Suzuki Cup: Still full steam ahead
TWO WINNERS IN FRAUENFELD Marcel Muzzarelli and Fabian Eggenberger won the first two rounds of the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup 2021 in Frauenfeld. Four riders alternated in the top four positions. Because ACS Thurgau, as the organizer of the 21st Auto-Renntage Frauenfeld, was happy for every cost-covering participant, 25 drivers entered the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup [...]
Because ACS Thurgau, the organizer of the 21st Auto-Renntage Frauenfeld, was happy for every cost-covering participant, 25 drivers registered in the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup 2021 took part in two separate races on Saturday. After days of rain in many regions of the country, the weather conditions were perfect except for a light shower shortly before the start of the first practice session.
The season also got off to a good start in sporting terms, with two different winners and tough battles for all positions 93 weeks after the last championship round in Ambri on October 5, 2019.
The champions continue their winning streak
Marcel Muzzarelli won the first race with a lead of just 28 hundredths - on a 3.2-kilometer course with 49 gates and a riding time of over two and a half minutes.
Sandro Fehr, who hardly found a recipe two years ago, could therefore live very well with second place behind the champion. Patrick Flammer, the fastest in training, finished third on the podium, which Fabian Eggenberger clearly missed out on by more than four tenths of a second.
Eggenberger achieves a super run
The Zurich native returned the favor in the second race. While he was not able to improve enough in the morning compared to his strongest rivals, Eggenberger managed an even better first race run after setting the best time in training, which also meant the best time of the day.
With a deficit of just two tenths of a second, defending champion Muzzarelli was also satisfied with second place in the afternoon, especially as it puts him back in the lead of the standings after the first day of racing.
Fehr twice just ahead of Flammer
Sandro Fehr was third fastest, again beating Patrick Flammer by a few hundredths of a second. The first four places in both races were thus taken by a quartet from which the champion will also come.
Best of the rest and in the same second as the winner was Reto Steiner in race 1 (in his first ever Cup race) and in race 2 Jean-Claude Debrunner, who was getting closer and closer to the top.
Thomann shines in the hybrid model
Rico Thomann provided an exclamation mark in the second race. As the fastest of the three competitors with the new and less powerful hybrid model, which will be the future, the 2019 junior mountain champion finished in ninth place.
You can find out interesting background information on the 2021 championship opener in our analysis next week.
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