The Slovak Championship 2012 happened during the week-end of July 21st. After three years, the Championship moved again to Kubinska Hola, one of the toughest tracks in Slovakia. At the end of a spectacular two-day race, the Novatec Team riding on the Sapim spokes illustrated itself with Filip Zeman, Martin Knapec and Lukas Ucen. . All three of them became Slovak champions for the season 2012 in their category.
On June 3rd, Kenny Bellaey finished second in the UCI Trials World Cup opener in Aalter despite a severe arm injury. With this good result, Kenny was able to keep his first place at the UCI Trials World Cup ranking. Congratulation for this good performance and for the courage showed during the race.
On May 6th,the Novatec-CTM team has its first victory in the Slovak Downhill cup. The team of Sapim would like to congratulate Filip Zeman who won in the youngster category and Adrian Lasso who finished 3rd as well as Martin Knapec who won in the Junior category. Last but not least Lukas Ucen finished 3rd in the Elite category. Good job, we hope many more victories to come for the team.
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First race of the season at the Forest of Dean Mini for Harry Heath. First race and first win. With the first World Cup being so early this year Harry wanted to get back into race mode so he booked onto some winter races. It was sunny and warm all weekend and the track was even dusty in places which was not expected at all.
Saturday practice was good fun as it was only a short track. It didn't take long to be up to speed and it seemed that he got time to have some fun on the track.
First race run on Sunday was solid but as he stated: “I knew I could make more time up which I did in my second run to take the win by 1.14 seconds with a time of 1:15.52”. Congratulations Harry!
For the last 4 years Sapim has exhibited at the bike festival of Willingen.
Our race mechanics, Klaus, Dieter and Bruno felt in love with the festival. The demand for better wheels was high. Repair and upgrade of wheels kept the Sapim team busy the whole day. It looked to us as riders are really hardcore users.
As Sapim likes to promote good wheels, it offered wheel service free of charge.
Over the week-end, the team had repaired 50 wheels and had to build up 27 complete wheels, but most important riders left our stand with a smile in their faces.
