Slalom Wangen: A special day victory 🎥
FINALE OF A SHORT SEASON As in previous years, the Wangen slalom ended with the day's victory for Lotus V6 champion Dino Wintsch. This concludes the 2020 Swiss racing year after just a few events. A lot of steering wheel work is required in Wangen. This shows one of Dino Wintsch's fast drives, filmed by Wisu Bucher. It was a special racing season 2020, which [...]
A lot of steering wheel work is required in Wangen. This shows one of Dino Wintsch's fast rides, filmed by Wisu Bucher.
It was a special 2020 racing season that wasn't really a racing season at all. Only a handful of the events entered in the Auto Sport Schweiz calendar could be held in their own country in the exceptional year of 2020.
Praise to the organizers
Traditionally the last speed event on Swiss soil is the slalom organized by Squadra Mosquito at the small airfield of Wangen on Lake Zurich, open to production cars and racing vehicles with road approval. Thanks to a strict hygiene and protection concept in the paddock, the authorities granted the permit and did not withdraw it at short notice, even despite increasing numbers of cases in the canton of Schwyz.
Representing the 101 participants who were happy about the last opportunity to start, the day's winner wreathed a wreath on the organizers from Schwyz.
Dino Wintsch: "Exemplary how they pulled it off. It was nice to have at least one more race on Swiss soil. The discipline was good everywhere, and I also like the atmosphere at the lake. It was fun."
Victory and championship title for Dino Wintsch
With his Lotus Exige Cup 430, the architect from Hombrechtikon took the day's victory on the 1040-meter short slalom course for the fourth time in a row. At 28 hundredths, however, his lead over Norbert Sieber in the same Lotus model borrowed from Mirco Suter was narrow.
Dino Wintsch: "Just like last year, I touched the last bail before the finish in the first run. After that I had to manage a safe and clean second run."
Sieber himself also caught a gate in the second run with the spoiler lip, but his already faster first time was enough for second place overall ahead of Fabian Egger in the Exige Cup LW-R.
A Golf in the Lotus pack
Places 4 to 6 and 8 to 10 went to other drivers from the Lotus V6 Cup Suisse, who contested their eighth and final race of the season in Wangen. The champions are Dino Wintsch (as in 2019) and Hermann Bollhalder, who could not be beaten in any race in the Production class.
Gion Mark was the only touring car driver to break through the sports car phalanx in a VW Golf GTI from the L4 over two-liter class.
Suzuki champion out of practice
As on the day before the slalom test day in Hoch-Ybrig (June 21), 20 drivers from the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup, which was not held in 2020, delivered their own race. Suzuki Switzerland again generously rewarded the commitment with bonuses.
With two good 59 times, Simeon Schneider secured the class win this time ahead of champion and Ybrig double winner Marcel Muzzarelli. The latter obviously felt the four-month racing break, which Schneider had used with starts in the Vorarlberg Drytech Race Cup.
Marcel Muzzarelli: "It was not like usual in terms of feeling. I would have needed a few more runs. But Simeon has always been strong. Now he has just won by a narrow margin. Congratulations!"
As the best rookie, Rico Thomann placed a good fifth behind the multiple winners Sandro Fehr and Patrick Flammer. He is the winner of the 2019 Swiss Hill Climb Championship Junior. Flammer and Thomann, who took turns at the wheel of a Swift Sport, were separated by just three hundredths.
