Historic Ice Trophy: Success of Eastern Switzerland 🎥

The Historic Ice Trophy in Altenmarkt-Zauchensee (A) is one of the most popular winter sports events for racers or sporty everyday drivers. A racing license is not required, the driving license is enough.

Only vehicles with road registration and two-wheel drive are permitted. The winter tires may be fitted with commercially available studs. The first of three endurance races spread over the week on the approximately two-kilometer circuit took place for the class of cars from 1986 to 1994 on Wednesday from 7 am to 1 pm.

The video from one of last year's races shows how it's done.

A weekday ice race with an early morning start in the dark and sub-zero temperatures? You probably have to be a bit crazy to do that to yourself - but it sure helps. For the four Eastern Swiss Roland Graf, Bruno Keller, Peter Hotz and Joel Burgermeister it was a lot of fun. And it ended with a nice success.

Fight for the podium places
Hotz qualified her Mazda MX-5 for fourth place on the grid among 32 competitors - which include Porsche works driver Richard Lietz, for example - and thus also took the first stint. After him, Keller and Graf (known from Group E1 with his Renault Clio and the 2018 OPC Challenge) hung around positions 3 and 4.

With only two practice laps - more was not possible due to time constraints on the previous evening - Joel Burgermeister, otherwise fast with a TracKing Suzuki in slaloms and on the mountain, climbed into the last quarter of the race. The Thurgau native brought the Mazda home in third place.

Joel Burgermeister: "It was a great experience. Sometimes I just drove a bit over the limit. If I hadn't had a spin or two, we could even have finished second."

Victory went to an Austrian team on a BMW 318ti Compact ahead of a Porsche 944.

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