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Classic Porsches could only manage two of the top ten spots in the 2011 Boucles de Spa. Stefan Stouf in a Mk 1 Escort (car 182) repeated his RAC win of a few months ago, Waldegard was second in a Mk 2 Ford (#161), while third place went to Patrick Snijers in his ’82-chassis’d Porsche 911 SC RS (#162).

Eight-time winner Snijers, was initially held up due to alternator problems and getting stuck behind a pair of Opels on the first pass through Creppe. “If I’d been given details of the rankings, I might have put in a stronger attack,” said Snijers afterwards. “It seems I was fastest on the RTs, but I was beaten due to the younger age of my car (1982, versus 1975 and 1976). I obviously had not taken into consideration the corrective coefficients regarding the years.”

You may remember my blog entry about Diederick Kraaijeveld’s original artwork of a few months ago. On that occasion I told you he would be portraiting the Hulk for exhibition purposes. When I was away on Winter Trial 2011 “duty”, him and fellow TwinSpark owner Lex Proper rolled the Hulk into the daylight and Diederick cast his eye on the Hulk. He made a series of photo’s after shooting the breeze with Lex and disappeared!

Two weeks ago I started receiving messages that his Artful Highness had nearly completed the Opus Magnus and that we should set a date for viewing the work. Diederick had moved to a new location in Hilversum and having gone around the City Ring twice (…) despite clear route descriptions, I found my old high school mate’s new Lair. This place is even larger than the last one and my jaw dropped when I saw a series of portraits he [...]

The cars of TwinSpark Racing were recently featured in Esses magazine, the publication of the US-based Early 911S Registry.

Written by our friend Alex Assink, the piece details the specification of two TwinSpark Racing Porsche 911s: the yellow RSR we know as Woodstock, and the Silver T rally car we call Silverado.

Alex has clearly done his research, as the article makes two important points:

• The author correctly assumes that Leonard has R Gruppe embroidered into his pyjamas.
• Their meet at Zandvoort is for coffee first, cars second. This is agreed company protocol.

Actually I am kidding, but that is the spirit of Alex’s article: humorous and easy-going, much like our company. A few things have changed since this was written, however.

The biggest change is that Leonard’s son Daan has returned to full-time education, so [...]