Hemberg: Linger instead of hurry 🎥
Instead of the start of the Swiss Mountain Championships, OC members met in Hemberg with invited guests for a social get-together. And Simon Wüthrich presented his newly built "Turbiene". Instead of the popular motorsport event in Toggenburg, OC president Christian Schmid and race director Christian Müller invited drivers, officials and friends of the mountain race to a casual get-together. As the operator of the cozy Frohwies Restaurant in the [...]
Instead of the popular motorsport event in Toggenburg, OC President Christian Schmid and Race Director Christian Müller invited drivers, officials and friends of the hill climb to a casual get-together. As the operators of the cozy Frohwies restaurant near the start in Bächli, the location was also obvious.
Full speed ahead into 2021
Many came from all over German-speaking Switzerland and neighboring countries. For once, no racing engines punctuated the benzing conversations, which will then be the case again in a year's time.
The disappointment that this year's Hemberg hill climb fell victim to the corona virus has long since faded.
Christian Schmid, OC President: "Actually there was no melancholy, on the contrary. The cancellation was force majeure, for which we had been prepared for a long time. So we enjoyed the relaxed get-together, took a breather for a year and are going full throttle for 2021."
Tangible solidarity
Fortunately, the sponsors are not only supporting the Hemberg Mountain Race Association for the next event. Some paid this year despite the failure and no advertising effect a financial contribution, virtually as seed money for 2021.
Quite a few of the approximately 260 members from the Nötli Club also showed solidarity with their annual contributions, even if the action was limited to beer, sausage and bread in the Bächli.
Wüthrich's "Turbiene" will not fly again until 2021
With Simon Wüthrich, one of the pilots present in not very large numbers took the opportunity to present his vehicle. The Emmentaler crashed in 2019 already at the hill climb Reitnau on a not indicated oil track seriously. The damage to his VW Golf II Turbo 4WD, nickname Turbiene, was considerable.
Simon Wüthrich: "After that, it was practically our turn for 51 weeks to take the car apart and prepare it in our spare time. We worked a lot with composite materials and were thus able to reduce the weight somewhat. Apart from that, we only changed technical details. I think it came out well."
However, fans won't get to see the powerhouse with well over 500 hp in action this year. Due to a lack of events, Wüthrich will not be able to obtain a racing license. The Bernese is therefore preparing himself all the better for 2021, when he will be fighting for top classifications in the Swiss touring car mountain championship with renewed vigor.
Simon Wüthrich in Hemberg 2019 on the drive to the third touring car rank. This year it remained quiet in the idyllic area.
