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It’s exactly one month from now that the GT/TC post historic championship will have its deciding races at Zandvoort. I’m second in the standings, out of 24 cars, and I know it’s going to be a closely run set of 3 races. Everybody wants to be on the podium when they smell a chance. I had a right scare last time with an Escort pipping me for third in the last race and that should not have happened.

I made driving errors because I was focusing on my tail, where the Escort resided, and not on driving faster. I made a mistake driving with a bit too much pressure in my tires, so I couldn’t get out of the corners with the same grip as in the morning. These are all lessons I suppose race drivers learn at one stage or another.

I’m not taking chances however. Ton is shaking down Woodstock already, adjusting the [...]

TwinSpark CEO Leonard Stolk hosted a small dinner in Amsterdam last week. Invited along were two of the most well-known Porsche works racing drivers of the factory’s late ’60s and early ’70s heyday: Gijs van Lennep and Tetsu Ikuzawa.

All of our readers will know of Gijs: hard-fighting winner of the Targa Florio and Le Mans races, behind the wheel of some special racing Porsches. But what of Tetsu? Let’s learn a little more about this very special guest.

In the 1966 Japanese Grand Prix, the mighty Porsche 906 was beaten hands-down by the homegrown Prince R380: a car with more than a hint of Ferrai 250LM. Distraught with Germany’s defeat by England in the World Cup (maybe) and Germany’s loss to a Japanese Ferrari copy in the Japanese Grand Prix (definitely), the factory put a lot more effort into the 1967 race.