Track Focus – Daun

Venue – Sporthotel & Resort Grafenwald
Race Hosts – EOS
Country – Germany
Location – Daun (180km West of Frankfurt)
Direction – Anti-clockwise
Surface – Carpet
No. of EOS Races hosted – 1

After successfully debuting on the Euro Offroad Series calendar last season, Daun has quickly established itself as a venue favourite with this season’s third round attracting a record 380 entries. Situated at the Sporthotel & Resort Grafenwald in Daun, Germany, the holiday resort in the German countryside offers the perfect setting for a weekend of racing with the track located in the venue’s 2,600 square meter sports hall with racers able to set-up home for the event in the resort’s cabins at the back of the main hotel.  Covering an area of 830 square metres, the track features a unique layout that creates the longest lap of the EOS Championship.  An inverted layout of the track and pits greeted drivers this year with the pits now on the entry side of the hall with the the track to the back side.  With a 45 metre long straight, the track takes advantage of the hall’s courts layout with the centre of the track stretching to 30 metres in depth in the centre section.

Last year’s Daun encounter would see Neil Cragg claim his first ever EOS victory taking the TQ and win while in 4WD, double champion elect Michal Orlowski took the win.  Commenting on this year’s layout Cragg said, ‘It’s a little different. It’s massive. Really big’.  He continued, ‘It was my favourite track last year. It helped that I won it, but I’m enjoying practice so far.  The layout is big and open so there is not much in it to get around but to get a good lap there are lots of little things to get right’.  Asked his thoughts on the track Orlowski replied, ‘I like it. It’s much better than the previous rounds this season.  It’s open and has a good flow’.  He added, ‘It still has weird bumps in the carpet like last year but it’s not a big problem’.  Asked the main challenges of the very lengthy lap he said, ‘the corner table top is hard to judge pace going into it. Sometimes you’re too fast or too slow.  The double section doesn’t need much speed and if you jump too far the car pancakes which could cause you to crash’.

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