Slalom Frauenfeld: Special victory for Philip Egli

Around 270 drivers, divided into ten fields, found ideal conditions on both race days in beautiful early summer weather. For the second time in the still young season, points were at stake for the Swiss Slalom Championship and other racing series.

After Chamblon now also in Frauenfeld the record series winner
Philip Egli emerged as the day's winner - for the 40th time at a National Slalom - in his optimum Dallara race car. The Glarus resident missed last year's best time on the 3.2-kilometer course with 49 gates by 19 hundredths, but he was still overjoyed.

Philip Egli: "I didn't manage both race runs without any mistakes, so I'm glad that it was still enough. But a time under two minutes was impossible. This victory was important to me, because to have won seven times in a row at the same race is special."

Not a good day for Lukas Eugster
Yves Hängärtner in the Dallara GP3 and Lukas Eugster in his Ligier-Honda challenged Egli for the day's win, as they had done two weeks earlier in Bière (and next weekend at the double-header in Ambri). Hängärtner, however, did not bring the power of the turbo racing car with around 500 hp to the ground well enough on the angular course.

And the man from St. Gallen made a scoring error in the same place in both runs, which earned him an unprecedented defeat in the sports cars at the hands of Antonino Scolara in an Osella Junior.

Third place overall went to Jannis Jeremias in a Tatuus Formula Renault after Eugster's lapse ("That was somehow not my day"), although he could only contest the first race run before a helper's mishap (front spoiler demolished).

Drack on Zack
Fifth overall behind Scolaro and fastest driver with closed race cars was Patrick Drack in a Porsche 991-II GT3 Cup from Group E1. In both runs, the 45-year-old from Aargau beat Christian Darani's touring car record set last July by three and two hundredths respectively.

The Ticino native himself was only 24 hundredths slower than Drack in the Fiat X 1/9 and confidently secured another class win in the E1-2000. Not quite able to match last year's best time was Simon Wüthrich in the VW Golf Turbo 4WD, despite the best acceleration values of all 115 competitors who started, so that he also had to concede to Danny Krieg in the Porsche 991 GT3 Cup, the former Supercup champion car from Fach Auto Tech (2014 with Earl Bamber), in the largest E1 cars.

Thurgau home wins for Zwahlen and "Santi
Faster than both was Christoph Zwahlen in the older Porsche 997 GT3 Cup, with which he prevailed in the Interswiss group against brand colleagues Bruno Sawatzki and Willi Jenni.

After changing the broken battery in his BMW 320 Si, Manuel Santonastaso could only contest the second race run. In the process, the nerve-strong man from Thurgau caught Marco Geering in the Opel Kadett, who had previously been leading in the IS-2000, by six hundredths.

Bürki furious, Schläpfer wins Renault Cup
Martin Bürki in the small VW Polo achieved two fabulous times under 2'15 minutes for the first time. Apart from Darani, the slalom champion left all the two-liters behind him in the low-torque 1600cc car.

In the Renault Clio Classic Cup, Michale Schläpfer made everything clear in the first heat, so that a goal error in heat 2 did nothing to change the clear victory over Denis Wolf and Marc Beyeler. These two were separated by just three hundredths.

All ranking lists and further information can be found on the homepage of the ACS Thurgau.

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