1st Swiss National 2018 – Lostallo

Saturday morning the sun was shining on the track and we could run the 3 controlled practices and 2 out of 4 qualifying rounds on a dry track. After this two rounds I was in 4th position behind Kurzbuch, Hächler and Martinelli (Xray).
We started the 3rd round on a dry track and I was really fast but after 2minutes the rain comes and we had to stop. We wait until the track was dry in order to repeat the round, but the track was slower. After that the rain comes another time and we stop the qualify.

Top5 after Qualify:
1. Kurzbuch
2. Hächler
3. Martinelli (XRAY)
4. Kerler
5. Pesenti (XRAY)

Sunday the forecast wasn’t clear but it was sure that the rain would come during the day. Unfortunately just before the start of my semifinal the rain comes and we switch to the “rain car”, I started really good and I was in 1st position but after 10minutes the car stopped. Unluckily the battery stop working!
I could start the B-Final on a dry track and I won it.

Congratulations to Luca Martinelli for his 3rd position behind the two Wolrds finalists Kurzbuch and Hächler.

Top5 after Final:
1. Kurzbuch
2. Hächler
3. Martinelli (XRAY)
4. Henzi M. (XRAY)
5. Krähemann

Top10 after Final 1/10:
1. Marco Rizzo
2. Traugott Schär (XRAY)
3. Patrick Fankhauser (XRAY)
4. Raphael Wicki
5. Philipp Bühler (XRAY)
6. Roland Fankhauser (XRAY)
7. Dominik Mucnjak
8. Marco Tanner
9. Patrick Courtet (XRAY)
10. Stefan Wüthrich (XRAY)

The boss in the pit lane and biggest fan was the bird in the photo. He was here every day and had fun.

Many thanks to Mattia Pesenti for the race report and to Sue for the great pictures.

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