Motorsport: Two Swiss sports car victories
The series of Swiss successes with sports cars continued right up to the end of the season. In Valencia, Adrian Amstutz secured all the titles in his category in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo and in Japan, Giorgio Maggi won the Asian Le Mans Series with the Race Performance team. The world finale at the Circuit of Valencia (E) marked the end of the Lamborghini [...]
The world finale at the Circuit of Valencia (E) marked the end of the 2016 Lamborghini Super Trofeo. In the Pro-Am category, in which a professional and an amateur take turns at the wheel of a Lamborghini Huracan, Adrian Amstutz and Patrick Kujala from Finland failed to finish on the podium for the first time at an event this year.
However, thanks to a series of eight victories in the ten previous runs, the duo won the category title. Amstutz then single-handedly won both world finals in the Am category in the rain. With fields of up to 50 of these Italian sports cars, divided into four categories, the Lamborghini Super Trofeo is quantitatively the largest one-make cup in Europe.
Bern team wins in Japan
In the second of four four-hour races in the Asian Le Mans Series, Race Performance celebrated victory on the former Fuji GP circuit in Japan. For Giorgio Maggi from Hergiswil, who works as a trainee at the Seelisberg Event Center, this is the biggest success of his young career to date. His team partners were Fabian Schiller from Bonn and Struan Moore from Great Britain.
The team from Münsingen is defending the title in the multi-year series with its Oreca-Judd 03R. The first race four weeks ago in Zhuhai (China) ended with a retirement due to a technical defect shortly before the end. The championship, in which LMP2 sports cars set the pace, continues on January 8, 2017 in Buriram (Thailand).
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