Hello Guys!

Tamar asked how preparations are going for the Danish Nationals in another topic, so here I´ll try to answer that!!

The testing season before the race started two weeks ago! And it is almost as intense and at times silly as 1:1 racing pre season testing! Some go for out and out lap records every time we meet at The Big Blue (Name of the Danish Nationals track), some seems to be testing and getting nowhere, like myself, others again is just plain lost!!

The Big Blue is not just a Blue King track, it is a very special FLAT blue King, with a huge corner at the end of the straight and you need a very special setup compared to a normal King. On top of that the track posseses very litle grip without glue, and thats the way we will be racing on it, well unless of course you use the right tires, conditioned with the right goop! The organizers, DMCA, which by the way I´m a part of, did not want to use hand out tires, something which in my opinion was a big mistake, but heck, were all in the same boat! That has meant utter anarki conserning, tires and goop!

Right now the "Testing Season" has been won fair and square by Keld and Christian Hoefler, who has continously been the quickest at all tests so far. Next up has been Henrik, with a pletora of 8 or 10 drivers right on their heels. Quickest lap so far, on a track close to race conditions has been set by Christian Hoefler with a 7.6 secs time!

The beauty of testing though is the posibility to "sandbag", and I´m quite sure a lot of the cars doing the testing rounds has not been 100% legal! Unfortunately Keld claims that both his and Christians cars are legal! Lets see on race day!

I have come up with a tire, a gearing and a setup that I will run, come rain or shine, I have a very stabel car by now that is easy to drive. My quickest lap has been 7.9s not so far off the quickest, but I hope it will be a few 100 quicker when I test next time around. I´m not the quickest driver, and my two favorites are Christian Hoefler and Henrik for winner, but I hope to mix it in the top third of the field, and you never know...........................................

My car is most probably going to be a converted Carrera Corvette C6, tires looks like 40 Shore JAP, gearing 12/38, chassis - well the verdict is still out here, so it might be a PlaFit or a MoMo SW1 or even a Metris Mk. II or..........................

Hello Paal

Thanks for the post, it will be interesting to read how the rest of the story developes.
Keep us posted and I'll "upgrade your posts to news articles under the "international" section.
Maybe 2h could join in and tell us some more about his "sandbacking"
And hey, Christian is a fast youngster and his dad builds fast and clean cars...they dont have to cheat to be fast

GOOD LUCK WITH THE NATS.

Hello Tamar,

I´m definately not saying that Keld (or Christian) is cheating, they are fast, and it worrys me!

However I am saying, a lot of the guys are running cars that is not 100% according to the rules. And that is a mistake, for them, as the results they get is not really representative of what the car will do with windows, rear wings and interiors installed!

Personally I have tested only with cars that was 100% built according to the rules.

But as I said earlier, Christian is one hell of a quick driver with one hell of a quick car, wether he can transform that into hard results on the day remains to be seen, however both he and his father is bound to be in the final! And if by chance, I get there, they will be tough to beat! Just like 2H will be a very tough guy to beat, if he gets his car sorted out.

The great thing about these Nats is that there will be 12-15 very good drivers fighting for the 8 finals spots, so there is bound to be some very good fights, both during qualifying and the heats. And it is going to thake very litle good or bad luck to be either in or out of the finals!

These are the confirmed entries as off february 6th. 2006.:

1. Henrik Hasager, VSC, Ferrari 550 Maranello, Plafit SW Pro
2. Pål Hanson, VSC, Corvette 6C GT1, Plafit Excel Pro or Metris Mk.II
3. Søren Henriksen, VSC, Nissan Skyline R34 GT/R, Plafit Excel Pro
4. Rolf Næhr, VSC, Nissan Skyline R34 GT/R, Plafit Excel Pro
5. Jens Peter Andreassen, VSC, Nissan Skyline R34 GT/R, Plafit Excel Pro
6. Rasmus Johansen, VSC/HMC, TBA, Slotvision
7. Kai Bach Andersen, HMC, Toyota Supra, Plafit Excel
8. Leo Andersen, HMC, Toyota Supra, Plafit Excel
9. Keld Høfler, HMC, Ferrari Enzo, PlaFit
10. Christian Høfler, HMC, Ferrari Enzo, PlaFit
11. Jørgen Rigtrup, HMC, Jaguar XJ220, TBA
12. Ole Andersen, ELMC, TBA, TBA
13. Per Dyrholm, RfO, TBA, TBA
14. Erik Mathiasen, RfO, TBA, TBA
15. Jakob Andersen, Esbjerg, TBA, TBA
16. Michael Klarskov, HMC, TBA, TBA
17. Gorm Nørgaard, PMR, TBA, TBA
18. Per Steen Nielsen, Gimle, TBA, Metris Mk. II
19. Niels Brammer-Olsen, HMC, Ferrari F40, Plafit Excel
20. Oliver Andersen, VSC, TBA, Plafit Excel Pro
21. Rene Andersen, VSC, TBA, Plafit Excel Pro
22. Anders Nilsen, HMC, Porsche 911 GT1 Evo, Metris Mk. I
23. Mark Sander, PMR, Jaguar XJ220, Plafit Excel Pro
24. Hroar Olsen, HMC, TBA, TBA
25. Henrik Bering, PMR, Mercedes CLK GTR, Slotvision

The list is made in order of time of entry for the Nationals. There is 25 other driver who has made a preliminary entry but has yet to pay the entry fee, all of the above has payed the entry and is garanteed to show up.

Thae chassis and body noted above is what people has been testing with.

Hi there

Yes unfortunally, for the others, our cars (all 4 off them) is very quick and legal, all over 190 gr. some more, we just needed to test it ;-)
the slowest of my 4 cars so far was 7,81
my luck is to have Christian to compare with, then when we meesure 2 cars, and i make a change on one of them, i will compare it again with Christian and the other car.
and when i having 4 cars it is very fast to test different setups, and compare them to each other all the time.

Next wendays we are gonna test tires, sorry Paal but that part we havent reach yet, i have 8 different sets of tires ready, and Christian is testing when i am changing them, so its gonna be a little better if the first choice of tires that we testet on so far isnt the best.

and a small time correction, we have made a time on 7,51 with a car exatly on 190 gr. but of course without inserts on the wheels and without 0,9 gram wing. 7,61 is made with 198 gram car.

Hi Keld,

I know about the 7.51 time, however the track was not cleaned at that first test, so in my book that time is not all together correct.....

On the other hand I´m sure the times will get down around the 7.3 to 7.5 sec. at the race!!

Hello Guys

Looks like you guys are having lost of fun, and lots of competition. I must say Paal, 7.51 on a "flat" King with fox motors...hnmmmmmm
If the "Hoeflers" keep working like a team you might have a problem.
What happened to the White Mouse team spirit?
From what I hear from you guys you and 2H are competing instead of working toghether


Keep us posted and...


may the best Dane win

The White Mouse Team spirit is very much alive and kickin'.

We are comparing notes and working together on gearings and tires - and setting up the chassises. We have pretty much decided on which tires. Although I have decided to race the plank, I am also helping building the Excel chassis for a couple of the other Vikings Scaleracing Club members. My goal is that all VSC guys end up in atleast a semifinal.

And also, competition is the best way to improve. Pål and I just have some different views and preferences for gearings

Hey Tamar,

As 2H writes the White Mouse team spirit is very much alive and kicking! As 2H I am helping out four of our Vikings members building PlaFit chassis, and they are now very much spot on!

However, 2H and I have gone seperate ways with our setups, I need a very stabel car, and 2Hs plank is a bit twitchy for my liking! I have three different PlaFits to test tomorow and one Metris.

