Vespa Rennen und ESC Opening in Mirecourt 2014

Vespa Racing Mirecourt Challenge Scootentole France

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TAKING A CORNER WITH 135km/h ON A VESPA

Mirecourt Vespa & Lambretta racing 2014 in France

Vespa Rennen und ESC Opening in Mirecourt 2014

It was a great edition of the now classic Challenge Scootentole Mirecourt, 2014 ESC season opening, where the best vintage scooter drivers from Europe gathered together on the long weekend of the 31st of May.

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TAKING A CORNER WITH 135km/h ON A VESPA

About 120 riders had registered, and most of them arrived as early as Thursday to start training on the track.
Speaking of which, the novelty for 2014 was a new high-speed curve before the straight line. This configuration change allowed some of the fastest drivers to go as fast as 135km/h !

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With light rain showers on the Friday, the weather improved along the week-end and the Saturday was a great day for racing, with no severe accident, on a dry track.

LADY RACING

t should be noted that the girl-class (C7/K7) had 13 participants and the C2S/K5 had 39 drivers !!

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LUCKY DRAW

After the podium, the lucky-draw sponsored by SCK, and the famous “apero”, Saturday night party was improvised at the last minute and proved again to be a great way to have people binding together.

RANKING

Please find the ranking here: http://chronolux.net/classements/2014/AUTRES/SCOOTENTOLE/RESULTS/index.htm

SPECIAL AWARDS

* Fairplay trophy: George Luthy (CH) #346
* Best scooter: Jentsch Mark (DE) #190
* Best Newbie: Maxime Gauthier (FR) #294

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“Thanks again to SCOOTER CENTER for supporting Challenge Scootentole !”

A lot of beautiful pictures from Michel Lemarie ( http://michel-lemarie.fr ) and others can be seen in here.

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Video Vespa & Lambretta Classic Day 2013

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Classic Day 2013 Vespa Lambretta

Scooter Center Classic Day 2013

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Scooter Center Classic Day 2013

Saturday, 09/14/2013 10:00 to 16:00

We invite you to spend with us the Classic Day for our Vespa and Lambretta – customers. Location -as always- at our Scooter Center store.

Hot from the grill and cool from the bar
There is a popular grill and the almost popular fresh chilled Kölsch and soft drinks.

Bring your scooter!
On the Scooter Center test you can test the performance and the scooter with the most power in the day to get a trophy.

Spotlight
We clean up our camp and there are many scooter parts at special prices: bargains, closeouts, B-stock. On the private market parts you can snag yourself or sell jewelry and collectibles.

Many nice people
We look forward to you and also to the great conversations with many other scooterists!

 

Classic Day 2013 Vespa Lambretta

Impressions from the past:

http://blog.scooter-center.com/20-jahre-scooter-center-classic-day-saisonabschluss-2/
http://blog.scooter-center.com/20-jahre-scooter-center-classic-day-saisonabschluss/
http://blog.scooter-center.com/resumee-classic-day-2012/

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We had already reported that the Vespa World Days 2017 will take place in Germany again. The information was still so hot that there were no further details.

The Vespa Club Celle had applied to this year’s Vespa World Days 2013 in Hasselt, Belgium, and awarded the contract for this great event in 2017. Top!

Meanwhile, the VC Celle has given more details: Date Vespa World Days 2017 is:

Date: 22 – 25 June 2017

Location: Vespa World Days, Celle / Lower Saxony / Germany.

The exact venue has to be confirmed of course, but until then is still time. We will keep you informed here.

The Scooter Center wishes the VC Celle to date Vespa World Days 2017 now:

  • super Vespa Super Wolrd Days of course
  • the very best weather to
  • happy Vespisti from around the world
  • Have fun with the preparations
  • and smooth running of the event.

Drivers who want to make a picture of the VC Celle just visit the legenday Heidetreffen. The Vespa meeting will take place from 23-25th August 2013 already for the 17th time instead, i.e. a year before the Vespa World Days 2016, it could be a dress rehearsal with the 20gsten anniversary of the Celle Heath meeting.

FYI for those interested who can not imagine anything under Vespa Wolrd Days. The Vespa World Days are the successors of the Euro Vespa, the world’s largest Vespa meeting. A list of venues and the year of the event we have put together here.

