Indoor car racing: Winner in the bathtub
MOTORSPORT The new edition of the indoor car race in Roggwil was no April Fool's joke. Against the winning car - the speeding bathtub of Hannes Roth - Marcel Steiner in the Martini sports car had no real chance on the kart track. There are said to have been people who doubted the seriousness of our preview of the indoor car race at the Race-Inn last Saturday because of the date [...]
There are said to have been people who had doubts about the seriousness of our preview of the indoor car race at the Race-Inn Roggwil last Saturday because of the date. But after a break of four years, this fun event actually took place again. It attracted numerous enthusiastic spectators to the self-proclaimed motor sports center in the afternoon and evening hours of April 1.
Fastest of all was Hannes Roth with his speeding bathtub. Underneath is an extended kart chassis with a 1000-cubic Suzuki motorcycle engine. Roth mastered the small, agile vehicle with its bathtub silhouette and, not unexpectedly, achieved the fastest lap times with it.
At almost 100 km/h in a sports car
First among the cars, as they are allowed in real car races, was Marcel Steiner with his Martini MK77-BMW of group CN/E2. "It's already enormously tight here with this car. If I don't place it correctly in the Schumacher-S (see short video below, Red.), I can't get around it," said the three-time Swiss mountain champion, explaining the difficulties of maneuvering a sports car designed for high-speed around an indoor circuit for karts. Only 1st and 2nd gear were needed at a readout top speed of 96 to 97 km/h.
https://www.facebook.com/FreundedesSchweizerMotorsport/videos/1169382683129807
Unfortunately, the announced ex-Group C world champion Walter Brun was conspicuous by his absence. So Peter Leuthardt drove his Sauber C6, as entered by Brun Motorsport in 1982 with a more powerful engine in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, himself, alternating with his replica of a Porsche 917.
Denis Wolf (Renault Clio Cup) and Werner Rohr (Toyota Corolla) also inspired like all the other participants with their performance, in which everyone had fun. And that is how it should be on April 1. See you in 2018!
A longer video report can be seen on the homepage of our photographer Ramon Hänggi (thank you, Rami!):
https://www.race-actionswitzerland.ch
