But before we could start we had some technical issues with the Trabant. I checked everything the days before...all looked fine. But unfortunately on the 26th of June, the day of the Rallye, the second ignition Coil died. I can tell you, the Trabant is not powerful with only one running cylinder.
I found the problem pretty quick, but I had no replacement part available. So I called Nobse (the founder and organisator of the SchwobaCup). He said, I can come with my 17 year old Cougar and participate.
While we were there I asked one of his friends if he knows someone with a spare part. Tommi had an idea. A older VW Beetle engine in the scrap box had 12V ignition coil.
He removed it, I got back into my Cougar, drove again the 30km back home, replaced the faulty part and returned with a strong running Trabant :-)
I was soooooo happy. Nobse called me crazy :-) I love to be crazy.
This year we drove 260km to the swabian alb. Very nice drive. Weather was good, not to hot, no rain till the late evening.
We also won second Place as a team with Hansjörg and Rainer in the Porsche 911, Simon and Simone in the Mercedes E260.
I won an extra Price for the most times attending the SchwobaCup. Nine times. Only in 2009, when Josefine was born and we still lived in Montpellier, I did not attend.
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We were happy and it was again a great Rallye. See you next year...