On gearing it seems to be 12 on the pinion and 38 or 40 on the spur that works for me, giving a very nice flow, 2H on the other hand feels these gearings brakes to badly, and needs a bigger spur.

Tires is also firmly set for me, but that is going to be my little secret, though 40 shore JAP is a close competitor!

Tomorow will surely be very interesting, I hope I can finde the last couple of 100s so I get a bit closer to Keld, Christian and Henrik - on the other hand, very often the winner of the testing season does not win the championship

if you what I mean

I'm getting really curious now, especially to see if 2H can find that last bit of setup information right, since he found some new in his emailbox.
Nice to see however this big entrylist. Should be a garantee of a exciting race; at the front and back of the field. Wishing you all good luck in the race and please keep us posted, as the Danish Nationals are becoming a sort of daily discussed tv show down here

Hey Wizz,

I have just read your mail comments to Henrik, and if we where racing on a traditional King I´d go along with you, all the way, you are not just the WizzKid for us, but our collective slot-guru!

Now then, back to topic! I had worked along the lines of your suggestions, until late last wednesday, around 23.00 hours I had used my PlaFits, and they where nice and stabel, but they lacked the last bit of performance..................

For the hell of it, I took out my Metris Mk. II/Lambo bodied car and I emidiately did laps 2-3 hundreds quicker than before, this was with the same gearing and the same tires!!! And this was after 6 hours of free pratice, tires all gooped up, track relatively grippy!!

The plank is a very unstabel piece of equipment on this particular King track, and the standard WizzKid basic setup is also somewhat off, but better than the plank! Next time you come to visit Denmark I hope you and the rest of RfH will come to test on this King track, to expirience for yourself that it is a different kettel of fish!

So, after tonights strategy meeting in White Mouse Racing, we have a plan, and it very much centers around personal preferences. I have four chassis that all handles very well, within just a few 100 of each other, Henrik has at least two chassis that he prefers, and a gearing that works for him. Tires, well I know what I will go for, so its only down to chassis choice for me, and also for Henrik.

I still think that my favorite is Henrik, he has a lot of driving slot cars under his belt from 2005, and should have the edge!

Testing is testing, racing is racing - and to be honest, I remember 1000000 og times that a racing team had every thing sorted out during testing, however come the real racing, they where nowhere. By that account, I´m in real goos shape

So guys, we will deffinately keep you posted on the development leading up to the Danish Nationals - Cheers

This time the track was again cleaned, so there was no trace of glue on the track when practice began, and the times showed. The quickest times soaring into the low 8.4 secs

Around 23.00 the grip had built up, after 4 hours of racing/praticing, and finally the times fell into the 7.6s again

In between the times dropped gradually but very slowly. White Mouse Racing seem to be in good chape, in that 2H has a very stabel car at all conditions. He is still only the third fastest behind the Hoefler boys, but "The Plank" will most probably work better in the run of the race

Two other of the White Mouse Racing drivers has dessided on a standard WizzKid setup and a Martin Borch setup, this will suit their driving style

My own Metris Mk II works very well, but looses out when the conditions get grippier so my chassis choice has been made easy, I have no "Plank", but I have something close and that will be my choice an thats the "1/2 Plank"! Tires are decided, and we have the grip situation for qualifying sorted, and the works White Mouse Racing drivers: 2H and myself, should be in excellent shape come race day. The White Mouse Racing "Rent a Drivers" are also in fairly good shape!

There are another five drivers that has confirmed their entry, so the field are now up to 30 drivers.

My favorites has to be 2H and if Christian Hoefler can keep his cool he is also up there. The botom line however is who will be the most race clever! There is going to be a lot of importance on qualifying, get in the wrong heat and you are screwed - to many crashes and you loose.

I still see some 10-15 guys as potential finalists, so the race will be a tough one.

Last test day is wednesday next - interesting to see how everyone shapes up at the final test!

3. day the tires test

Christian was driving, i change tires, 6 set on to cars, because Christian and I preferred different setups.