So: Date Vespa World Days is 22 – 25 June 2017. Until then, we look forward to the next meeting:

2014. – Mantova, Italy
2015. – Biograd, Croatia
2016. – Arcachon, France

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Vespa Racing ESC Mirecourt Frankreich

Biggest classic vespa race ever !

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All categories was reasonably packed for fair action and good fun !

Most people arrived on Thursday while some hard-core drivers took advantage of the privileged relationship we have with the circuit of Mirecourt to arrive as soon as Wednesday !! Thursday and Friday, the track was available for practice. Unfortunately this is on that day that we had a big accident seeing a driver breaking is leg. Season did not even start for him… Too bad ! The weather was cold, changing with a bit of rain from time to time.

On the next day, Saturday the day of the actual Challenge Scootentole, we arbitrary splited the two C2S qualification sessions in the morning in order to even chances for a good time.

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From there, everything went very smoothly and we could see beautiful and fair racing, well helped by the weather; it actually did not rain during any of the sessions, only at lunch break !! With little surprise, the usual masters of the track trusted the first places in K1 and K2, but new comers are starting to push hard, like the young Romain Baguet from Team 70s scooter who finished 3rd in K4 and 1st in K5 ! The K7 category, girlz power, driving with the K6 and the slowest of the K5, the grid was filled up with 13 girls, a very promising number for the rest of the season !
It should be mentioned that every year the level of preparation and the quality of all scooters is improving. This was still true in 2013, with beautiful teams and scooter that actually looks like scooters (cuts are restricted to a minimum in the Challenge Scootentole).

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On the oddities side, it was interesting to see in action in K2 the French V5A frame #216 from Julien Desnuelle, driven by Olivier Doussot (both from SPRT team ) the first racing vespa fitted with an electronic injection (Keep an eye on it: Vespa Tuning M1L Quattrini Vespa without Carb ) !
We also saw an official LML 4T Corsa (166 Polini) in demonstration in the K6/K8 sessions. Not so fast as expected, but some people seemed very interested by the potential of the tubular chassis…

During the award ceremony and lucky draw we could hand-over some very nice gifts and presents thanks to our sponsors, and especially Scooter Center!
After that, helped with a little “apero”, most of the people started to relax and the party lasted long on the campsite until very late !
On the next and finale day, Sunday, after a well deserved “croissant” offered by the Challenge Scootentole, all people slowly started to pack and to head home, bringing with them plenty of great souvenirs !

The Challenge Scootentole would like to thank again Scooter Center for their continuous support !

We will be waiting for you on the 8th of June in Marcillat for the 14th Challenge Scootentole <http://www.germanscooterforum.de/topic/260697-14th-challenge-scootentole-marcillat-june-8th-2013/>

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Vespa Tuning M1L Quattrini Vespa without Carb

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Vespa Tuning made in France

This is a M1L Quattrini Smallframe racing – Vespa from France without any carburetor.

M1L Quattrini means, this Vespa engine is tuned with this cylinder kit: Quattrini M1L.

“without any carburetor”? YES!
The guys from SPRT Racing put a elctronic 2-stroke direct injection
CORRECTION: Julien mailed us: “Direct injection” means that the injector is on the cylinder head. This is not our case.
indirect injection on the Smallframe Vespa from Julien Desnuelle.

In addition:
The cylinder is an old M1L 2008, the one with the tiny reeds. It is associated to full circle Mazu crank for ETS, Vespatronic ignition and Franz exhaust : that’s a really small set-up for a K2!
The carb has been changed for a 28mm throttle body with butterfly.

Watch the racing scooter with the M1L Quattrini in action on the Scootentole Mirecourt track.
Driver: Olivier Doussot, SPRT Team.

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Get M1L Quattrini Vespa – Zylinder her: Scooter Center

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Vespa vs Supermoto

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Nice video of a Vespa: Supermoto vs racing – Vespa.

Recorded on the Pannonia Ring:

 

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Springrace 2013 Austria Vespa Racing

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It was the fourth time that the season was opened with the Springrace. The event took place at the ÖAMTC testing area on the 27th of April 2013. We the DART RACINF TEAM were happy to attend once again.

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The 1200 meter long circuit has some full throttle head down arse up areas, but some more complicated to handle areas as well.

