European Evolution

European Evolution

Phil Rötheli is really proud of the Mitsibushi Evo you see here. The car has really lived up to the Evolution name as he bought it back in 2014 and since then with a lot of hard work by the Rötheli Racing crew it has evolved into what you see here. In fact over the last five years more than 4000 man hours of labor have been put into the car and it shows with the quality of work. He explained, “ We got the EVO from a guy who used it for Time Attack and completely messed it

up. It had run back in 2007 in the 24h at the Nurburgring, so the basic build of the car was pretty good and we reckoned it would be the perfect basis for our Time Attack build. In 2015 we rebuilt the whole car in fourteen months and started racing it in different Time Attack Series across Europe. 2016 saw more of the same as we improved the car further with the emphasis on seriously updating the Aero. 2017 was a year we would rather forget when a broken fuel rail fitting caused a fire and the car nearly burned to the ground. We had to strip the car to a bare shell, dry ice blast it to get rid of the fire damage and repaint it. That continued into 2018 where we rebuilt the car from scratch and sorted out some of the issues we had with the car in the past. 2019 came around and we planned using it for test runs sorting the newly rebuilt out. The car is looking amazing as you can see from the photos.

Sponsors:

Timeattackapp MSRacing TCS Sektion beider Basel Vibrant Performance MT - Carbon Weds Wheels Europe Hanshin-Imports peelablepaint.ch Götti Motoren GmbH East Racing Motorsport Pixel Panda

Notice the extended nose section which allows for extra space for cooling both the radiator and engine heat exchanger. Note how both are angled to give better air flow. You can also see the front splitter is not a Mega big size favored by some of the other Time Attack teams.

Above Left: Proud to be Swiss Above Right: Phil believes he has the hardest working crew in Time Attack racing. Left: The man himself, Phil Rötheli

The Rötheli Racing Crew

Peter Rötheli - Tow vehicle driver and helping hand all the time.

Cornelia Rötheli - my Mum who makes sure we are all fed.

Alexandra Rötheli - My Wife who provides all the mental support I need. Michael Suter Fabian Lienert Mirco Luck Alex Butti Benj Bär Jannick Thalmann Michael Farcher

The Rötheli Racing team are going to be using wheel ‘spats’ (Radabdeckung in German) as seen in the lefthand photo. Used by Group C endurance racers of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, wheel spats were designed to do two main jobs. One was to reduce the amount of water and spray entering the wheel well and letting the tires spin easier. It also had the added benefit of allowing speeds around 200mph on the banking at Daytona and at Le Mans because of the better aero along the side of the racecar.

Notice in the photo above that the team have awheel/tire image placed on the spat helping withthe looks when the car is parked.