The ESC - European Scooter Challenge scooter race
The Scooter Center supports motor sports and also the ESC - the European Scooter Challenge. As the name suggests, it is a circuit racing series with classic scooters made of sheet metal, mainly Vespa and Lambretta. Already in the eighties the first circuit races were held in Austria and Germany.
The main goal of the ESC is to provide a broad platform for scooter racing enthusiasts with all kinds of requirements.
The various racing classes, which cover beginners to professionals as well as ladies, are based on these thoughts.
Especially the standard classes are to be emphasized, in which real top-class motorsport can be realized with low maintenance and money expenditure.
ESC race report - Cheb Challenge 2020 - Kartarena Cheb (CZ) - 01.08.2020
After the year 2020 offered hardly any possibilities for sports activities on old 2-stroke shift scooters, the time had finally come on August 01.08.2020st, XNUMX!
The first race of the European Scooter Challenge of the year 2020 could take place. The Kartarena in Cheb, Czech Republic opened its doors and more than 40 Vespa racers came from
- germany,
- Austria,
- France
- and Poland
to finally let the asphalt glow again.
Heat Battle of Cheb
With temperatures of over 30 ° C and bright sunshine all weekend long, this was an easy exercise. Those who already arrived on Thursday or Friday could use the time to get the last shadow places in the paddock and to test the scooter extensively on the track.
race day
Saturday was the day. Race Day! We started in 5 classes, among them 3 “standard classes” two for small frames, one for large frames, where the scooters have to be equipped with uniform engine components to enable equal conditions and exciting duels.
Especially exciting was the smallfames. 17 starters competed for the places on the podium in the small unit class K5. Among them Vespa legend Stoffy Maier and newcomers Valentino Randazzo. The old master and the young daredevil offered each other thrilling duels with daring driving maneuvers at the head of the field. Shortly before the end of the race, however, the two leaders were involved in a crash, and so victory went to Markus Moderer, who drew attention to himself with almost lap times. Valentino saved himself to 3rd place, 2nd place went to Felix Richter.
The second gripping duel of the day was in the faster Smallframe Unit class K4 between Achim Wolf and Robert Leibfarth. The latter was able to secure pole position in qualifying. With a rocket start however Achim put himself directly at the top of the field. After some duels at the top Robert could push himself with a hard braking maneuver past the leader and drive the race home. The podium of the K4 was finally completed by Benedigt Neuberger who crossed the finish line just a blink of an eye earlier than his competitor Albert Heigold.
The other racing classes also showed exciting racing on this wonderful racing day. Congratulations to all podium finishers.
New starters welcome!
The ESC was also able to welcome three new starters this weekend. The newcomers were warmly welcomed into the driver's circle and - like every new participant in the ESC - were exempted from the entry fee at their first race.
For those of you who are now in the mood for scooter racing: 2 more ESC races will take place this year. The ESC Polish GP on 29.08.20/26.09.20/XNUMX in Zielona Góra (PL) and the “KR automation” race at the Harzring on XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX. Registration and entry at www.eurochallenge.de
Thanks to helpers and organizers, and the SCK for their support.
See you at the next race ...;)
The results in detail:
- K1: 1. Romain Baguet; 2. Thomas Lenkeit; 3. Marten Schnitzler
- K3: 1. Toni Fattorusso; 2. Christian Gattinger; 3.Marco Abbate
- K4: 1st Robert Leibfarth; 2nd Achim Wolf; 3rd Benedict Neuberger
- K5: 1. Markus Moderer; 2. Felix Richter; 3. Valentino Randazzo
- K6: 1. Matthias Sinkovits; 2. Maiko Jandl; 3. Igor Kulesza
Fastest race lap: Achim Wolf (1: 03.102)
Author: RL
PMT tires – uncompromising sports and racing tires for scooters
Have you driven the new PMT tires yet? If you are also in scooter racing, you will know about the enormous importance of the tires.