At the start when everybody was driving 8,4 Christian smash the time with 7,61 and 7,69 with different tires/cars

Later on only one of the set was working just as well, and a 3. set of tire was working just as well.

Yes there is a lot of drivers who are fast, but I can only see a few there are fast enough to win, I think its gonna be between Pål, 2h, Christian and my self, maybe 2 more, one of them havent been training yet, but i race him on the track a couple of months ago, and he is fast, and Martin Borch is making him a car.

Well, I still see some 10-15 guys that will fight over the 8 finals spots, however only one guy will take the laurels, and my bet is firmly set..........................

But to get there, in the finals, a good qualifying lap is needed, personally I know I can do that with my car, so can 2H, Keld and Christian, and a whole bunch of other drivers.

You really want to know who will win??????????????????? I wont tell, so you will have to wait. Suffice to say that I know who has the most stabel cars in the field The race will show if they can also keep their cool and transfere this to hard results!

As the old saying goes.: "When the flag drops, the bullshit stops...."

Aren't we all fired up here or not Can't wait to see the results

Last change to do some , , or

Time to fix the guide nut with a tat of glue, oil the bearings, secure all the screws and measering your wheelbases again, 'cause you don't wanna be sorry tomorrow
Check your latest info courses to get that last bit of speed out of your chunk of metal

Well gotta go, got some hot-mailin' to do, so cheers and good luck to all.

As I told Tamar earlier tonight - the Danish Nationals is not 'till next weekend - February 18-19.

There's still a whole week to get fired up

And I am glad to know that it's next weekend, I just finished the latest car in the silicone box, tommorrow it will came out ant then its time to thin it and paint it and all that.
As i told Christian, dont do what the other ones doing, go around them insteed of after then, we make new fresh cars for the race, dont use anything twice throw it out or sell it after a race

Well, here is the latest update from the danish silly season

I now have four cars ready on the work bench, setup and preparation by White Mouse Racing, for Michael Hudige, Søren Henriksen, Jens-Peter Christiansen and myself. We have allready supplied the chassis for Rolf Naehr and all he needs to do is fit the body.

My own prefered setup, has now been refined and adjusted, based on a Excel chassis. I have tires and rims ready, so wednesday is only going to be kind of a shakedown test for both my own and all the other cars I have built.

I am not sure anyone would buy a used car from Keld, all the test cars look quite beaten up, and it is allways good to know that Keld is building new cars, as that will always give changes in build quality, reliability and all the test results he has accumulated during the past three weeks

So, The heat is on, who will be able to stand up to the preasure? 2H crumbled at Neumunster in october, Christian felt the preasure as well, Keld was nowhere, and Martin Borch best dane at Neumunster is not competing!! Some of the other danes at Neumunster could have been higher but came unprepared, and that will not happen at these nationals. So, who is the favorite??

On experience, race strategy and preparation it ought to be my good friend Henrik, on a good day he will beat us all! Then there is Christian, who on testing performance will have to be strong, strong favorite, it all depends on wether he can handle the preasure of beeing favorite! Next up is one of the Big Blue members Allan "Buller" Mouritsen who has been incredibly fast during testing, and the fact that he can run lap after lap around the track with his eyes (I´m not kidding!!) closed, makes him probably the biggest home favorite. There is also Anders Nilsen, who has gone very swiftly in testing, but who has also crashed left, right and center. Will he keep it in the slot?? And we have alle the young dudes, from Esbjerg and the rest of Jutland! We know absolutely nothing about them or their cars, but we do know they have been in constant contact with Tamar, I still cant quite figure out why

Myself, well I go for a top qualifying, and then everything can happen..

Sorry, but Henrik Bering should have been Anders Nilsen, sorry to both guys ;-)

You forgot Gorm Norregaard, if he is going to be fresh, i promised to help him with his car, Gorm cannot hold a skrewdriver, but he can drive.

