Precision craftsmanship with team spirit

Sascha Lenz just never gives up – that’s true on the race track but also when it comes to making good use of the time during the coronavirus lockdown by building a race truck for his teammate Jamie Anderson.

After the entire 2020 racing season fell victim to the pandemic, Sascha hopes that he and his SL Trucksport 30 team will be back at full speed overtaking their competitors this year. He’s not just thinking about his own success but also about his English teammate, Jamie Anderson.

“It was an indescribable feeling to head home at the top of the championship table after the first event of the season at the circuit in Most.”

“Along with Jamie, we also secured top spot in the team rankings. That was one of the reasons behind the idea that he should be lining up with a new truck in 2021”, Sascha says. Originally, he was thinking about an identical vehicle to his own race truck Nala, but Jamie had something else in mind: “Build me a truck where I can drive on the right, then I’ll be even faster”, was the request from the 33-year old Englishman. “It was a real challenge for us. Everything, and I really mean everything, every screw had to be reconsidered and all the drawings recreated”, says Sascha of the conversion. “It wasn’t just the cab, it was also the steering, the steering column and all the technology that we had to create as a mirror image.” Although it may be hard to imagine, many of the attachments on the trucks are made entirely by hand. With all this work, the winter passed in the blink of an eye. Fans will hopefully be able to get to know the first right-hand drive vehicle from Lenz soon when it makes its first appearances on the track. Jamie, who has always driven MAN trucks in the past, is delighted with his new race truck: “I can hardly wait to contest my first championship in the MAN truck that SL Trucksport built for me.”

The truck racer from Leicester will make his first appearance in the new racing lion at the Hungaroring in Hungary in June. “I hope we can get some great results with the new MAN and achieve a good team result along with my teammate Sascha Lenz in his MAN”, says Jamie, showing how much he too values team spirit.