It is not only the tread pattern that matters, but especially the right rubber compound. The optimal tire is tuned:
- matching the weather
- suitable for the track
- suitable for the vehicle
- suitable for the driving style and ability
We now have a wide range of tires from PMT Tires
The enormous difference in performance of tires in motorsport is immediately obvious to anyone who has tried the legendary PMT tires.
Buy tires now to be ready for the race trackMade in Italy: PMT Tires
The Italian tire manufacturer PMT (Pauselli Modell Tires) has been in existence since 1990, originally producing tires for RC cars and the popular Italian minibike racing series. Since they have also developed tires for motorcycles and especially racing tires for scooters, they have very quickly achieved a top position among the favorite tires of racing drivers. The PMT tires are available in perfect compounds for the various soil, weather and temperature conditions.
Slick, mixture: hard
The slick with hard compound is ideal for tracks with high asphalt temperatures and heavy use due to many exchange bends and braking maneuvers. The hard compound is the most abrasion resistant and can therefore be used very well in endurance / long distance races. The warm-up phase for the optimum operating temperature (~ 80 ° C) is significantly longer with this compound than with the “medium” or “soft” compound.
The recommended air pressure for the front is 1.2-1.3 bar and for the rear between 1.4-1.9 bar.
Slick, mixture: medium
The medium bridges the gap between the hard and persistent as well as the extremely well adhering but also quickly wearing soft mixture. The medium thus covers a very wide range of applications. Its optimum operating temperature is ~ 75 ° C and, like the hard compound, requires a longer running-in time than the soft compound to reach temperature.
The recommended air pressure for the front is 1.2-1.3 bar and for the rear between 1.4-1.9 bar.
Slick, compound: soft
The soft PMT compound offers full grip even at lower temperatures. It wears out correspondingly quickly at higher temperatures and then no longer offers its full grip level. On the other hand, it reaches its optimum operating temperature of 70 ° C very quickly.
The recommended air pressure for the front is 1.2-1.3 bar and between 1.4-1.9 bar for the rear.
Slick, rain
PMT offers with the Rain Slick a new interpretation of an intermediate. Based on the rubber compound of the pure rain tire, an intermediate with slick tread pattern has been created. It is ideal for changeable weather conditions with the same proportion of wet and dry sections.
The recommended inflation pressure for the front is 1.2-1.3 bar and for the rear between 1.4-1.9 bar.
rain racing
The rain tire from PMT plays in the highest league of rain experts for the circuit.
Whoever mounted this tire needs a good excuse if it didn't work out with a good placement ...
The recommended air pressure for the front is 1.2-1.3 bar and for the rear between 1.4-1.9 bar.
Drag race
The Drag Race tires from PMT are ideal for all quartermill engines.
Here no grip is lost and all power is transferred to the asphalt without slip.
This also means that there is no mercy for clutch or gearbox ..
Run & Race 2016, Pomposa, Italy - 16-18 / 09/2016
Last month Scooter Center rode to Pomposa, on the Adriatic coast, for the Run & Race finals of the European Scooter Challenge. Thanks to the attendance of the British Scooter Sport Organization (BSSO) and of further international racers, spectators could enjoy wonderful performances on the circuit.
With Lambretta to the Adriatic Riviera
It feels like a holiday. We still have a long way to go, about 3.000 km, and many things to do in Bella Italia. Our bus was packed with our equipment and with our best bgm parts for the Run & Race Italy. We started our journey in Cologne and after 1.000 km, from the Lake Garda, we traveled the last 250 km to Pomposa by scooter: two Race Tour Lambretta scooters with the
28mm Polini carburettor and the bgm big box:
- Lambretta DL 150 with 225 bgm PRO RaceTour
- Lambretta LI 150 1st series 195 bgm PRO RaceTour
Hard test drive in the rain and pathole slalom
Test drive in Bella Italia: summertime, blue sky, now and then a short stop in Autogrill. That's the plan! But just half an hour later, after the motorway tunnel in Verona ... a pouring rain! Luckily there's no bad weather, just wrong clothes: and we have everything with us, but that's not enough and it still keeps on raining untill Pomposa. Several cars against crash barrier and crackings in asphalt paving show us what happened before.
