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TwinSpark Racing enjoyed a successful outing at the Zandvoort Historics last weekend: Leonard is just about to post the story of the event. As a long-time race fan, one of my favourite sayings is “when the flag drops, the bullshit stops.” How good it would be if all of life was the same.

How great would it be if companies were run like race championships: where the best people made it to the top, got the jobs they deserved and brought others with them to share in their success. Sad to say, one of life’s depressing realities is that many who wangle their way to higher office are simply incapable of doing their job effectively, thanks to their own incompetence, or the embedded incompetence in the offices they are forced to deal with.

What a joy it is then, [...]

Could Porsches be made out of wood? Absolutely, and I’ll tell you how, with the help of a long lost friend.

When I was 16-17 years old, we hung out at hockey and soccer club member parties in The Hague with a group of about 15 guys. We all arrived together, all wore a yellow sports jacket and adored Billy Joel. The man I’m going to write about was a mate of mine in that era, and we lost touch about 30 years ago.

Diederick Kraaijeveld is by now a well known artist in a niche all his own: Images composed out of redundant wood. He and I hooked up again after all these years via LinkedIn. He invited me over to his atelier in Hilversum where we would attempt to fill in 30 years of blanks….

Diederick finished university and worked as a television investigative journalist. In that capacity he won a prestigious prize [...]

Last weekend my son Daan, Jan de Boer, editor in chief of RS Porsche Magazine and Marcel Cornelius, owner of the Clockwork Orange 911 S/T rep, took off on our annual pilgrimage to the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nurburgring. This event always strikes me as the German version of Le Mans Classic. The German scene for historic racing offers incredible depth in terms of rare cars and quantity of people willing to thrash them around a race track. The Germans just don’t make as much of a splash or spectacle out of it as the LMC organization does. Typical German modesty.

Due to a seemingly endless traffic jam on A61 we arrived whilst the early seventies Batmobiles and 911 RSR’s and 935s were in their race. So I was quite miffed at having missed that race in large part… The race was won by Klaus Ludwig, famed Porsche employee and race driver, in [...]