By Sunday afternoon’s Superbike time-trial runs held in overcast, dry, text book conditions at Landshaag, proved historic to say the least with IRRC SBK Champion David Datzer in record-breaking form.
Riding his own outfit’s BMW plus stock 1000 equipment, on each of his four timed lap explorations, he surpassed Andreas Gangl’s previous outright Landshaag Bergrennen Hill-Climb, lap record.
The respective record conquering lap-times for Datzer were (1.09.841 – Superstock 1000), (1.09.752 – Superstock 1000), (1.09.211 – Superbike), (1.08.795 – Superbike – new all time lap record).
Second swiftest outright, nearest on the overall combined results sheet (combining time-trial runs one & two) was TT 2025 Team ILR/Crowe Engineering team rider Maurizio Bottalico, who also bested the prior existing lap-record, lapping at 1 minute 09.374 seconds.
Fellow countryman Stefano Bonetti completed the SBK top three finishers with fourth, fifth, sixth place attainments achieved by Thomas Altenhuber, Manuel Schleindlhuber and Markus Mitterbauer.
Alexander Kastenhuber backed up encouraging practice pace, beating previously aforementioned, Manx GP front-runner Bottalico to Supersport/Moto 2 honours.
Kastenhuber had to give second best to fellow Austrian Mario Gastinger in the Superstock 600 category whilst naked bikes class spoils went the way of Super Duke 1290 KTM mounted, Stefan Kuktits.
Supersport 300, 250 GP class winners were Marco Vigilucci and Guido Testoni whilst sole British participant Finn ‘Crazy Chicken’ Chapman ended his Landshaag hill-climb adventure with a best time of 1 minute 18.936 seconds.
Photo credit: Thijs Van Der Horst
Words by Stevie Rial #dontletfearcontrolyou