Despite the bad weather and patholes we can still ride very fast, about 110 km/h (GPS). the new TomTom VIO shows us the way and thanks to the great performance of ours scooters we can enjoy the ride.
Our scooter tour: the video
Great Run & Race in Italy
Just before arriving in Pomposa it finally stops raining and the sunshine starts to break through the cloud cover. Marco from Rimini Lambretta Center and the organizers of SIR welcome us and after drinking some white wine we go to our nice bungalow.
There's a lot going on on both evenings. On Saturday morning a delicious breakfast by the seaside, with sunshine and blue see… amazing… but we don't have enough time sice we have to set up our stand and we're curious to see what awaits us.
Setting up our stand was very easy, well, at least for those who went to bed sober before five o'clock in the morning. We present the wide range of our items. On this occasion we also have the chance to meet our old friends from Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Greece, Great Britain and Cyprus.
Some pictures from our weekend
RACE - The races
Just on the opposite side we can see the exciting races taking place: racers competing up to the last meter. The Italian teams CASA Performance and Parmakit dominate the race. Our Austrian friend wins the race of the standardized class with a Polini engine. We hang a camera around Michi neck (Stoffi-team) - here a video of a training in the standardized class:
RUN - The scooter meeting
Run & Race – not only race, also scooter meeting. On the site of the racetrack we find many Italian stands selling every kind of merchandise and items, there are also lots of scooters to admire and we have many interesting discussions about scootering. All participants meet at the camping and bungalow park where they stay overnight. The concert on Saturday was cancelled, but we keep on having party until the morning hours. After the delicious breakfast on Sunday morning it's hard for us to leave. Still 250 km return journey await us, but this time in beautiful sunshine. We leave the motorway and we ride the last stretch across mountains and hinterland until we reach our Basecamp at the Lake Garda. Here we still have quite a lot to do scuh as visiting the piston manufacturer Meteor in Milan, making photos and videos.
LINKS:
http://www.scooterracing.org.uk/ http://www.eurochallenge.de/
Our best clutch for Vespa is back in stock
Just in time for the summer season BGM Superstrong clutch for Vespa largeframe is available again. The robust and reliable clutch is very much sought after, leading to having been sold out for a short time.
New generation of drive plates for Vespa clutches
From now on we will deliver the BGM Superstrong and the Superstrong CR with a new generation of steel plates. Did you know that there is a best order of assembly for the steel plates?
The new clutch comes with each plate being clearly marked with the correct position of the plate.
We have revised all plates and optimized their fit.
The plate on position two has now got a defined curve at an individual radius in order to generate smooth disengagement behavior with any load.
The steel plates are series tested for smooth running and planar surface, as well as for quality of material and hardness. All steel plates achieve values around 10hrc.
Apart from optimizing steel plates, nothing was changed in the proven concept of Superstrong clutches for Vespa PX, T5, Sprint, Rally ...
BGM PRO Vespa shock absorbers successful in ASCC race!
Just as we do for our Scooter Customshow, Austrians also cooperate: ASCC - Austrian Scooter Challenge Cup - is Austria's racing series for classic scooters, automatic scooters and electric scooters.
Every season consists of seven races with two runs each. At the end of the 2 worst race day results are subtracted.
Successful with products of Scooter Center and BGM
Lukas Schossmann is the big surprise of this season. As a member of the sQooter racing team he already won 4 races. The team bets on many tuning parts by Scooter Center Cologne. Quattrini engine with M1L-60 cylinder and crankshaft with 51mm stroke. Suspension: BGM Pro shock absorber for Vespa PK front and rear. The braking system with a radial brake master cylinder in front is also made by BGM.
Only 5 euros shipping fee to Austria
Scooter Center Very quickly via UPS and DHL delivers for 5 Euros shipping fees to Austria - up to 31kg, you can order a lot.
Order now in the Scooter Center scooter shop
ASCC - innovative and modern scooter racing series in Austria
ASCC supports trying well known and new products during training. Thus enabling the drivers to rent and try suspension for instance. Many racers, however, also install these products in their street scooters and recommend these products to friends and family.
