RACES 2002 RESULTS ANDERS LATTERMANN

RACE RESULTS ANDERS LATTERMANN - 2002 SEASON

Anders at the World Championship in Pilsen

I started with Slotracing at home on a Scalextric track in 2000, mainly playing around all by myself. In October 2001 I found the Stockholm Slotcar Club which I joined as a member and shortly after I participated in my first race. 2002 was my first Race Season. Below you can see how it turned out:

PARTILLE 6-HOURS 2002
February 17. Six hours team race with G12ES. Drove with Mats Hummel and Niclas Lindblom in the team: “Stockholm T/R”. The track in Partille, Sweden, is a Hasse Nilsson made copy of the Worlds track in Montreal, a very twisty thing. First time on this track and with this type of cars.
6^th place of 7 starting teams

EASTER THUNDER AT THE SSC
March 31. Stockholm, Sweden. Hasse Nilsson 6-lane Hillclimb track. Three hours team race with G12ES. The teams where randomly put together. I drove with Hans Kihlén in the team “Taxi var god dröj”.
6^th place of 6 starting teams (not a good day…)

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Pilsen, Check Republic. Ogilvy Blue King track. Drove only in the G27 class and three different races. My first race with a wing car ever and first time on a Blue King.
G27 WARM UP 9.5.2002: 24^th place of 24 starting drivers (out after crash)
G27 LIGHT 10.5.2002: 21^st place of 24 starting drivers
G27 11.5.2002: 41^st place of 42 starting drivers

NORTHLAND 500
June 29. Nascar model car race in Kiel, Germany, on a 5 lane custom made wood track, fully landscaped with trees and buildings. First time with model Nascars and the first time on this track.
14^th place of 22 starting drivers

SSC SALOON INVITATIONALS 2002
September 15. Hasse Nilsson 6-lane Hillclimb track. Stockholm, Sweden. National Saloon race with C and D-can motors. The race started in our club with a qualify race called Top Ten Qualifier where the top 10 drivers got to represent our club in the Invitationals race where people from all over Sweden where invited. I was one of the best ten in the qualify race so I got to race in the Invitationals.
6^th place of 14 starting drivers

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Seinäjoki, Finland. 21 september. Per Persson built Blue King track. G27 wing cars.
26th place of 29 starting drivers

EVENING RACE IN THE FLEXISERIE AT THE SLOTCITY
September 26. Västerås, Sweden. Mini King track (American Black), the old Swedish Championship track from 1966. First time for me on this track. Saloon race with D-can motors.
2nd place of 11 starting drivers

SSC SALOON CUP 2002
Stockholm, Sweden. Hasse Nilsson 6-lane Hillclimb track. 18 races over the whole year in a series with C and D-Can Saloon cars. My results where per race: 3, 5, 9, 3, 2, 4, 4, 6, 3, 10, 3, 6, 7, 2, 9, 10, 10 and 9^th.
5th place in the series of 16 participating drivers (in total 35 drivers have raced, but not all have raced consistent through the whole season). Received the “Rookie of the year” award.

SSC NASCAR HOOK UP SEASON 2002 CUP
Stockholm, Sweden. Hasse Nilsson 6-lane Hillclimb track. Seven races in the autumn with Nascar model cars in a series. My positions where per race: 5^th, 2nd , 2nd, 3d, 2nd, 2nd and 3d.
2nd place in the series of 7 participating drivers

6 HOURS X-MAS RUSH AT THE SSC
December 28. Stockholm, Sweden. Hasse Nilsson 6-lane Hillclimb track. Team race. The six best drivers in the saloon cup where givven the role as teamleaders. Then they had to choose thier co-driver from the others. The teamleader with the lowest position in the cup choose first (he off course choose the best driver available, so the teams with this method where very even). I choose to drive with Juha Honkanen in the team "Blue". Saloon bodies on Parma Flexi-2 chassis, powered by standard 16D motors. Last x-mas we had a simular race (that time I was in the winning team "Richard the 3d", see the report in Swedish here). This time all the used cars from last year was taken apart and put in a big bag, then the bag was shaken so all parts where mixed and then they where handed out to the teams as a car kit. So the first thing we had to do was to rebuild the car and decide which parts should stay as it came, should be straightened or replaced by a new piece. After that the race started, we had the lead for five and a half hours and then the motor died...
2nd place of 6 starting teams