The start/finish area is a specially nice part of the track. After 200 meters down hill ther comes a cumber and after this the downward slope is even deeper. If you are fast enough the contact between the tyres and tarmac is lost. Pure perfection!

This is the profile of the circuit.

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Before the race was started at 6:15 h there was the chancce to do some short testing for 40 minutes. Luckily the weather forecast came true and it was dry and sunny.

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At 7:00 h the starters took their position.

Starting was done in classic LeMans style.

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The day before where we prepared the pit stop.

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The startting places were given by the lot.

Welll, who knows what this can mean….

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The first 90 minutes of the race were complete free of problems or anything to worry about. Untill the moment where the engine bolt cracked while Robert raced the bike.

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The repair work of changing the engine bolt throw us back from place 10 to 38.

With this bad position we had to race very steady to get back near to the top grid.

But with a long distance race we were optimistic that this wasn’t the end of all days. And other riders had their problems as well. Near us…

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Beside us…

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And opposite us…

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But 8 hours on the track later we had to fix the bike aagain.

New brake pads were needed because of the slope on the circuit.

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The remaining 4 hours were nearly without problems. Expect for one broken flywheel cover.

The Polini Evo chraged with the BigBertha and breathed by the 33 mm Keihin were faultlessly working and the perfect choice. The Sawa tyres have resisted the 12 h race very well and will be the weapon of chioce for the upcoming 24 hour race in Spain.

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Especially up hill the torque low down was the right choice. The small dip at the dyno sheet is the price you have to pay for the broad power band and good power delivery. This gives a very trackable engine where you nearly always find the right gear and can accelerate like hell out of the corners.

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We were chuffed after 12 hours of racing, but satisfied with the 8th overall position.

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We, the DART RACING TEAM, would like to thank the organizers and all attendends. It was a Mords Gaudi (Austrian for murder jamboree) and we hope to be back 2014!

Cheers everyone

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Video and Pictures Scooter Customshow 2013

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This is the Scooter Center Customshow 2013 video:

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You will find the photos from this years Customhsow @ Scooter Customshow – website.

This year was the first time with modern automatic scooters as well as classic Vespa and Lambretta scooters on the Scooter Custom Show.

Visit the Scooter Center Youtube Channel for more videos.

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Scooter Customshow Gewinner

Scooter Customshow Cologne Winner 2013

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Customshow 2013

We are proud to present the winner of this years Scooter Center Customshow

Classik Scooter

1. Place Name Scooter 2. Place Name Scooter
Best of All 7 Ladwig Tobias Vespa Sprint “Hot Choclate”
Best Custom 128 Ladwig Tobias Vespa VNB “Trend Killer” 8 Lehmann Kim Vespa V50 “Spongy”
Best Streetcustom 27 Maik Ediger Vespa PX “Sportster” 12 Pekrul Dirk Vespa VB1T “Smokey & the Bandit”
Best Racer 138 Christian Lohey Vespa PX 14 Schnee Karsten Vespa V50N “SSR Falc Racer”
Best Oldie 139 Nagy Andreas Vespa Acma 1952 141 Tillmann Siebott Vespa Gespann
Best Oddity 6 kusters rob Vespa PX “Porno Lowrider” 2 Büscher Marc Vespa P125X “Donnerbude”
Best Plating 7 Ladwig Tobias Vespa Sprint “Hot Choclate” entfällt
Best Bodywork 19 Stefan Meyer Vespa “Sei Giorni” 3 Dreizehn Daniel Vespa V50 Special “Shitstorm”
Best Paint 15 Schneider Christian Lambretta DL200 128 Ladwig Tobias Vespa VNB “Trend Killer”
Best Display Die Achse Clubstand 130 Höfler Christian Electric Orange, Yellow Dreams, 80s Style

