Suzuki Cup: Who will be the first winner? 🎥

EXCITING PREMIERE 40 drivers have registered for the first round of the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup in Interlaken. There are many favorites. Swinger Remo Käser rides along as a VIP guest. The slalom test days of the Equipe Bernoise at the airfield Ambri, held in beautiful spring weather, gave a foretaste of the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup last weekend. Premiere [...]

Editorial - April 3, 2019

The response to the Suzuki Swiss racing Cup 2019 exceeds expectations. Cars with many familiar and new drivers will be at the start (Photo: Nico Niedermann).

The slalom test days of the Equipe Bernoise at the Ambri airfield, held in beautiful spring weather, gave a foretaste of the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup last weekend. The premiere is on Saturday at the Slalom Interlaken. Even before that, some Swift drivers practiced at a track day on the Anneau du Rhin in Alsace, where they grouped their cars especially for a picture for AutoSprintCH - many thanks!

In Ambri, former OPC winning driver and Suzuki newcomer Jean-Claude Debrunner also shot the following short video, which shows the new Cup cars in action and gives insight into the (calm) steering work of the driver:

Meeting of the masters
No matter where - the Suzuki Swift Sport, uniformly decorated with the logos of the series partners and painted in different colors, will make a beautiful picture. Attractive will undoubtedly also be the motorsport that the best players will offer.

At the closing ceremony for the OPC Challenge 2018, future Suzuki drivers who are among the favorites grouped together (from left): Rolf Tremp, Marcel Muzzarelli, Fabian Eggenberger, Sandro Fehr, Christian Zimmermann and Roland Graf.

Several champions and race winners from various one-make cups will be fighting for hundredths of a second. Among them is Marcel Muzzarelli, who after several titles in the Mini and OPC Challenge, which are no longer held, is now switching to the Suzuki brand, which is new to him.

Marcel Muzzarelli: "I think this will be a big new challenge for everyone. There are many familiar faces and interesting new names on the list. It could be varied. I expect tough battles."

A top ten finish is already a success in any case.

Sandro Fehr tested the limit during the test in Ambri. A touched pylon will cost ten penalty seconds (Photo: Ramon Hänggi).

The nervousness will ride
Since all eight slaloms in the Swiss championship count towards the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup, the title fight will certainly remain open until the final race on October 5 in Ambri without a strike result. The gaps in points between the individual positions are too small for anyone to be able to pull away uncatchably. One absence or one black day and you are out of the race for the championship.

Marcel Muzzarelli: "You have to think about the risks you take. And if the first run goes wrong, that increases the nervousness in the second run. So you also have to approach it with your head."

Remo Käser as first guest driver
Suzuki Automobile Schweiz AG, as importer and organizer of the Cup, wants to use a promiment guest vehicle in the competition at every race, if possible. The 22-year-old swinger and Suzuki brand ambassador Remo Käser will make the start on Saturday.

At the slalom of the ACS section Bern at the airfield Interlaken the Suzuki Swift Racing Cup will start on Saturday as the last field from 17.50 to 19 o'clock with two practice and two race runs.