Suzuki Racing Cup: Fabian Eggenberger crowned champion
PRE-TIME TITLE DECISION With his fourth victory in the sixth Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup slalom, Fabian Eggenberger secured the championship title early in Bure. The fight for second place is still exciting.
On the longest slalom course of the year on the extensive military grounds of Bure in the canton of Jura, Fabian Eggenberger once again made short work of his opponents.
In the first race run on the 5255-meter course, the garage owner from Dübendorf set a best time that Ambri winner Sandro Fehr came within two tenths of. Patrick Flammer and Marcel Muzzarelli also stayed within the same second.
It (almost) does not get any better than this
In the second run Eggenberger (gallery left) managed almost a dream run with which he left Flammer (gallery middle) and Fehr (gallery right) behind by almost eight tenths.
Fabian Eggenberger: "If I hadn't been a bit too hesitant through the last chicane shortly before the finish, the desired 3'09 time would have been in it. And if someone else had been faster, he would really have deserved the win."
However, the victory remained with Eggenberger, his fourth in six races so far.
Early title decision due to strike result
This means that the 45-year-old from Zurich has been determined ahead of time as the winner of the Suzuki Swiss Racing Cup 2022. Marcel Muzzarelli, who had won the first race in Bière on May 1, had to settle for an unfamiliar fourth place, as he did six days ago in Ambri.
Without an uncharacteristic scoring error in the second run, Muzz would have blown away the duo Flammer/Fehr, separated by only seven hundredths. Because everyone still has to deduct one strike result, Eggenberger can no longer be ousted from the top of the table even if Muzzarelli fails and wins at the same time on June 25 in Chamblon. Congratulations!
Muzzarelli, Fehr and Flammer will fight it out for second place in the standings.
Fifth place in Bure, around three seconds behind, went to Michaël Béring, who had hoped for more at his home race. Rico Thomann, Reto Steiner, Jean-Claude Debrunner, Roland Graf and Heiko Leiber (as a double starter on Eggenberger's Suzuki) took the other places in the top 10.
Background report on the race
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Action photos: Rami Hänggi.
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