26.07.10 - VIPA Racing Team mastered the Transalpine and the Maratona dles Dolomites
Four relay teams and one individual participant took part in the most popular triathlon in Germany – the Challenge in Roth/Bavaria – this year. Roland Tobiasch, ASIC designer at profichip GmbH, took part for the first time and superbly mastered this triathlon.
From 27th June until 3rd July 2010 1200 cycling freaks from 28 nations, took part in the most popular cycling stage race: in seven stages per day the route goes from the German Mittenwald area via 18 Austrian and Italian alpine passes to Arco, near lake Garda in teams of two participants. With 795.13 kilometres and 20,169 altitude differences the 8th Jeantex-TOUR-Transalpine belongs to the most challenging routes in its history. The route passes through the most fascinating Dolomites with gorgeous panoramas and climbs of up to 19%. The absolute challenge this time was not only the spectacular route, but also the continuous temperatures of up to 34 degrees centigrade. On this years royal stage from St. Vigil to Alleghe five passes of the unique Sella Ronda have to be crossed. Two crews from the SPEED7 Racing team took part in this challenge. In the mixed evaluation (men and women) Doris Schmidt and Steffen Schleier achieved the outstanding 37th place in 37:24:33 hours. CEO Wolfgang Seel competed together with Roland Thamm, VIPA hardware developer, in the Grandmaster evaluation (the sum of the age of both participants has to be 100 years or more) and completed this discipline in 39:40.15,8 hours. Both came 56th in this evaluation and came 408th in the overall standings.
25 participants at the Maratona dles Dolomites
The Maratona dles Dolomites is a street-cycling marathon in the Dolomites region of South Tyrol near Alta Badia/Corvara, which has taken place every year on the first Sunday of July since 1987. With more than 9000 participants this year Marathona set a new record. At this one of the most beautiful road race, three routes are available for the participants. All cyclists can select the route which they prefer during the race. The Sella-Ronda, which is the short route, 55 kilometres long and 4 passes (Campolongo, Pordoi bay, Sella bay and Grödner bay) have an altitude of 1780 m. The middle route has a length of 106 kilometres. The cyclists have to complete seven passes – in addition to the passes of the short route there are the passes Passo Campolongo, Falzarego and Valparola – with a total altitude of 3090 meters. The original Maratona has a distance of 138 kilometres including 8 passes and 4190 m altitude. Instead of Passo Falzarego the cyclists have to accomplish the Passo di Giau and afterwards they have to drive over the Passo Falzarego from the east.
The SPEED7 Racing Team came 29th out of 130 in the team evaluation. All 26 cyclists of the team covered a distance of 2,402 km. Eight participants completed the long route, twelve the medium length route and five participants the Sella-Ronda. The best cyclist in the long route was Bernhard Mültner, who completed the distance in 5:50:46,4 hours.
The next highlight on 18th July 2010 for the athletes of the SPPED7 Racing Team was the Challenge Roth. Sportsmen from VIPA as well as from profichip took part in this most popular triathlon in Germany. Four teams took part in this relay and with Roland Tobiasch, ASIC designer from profichip, for whom it was his first triathlon, intended to complete all three disciplines of the triathlon.