Wengen is tough!

January 4th, 2006

Qualification for Wengen is now open. Wengen is a very long and tough race track. You have to be really sensitive for the upper part, round curves, some of them need to be droven directly, others very round to keep the speed. The “Brüggli-S” requires some attention too, but can be passed with a good right and an early left turn to keep the pace.

The second part of the track again requires a lot of sensitive curve racing. Taking the direct path causes some loss of speed, which easily sums up to 1-2 secs. So try to find a good compromise between round and direct racing.

ludwigma set the first scores with a very good 2:42 time, but was soon overtaken by myself. In the last 2 days DrPhlox, ElGrecco and especially JoAce stepped in to improve our clubs race-time. Our newest member schurli86 (he would have beaten us in the first 2 races! So I’m glad he joins late) again showed some good competition, but JoAce managed to pass him by more then 1 sec currently. But I’m sure you all will keep on going, until you crush my leadership!

If you need tips, just ask, everyone is happy to help, even if you manage to pass him afterwards ;-)

Keep on racing, Wengen will start on Jan. 13th and our target is to get into the Top 30 clubs. I’ll definitly go for it, so join me for the race!

We finshed 46th in Bormio!

January 1st, 2006

We had a real good racing pace in Bormio, although HerbNator only had 3-4 hours of racing, before he left for Spain, we had 4 drivers in the Top 1000 list and made it into the Top 50 Clubs!

See yourself: Bormio Race Standings, Club Standings

It’s been a tough race, we even had some face to face sessions for a little improvement. HerbNator set the first below 2:03 time, but was shortly overtook by JoAce and myself. ludwigma had a hard time getting below 2:03 but finally managed to get there with a good 2:02.7 time. DrPhlox had some good improvements on the second racing day, leading in front of Beniator. Beniator, ElGrecco, JoergX, Ferrocolor and spenderniere had a real tough fight, and Benitaor and ElGrecco took the lead here, with FerroColor beating spenderniere only by 0.3s. Vorläufer99, Kuemmelbaron, Chrisu1201 and nuwanda probably didn’t have enough time to get the pace going, but still had some remarkable times for their efforts.

Again some racers skipped that race, so no chance for them to gather any points here, I hope they join in for the next race!

So here are the club internal results for Bormio:

Nr.  Name           Time       ClubPoints
1.   RandomLogic    2:02.045   13
2.   JoAce          2:02.210   11
3.   ludwigma       2:02.770   9
4.   HerbNator      2:02.930   7
5.   DrPhlox        2:04.244   6
6.   Beniator       2:05.116   5
7.   ElGrecco       2:05.157   4
8.   JoergX         2:05.677   3
9.   Ferrocolor     2:05.791   2
10.  spenderniere   2:06.083   1

And so the current standings for the Club Ski-Challenge WorldCup:

Nr.  Name           ClubPoints
1.   RandomLogic    26
2.   JoAce          22
3.   HerbNator      16
3.   ludwigma       16 (-1)
5.   DrPhlox        11 (-1)
6.   Beniator       9  (-1)
6.   JoergX         9  (+1)
8.   ElGrecco       7
9.   Ferrocolor     2
10.  PP80           2  (+1)
11.  spenderniere   1
11.  Guenni_Fast    1  (+1)

Thanks to all starters for this fantastic race.

The second race is on…

December 29th, 2005

Bormio race started yesterday evening, and the most desperate already started to take some action.

So the pack is currently lead by RandomLogic with 2:02.8, closly followed by HerbNator, JoAce and ludwigma, all within a second.

DrPhlox and Kuemmelbaron still try to get their grip on the “snowy” condition, as they only trained for sun.

I’m sure JoAce will try to push the limits again on snow with a low 2:02 time, like in qualification.

Hope the rest of the club is joining in for some tough competition. Happy skiing!

Bormio qualification ends…

December 28th, 2005

Qualification for Bormio is nearly over. It has been a tough competition, and we are ready to roll.

HerbNator put a great run together last nite, leading “sunny” condition with 1:59.5 now, still followed by me and JoAce and ludwigma with some tenth behind.

JoAce rules the snow with a good 2:02.7 time, followed by me. And I seem to be the king of ice for Bormio, at least for now, as only a few even tried it.

So wax your skies, only some hours left.

Get ready to rooooooooll.

The Flying Snowballs enter the challenge

December 26th, 2005

The ski-club founded by asimpi has enter the challenge. The club has 4 active members now, with asimpi leading with 2:02.821.

Flying Snowballs
2 Fast 2 Furious

And we have also a silent competition with another group (DrPhlox brought that up):
TI-FRO

So good luck to all for the challenge.

Getting ready for Bormio

December 26th, 2005

Bormio is getting closer every day, so it’s just a matter of days now.

The challenge (“Wettkampf”) starts at 28.12.2005 23:00 and lasts until 30.12.2005 23:00, so plenty of time to get our racers down the hill.

Qualification has been tough so for, with HerbNator getting into the lead with the Extreme skies with a below 2:01 time. Only after we changed our skies (thanks to the article of walter1) JoAce and myself were able to get closer and I even surpassed HerbNater by 4 tenth of a second. And also ludwigma made it under 2:01.

So it seems we should be able to get into the TOP 50 clubs in the challenge, which is going to be our primary goal.

So get ready for the race, wax our skies, get some tips from our top racers and… race

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