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Hockenheim/Germany, March 28-29, 2000

27 examples of the new 360 Challenge and five F355 Challenge have been entered in the ”Europe Central” division of the Ferrari Challenge 2000. This division consists of drivers from Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland, while Germany and Switzerland are definitely the countries with the strongest representation in the series (16 drivers are from Germany and seven from Switzerland).

The majority of the drivers met for a first pre-seasonal test day on March 28 and 29 on the Hockenheimring in Germany, which was used in its short version (Formula One races do, of course, take place on the long version of the track). The event – hosted by the factory subsidiary German importer Ferrari Deutschland GmbH - was meant to the drivers becoming familiar with the new car; casualties were pretty high: four 360 Challenge cars were remarkably damaged in accidents on the track. Weather conditions on Thursday, March 29 were horrible with tremendous loads of rain coming down while the air temperature was about 2°C... Interestingly, the 360 Challenge is reportedly much more tricky to handle in the rain than its ancestor, the F355 Challenge.

Many of the drivers already made experiences in touring cars or other racing cars, and Swiss driver (and franchised Ferrari-dealer for the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino) Loris Kessel even is a former Formula One pilot; all this does surely promise an exciting season to come!

Team Driver Car s/n ass# Color r#
Team Leirer Daniel Künzli 360 Challenge 118786 ? bianco Avus 4
? ? F355 Challenge 111648 28748 argento Nürburgring 15
Scuderia Auto Becker Eberhard Jung 360 Challenge ? ? ? 30
Scuderia Auto Becker Norbert Graf 360 Challenge 119076 ? rosso Corsa 31
Scuderia Auto Becker ? 360 Challenge ? ? ? 32
Sport- & Tourenwagen Richard Weber 360 Challenge 119087 ? rosso Corsa 33
Auto-König Dr. Darius Ahrabian 360 Challenge 118635 ? nero 34
Zender Exklusiv-Auto Bernhard Dransmann 360 Challenge 119535 36641 rosso Corsa 35
Autohaus Wendelstein Klaus Rader 360 Challenge 119072 ? rosso Corsa 36
Classic Automobile Franz Aigner 360 Challenge 118460 ? rosso Corsa 37
Classic Automobile Timo Schmidbauer 360 Challenge 119533 ? rosso Corsa 38
Maranello Motors Jochen Berger 360 Challenge 119078 ? rosso Corsa** 40
Autohaus Sprau Thomas Koch 360 Challenge 118537 35653 rosso Corsa 41
Tamsen Jürgen Limpert 360 Challenge ? ? rosso Corsa 42
Autohaus Ulrich Dr. Stefan Jentzsch 360 Challenge 119089 36331 grigio Titanio met. 43
Lais Power Ulrich Plattenhardt 360 Challenge 118459 ? rosso Corsa 44
Eberlein Automobile Martin Huff 360 Challenge 119534 ? giallo Modena 45
Satzer Granturismo Peter Andersen 360 Challenge ? ? ? 48
Satzer Grantursimo Carsten Struwe 360 Challenge 119084 36317 nero 49
Team Leirer Dr. Fritz Hartmann F355 Challenge 104461 ? red & white 51
Team Leirer Leopold Hrobsky 360 Challenge 118529 ? bianco Avus 52
Team Leirer René Nüesch F355 Challenge 105218 ? light blue & white 53
Garage Zénith Aimé Pouly 360 Challenge ? ? ? 54
Garage Zénith Gérard Ferrante 360 Challenge ? ? ? 55
Loris Kessel Auto Paolo Ligresti 360 Challenge 118531 ? rosso Corsa (& blue) 56
Loris Kessel Auto Loris Kessel 360 Challenge 119354 ? rosso Corsa (& white) 57
Garage Foitek Hans-Jörg Appenzeller 360 Challenge 118642 ? bianco Avus 58
Garage Foitek René de Luigi 360 Challenge 118436 ? giallo Modena 59
HP-Exklusiv Robert Pergl 360 Challenge ? ? ? 75
HP-Exklusiv Zdenek Holubovsky F355 Challenge 107971 ? rosso Corsa 77
HP-Exklusiv Karl Oppitzhauser 360 Challenge 119532 ? rosso Corsa 85
HP-Exklusiv Martin Höfner F355 Challenge 101597 18488 rosso Corsa 86
? ? 360 Challenge 118518 ? rosso Corsa ?
? ? 360 Challenge 118530 35601 rosso Corsa ?
? ? 360 Challenge 119060 ? rosso Corsa ?
Martin Huff 288 GTO #52751 rosso Corsa/nero-rosso KS-GT 288
Werner Denig 512 TR #97055 giallo fly/nero DÜW-D 35
348 spider #99479 blu Pozzi°/blu scuro MZ-F 3480
ex-Ulrich 550 Maranello #109104 grigio Titanio met./nero F-F 8932
ex-Gohm Eberhard Jung 355 F1 berl. #111158 rosso Corsa/nero RV-KW 973
Sprau 360 Modena #115868 rosso Corsa/nero SB-SV 360
550 Maranello #116124 nero Daytona met./tan S-KP 550
Bernhard Dransmann 360 Modena F1 #116884 rosso Corsa/nero OS-06115
ex-Foitek 360 Modena F1 #117776 rosso Corsa/nero ZH 64199
ex-Lais Ulrich Plattenhardt 360 Modena F1 #119372 rosso Corsa/nero GP-UP 80


° = “blu Pozzi” wasn’t officially available for the 348 spider, but this car is definitely painted in “blu Pozzi”



Andreas Birner

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