New Beetle Racing Cup  

The Diplomatic Drivers Club competed successfully at the New Beetle Racing Cup! 

 

The New Beetle Cup is one of the cups which take place at the Beru Top 10 Racing series (www.top10sport.de).  

The racing team of the Diplomatic Drivers Club (D.D.C.) spent a successful weekend at the Beru Top Ten Racing Weekend which took place on the Motopark Oschersleben Race Track (www.motopark.de) from the 26th till 28th of April  2002. 

Mohamed Sheta who drove the D.D.C.-Racing Car managed to drive the race till the end, competing with 16 other cars.

...to be continued..

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The preparations started already on Thursday 25-04-2002:

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Before the race starts all the tires are checked by the Dunlop crew

Not only the rain-tires are checked and prepared , but also the slicks

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also the V8-Star crew had lots of work to do

Mohamed Sheta checking the correct  seat position

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Hendrik putting the stickers on the D.D.C.-car

still putting stickers on the car...

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thanks a lot  Hendrik for your patience

more stickers...

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even more stickers

stickers on the other side of the car

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Mohamed Sheta giving an interview to the media...

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...explaining how he did in the qualifying

...and explaining some details of car

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After the qualifiyng the engine of the car had to be changed

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the Volkswagen crew still looking for some missing horsepower...

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during the race the engine had a lack of at least 20 hp

...still trying hard to compete with the other professional racers

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one tire in the air

drifting in the McDonalds corner

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fighting with the yellow beetle...

beating the yellow beetle...

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the race is coming to the end

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We did it !!!

we finished the race...

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checking with hendrik why the engine was not working properly

still explaining to Hendrik the performance of the car

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Jan Loecher took care of nearly everything...

Thanks to the whole VW-Racing team for this interesting and successful racing weekend!

 

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Many thanks to VW-Racing, Motopark Oschersleben Race Track and Jaguar Krauthahn in Berlin

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See you on the 18th of May 2002 at the sport auto Tuner Grand Prix & Drift Challenge 2002 at the Hockenheim Race Track!