- February 13, 2012
- Historic Racing 911, TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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Issue Two of Ferdinand magazine – the FREE digital-only Porsche magazine – features the Viper Green Porsche 911 RSR of TwinSpark Racing’s Leonard Stolk, photographed by yours truly at the recent TwinSpark track day at Spa Francorchamps.
Ferdinand’s art team have made a great job of presenting the story and pics in an eye-catching way. Though the magazine is only available in English, the pics alone make compelling viewing. None of the pics seen here are in the piece – you will have to access the mag to check them out.
The same issue features the story of our patron, Gijs van Lennep, and his Porsche 917 at Rennsport. This is the same car Gijs drove with David Piper in the 1970 Le Mans. Again, [...]
- February 3, 2012
- Porsche 911 Rally, TwinSpark Porsche Parts, Winter Trial Rally
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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After an exciting morning running regularities through Western Slovenia, we all made it to the finish line in Trieste, where we were greeted by organiser Bart Rietbergen and his wife Jolijn, I can honestly say that I have never experienced the kind of cold we have here at the moment. The wind is blowing from the East over the Adriatic at hurricane speeds and the wind chill factor must be minus 25C!
This morning’s roads had more holes than a Gruyere cheese. Anything loose in the car danced around as though gravity had dropped to Moon levels. Should you need to recover from a wrong turn early in a stage, doing 90km on these twisties shows you where the weakness in the car is. None were found.
We have yet to find out the official results of the rally, but [...]
- February 2, 2012
- Porsche 911 Rally, TwinSpark Porsche Parts, Winter Trial Rally
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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Today the men were separated from the boys. We had a very full program on Winter Trial 2012. The roads were very tricky due to alternating wet, icy and dry surfaces. One 911 driven by a WRC crack team folded itself around a tree, some of our friends got threatened by an angry farmer, but all of us came home with a smile on our faces.
If you didn’t keep pace today, you were sure to make a steep drop down the leader board, because there were so many opportunities to lose point you wouldn’t believe it. The terrain here in Slovenia is quite rough and there were several outstanding opportunities to launch yourself into a 700-metre abyss. We gracefully declined those invitations, but a Jag just ahead of us got dangerously close.
The tests today were a lot of fun, but driven on dry surfaces. This means [...]