Jørgen is also a chance you have not seen, he has drive around 7,4 with a car to light, and he is building a new, because the old is too long.

I dont put anything into testing times that is set by underweight or illegal cars, like Jørgen or Gorms!!

But hey, they might have a good day!! Then again I still have to see a strong race from either, however Jørgen has good nowledge of the Big Blue so he might just spring a surprise!

latest, Christian run 7,4 several times with his Enzo

I run 7,6 with the 575 and had a free run with 32 laps in a row under 7,850 that schuld be enough to a place in the finals which is my personally goal.
My Enzo is 0,05 quicker than my 575 but i think the 575 is the nicest to look at, and top 8 is enough so i race the 575 and only have the enzo as a backup.

backup!!!! yes it is allowed to change cars between saturay and sunday

Hello Keld

Could you post some pictures??

all cars own produktion, the 575 is 24 and 24,5 gr.
the enzo's has been test objects and is 35 to 22 gr. the 4 i use is all under 28 gr.








some of them is badly hurt after +10 hour on a blue king and several times on the wall/floor

but its all fun and having a good time with a lot of friends.

you should contact Enzo.......

Compliments though, on your GFK/Carbon production. From the distance, they look good too..... In the 2,5 years we've been growing body's, we've made 4.... Although these were all different models: a Matra, a Viper, a 575, and a 333 and the little something White Mouse keep in their safe

But carefull not to shoot yaself in the foot, all those cars need attention, and a lot too, otherwise they wouldn't be running nice. Don't know if you have enough time to look after all those cars (I can tell ya, it can be a pain in the *** working on so many)

Also nice to know that whenever RFH gets lost again somewhere North we'll be racing other GTS's and not those woosy LMP's

O, that's right: this time it is Friday for the race huh?
Let me try again:

Last chance to do some relaxing, drinking or............well, you know.
Time to fix the guide nut with a tat of glue, oil the bearings, secure all the screws and measering your wheelbases again, 'cause you don't wanna be sorry tomorrow
Check your latest info courses to get that last bit of speed out of your chunk of metal.

Wishing you guys luck hope to be seeing you soon.

Aston Martin DB9R I saw a lot of them in Nürnberg in 1/24, just a guess

I Also saw the Masarati down there, a Italien company make it.

4 cars that all, i got 2 and Christian got 2, he can take care himself now, in fact you show him what to do, and his cars are always faster than mine

btw you didnt do the 575 i do, you do 550, thats the one 2h has been testing with.

Just finished checking, and double checking the three cars I´m in charge of for White Mouse Racing, 2H and myself are stretching it a bit, but we hope the Vikings Club will make a good apperance!!

All the testing times now mean nuff......................Its crunch time, and we are going to run on a nice clean, no glue, Big Blue!!

2H and myself have things sorted out, our cars are quite different, we do not run the same tires, so we will see who made the best descision.

Qualifying will be the big decider, we will all have to draw numbers from a bag to find our starting position for the qualifying run. And by JOE I hope I dont draw nr. 1, because the first qualifyer will have a very slipery track. There is 40 registrered drivers for tomorrow, and there might just still be some extra guys coming in, so to draw a number between 30 and 40 shold secure good track conditions!! A real lottery it is!!

But, the start is closing, and I guess that all we can do now is get a few hours of sleep, check the car one last time, and hope that "The Force Will Be With Us................." And as we all know, the dark side allways looses in the end

Just adding the finishing touches to the last of the 3 cars I am in charge of - and what different cars they are.. 2 550 Maranellos and one 575 Maranello - does it get any more different..

Oh yeah, they are on 3 different chassises, a Plafit Plank, a Plafit Excel and a Metris Mk II - built to the drivers specs.

Yup, Pål and I are on different chassises, maybe different tires - I am still sandbagging - hoping to pull the right rabbit out of the hat - which tires will 2H run on???