The organization team of ASCC did not spare any efforts and heavily invested in season 2015. They now own a timekeeping device and from race day # 2 (25th of April in Greinbach) onwards all races will be documented via MyLaps Live-Timing. This is the next generation of timekeeping with live-app on smart-phone and tablet, live-timing online and on screens at site, as well as offering various information on displays of the drivers. You can find racing results on www.ascc.at hon www.mylaps.com (choose Austria in “all countries”).
1st race day in Tulln. A raging success
Waiting has an end on the 11th of April 2015: the first race of the new season was about to start. So there were 23 scooterists and several thousand spectators and fans who could not wait to see the start of the first race in 2015. At the same time, a motorbike fair (the largest in Austria in 2015) offers the possibility to present ASCC, the teams and oneself to an interested audience. What happened?
Many spectators were there on Saturday morning to see the qualifying. The weather was perfect. Drivers were motivated. And the perfect surprise: Newcomer Lukas Schossmann from team sQooter.com won the pole position with a lap time of 22.8sec. Thomas Lukaseder of GP-one started from position 2 and Thomas Prasch, the overall winner of 2014 of the Horny-Hornets, started from 3.
The first race started at 2 pm and took, like any other ASCC race, 15min + 2 laps. The track turned out to be rather slow, narrow and highly selective. Therefore many drivers fell and there were many defects, fortunately, nothing was really bad though. Lukas Schossmann, the surprise, didn't have any difficulty and celebrated his first win. Thomas Prasch finished 2nd and Christoph Lafer 3rd. Organizer Ron: “We knew in advance about the narrow and slow track. But all the racers were fair. "
Race 2 saw an even larger audience, which witnessed more race action and exciting fights for the lead. Lap times were tight, the lead changed, drivers were lapped. All the drivers were convinced: “Tull was awesome. And a large audience, cool. " Schossmann and his BGM PRO Vespa suspension also finished first in race 2, in front if Prasch and Kirchhofer.
Race day 2: Greinbach All or nothing!
All the racers of ASCC agree: "All or nothing!" is the slogan for the track of the PS Racing Center in Greinbach. Either you pull through the long high speed bend (more than 100km / h), don't care about the bumps at its end and perfectly meet all the load alterations or you loose.
And this happened on race day # 2 on April, 25th 2015: only those racers without fears and with the most experience reached for the podium. Gerhard Konrad, local hero and member of the HG-Racingteam, was forced to quit early (damage on a cylinder during training). This paved the way for the 3 best racers of the season: Lukas Schossmann, Thomas Prasch and Rainer Kirchhofer. Christopf Lafer of the VorResoSchalter team surprisingly put pressure on them and even finished third in the second run.
Schossmann and Prasch battled for the lead for some rounds, which were the most exciting scenes of the day. Due to a badly adjusted clutch, Schossmann lost his pole position right away. But he won the race in front of Prasch and Kirchhofer. Schossmann and his BGM shock absorbers gained another full 25 points, in front of Prasch on two and Christoph Lafer on three.
ASCC pictures / photos
Here you can find many great pictures of the races:
ASCC results / table
Current overall table:
Vespa Raid Maroc 2014: The hardest Vespa race in the world!
This year was the third time for the Vespa Raid in Morocco. A six-day race over mountains and across the desert. But always winding slopes and slalom through football sized boulders and other obstacles.
In addition to the absolute physical fitness that the driver must have, the achieved average speed counts less than the navigation skills. Because only with the successful drive through all the check points you will get the highest score.
Sticky on bgm PRO indestructible stainless steel rims through the desert
For all the rivalry between the teams, the atmosphere of fair play and great helpfulness to each other is practiced. The biggest battle is against the adversities of nature and not against the fellow racers.
Ferran, one of the organizers, made available for Sticky a pink Vespa PX on the road to enable him to expand his broad portfolio of racetracks. The Vespa PX is well prepared for this type of race and has proven itself in three desert racing seasons. Including the 2011 Pan-Africa Rally, which is the inspiration for the Morocco Rally organizer.
