It doesn’t get any closer than this—at least at the front of the pack. Pole-sitter Bennie Streuer botched the start; André Kretzer took the lead but spun out two laps later in the turn leading into the home stretch. Streuer, Sattler, Schröder, Roscher, and Zimmermann zoomed past him. For Kretzer, the chase to catch up began.
Meanwhile, Sattler had taken the lead. But this, too, was short-lived. A foreign object was to blame. “I impaled some kind of plastic piece. It got stuck between the shift lever and my foot. For two laps, I thought my foot was about to go numb,” explained Sattler, who as a result could no longer withstand the pressure from former world champion Streuer. The Dutchman’s victory was nonetheless a close call; Sattler really picked up the pace in the final laps. Streuer, who also competes in the World Championship, remarked meaningfully, “It wasn’t easy today…” In Sattler and his passenger Uwe Neubert, he has found a formidable opponent. Sattler is competing this season with the new Adolf RS1 BMW sidecar. “I’m completely satisfied with the technical setup, which Rolf Steinhausen handles. He works directly with the chassis manufacturer, Adolf.” The German duo crossed the finish line 2.850 seconds behind the Dutch pair.
After that, there was a long lull before the German-Swiss duo of Mike Roscher and Anna Burkard appeared. Over the course of the 16 race laps, André Kretzer—who had spun out early on—had been closing in on them with his new passenger, Björn Bosch. Kretzer was hot on the heels of the mixed duo. In the final turn, he made his move and flipped the result right on the start-finish straight. Kretzer’s co-driver, by the way, is a talented young driver. Björn Bosch is 24 years old.
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