Sebastian Kunz wins final Central German Regional
Last weekend the final round for of the Central German Championship 2009 1/10th scale touring car took place in Wiesbaden. Team Shepherd was attending the event with two V10 pre-production cars. Also newly crowned European Champion Dirk Wischnewski joined the race so it was a good possibility to compare the performance of the V10 with another good driver. In the qualifying it were Novarossi backed drivers Dirk Wischnewski and Patrick Schäfer with the fastest runs. Dirk secured himself the pole-position followed by Patrick Schäfer who raced the first time with the V10. Second V10 racer Sebastian Kunz had some bad luck as his transponder didn’t count correctly so he had to go through the Semi-Final. If it had counted correctly Sebastian would have ended up on 3rd place after qualifying. The fastest lap of Patrick was only 0,1 sec slower than Dirk’s fastest lap, so the performance of the V10 was already quite good.
Sebastian could win easily his semi-final so he joined the final on the 5th place in the starting grid. For the final Patrick changed a little bit the setup, Sebastian stay with the setup that he used before. At the start Dirk could defend his lead, Patrick followed on second place and Sebastian could take over the third place after a few laps. The order stayed like this for a couple of minutes until Dirk suddenly had technical problems. Patrick took over the lead follow by Sebastian who was right behind Patrick. But also Patrick had some bad luck. Before the second fuelstop his engine stopped and Sebastian could take over the lead. He never looked back and secured himself his first victory with the V10. Patrick followed on second place still having a gap of 3 laps on the third placed Patrick Garbi. In the final Sebastian’s fastest lap was only 0,07 sec slower than Dirk’s fastest lap, Patrick was even closer with a difference of only 0,02 sec. So the performance was really good and we are looking forward to the German Championship in September.
Source: Shepherd [team-shepherd.com]
