 2 from
Finland, Spain and Sweden; 1 from Nigeria and
Switzerland. That means racers from 10 different
countries.
All cars were equipped
with the new ProSlot Euro Mk1 Pro motor. All motors
were very similar and more powerful than the
previous ones. Only with one motor there were
problems when one of the magnets came off. The
increase of power makes that the famous weight
calculator is to be revisited. The difference
between the extra wide Maseratis (89 mm) and the
rest of the field, especially the higher and
narrower Aston Martins DBR9 is too great. The Aston
of Afolabi Osu/Stefan Baudach finished no
less than 106 laps behind the winning Maserati. The
minimum weight of the Maseratis should absolutely be
increased and their maximum spur reduced at 86mm.
Contrarily the minimum weight of the Corvettes and
the Aston Martins should be lowered, otherwise a
fair competition seems impossible. Should it have
been a competition over 24 hours of effective
racing, instead of 3 hours, the first Aston should
have finished nearly 1000 laps behind the winners.
That let's me think on the 2003 Diepenbeek 24 hours
where Piki finished third 1000 laps behind the
winning car of Tamar Nelwan & Co. So one cannot wait
too long to find a solution for the Maseratis. No
half measures are expected from Tamar but radical changing making the competition more fair. A
serious weight handicap is the smallest thing which
can be done. Knowing well Tamar's strong wish
to ensure a fair competition, I am convinced that
he'll find the necessary corrections in the
technical rule book.
If we look at the
results we see once more that Kai Kivekäs is
the smartest of all entrants. He not only collected
20 points by winning his class, but he collected an
extra point by qualifying in his class as second.
That means that he and Henri Eskman are
leading the ranking for the EEC 2008 with 21 points.
They are followed by Niemas/Philipp Kremer
with 20 points, De Wachter/Kuipers with 18
points, Bråthen/Solberg/Torgvaer
with 16 points, Oosterling/Van Gool and Huys/Van
Campenhout with 12 points, Hasager/Norgaard
with 10.5 points and Osu/Baudach with 10
points. [This ranking has been used to attribute the
IOC points for this race with 20 IOC-oints for
Kivekäs/Eskman, 15 IOC-points for Kremer/Niemas, 12
IOC-points for De Wachter/Kuipers, 9 IOC-points for
Brathen/Solberg/Torgvaer, 6 IOC points for
OOsterling/Van Gool and Huys/Van Campenhout, 2 IOC
points for Hasager/Norgaard ansd 1 IOC point for
Osu/Baudach]. It's very possible the rest of the EEC
2008 the qualifications will be crucial. Here
Niemas/Kremer will have to count on Huys/Van
Campenhout that they can qualify faster than Kivekäs/Eskman
to prevent that they win next time 22 points.
Concerning the chassis
the PlaFit SLP once more pulverised all other
chassis except for the MoMo SW04 of Kivekäs. It's
obvious that one can do nothing with a Schöler
Striker chassis against the PlaFit SLP. Schöler does
no more efforts to improve his chassis after it won
the 2006 Worlds in Barcelona. The M-Racing C1
chassis disappointed seriously. Much more was
expected from Hanson/Sander. Disappointing to was
the result by Reyes/Sarabia, finishing not higher
than 15th. Their car missed the correct grip during
the whole race.
Concerning the
weight ballast for the top-3 in both classes we
decided that the class-winners neec to add 15 grams
of weight (3 pieces of 5 gram ballast glued at the
HIGHEST point of the front bonnet!) against 10 grams
of weight (twice 5 grams of ballast glued at the
HIGHEST point of the front bonnet) for the second
and the third in each class. One thing should be
clear: there van be no question to add 15 or 10
grams to the minimum weight of the car, but the
ballast must be visible under the motor bonnet. The
ballast may NOT be removed as long as the cars
finish among the top-3 of their class. PS. Note
that the IOC-list has been updated. [JPVR]l |

From l.t.r. the
Michael Niemas and Philipp Kremer, winners in GT1 of
the Oslo 12 hours and Tamar Nelwan, IMCA's director
for the EEC2088. Tamar realised a superb job..
From l.t.r. the
Lambo of Nelwan/Inäbnit, the Lambo of Riehl/Christoph
Kremer/the Corvette C6R of Reyes/Sarabia, the
Corvette C6R of Laudet/Destrée, the Maserati MC12 of
Jacobs and Reichelt. The Lambos finished fifth and
sixth overall, but the Corvettes C6R disappointed.

F.l.t.r. Marcel
Oosterling (NL), Michael Niemas (D), Günther Riehl
(D), Emily Kuipers (NL), Borge Haug (NL) and Stephan
Baudach (D) during the second heat. |
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