The 3rd edition of the Pan Car Masters aka Open Pro10 Worlds was
again held at the huge and unique facility of the MRTM track in
Lostallo/Switzerland.
Our Team attend in the both Pro10 classes Modified and Stock 10.5t.
Practise started out in mix conditions in Thursday, whyle controlled
practise and qualification on Friday and Saturday were sunny. In the
Pro10 Stock class Timo Schad made the best position by TQing 3 out of 4
rounds. His father Rainer with a solid 3 place on the grid.
The finals then were mixed weather whyle some classes have rain heats
and other damped or dry, because the track became very fast dry.
The first dry final went with a tone to tone win to Timo, Rainer 3rd.
The wet 2nd final Timo 2nd at the end in reason of a few mistakes,
Rainer scored a DNF. The deciding 3rd wet final Timo troubled with his
car to end 3rd in this heat, whyle Rainer improved his score to a 2nd
finish.
At the End for Timo and Rainer and overall 2nd and 3rd place behind swiss Driver Roger Eifler.
Over in the Modified class were our Drivers Timo Schad, Tobias Weist,
Patrick Vannieuwenhyse and Markus Schneider in the race field.
Tobias was the man to beat during the practise and qualifcation by
winning 2 out of 4 rounds. Timo with a win in the 4th round secure him
the 2nd spot, Patrick and Markus on 4th and 5th in the A main.
The
first Final started damped but dryed very fast. Tobias made the best
after a bad start to win with 1 lap gap in front of Patrick. Timo 5th
and Markus DNS in reason of the starting conditions. The 2nd final went
then to Markus, he made the best Tire choice, Tobias with a 2nd place in
front of Patrick. Timo DNS and the same for the 3rd one.
So the
overall win would be decided between the VIP Teammates. The 3rd final
went to Patrick, Markus 3rd and Tobias crashed very hard at the start.
The overall win went with the faster time to Tobias against Patrick and
Markus completed the full VIP Podium.
In 2 classes 5 out of 6 podest places for the VIP Team a very strong result.