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Il pilota tedesco, progettista della Sheperd Velox, parla dela sua stagione 2007 in attesa di un 2008 commercialmente e agonisticamente ancora più interessante. Profilo/Personal Profile: Nome/Name: Robert Cognome/Surname: Pietsch Data di nascita/Birth Date: 1/9/1982 Residente (Provincia)/Country: Traunstein/Germany Professione/Job: Cad/Cam user Anno di esordio modellistico/First Year in RC Racing Car: 1994 Palmares modellistico/Palmares Campionati Nazionali/National Championship: 2 Time 1/8 scale Champion and 1/10 scale champion Campionati Europei/European Championship Best Results: 2nd 1/8 scale A Athens 2005 Campionati Mondiali/World Championship Best Results: 9th 1/8 scale Messina 2005
Robert sul palco guida di Messina
Hi Robert, can you introduce about yourself to italians readers?
I´m 25 years old. Before I was working at shepherd micro racing I worked as a Cad/Cam user at a company which is building parts for airplanes. Now I develope our own car which is a very complicate thing for us, because we have never done before to develop from beginning ourselves. For sure also my job is to make the races. For this I´m very happy! | 
La Velox
You and Patrick Schafer are the only “Sheperd Driver” against many Kyosho, Serpent, Mugen, Motonica…; not easy for the set-up without other team mate…
Yes that is right! But in the moment I can say that we are growing to a stronger team for the next year with well known drivers! | 
Sul podio a Lostallo con Picco
What do you think about your 2007 RC Season in Germany?
My 07 season in Germany was great because I was win every race where I was driving. But anyway in Germany we have a small problem because there are not so many strong drivers as in Italy. This situation makes it not easyer for the international races.
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Robert finalista diretto al Mondiale di Messina con Bertin e Ielasi.
Il 4° finalista diretto era Fukuda.
What do you think about your 2007 European Championship?
I was not happy with my performance at the euro`s! In the practice I had many technical problems. That was the reason because I can`t take perfect 5minutes qualifying. In the semifinal I was starting with to small tyres and so I lose the final only for one position! Also I think that there was some bad thing with fuel (maybe some not legal).
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Il Team Sheperd
Your WC in Argentina was very positive; what about your qualifying?
The qualifying in Cordoba was good for me. I was on 6th position. Unfortinately there was 2 run`s with rain conditions, because in my best qualifiying run I had some small mistakes for loosing the top 4.
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Robert ai tempi della Mugen (2005)
And about the semifinal?
In the semifinal my car was not so good as in qualifying and someone crashed me when I was on third position close before the end. So my pipe and a tyre was destroyed and the final was away.
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Which is the “Plus” of your Velox against others cars?
I can`t say because I`m the designer of the car. We was looking for a different design of the complete car. The bulkheads are 7075 aluminium. There are many ideas for making the setup change much more easy. Also we have a special system with the chassis which works very good. And for sure the brake is completely different. But you can see new pictures on our website www.team-shepherd.com |
And the “Minus”?
I think that we make it to early official that we build a new car. In the moment many people is waiting for the car. But the time we take is a normal time for the development of a 1/8 scale car.
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Many RC Drivers are waiting for the Velox; when they can find it in the shops?
The car will be available before the season 2008!
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