Motorsport: Podium for Joël Volluz and Eric Berguerand

The decision at the biggest motorsport event in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was made on the basis of the fastest time from three race runs. After Swiss mountain champion Eric Berguerand had marked the best practice time, local David Hauser in a Dallara GP2 with a four-liter V8 engine was fractions of a second ahead of the two Wallisians Joël Volluz in the Osella FA30 and Eric Berguerand in the monstrously winged Lola FA99 after the first race heat. In the second heat, the Luxembourger, whose grandfather is from Zurich, was able to improve on his opponents, which earned him the win of the day. With 50.469 seconds for the short 1.8 km sprint course, Hauser was able to distance Joël Volluz by almost four tenths. Eric Berguerand struggled with shifting problems but still had to give in to Joël Volluz by only 5 hundredths.

Problems at Steiner's premiere at LobArt
Marcel Steiner's first race in the newly constructed LobArt LA/01 was connected with great difficulties. As it turned out on Monday evening at home in Oberdiessbach, the camshaft sensor apparently caused the Mugen V8 in Eschdorf to start only with reluctance. Steiner therefore missed two of the three race runs. With the only running time, he only managed third place in the sports cars as ninth overall.

Martin Bürki was more satisfied with his premiere
In his very first drive with the newly acquired BMW 318i STW on a track that was new to him, the multiple champion was able to improve consistently and finish sixth in the two-liter class, which was filled with 36 touring cars. Martin Bürki was only two tenths short of second place. In the absence of FIA Mountain Cup winner Ronnie Bratschi, Frédéric Neff in the Porsche 991 Cup was the third fastest driver in the TW/GT category.

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