The first round of the 1:10 electric touring car Swiss Championship was held on May 3-4 in Schaffhausen, and was attended by approximately 60 drivers in the Modified class. Free practice was held on Saturday under sunny skies and 20°C temperatures. Most of the drivers had problems with understeer, so we tested many different setups and found the correct one with gave more front traction. At night we felt elated.
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Qualification began on Sunday morning and it was dominated by XRAY. Ronny Lnenicka won three qualification runs and TQâ™d with his XRAY T2â 008. Ronny did not run the last qualification run (he did not need to) so he saved his tires for the final run. After fourth qualification run, Mario Rigert was 2nd and Sacha Lnenicka was 5th (he suffered electronics problems).
Qualification results:
1 Ronny Lnenicka XRAY T2â™ 008
2 Mario Rigert XRAY T2â 008
3 Sven ZĂĽnd
4 Marc Bösiger 5 Sacha Lnenicka XRAY T2â 008
6 Philipp Huber
7 Daniel James
8 Khounmy Bui
9 Bastien De Marco
10 Lars Weisskopf
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Final
Ronny Lnenicka won the first final, leading from start-to-finish. In the second final, Ronny was leading but in the last turn Sven ZĂĽnd crashed into the back of Ronnyâ™s car and the body jammed up; Ronny came in 2nd place so hunt was on for the overall winner. In the third final, Ronny Lnenicka won again with another start-to-finish run... making him the winner of first Swiss Championship race in 2008.
Final results:
1 Ronny Lnenicka XRAY T2â™ 008
2 Sven ZĂĽnd
3 Philipp Huber
4 Marc Bösiger 5 Mario Rigert XRAY T2â 008
6 Khounmy Bui
7 Daniel James 8 Sacha Lnenicka XRAY T2â 008
9 Lars Weisskopf
10 Bastien De Marco
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I want to thank the organizer AMCS Schaffhausen for a very well-prepared race. We will see you soon at second race in Baar.
