Slalom Bure: Bürki and Egli in top form
TWO WINNERS IN RECORD TIMES Martin Bürki and Philip Egli were the outstanding people at the penultimate round of the Swiss Slalom Championship. In addition to Bürki, four other drivers are theoretically eligible for the SM title.
Martin Bürki took a big step towards SM title number 9 in the penultimate round of the Swiss Slalom Championship. However, the Uetendorf garage owner did not just leave it at 20 points for the superior class victory.
After a safe and yet fast first run, Bürki conjured up the absolute touring car best time on the 5255-meter track in the second run with the optimal VW Polo 1600. He even made it into the top 5 overall.
Christoph Zwahlen, who had been leading until then, also improved but had to admit defeat by almost half a second in the Porsche 997 GT3 Cup from Group IS.
Strike result will decide
Before the final in Chamblon (June 26), the man from Berne is now alone at the top of the standings with the maximum of 100 points. In principle, only technology or he himself can oust him from this position.
Christian Darani (Fiat/E1-2000), who is on vacation, namesake Martin Oliver Bürki (center gallery in BMW E33 as winner of E1-3000), Nicola Fankhauser (Honda Civic/1st A-2000) and Philip Egli (Dallara/1st E2-2000) can also still get to 100 points with a fifth fully rated class win.
Therefore, the better strike results will probably decide the medal ranks in the end. Bürki has to finish at least second in Chamblon to be absolutely sure.
In Bure, Mathias Schläppi in the Suzuki Swift S2000 (gallery on the left) took advantage of the absence of Darani to take a superior first class win in the E1 two-liters.
Demonstration of power by Philip Egli
The day's victory in the 51st edition of the slalom organized by the Ecurie des Ordons in the Jura went once again to Philip Egli (gallery right). Already in the first run he improved his winning time of 2019, when it was raced for the last time in Bure, by three seconds.
In the second run, however, Egli was faster once again. With 2'26.007 he left Ambri1 winner Lukas Eugster in the Ligier-Honda sports car no chance.
Philip Egli: "This time I'm almost more happy about the time achieved than about the day's victory. Everything was just right. It wasn't too warm, the track was clean and grippy and I managed two very smooth runs, although I had to abort the first run and start again."
Creative forced break by Yves Hängärtner
Behind Egli and Eugster, Jannis Jeremias in the original Tatuus Formula Renault secured third place overall ahead of Victor Darbellay on an Arcobaleno. The Biel native had already achieved this on May 15 in Frauenfeld.
His Ecurie-Biennoise club colleague Yves Hängärtner was not at the start after the defective 4th gear in Ambri. He wants to use the next weeks to optimize his Dallara-Egmo GP3 (chassis, aerodynamics, shorter gear ratio) and then attack properly at the final.
