Lotus Cup Suisse: With confidence into 2021 🎥
THIRD CLASS FOR ELISE MODELS Thanks to the ties with the RRCV in Vorarlberg, the Lotus V6 Cup 2020 could be held in several rounds. Next year there should be growth by Elise with four-cylinder engines. How fast champion Dino Wintsch and his colleagues from the Competition class are on the road in the Exige and Elise with the throaty Toyota V6 engines, [...]
Tom Schmid's video from Gargellen shows how fast champion Dino Wintsch and his colleagues from the Competition class are in the Exige and Elise with the throaty Toyota V6 engines.
At the mountain slaloms on the Arlberg and in Gargellen, the drivers from the Lotus V6 Cup Suisse were able to decide their winners among themselves in two scoring runs each in the summer. In addition, the Röthis slalom was the third event of the Renn & Rallyclub Vorarlberg (RRCV).
Slalom, mountain and circuit
Versatility was expressed in September with two sprint tests as part of an event organized from Germany on the Anneau du Rhin in Alsace. This moved into the calendar at relatively short notice after the cancellation of the mountain slaloms of Damüls and Eichenberg.
As the only Swiss race, the Wangen SZ slalom at the end of October marked the end of the fourth season, which thus included eight races on five different tracks. AutoSprintCH reported online from all events.
Hermann Bollhalder's winning streak
Cup newcomer Hermann Bollhalder emerged as champion of the production car class in an Exige Cup 350. The fast garage owner from Toggenburg never made a secret of his affection for the British brand, of which he has several models in his collection.
A successful "trial run" in the previous year prompted him to take part permanently, which compensated him for the totally cancelled Swiss hill climbs (with the Opel Speedster Turbo). While "Bolle" decided all races for himself, Daniel Steinmann and Roberto Zürcher alternated on the places of honor wherever they both started.
No defeat for Wintsch
In the Competition class of the modified Elise and Exige with V6 Toyota engines, Dino Wintsch did not show any weakness, as in previous years. Because Röthis was postponed from Easter to the end of July and into the time of the long-planned Italian vacations of the multiple champion, Daniel Strim managed the first bull's eye there.
Strim proved his progress with an identical Exige Cup 430 before and after with several second and third places, which deservedly earned him the runner-up title. Third overall went to newcomer Mario Hedinger in an Exige Komotec.
An Evora in the midst of the Exige
Cup leader and initiator Norbert Sieber of Lotus-West deliberately accepted a handicap, as in the past, by competing as in 2018 with a heavier and less agile Evora, this time with a GT 430. Only for the tighter course in Wangen did the man from the Rhine Valley resort to an Exige Cup 430, with which he had to admit defeat to Wintsch by only fractions of a second.
Although he experimented at times with different air pressures and chassis settings in order to be able to give his customers advice, Sieber was able to achieve several podium finishes with the Evora and fourth place overall behind Hedinger and ahead of Benno Berchthold. The previous year's Production champion, who switched to Competition in 2020, had actually expected more with the Exige 410 LW-R and had to realize how high the grapes hang in this class.
2021 in three classes under new name
In contrast to what had been planned, the championship ceremony was not held in the usual convivial setting of an evening event, but as a formal get-together at a trophy and award collection day at Lotus West in St. Gallen. On this occasion, advertising was already made for a new Elise class in the 2021 season.
In principle, all supercharged models of the current 2 ZR-FE engine generation are permitted here. This addition of four-cylinder sports cars means that this private championship will henceforth be called the Lotus Cup Suisse.
Hope for return to Swiss races
Despite the difficult planning, the goal is to announce a championship analogous to 2020 next year on the basis of the current regulations. In addition to the four traditional RRCV events, the Swiss Slaloms in Frauenfeld, Bière, Romont and Ambri are included.
In between, the circuit races will be held in Bresse (F) and Hockenheim. In these sprint tests, the best lap by each driver within a time window is included in the scoring.
All further detailed information and the regulations can be found on the homepage.
