Hermann Waldy finally broke the duck with his new Lola B06/51 Judd F1 at Kitzeck hillclimb yesterday. Following a 5 race series of rainshowers and bad weather, there was sunshine and top conditions in Styria. It was a close battle in all 3 runs with hunagrian Laszlo Szasz, but Waldy managed to pull a 0,5 sec gap over his strongest competitior to seal the first overall victory of the 2011 season.
Waldy:“ I am delighted and really happy that i finally had the opportunity to race in my preferred conditions. The car is just great. I did say that before, but i have to repeat this – it´s really really good and i´m so glad to have this monkey off my shoulders.“
Nic Brebsom also showed very strong performance in heat 1, where he clocked the 5th fastest time. Unfortunately he dropped back to P9 overall but was still happy with the result.
Brebsom:“ Everything works fine and i am happy with the time i´ve achieved this morning. In the second run i went sideways and lost a few tenths. I think in the third run there was too much track temperature for the soft tire compound.“
Also Christian Tschemer was over the moon. After wrecking his Kadett GSI earlier this year he reported:“ we built the new car in less than 3 months and everything worked perfect. It took some time to get back into the groove, but in the final run i really went for it. Unfortunately something let go in the gearbox, when i went on two whels around the hairpin before the finish line. i crossed the line in 5th, the only gear i found, but the time was still pretty good. The Zele-Racing engine i bought last year is very strong and runs beautiful.“