Despite health problems (which may have had an impact on his top decking passion), he pulls up to 200 km per day on the Vespa.
Especially shock absorbers, rims and tires and the fragile engine housing are in danger of getting permanently damaged or completely destroyed. In this picture the nice looking original black standard rim did not stand the stress:
On day 5 it is so far and sticky get a puncture and broken navigator holder on mixed terrain. The navigator holder is replaced by gaffer tape and the original Piaggio Vespa rims are replaced by the bgm PRO stainless steel rims. The right decision! Not only stable, but also beautiful, the new bgm PRO stainless steel rims - who still needs chrome rims?
In contrast to the completely deformed and wavy rims, our standard bgm stainless steel rims presents themselves at the end of the race still like new and in non-dented condition!
Buy Vespa tires
Sticky
You will find the next sticky adventure here
10-hour scooter tole endurance scooter racing in Magny Cours
The third endurance, organized by the Association Scootentole and Retro Scooter Nivernais on the long Club track of Magny Cours, entered a new phase:
- 34 teams at the start,
- some 130 pilots of
- six different nationalities.
Nice weather, beautiful track, the event is full of promises. Qualifying on Saturday saw the "official teams" confrontation during which, the 225SS Casa Lambretta steals the pole to the swift ”full Money ”Liquid cooled Vespa. Right behind, the Burzock LML team PX 215 Pinasco engine created a surprise by beating the Squadra Corse Mito Lambretta (AF Rayspeed RB20 ) and the German Dart Racing Team PK 150 Polini Evo...
On sunday, to the delight of drivers and spectators, right from the beginning of the race, started a track battle wich opposed the best Lambrettas against the best Vepas. On the Lambretta side, within the first hour, the Casa Lambretta boys had a broken crankshaft, while the MitoLambretta Rayspeed AF were still at the forefront, and the Lambretta-Authentik (RT195 MB Dev) was holding the 4th place ... before breaking his exhaust . Seems Like Vespas were going to win the fight this year!
Vespa Pugenti Corsa Quattrini leaded ?? the race from start to the finish, tremendous for a first participation! For the second place, the battle for the podium between four opponents, saw the Germans of the Dart Racing take the advantage over the French LML-Pinasco-Burzock (third and first largeframe), followed by the Spanish PK Racing Rolando Quattrini, and the Italian team of Mito Lambretta. Ranked during a time in the top 5, the PK of SPRT (Quattrini), the PK of PRT-Korona (Falc), the PX Authentik (210 Malossi) and Old Scoot Racing (Parmakit 177), and the small Pinasco VSP21, due to falls or mechanical problems, were forced to back down into the rankings. ... Despite the long track (tough for engines) and the hot sun, most teams classified in the first part of the ranking table, those who experienced no major mechanical problems!
As previous years, this event went perfectly well, and what a pleasure to see the joy of the teams who managed to cross the finish line. This race is already a classic. The organizers hope that, a probable extension of the grid to 45 teams would make things even more exciting! See you next year!