Scootermatic Scooter

1. Place Name Scooter 2. Place Name Scooter
Best of All 48 Florian Kowalczyk Yamaha Aerox
Best Custom 113 Rene von Rüden Peugeot Speedfight 2 “RvR Twin” 73 Maximilian Vogt Yamaha Aerox
Best Streetcustom 123 Tobias Ernst Gilera Runner “Chrombomber” 69 Marcel Frank Peugeot Speedfight 2
Best Racer 118 Mauricio Wilhelm Piaggio ZIP SP1 “Polini Cup Zip” 117 Tina Iwanitzki Piaggio ZIP SP1
Best Sprinter 41 Drewes Björn KRT Framework “Leiter” 125 Adriano Innocente Yamaha BWs
Best Oddity 72 Klaus Matzat Yamaha Aerox “Körper”
Best Oddity 75 Mellaerts Ruben Dreirad “SCOOT³” 108 Thomas Schulz Eigenbau
Best Plating 135 Tylla Florian Piaggio NRG 87 Platz, Willmann Fabian, Pascal Peugeot Jetforce
58 Heuter Daniel Yamaha Aerox
Best Bodywork 60 Höninger Marvin Yamaha Jog RR “Carbo Carbonis” 133 reinartz alexander Yamaha Aerox “BoBa”
Best Paint 48 Florian Kowalczyk Yamaha Aerox 89 Polte Matthias Yamaha Aerox “Schätzchen”
Best Display 99 Sascha Balthun Yamaha Aerox “Big EVO Roxy” 111 Vanneste Gatien Nextro Prestige
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Scooter Center Xmas P4 Duel -FINALE-

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This is the final report about our pre-Xmas dyno shootout!

The 29.9 hp at the rear wheel of a Cast Polini 133 cylinder kit with 54mm bgm crankshaft, Keihin PWK35AS carb and Feuerzauber exhaust had to be bettered.

With 29.3 hp Jonas did very well, but missed the goal. Followed by Mathias with 29.2 hp on a Polini 133 rotary inlet engine.

Together -Jonas and Scooter Center- decided to donate the 100€ shopping voucher for “scooterist-chairty / GSF-Spendenaktion.

Scooter Center likes the idea and is addiotionally offering free dyno time to set up the Charity engine.

The gallery shows the atmosphere of the dyno shootout. Something that will hopefully continued very soon. What do you think?fin.

Because virtual reality can hardly ever beat proper live action, we recommend to have a look at the small but mean Smallframe engines the next time.

Thanks to all the people that dropped in during the day. It was pure fun and we hope to see you soon!

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Tickets Customshow Scootershow 2013 Abenteuerhallen Kalk Köln

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On the 16th of March Twisted Pistons S. C. Aachen and Scooter Center present the 6th edition of the Scootershow at the Abenteuer Hallen Kalk in Cologne.

The new bike and skate venue www.abenteuerhallenkalk.de/bs/ will be used to display all sorts of scooters. And when we say all sorts of scoots, we mean it. From 50cc Twist & Go’s, classic Vespa and Lambretta scooters up to the modern day Vespas. On more than 1.000 m² place in a stunning atmosphere, we are going to present this top event!

There will be the full range from customs to racers, from gold and chrome plating to 50 year old original paint.

Additionally there will be a private parts fare. There isn’t a fee, but registration is needed. So don’t hesitate, if you want to sell parts and email to: teilemarkt@scooter-center.com.

Programme:

  • Saturday, 16th of March 2013
  • Opening hours: 12-18Uhr
  • Customshow for scooters
  • Private parts fare
  • Food & Drinks
  • Live DJ
  • Lots of trophies waiting

Here you can get your tickets:
www.scooter-center.com

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Vespanest Aachen Season Final 2012

Last Saturday, the last major tour started for this season. We were invited to the Vespanest Aachen season final. Meeting point was the Blaustein lake near Eschweiler. The summer temperatures of 21 degrees attracted more than 200 Vespisti. From 12 o’clock the parking lot was getting fuller by every minute and then by 1pm the parking lot was full of scooters, riders, visitors and spectators.

Have a look at the video from the start:

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The route ran past the open pit Inden on to Langerwehe, and then via Schevenhütte and Gressenich to Stolberg, where made our halftime stop. A well-stocked service vehicle also took care of some broken down scooterists that were gathered on the trailer. After 30 minutes of service time everyone was ready to drive the second half.

After the break we went back via Würselen and Aldenhoven to the Blausteinsee. Once on site, we went to a nearby barbecue hut. Here you could then end the day with bbq and drinks and talk about the rideout.

It was a great event and the Scooter Center Team was happy to be there. We are already looking forward to participating at the Vespanest Season Opening on 11th Mai 2013.

