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ESC Rollerrennen Cheb 2020

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 01.08.2020!

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.

Raceday

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 Stoffi Maier and newcomer Valentino Randazzo. The old master and the young daredevil offered each other thrilling duels with daring driving manoeuvres 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 fast 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 Einheitsklasse 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 only 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 in Zielona Góra (PL) and the “KR automation” race at the Harzring on 26.09.20. 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 Benedigt 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

 

 

 

Run & Race goes Italy

For scooterists this sounds too good to be true. Run & Race – a tribute to the legendary scooter meeting of Stoneheads S.C. at the Liedolsheim karting track close to Carslruhe, which already celebrated it’s 10th anniversary in 2012.

Engines at day and scooterists sounds at night

Full speed Vespa & Lambretta an entire weekend. A traditional scooter meeting plus a racing event of the ESC – European Scooter Challenge (www.eurochallenge.de/en / www.facebook.com/eurochallenge).

The European Scooter Challenge already exists since 2004 with international races in

  • Germany
  • Austria
  • Czech Republic
  • Hungary
  • France
  • and a first this year: Italy.

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RUN & RACE – la Corsa al Raduno

As the name suggests: a traditional scooter meeting of the SIR (Scooteristi Italiani Riuniti) and an ESC race.

The team of Dean Orton, Vittorio Tessera and Parmakit: Rimini Lambretta Centre, Casa Performance / Casa Lambretta and Parmakit is the organiser and main sponsor. When visiting our Customshow, Scooter Center has been invited to this great final of the ESC 2016 and as one of the weekend’s sponsors, we will sure be there as well! We are excited, because the Italians ride hard and are currently very successful with our BGM PRO parts.

We will be at the meeting from 16th – 18th September 2016 – see you!

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PROGRAM:

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DATE:

16th – 18th September 2016

INFO:

Web:

Phone:

  • (0039) 0541 686449 (English / Italian)
  • (0039) 339 1612633 (Italian / English)
  • (0039) 333 1333244 (Italian)

E-Mail:

ACCOMODATION:

Two kilometers away is the holiday village Florenz. You can share one of their bungalows with your friends.

https://holidayvillageflorenz.com/en

Please direct your booking requests to: gianluca.luciani@campingflorenz.com. In case you do not receive any answer within 3 days, please contact Dean of Rimini Lambretta Centre: dean@riminilambrettacentre.com.

If you are three people who want to share a bungalow, each of you will have to pay 60 €. Included: bed and breakfast (Saturday and Sunday), dinner (Saturday), Nighter (Friday), concert of THE BEAT and Nighter (Saturday).

Do not hesitate and book now!

Their promise can be taken seriously:

WE WANT YOU TO ENJOY RACING IN ITALY AND WE’LL DO EVERYTHING WE POSSIBLY CAN TO MAKE SURE THIS A MEMORABLE HISTORIC EVENT FOR ALL THOSE WHO PARTAKE!

 

LOCATION:

Pomposa Race Circuit
Via Orto Alfierino 32
(Statale Romea Km. 29,8)
44022 San Giuseppe di Comacchio (FE)
Italy

Bon voyage – Dean comes with the BSG Corse bike to visit Scooter Center

Dean Orton, the main man behind Rimini Lambretta Centre, came to visit us for a couple of days. On his way from Italy to Venlo Scooter Run and afterwards to the Harz ring for the ESC race, he came to visit his old friends here. The reason for Dean’s days off from work was to give the BSG corse engine a proper test ride and thrash it as hard as possible.

BSG Corse Lambretta test riding

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The testing of the engine is done in the proper way, just the way it will be used by a common rider. First of all the scooter is packed with Dean’s mod tat and additionally with:

  • a second expansion chamber to be tested
  • a bag full of spares and
  • camping gear for Venlo.

Then the bike is thrashed about the motorways and country roads across Europe (Rimini, Italy – Austria – Germany – Venlo, Netherlands). His test ride also took him to Scooter Center Cologne and to the Harz ring for the ESC race.

80mph – restricted to 50hp

This is real testing over a long distance with sitting happily at 80 mph all day and plenty of throttle left to easily hit 95 mph and all this with a very short gear ratio of 4.9.

The 305 cc barrel on the CNC machined casings is restricted by the programmable ignition to 50 hp. Unrestricted it gave a 63 hp at the Rimini Lambretta Centre dyno.

Scooter Racing at the Harz ring

At the Harz ring this weekend there will be held the next ESC race. Dean met the Casa Lambretta racing team last night. Today the first testing of the Casa race bikes will take place and the last preparation before the races will be done. The Casa Lambretta race bikes feature the Casa Performance range as well as some BGM parts that are used on these bikes. We were happy to supply the front and rear shockers, the Silentblocks as well as our BGM Superstrong Lambretta clutches for the bikes.

Our first time!

Even if we know each other for decades and the shops were founded roughly at the same time, we haven’t managed to visit each other’s shops until the year 2015. dean-orton-lambretta-dean-orton-lambretta

On the 25th of April we were invited to the Open Day and shop opening of the new Rimini Lambretta Centre premises. This weekend was one of the best ever, with a stunning shop, loads of food and drinks and the test riding of scooters that made history –like both Innocenti twin cylinder prototypes- and bikes that probably will make history – like the BSG 305 cc one

Here is the video of Philipp riding the BSG Corse Lambretta

On Monday we finally had the pleasure to welcome Dean at our place! It was a pleasure every single second and a lot of piss taking has taken place. After a first tour through the shop on Monday and even some business talk we had dinner together and the stories never ended. While Dean quotes our Generation XI Smallframe Vespa as the most beautiful object in the universe, he can’t be stopped to let us know that the look of the BGM Lambretta Test Bike is the most shittiest Lambretta he ever came across. A theory we are confronted with from the first day Dean saw the Test Bike at the 2nd edition of the Riva del Garda Customshow in 2013. To stop this, we will send the Test Bike over to them to have the optics matched to the perfectly working engineering of it.

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On Tuesday Dean tested the bike in the rain on the beautiful routes around Cologne/Bergheim and came in for the traditional afternoon tea and some more stories and ideas about how to improve Lambretta parts.

On Wednesday the plans were to do another tour and take some pictures of how we proceed orders to show them at home. This has been missed though, because we wanted to see how the BSG engine performed on the dyno with the different pipes Dean had with him. Sadly we ran out of time and hadn’t the chance to put the Big Box on the 305, to modify an U-bend for the exhaust stub took too long and lunch was waiting and afterwards Dean had to leave.

We send our best regards to all the staff at Rimini Lambretta Centre and to Vittorio and his race team and keep our fingers crossed!