July 25, 2017

Swiss McBest Cup Rd5 & Rd6 – Report

Round 5 and 6 of the Swiss McBest Cup were recently held in Herblingen. Run with “hand-out” engines and fuel the qualification format is also special as the 7-minute qualifiers have a mandatory pit stop. Round 5, run on Saturday saw Xray’s Martin Wenger coming out on top in the 1/8th class from Shepherd racer Stefan Graber 2nd and Nick Zünd 3rd.

1/8th final results:
1. Martin Wenger – Xray
2. Stefan Graber – Shepherd
3. Nick Zünd – n/a
4. Daniel Braunschweiler – ARC
5. Hansjürg Baracchi – Serpent
6. Michele Cona – Xray
7. Beat Heiniger – Xray
8. Daniel Schwendimann – Shepherd
9. Heinz Huber – Xray
10.Stefan Kohler – Serpent

In the 200mm Touring class it was Xray driver Michael Schäfer with the win from Mugen’s Dominik Denoth and Shepherd pilot Marco Schwab.

200mm Touring final results:
1. Michael Schäfer – Xray
2. Dominik Denoth – Mugen
3. Marco Schwab – Shepherd
4. Stefan Wüthrich – Xray
5. Jakob Bühler – Xray
6. Luca Moscioni – n/a
7. Nico Prisciantelli – n/a
8. Philipp Bühler – Xray
9. Peter Koller – Xray
10.Nuno Huber – Xray

Round 6 on Sunday started off pretty cold but things would heat up over the day. In the 1/8th class Serpent’s Raphael Wicki would be successful in the A-main with Xray’s Martin Wenger and Shepherd’s Daniel Schwendimann coming in 2nd and 3rd respectively.

1/8th final results:
1. Raphael Wicki – Serpent
2. Martin Wenger – Xray
3. Daniel Schwendimann – Shepherd
4. Beat Heiniger – Xray
5. Mauro Licchelli – ARC
6. Andrej Bostjancic – Mugen
7. Iso Huonder – Mugen
8. Nick Zünd – n/a
9. Theo Giannakos – Shepherd
10.Daniel Braunschweiler – ARC

In the 200mm Touring class Michael Schäfer (Xray) was able to conserve Saturday’s performance to take another win in front of Xray teammates Nuno Huber and Stefan Wüthrich.

200mm Touring final results:
1. Michael Schäfer – Xray
2. Nuno Huber – Xray
3. Stefan Wüthrich – Xray
4. Ruben Straub – Xray
5. Jakob Bühler – Xray
6. Marco Schwab – Shepherd
7. Luca Moscioni – n/a
8. Dominik Denoth – Mugen
9. Philipp Bühler – Xray
10.Manfred Ebener – Shepherd

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]



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