Hello,
finally after a long winter we are anxiously awaiting the return from the first race of the season.
Yes, for fun this year is reached to move abroad in distant Croatia but with great satisfaction we have to say THEY 'EXERCISED really worth.
We've got to run on a fantastic journey, with impeccable organization, among friendly people, sincere and willing enough to help us rediscover an off-road environment and a passion we have almost forgotten.
I now want to tell you our experience shared with five other Italian teams and who knows you might be the desire to accompany us for the next race.
We had then and I Gianluca, Boris and Alessandra, Luca Titian and in Trieste around 19:00 Friday night and we passed them in the column border with Slovenia to stop and have dinner together at a local restaurant known to be waiting for Boris we reach Leo and Mario.
Around 23:00 we left and passed through customs with Croatia and we headed towards Labin where we arrived around 24.00, also because of the broken belt water pump of our campers to 5 km. arrival.
Already here we have no way of realizing the availability boys AMK 4MOTION LABIN that are waiting for us and indeed we were concerned about the delay.
We are placing the mobile homes, cars trucks in the space already prepared for the field and settle in other rooms of the farmhouse.
On Saturday morning, woke up at 7.30 and while I prepare the field for breakfast for the entire band, Mario and Luke arrange the caravan route of the belt the night before.
At 9.00 we are all ready, and we expect the entries to the prologue that is used to decide the start. Seeing that the first gun sling risking even tell Gianluca hood to pull but do not take risks now.
In less than half an hour after the end of the prologue, here are the charts printed and published towards the race. We leave behind Boris seventh eighths Leo and fourth. Tiziano ninth part behind us.
Around 15:00 you can go in convoy down to the sea where there is a special day of departure. We are told that that is a special unit of 50 km up the coast towards the farmhouse where there is competition in a mixture of fast gravel roads, narrow and slow carrerecce, strokes, Trialist, little asphalt. This special is divided into five areas not marked on the road book. The path found by the Commissioners, we stop, they record the passage and arrival time corresponding to the time of recovery.
Safe Start on a long fast straight up and full of deep holes filled with water that runs along the deep Fjord Labin, then bend and climb more steeply up a decidedly uneven stone outcropping ... then all stops because the second competitor is blocked by car problems. This will penalize the first sector of all drivers 20 to 10 place. As soon as we leave again
fast but now we have the cap of a Niva in front of Boris and we can not overtake him, or rather surpassed only after the second time control.
In the third area we have a problem, but we realize it at the end, or jump obviously a crossroads where it happens is the third check and then we burn in one fell swoop two areas where we do not take points. We are not aware of the error because we find the notes and fast filiamo towards the end of the special.
The notes also run fast and treacherous as short (also 20m) and the machine is that it is a missile. Definitely tough attitude flies in the fast even if you pay a little rough in ... and our backs are suffering. We arrive at the end
Special seconds and also make us all the compliments, but the publication of the results we find the bitter surprise, even stronger here because for a particular regulation is expected to make the first ranking of the control points and then points charts and then we find 17 °, although we have these points to be 8 .... patience.
cashed the shot, we eat together in the tent, dinner prepared by the organization. A hot bean soup, ribs and sausage with bread and beer. The friendly dubbed "LA ORCA slop" as Alex refuses to eat it with his charm and manages to bribe the cook to be exchanged for a plate of onion and cevepcici.
MARIO farm with the tireless DRAGAN After eating there, and exchanged views on the race between us and the organizers go to rest until 19.30 before the planned departure of the night test 20:00
for
We wake up rested, cargoes and "angry" ... one must return.
The night fell and opens the second Special 25 km in the polygon. Intro of roads and intersections in the middle of dense forest with a variety of stamps as the control of passage.
We are told that the first stretch of about 600m strip is visible then we will find a commissioner and they will begin road-bbok but the time has already suffered, so we start ... no gun ... JUST ALWAYS UNCERTAIN OPEN. Gianluca
flies between the bumps and the notes come out faster and safer than ever. I take a pretty good pace and keep count of meters ahead of the curve. There are also footnotes which indicate very short streets almost invisible among the scrub but Gianluca trust blindly and you throw them .. and that's the way ... a way below the other. Arriving shortly after several competitors go in different directions. gianluca and I do not deceive us ... we follow the road book and just after 25km we reach the end. We
adrenaline, we gave up and the tension exploded about an hour later when we have the charts and discover that we have had the best time ... less than 9 seconds of the second which is Leo. Uauh!