Many thanks to our partners: Scooter Center
Classement final / final ranking:
1. Vespa Pugenti Corsa Quattrini (ITA-Thomas Leonardi / Cristian Mazelli / Mauro Murgia) - Vespa Proto 125cc liquid full Quattrini - 352T. - MTC: 1.33.225
2nd Dart Racing (GER-Mark Dittgen / Robert Ludwig / Felix Richter / Torsten Wengeler / Alex Stroh) - Vespa 150 Polini Evo- 340T. - MTC: 1.35.612
3.Burzock Team-LML France (FRA-Lucien Jules / Jean-Luc Nobleaux / Ben Robillard) - LML Star4 moteur PX 215 Pinasco - 332T. - MTC: 1.35.821
4. Rolando Racing Motorodelo (ESP-Rolando Guldris / Jose Perez Guttierez / Fabio Vasques / Pedro Sequeira) - Vespa PK Quattrini M1. 327T. - MTC: 1.40.465
5th MitoLambretta Squadra Corsa (ITA-Luca Bortoletto / Francesco Collodello / Matteo Marconi) - Lambretta Proto RB20 AF Rayspeed - 320T. - MTC: 1.35.811
6.Scuderia Heini Zoller Hof (GER-Matthias Henze / Ivo Knahn / Skender Imeri) - Zundapp Bella 250S “Scramblenette” - 314T. - MTC: 1.44.965
7th Squadra Corse Unogas (ITA-Stefano Bono / Fulvio Brambilla / Fabio Ferrando) - Vespa Special 133 Polini - 314T.- MTC: 1.42.695
8th Stihl Racing Team (GER-Toni Fattorusso / Stefan Kummermehr / Ralph Hofmann) - Vespa Cosa 210 Malossi - 312T. - MTC: 1.45.855
9. Authentic Lambretta (FRA-Gilles Fraval / Lionel Mahous / David Palloume) - Lambretta LD MB dev 195RT - 309T. - MTC: 1.43.541
10.Racing Mob Creusotin (FRA- Eric et Christophe Bidot / Daniel Blanc / Marc Lacombre) - Vespa PK 133 Polini - 306T. - MTC: 1.45.428
11.Bozamix Racing (ITA-Paolo Bozzini / Alessandro Carrella / Filippo Collova) - Lambretta 186 Super Imola - 305T. - MTC: 1.40.093
12.VSP 21 Team (ITA-Fabrizio Sala / Livio Damiani / Alberto Cosa / Gianluca Giorgini) - Vespa Small Pinasco - 298T. - MTC: 1.39.216
13.SPRT 1 (FRA- F-Xavier Bres / Julien Desnuelle / Maxime Dias / Olivier Doussot) - Vespa PK 144 Quattrini puis 133 Polini - 297T. - MTC: 1.36.446
14.La Drouille Racing 2 (FRA-Adeline Buffet / André de Araujo / Flavien Poret / Vincent Cuisset) - Vespa PX 166 Malossi - 296T. - MTC: 1.50.082
15th B & B Racing Team (FRA-Thomas Bartolini / Sébastien Baumert / Dino Vinciguerra) - Vespa PK 133 Polini Evo - 295T. - MTC: 1.45.148
16.8 Ball Racing 1 (FRA-Ric Delacuisine / Frédéric Deluy / Stéphane Garcia / Stéphane Quentin) - Vespa PK Quattrini M1 - 295T. - MTC: 1.45.313
17th TVSC Racing (FRA-Sam Carrette / Jean-Marc Couillaud / Grégoire Fallay / Jordane Vacher) - Vespa PX 177 Pinasco - 288T.- MTC: 1.51.567
18.Bic Racing Team (FRA-Charles Baulu / Nicolas Domerc / Benoit Wunschel) - Vespa PX 210 Malossi MHR - 261T.- MTC: 1.52.865
19.GDM 1 Vespa club Savoie (FRA-Bertrand Ablondi / Yannick Clavel / Jean-Michel Excoffier) - Vespa PX 215 Pinasco - 242T.- MTC: 1.48.431
20th Boyscoot Shop 2 (FRA-Mickael Chabot / Alexis Chevalier / Julien Roux) - Vespa PK 133 Polini - 233T. - MTC: 1.44.715
21.Boyscoot Shop 1 (FRA-Philippe Dupont / Sébastien Jacquinot / Thierry Pot) - Vespa PX 221 Polini alu puis DR177 - 216T.- MTC: 1.46.374
22.Casa Lambretta (ITA-Mattia, Micol et Paolo Pacini) - Lambretta 225SS Casa - 208T.- MTC: 1.31.025
23.La Drouille Racing 1 (FRA-Jean-Paul Belmondouze / Ulysse Blanc / Guillaume Bordas) - Vespa PX 210 Malossi MHR - 208T. - MTC: 1.42.193.
