1970 Rebirth V

For the 5th and last time Holger invited to Le Mans 1970 Rebirth V saturday 28th of April
2007 and again it would be a pure Porsche-Ferrari fight!
Vialli and High Tower once more made the trip from Seeland to Jutland representing Slotrace.dk,
but this time it would be a very exciting race for the two!

The rules for the Rebirth race was as usual FLY Classic cars from Le Mans 1970 out-of-box but
without magnets, maximum 10 gr. extra weigth and of course regular visits in the DC Bar. In
each heat each team had to have two pitstop of two minutes each or one pitstop of five
minutes and both drivers had to race in each heat!
We - Vialli and High Tower - arrived late friday night to be ready for the start saturday morning
10:00. Vialli went to bed 01:00 and Holger and High Tower talked to the early morning and only
got a couple of hours sleep.
Marianne served breakfast at 8:30 and training on the Ring Taps started 9:30.

The teams that would race this year was:
#11 Ferrari 512 S Cuda Lunga - Jan and Gebrüder
#12 Ferrari 512 S Cuda Lunga - Tobak and John C
#20 Porsche 917 K - Vialli and High Tower
#21 Porsche 917 K - JJ and Smeden
#24 Porsche 917 K - Cousin Søren and Holger
#27 Porsche 908 Flunder LH - Grandpa and Hans H

The first heat started 10:00 with cars #24, #11, #12 and #20 and despite #20 had one of the
outer lanes, they won the first heat with 72,7 laps in front of #12 who drove 70,2 laps, so it
was a very good start this year!
After the first half of the race it was clear that the winner would be found between #12, #20
and #21 since #12 had driven 296,2 laps and only a very small lead with one lap in front of #20
(295,2) and 13,4 laps in front of #21 (282,8), then came #11 (269,9), #27 (252,8) and #24
(226,4).

Then it was time for lunch once more served by Marianne and one of many visits in the DC bar,
where Maria served the cold beers.
At 14:00 it was back to the race and it was clear that the break had been a benefit for the #21
which drove 82,3 laps in red lane and then realised that one of their braids only had two threads
left and a long pitstop now made it a race between #12 and 20!

But the yellow Ferrari pulled away from #20 and it ended with victory for the #12 Ferrari 512 S
Coda Lunga with a total of 613,6 laps, seven laps in front of #20 Porsche 917 K.
The final result:
1. #12 Ferrari 512 S Cuda Lunga - Tobak and John C - 613,6 laps
2. #20 Porsche 917 K - Vialli and High Tower - 606,6 laps
3. #21 Porsche 917 K - JJ and Smeden - 572,1 laps
4. #11 Ferrari 512 S Cuda Lunga - Jan and Gebrüder - 564,7 laps
5. #24 Porsche 917 K - Cousin Søren and Holger - 473,3 laps
6. #27 Porsche 908 Flunder LH - Grandpa and Hans H - 451,9 laps

More results here!

Despite everyone had a great day it was still a very sad day since Holger has decided to remove
the now legendary and very bumpy track, so this was the very last and final edition of rebirth
races on Ring Taps - it will be missed!!!!
Rumours has it that Holger maybe will go into digital races - but on a smaller track - and that
Tobak and Kolding Mini Race Club will take over the Rebirth races, but not with out-of-box cars!