Now we deserve a nice shower, then a nice plate of cevepcici birrozza and then all to party late into the night. In the meantime, begins to rain and freezing cold ... there is a heated with brandy and honey, but not enough ... and the stripper planned for 11.30 late in coming. At midnight
Dragan says that the "lady" has been lost and must find someone sober going to take it ... and where it is a sober at that time? Bah ... Croatian mystery!
At noon we decided to give up the shot and go in his bed ... tomorrow is another day and we still have a race ... we are serious riders !!!!( nobody believes)
Anyway here's a preview photo of the stripper laggard. Sunday awake much later and the organizational machine starts up. Everything is disassembled, the tent, stage, race control, cafes and restaurants ... all load up tractors and pick-up and rearranged everything a mile further down the track where he was shooting the tape.
The night wind tore the webbing which challenge and go all right. These guys have a desire to make things right scary ... We have much to learn from them.
At 10.00 everything is ready and the polygon is filled with spectators. After that all together we have witnessed the extreme test we set in motion in circuit speed. A further 2km back, wonderful track, with a good start / end viscidissimo full of mud.
Two tests to be done without penalty (or any spike strip down is a 1 minute penalty) to add up the points race on Saturday. We
The night wind tore the webbing which challenge and go all right. These guys have a desire to make things right scary ... We have much to learn from them.
All Italians ... or almost!
A curious mix of PINK & SE 6 UNCERTAIN HOLD OPEN!
At 10.00 everything is ready and the polygon is filled with spectators. After that all together we have witnessed the extreme test we set in motion in circuit speed. A further 2km back, wonderful track, with a good start / end viscidissimo full of mud.
Two tests to be done without penalty (or any spike strip down is a 1 minute penalty) to add up the points race on Saturday. We
in action
Boris in action
Titian in action
Leo in action
After lunch all together and then go with the carousel that is part of a second race valid end in itself, with other crews arrived only today. Two laps
who goes faster and discard the worst.
go ... And we must make up for the defeat of yesterday!
You go to all and comes off a nice time to 7 seconds ahead of Boris and we are second to Leo paritempo.
time a shower and load the car on the truck and prepare the camper and there are prizes. In the late afternoon
unfortunately ruin this very weekend, there was a brawl between two rivals and a Commissioner for the killing of a guard that led to the disqualification of the same rispettivamenti ranked 1st and 5th.
's race SOFT-RoadBook so the ranking is la seguente:
's race SPEED up to 2000 but the ranking is as follows:
who goes faster and discard the worst.
go ... And we must make up for the defeat of yesterday!
You go to all and comes off a nice time to 7 seconds ahead of Boris and we are second to Leo paritempo.
time a shower and load the car on the truck and prepare the camper and there are prizes. In the late afternoon
unfortunately ruin this very weekend, there was a brawl between two rivals and a Commissioner for the killing of a guard that led to the disqualification of the same rispettivamenti ranked 1st and 5th.
's race SOFT-RoadBook so the ranking is la seguente:
- Leonardo Opal e Mario Teggi
- Vedran Sculac e Aen Trost
- Marko Korac e Nedad Hrvatin
- Boris Benci e Alessandro Bassi
- Domenico e Meneghini Robert Cavajpa
- Klaudio page e Matjia Bencomo
- Tiziano Trevisan e Luca Guzzon
- Pietro Colle e Maria Zanardo
- Elvis Galant e Milan Krizmanic
- Marin Koraca e Marina Prodan
- Morra Gianluca e Luca Abbondi
- Igor Pisko e Christine V.
- Boris Papadopulo will Goran Gjukic
- Robert Prodan e Nenad Jermaniš
- Gregor Komac e Burut Diamat
- Rene Birsa e Tjasa Markocic
's race SPEED up to 2000 but the ranking is as follows:
- Boris Benci and Alessandra Bassi Gianluca
- Morra and Leonardo Abbondi Luca
- Opals and Mario Tegg
Thanks to all the guys from the AMK LABIN 4MOTION. You are GREAT!
Here the usual photos with the Italian press (including the cup that Boris was already gone and Mario)
After a year of bad luck this picture repays all efforts. A thanks to the unfailing
"SPRING" Antonio He also fixed the frame and solved the problems of structure and superpaziente and competent SERGIO that mounted the new engine and made the final adjustment. Thanks to them, which allowed us to achieve this result.
As you can see the adhesive that the organizers have given us their motto is:
KREPAT .. BUT IT MOLAT ...
that looks a lot like
SE 6 UNCERTAIN HOLD OPEN!
that looks a lot like
SE 6 UNCERTAIN HOLD OPEN!