24.8 Ball Racing 2 (FRA-Sophie Deluy / Florence Gillot / Emilie Paris / Thomas Lehmann / Thomas Boisson) - Vespa PK 133 Polini - 207T. - 1.48.858
25th Authentik Racing Team (FRA-Stéphane Azcue / Cyril Castera / Marc Cheverlepot / Sylvain Mathieu) - Vespa PX 220 Malossi - 202T.- MTC: 1.37.116
26th Events Scooter Boys (FRA-Romain Baguet / Stefan Barbot / Eric Bazard) - Vespa Special 133 Polini Evo - 177T.- MTC: 1.38.113
27.PRT-Korona Racing (FRA-Maxime Gautier / Fabien Follet / Patrick Vengeon / Stefano Villa) - Vespa PK 130 Falc Racing - 159T.- MTC: 1.31.717
28.Jean Jean Motion (FRA-David Darphin / Désiré Donat / Karim el Khomri / Joaquim Modesto / Julien Rioult) - Vespa PX200 - 155T.- MTC: 2.00.112
29.Old Scoot Racing (FRA-Eric Daca / Stéphane de Cancellis / Thierry Fortin / Joël Puzantian) - Vespa PX 177 Parmakit - 148T. DNF / AB - MTC: 1.38.437
30.GDM2 Vespa Club Savoie (FRA-Alex Brunet / Aurélien Grosmaire / Patrice Fontaine / Angelo Scalzo) - Vespa PX 177 Pinasco puis 177 Polini- 135T.- DNF / AB - MTC: 1.50.257
31st GDB Team (CH-Stéphane Keickeis / Georges Luthi / Jean-Paul Wenger) - Vespa PK 133 Polini - 212T.- DNF / AB. - MTC: 1.50.414
32.Bricol'Boys Team (FRA-Antoine Cocozza / Stéphane Demonchaux / Florian Illiaquer) - Vespa PK 136 Malossi - 82T.- MTC: 1.42.356
33. MitoLambretta 2 VNR (ITA-Francesco Agostini / Martino Nardi / Marco Rubino) - Lambretta Proto Full Mito VNR 205 - 2T.- MTC: 1.48.661
34.RSP-Area 51 (FRA-Benjamin Arneguy / Richard Beaudet / Olivier Muscat) - Vespa SS replica Quattrini - 148T.- DNF / AB / DEC - MTC: 1.43.655
Meilleur temps en course / best lap: Casa Lambretta (ITA-Mattia Pacini): 1.31.025
TAKING A CORNER WITH 135km / h ON A VESPA
Mirecourt Vespa & Lambretta racing 2014 in France
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.
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!
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 serious 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 !!
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 bonding 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
"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.
Biggest classic vespa race ever!
Mirecourt, France, ESC 2013 season opening and 13th Challenge Scootentole, 155 drivers decided to write history!
All categories were 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 arbitrarily split the two C2S qualification sessions in the morning in order to even chances for a good time.
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 scooters that actually looks like scooters (cuts are restricted to a minimum in the Challenge Scootentole).
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!
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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 the electronic 2-stroke direct injection
CORRECTION: Julien emailed 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 28 mm 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 - cylinder made: Scooter Center
Nice video of a Vespa: Supermoto vs racing - Vespa.
Recorded on the Pannonia Ring:
It was the fourth time that the season was opened with the Spring Race. 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.
The 1200 meter long circuit has some full throttle head down ass 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 tires and tarmac is lost. Pure perfection!
This is the profile of the circuit.
Before the race was started at 6:15 h there was the chance to do some short testing for 40 minutes. Luckily the weather forecast came true and it was dry and sunny.
At 7:00 a.m. the starters took their position.
Starting was done in classic LeMans style.
The day before where we prepared the pit stop.
The starting places were given by the lot.
Well, who knows what this can mean….
The first 90 minutes of the race were completely free of problems or anything to worry about. Untill the moment where the engine bolt cracked while Robert raced the bike.
The repair work of changing the engine bolt throws us back from place 10 to 38.
With this bad position we had to race very steadily 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 ...
Beside us ...
And opposite us...
But 8 hours on the track later we had to fix the bike again.
New brake pads were needed because of the slope on the circuit.
The remaining 4 hours were almost without problems. Expect for one broken flywheel cover.