And we are down to the bare metal, no more practise - just a couple of laps to make sure the motor runs the right way and the tires are round :-)

qual
1. Christian 7,89
2. Paal 7,911
3. Keld 7,933

rest over 8
2h about 8,3 i think and only togehter with 9-16 place

1 race
Christian 173 lap
Keld 171 lap
Paal 167 or 168
2h ?

2. Race
Christian 171 lap
Kai (alu kai the rims) 168 lap
Per Gimle 168
Allan Buller 167
2h ? his best was 162 i think and not enough to the semi

Semi
1. Christian Høfler 173,42, best lap time 7,74
2. Keld Høfler 172 best lap time 7,74
3. Per (Gimle) Steen Nielsen best lapd 8,1
4. Kai Bach Andersen best lap 8.09
this 4 are in the final sunday

5. Lasse Kristensen, Esbjerg
6-7-8: Pål Hanson - Peter Rønn - Allan Mouritsen

Hello Keld

Thx for the saturday update, looks like the Hoefler family is doing very well, Paal kind of lost a few laps here an there an 2h......well, he said he lost grip, but it looks more serious than that


Good luck to all of you...may the best Dane win

I'm sure the best Dane won:

1. Christian Høfler
2. Keld Høfler
3. Ole Andersen
7. Pål Hanson
18. (or something like that - didn't even make the semi) 2h

Not my race :gun:

He sure did, and the second best finished second, etc.

1. CHRISTIAN HØFLER, HMC, Ferrari Enzo, Plafit 292 - - 7.851475 'GREEN' 36.5
2. KELD HØFLER, HMC, Ferrari 575, Plafit 290,38 - 7.844466 'GREEN' 36.2
3. OLE ANDERSEN, ELMC, Porsche 911, Plafit 290,12 - 7.898199 'RED' 36.2
4. ANDERS NILSEN, HMC, Porsche 911 GT 1, Metris 286 - - 7.905777 'GREEN' 35.8
5. KAI BACH ANDERSEN, HMC, Toyota Supra, Plafit 283 - - 8.016263 'GREEN' 35.4
6. GORM NØRGAARD, HMC/PMR, Ferrari 575, Plafit 281,44 - 8.015966 'ORANGE' 35.1
7. PÅL HANSON, VSC, Corvette, Plafit 281,20 - 8.015263 'ORANGE' 35.1
8. PER STEEN NIELSEN, Gimle, Saleen, Metris 279 - - 8.288539 'GREEN' 34.9

Christian and I did help Gorm and Kai with there cars, so 4 out of in the final

Well Gentlemen, my congratulations to ALL THE DANES !!!!
Looks like you've managed to get a good thing going, keep it up!

Hi Tamar, it was a great race, even though the result was a bit disapointing for WMR!

However the added weight I put in between saturday and sunday gave me a much more stabel car, but cost somewhat in the topspeed area, but it took me to the finals, which was my goal all along, so thanks for the advice!

Im working on a report of the whole weekends escapades and will poste it here sometime in the next 24 hours!

Ok looking forwrd to it

Its all made up but needs translation, ouch! There are about a million pages, so you will get the short version asap. However the complete result looks like this, however there might be a few corrections due to sections:

The race format was four pre qualifying heats of 8 x 3 minuts to finde 2 x 8 semifinalists which gave us 2 x 4 finalists to go head to head 8 x 5 minuts in the finals!

1 CHRISTIAN HØFLER (JR) 292
2 KELD HØFLER 290
3 OLE ANDERSEN 290
4 ANDERS NILSEN 286
5 KAI BACH ANDERSEN 283
6 GORM NØRGAARD 281
7 PÅL HANSON 281
8 PER STEEN NIELSEN (OB) 279

