Suzuki Racing Cup: Season starts with a masterstroke

17 drivers, spread over 13 new Suzuki Swift Sport 48V Hybrid, started on Saturday at the barracks area of Bière for the first race of the 2022 season. The Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup is the first Swiss brand cup with electrically assisted racing vehicles.

Demonstration of the master
Except for Patrick Flammer, Michael Béring and Rico Thomann, who already took part in the three Cup races of the short 2021 season with the new model, these were the first race drives with the sporty mild hybrid. In the process, Marcel Muzzarelli proved that he has already mastered the handling of the newly acquired sports machine.

On the course, which was run in the opposite direction for the first time, with a length of 4.1 kilometers and 77 gate combinations, the man from eastern Switzerland managed a dream time in the second run, which only elicited sheer admiration from his toughest opponents.

While Fabian Eggenberger (gallery left) was still close after the first run with a gap of 37 hundredths, he finally lost more than two and a half seconds - a world tour in this fiercely contested Cup.

Goal errors decide podium places
Second fastest would have been Patrick Flammer (center gallery), who last October in Ambri was the first driver ever to win with hybrid support in the mixed field with the normal gasoline cars. However, due to gate errors, his first time was only good for 4th place.

Sandro Fehr (gallery right) was lucky that the threatening rain clouds only emptied briefly between the first and second heat. So he was able to erase an unnecessary mistake in the first heat with a clean drive and secure third place on the podium.

Background report on the race
The detailed report about the eagerly awaited premiere of the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup will follow in the course of the next week on our homepage.

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