CER: Swiss successes at the start 🎥
CLASSIC ENDURANCE RACING The European event series for historic racing cars that made history not only at Le Mans began in Barcelona with quite a few top Swiss classifications. The Le Mans Classic should also be familiar to fans of racing with modern cars. Since it only takes place in even-numbered years (next time on the second weekend in July 2020), there are [...]
The Le Mans Classic should also be familiar to fans of racing with modern vehicles. As it only takes place in even-numbered years (next time on the second weekend of July 2020), there has been a race series for classic endurance vehicles organized by the same organizer Peter Auto from Paris since 2004.
The 16th season of Classic Endurance Racing (CER) started on the first weekend of April on the GP circuit of Barcelona, which is driven without a chicane. The video magazine gives a nice insight into the different categories. We hereby submit the brilliant results of various Swiss in Spain.
Yves Scemama top in Toj
In the CER1 (GT 1966-1974 and Sports Prototypes 1966-1971) brought the reigning champion Toni Seiler his 1969 Lola T70 MkIII B after one hour in seventh place, one lap behind the overall winner Claudio Roddaro on Porsche 917. Daniele Perfetti was the fastest driver in the GT1 class in fourth place behind two Ford GT40s and a De Tomaso Pantera on a Porsche 911 RSR.
In CER2 (GT 1972-1981 and Protos 1973-1981) won Yves Scemama in the ex-Warsteiner-Toj SC304 from 1976 with Ford-Cosworth V8 took the overall victory. Just 3.5 seconds behind, the Maxime Guenat on Lola T286 to rank 3. Beat Eggimann from Sissach, 2018 champion in the two-liter class, advanced from eleventh on the grid to P6 in his Cheetah G601. In the class, however, this only resulted in P4.
Double victory in the touring cars
There was a Swiss double victory in the touring cars of the years 1966 to 1984. Christian Trotter managed a start-finish victory in the BMW 3.0 CSL from 1975 in Munich factory colors in the one-hour race. His Bernese canton colleague Michael Erlich advanced from ninth to second place within five laps in his Coupé of the same age. This was initially held by Maxime Guenat in a Ford Capri 3100RS, but then fell by the wayside. All the other classified cars, led by two Ford Escort RS1600s, lost a lap or more. Charles Firmenich/Henri Moser (BMW 3.0 CSL), Martin Kündig (Zakspeed Escort RS from 1981) and Alain Vögele (Ford Capri RS2600) occupied places 5 to 7.
In father's footsteps
In the two-hour Sixties' Endurance race were. Firmenich/Moser as fifth before Carlo and Yves Vögele the best placed Swiss team. The top 6 all drove Shelby Cobras. Yves Vögele finished third in the first race of the Greatest Trophy over 17 laps in a Porsche 904/6.
The same podium place was achieved by Toni's son Mirko Seiler with partner André Wiget with the 2010 Corvette Z06-R in the second half-hour race of the Endurance Racing Legends. Toni Seiler achieved success with this sports car in the early days of the ADAC GT Masters.
Reminder of Sauber's long-distance victories
For the last Swiss victory in one of the Classic Endurance Racing fields provided Dominique Guenat in the fastest field, that of Group C. After an early retirement in the first race, he decided the second with his rare Peugeot 905 EV1B from 1993 with a 32-second advantage on a Sauber-Mercedes C11 from 1989 for himself. Kriton Lendoudis set the fastest lap of the weekend in the Silver Arrow from Hinwil in qualifying with 1'37.824 (174.0 km/h). In this field, for the first time, a Kouros clean C8 from 1986 - this marked the beginning of the era of Mercedes successes in the modern era, which continues to the present day.
Whitsun trip to Dijon?
If the photos and the introductory video have whetted your appetite: the next event is the Spa Classic in Belgium from May 17 to 19. The next but one is the Grand Prix de l'Age d'Or over Whitsun (June 7-9) in Dijon, not too far from the Swiss border.
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