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5th Cologne night run

Yesterday, we joined the fifth Cologne night run. After finishing work, Alex, Jadran, Andreas and Stefan from the Scooter Center Team went together to Cologne-Ehrenfeld. Also present was our bgm Lambretta, which was on several runs this year now has 3,500 km on the clock and which since the EuroLambretta been running perfectly without any problem. Meeting point was the Neptun Squaren where almost 75 scooter riders had gathered. Many familiar faces were there and it was an amazingly mild October night with 17°.

At 9pm the corso started. From starting point we headed out of the inner city and went to the rural northwestern suburbs. Around 60km through the night which has been a fantastic view and sound. The tour ended up in a nice local pub back in Cologne. The Scooter Center Team says thanks for this great rideout and we are looking forward to the 6th night run 2013.

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Report season final Aachen

On Saturday we drove to the season final in Aachen. Our bgm Lambretta was with us too. Since 2009 there is always a great season opening and final. Despite the horrible weather forecast there were around 150 scooterists in Aachen. Meeting point was the usual parking space near the belgian border.

From here it is only 2 miles to the border from where our 60 Km tour started.

We did a little stop after half way at the American Cemetery Henry Chapel in order to check everything and had a little break.

After the break we set off to Aachen again where we had the chance to call it a day with bbq and drinks.

The Scooter Team says thanks and is looking forward to participating at the 5th season opening in Aachen 2013.

All pics can be found here!!!

A nice video with great impression below:

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Season Final Düsseldorf

One day after our Classic Day the season final in Dusseldorf took place. Since the first ride was really good already, we did not want to miss that one despite all the preparations for our own season finale the day before. Said and done. Sunday morning we started at 9.30 clock with our bgm Lambretta heading towards the “forbidden city”. The journey went faster than expected thanks to our Lammy and we were even the first to arrive in the Old Town of Dusseldorf.

Here we had the opportunity for a nice meet and greet. Serving local press was also there and the passers-by and tourists were amazed to see so classic scooters in Düsseldorf’s Old Town.

The tour started from the Castle Square then to rural areas of Düsseldorf. After about 50 Km tour we finished at a nice beer garden in order to call it a day.

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The Scooter Center team says thank you and we are looking forward to the next tour organised by the Düsselvespen.

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Fallrace 2012, Rechnitz, Austria – Team Dart Racing/SCK

The second Fallrace took place on the 29th of September 2012 in Rechnitz/Austria.

As part of the long stretch next tendurance championship, the fall race is the final of the season after the Springrace and the Endurance Race in Hungary.

On Friday it was possible to practice all day on the Speed Arena racetrack.

Enough time to get to know the asphalt conditions and to test the new BGM- shocks.

Our race vehicle was once again our proven PK, with which we have been to some endurance races already.

Equipped with Polini Evo, Strohspeed Intake, BGM-Crank and Big Bertha, we had reliable 24hp and 20Nmfor the upcoming 11h race available.

The only 970m long track with 16 turns with alternating fast and slow passages was extremely demanding. Drivers and material were brought to the limits, a fact that we have experienced in the later course of the race.

For the entire race weekend, the weather forecast had promised lots of sun, and above all no rain.

After the rain-slicked roads in Hungary and Magny Cours, a real treat for the season finale – we thought …

The Saturday morning was initially starting with few clouds and the anticipation to start at the sunrise was huge.

After the driver and the vehicle was ready and the pit lane was set up,

we were all looking forward to the Le Mants-Start at 7:30 am.

Started from grid position 11, we were able to move forward to 3rd position with the help of a tire gamble when rain started to fall.

There were many exciting battles and frequent change of position not only in the front rows.

Unfortunately, our dreams were destroyedn 3 hours before the race ended.

The brake pads gave up after 8 hours race and had to be replaced.

This unwanted stop took about 8 minutes, which made us drop from 3rd to 5th place. With 2 laps behind we started our comeback again.

Despite all attempts we could not reach one of the podium positions. We decided half an hour before the race ended, to just safely and without falling finish the race safely and ended up after the 11 hours and 532 laps on position 5.

In retrospect, we can say that it was the most exciting race weekend and a successful final to this year’s season.

We thank all those who work in the organization and realization of this series.

Thanks to our sponsor Scooter Center and everyone who supported us during the 2012 season.

See you on the track in 2013!

Dates for the Spring– and Fallrace are already set…

Dennis, Alex, Robert, Torsten

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