9 RASMUS JOHANSEN 171
10 LASSE KRISTENSEN 171
11 PETER RØNN 169
12 ALLAN BULLER 167
13 MICHAEL KLARSKOV 165
14 JØRGEN RIGTRUP 165
15 RENE SCHRØDER 164
16 JAKOB ANDERSEN (JR ) 164
17 HENRIK HASAGER 164
18 MICHAEL HUNICHE (OB) 163
19 NIELS BRAMMER-OLSEN (OB) 160
20 MARK SANDER 159
21 LEO ANDERSEN (OB) 158
22 ROBERT CASTELLA 156
23 MICHAEL G JENSEN 156
24 SØREN HENRIKSEN 155
25 PETER CHRISTIANSEN (OB) 155
26 HENRIK BERING 155
27 LINDY KRISTENSEN (OB) 154
28 LARS LIONETT 151
29 HROAR OLSEN 151
30 MICHAEL SIVERTSEN 150
31 OLIVER ANDERSEN (JR) 149
32 SØREN THOMSEN 147
33 ROLF NÆHR 147
34 KENNY WINTHER 144
35 ERIK MATHIASEN (OB) 143
36 PER DYRHOLM 135
37 JENS-PETER ANDREASEN 135
38 LARS EGELUND 134
39 STEEN PETERSEN 131
40 RENE ANDERSEN 127
41 JOHN MACLARSEN 124
42 MADS SØRENSEN 0

The Danish Nationals was a Tour de Force of Christian Høfler, who looks more and more like a Danish WizzKid, and I aint kiddin´!

If anyone had told me at Neumunster that Christian would be the 2006 Junior and Senior Danish Champion I would have shruged and laughed! Not because Christian was bad, because he was not, but he surely did not master the mind games of a major race!

But believe me, he does today! During the whole of february and all the testing days he has been firmly in control. And he has been a transformed person compared to what we saw in 2005. According to Keld, he even built hes own car and did the setup himself, though I seem to see a lot of similaritis in the setup department with another well known WizzKid!

So come race weekend, we all saw a fairly relaxed Christian, smiling and setting fast laps during practise. The most nervous guy around was Keld, dont really know why, because most of the time he was second fastest.

Qualifying came and the order of qualifying was by draw of a number. I was lucky and drew #37 out of 39, Christian drew #18 or 19. The track was very green at first, and the lucky first qualifiers set slowish mid 8 times, and even the quicker guys had a bit of a problem. But the times slowly dropped into the low 8s, and when Christian finaly came out he did the first sub 8 lap of 7.899 woaw, now we really had to fight. Next up of the big guns as 25th starter was 2H who could only manage a 8.242, not good enough, then in 35th Keld did a great jo with a 7.933 ohno, I really had to pick myself up, I was 39th starter and on the last lap in my qualifying run i managed to do a 7.911 I was more than happy, it looked very promising, as it proved to be second best in qualifying - alas it was not to be!

More to come.........

The complete data of the race can be found at http://www.osteguf.dk/dmca_dm.htm

to Christian and Keld as well.
Just like the German Christian: time for the new Kid's to take over. Cause lately I'm starting to feel less like a kid then ever.
As Paal already mentioned, slotracing is 95% a mindgame, the other 5% is either luck or experience. I know when I was still young it was a lot easier to focus on racing and just your own result. Then it was just a fun game in which I happened to be good at, but now-a-days it's become more and more wanting to beat this and this guy, or manage X00-laps and that's were the little bug creeps in that can disrupt your plan/goal. Thinking about other people's car; either to service or observe when they're going (to) fast.
9/10 times you win a race when it's just you and only you. Who your competitors are doesn't matter anymore, you just wanna stay ahead of them.
I never believed people when they told me like: "Wait till you're older". But now I'm (only) 20 and I'm already starting to feel it. And once that happens you start doubting, not yourself in particular, but more important, your gutt-instinct. And after all this it's really hard to get that "winning mood" back. Even harder is to trust it again.

Sorry, I'm starting to sound like a Wizzard now.
Takes a different approach now to get to the "old" level again, a lot of and huge amounts of this lovely

Again congrats to everybody and hope to be seeing you guys soon, ciao