The Polini Evo chraged with the bigbertha and breathed by the 33mm Keihin were faultlessly working and the perfect choice. the Sawa tires Have resisted the 12 h race very well and will be the weapon of chioce for the upcoming 24 hour race in Spain.
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 almost always find the right gear and can accelerate like hell out of the corners.
We were chuffed after 12 hours of racing, but satisfied with the 8th overall position.
We, the DART RACING TEAM, would like to thank the organizers and all attendants. It was a Mords Gaudi (Austrian for murder jamboree) and we hope to be back in 2014!
Cheers everyone
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 Spring Race 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, Straw speed intake, BGM crank and Big bertha, we had reliable 24hp and 20Nm for 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 changes of position not only in the front rows.
Unfortunately, our dreams were destroyed 3 hours before the race ended.
The brake pads gave up after 8 hours of 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 sponsors Scooter Center and everyone who supported us during the 2012 season.
See you on the track in 2013!
Dates for the Spring– and fall race are already set ...
Dennis, Alex, Robert, Torsten
On 21st and 22nd September the Scootentole season final race took place at the Magny Cours racetrack.
The Scootentole series consists of 3 races and became quite popular among the ESC drivers.
After the last races of the ESC in Hungary were dominated by heavy rain, we had hoped for a nice, warm weekend.
Unfortunately, the Friday practice at Magny Cours had to be completed in rain as well.
So best choice was the Sava monsoon rain tire.
As the rain got even heavier on Friday night, all our hopes for a dry race on Saturday were gone. Even the cautiously optimistic online betting weather service could not really brighten our mood.
On Saturday we were surprised by a drying track which made it possible to drive the first free practice and qualifying.
With the Sava tires the rather slippery path could be mastered quite well. Nevertheless, the top times were still at 1:10, and once the water vanished from the track, Maik Persch (ESC175) could set the best lap at 1:08.
It remained dry throughout the day, so it was not a hectique tire change from dry to wet tires.
So on Saturday we could easily use the Sava Super Sofat tire for the front wheel and the Soft Drinks one for the rear.
On these tires, and despite a very significant departure just followed by a hanging throttle slide, Maik Persch (this year's champion of the ESC) could win the overall victory in the class C3.
The award ceremony took place in usual high spirits. A nice food buffet, followed by raffle rounded up a nice end to the day.
... and in the paddock the season final was also celebrated sufficiently, the “K8 pub bar class” of the ESC is racing series comprehensive :-)
2012 was a special year, because this year for the first time started the ESC Endurance. In this Long Distance Championship, unlike regular ESC Cup sprint races, teams drive up to 6 hours at a stretch for the win. the Scooter Center Cologne sent the GSF SCK Endurance Team (Andreas Putz, Michael, “maniac” Betz) into the race, which already did a great run during the 24 hour race in Spain and then won one famous triple victory (fastest lap, class victory, total victory ).
With correspondingly high expectations about the team went to the first endurance race in Liedolsheim Run'n'Race organized by the under the Stone Heads SC. The team was able to enter the race without any major problems in first place. After the Endurance Run in Wackersdorf had to be canceled due to modest weather, the race at the Harzring track was on the plan, which was organized by Wotox SC. The weather had been mixed, and we experienced a nasty departure, which let us finish the race beyond the podium positions. After some work on our racing machine, the rpm Scootering, metal fight in Belleben was on the plan, which was completed in second despite a leaky head, leaky exhaust flange and a cracked reed valve. Cursed with these defects, the engine deserved a complete overhaul. Thanks to this extra work the engine lasted all races of the season including the 24h race unrevised. With the newly revised work unit, we met for the season finale at the 'Holidays in Hungary', which was organized by the GOA SC. At the beginning of the race we were still on a hard-fought first place, but we lost valuable time due to a brake defect and an unreliable spark plug. Equipped with a strategic desire to win and with fantastic weather, we secured second place in Hungary, which has brought us the victory to win the first place in the ESC Endurance Championship!
At this point, many thanks to our guest drivers Benedikt Neuberger, Robert Leibfarth and Jens Fischer… Great work guys, another job well done!