Category: Porsche 911 RSR

Today is the final day of the Roger Albert Clark rally in Yorkshire, UK. The weather has been very challenging, with 20+ cm snowfalls closing stages and even entire sections of the event. This is the worst weather in this area of Great Britain for late November/early December since 1993.

Normally, a 911 driver looks to the sky, sees the clouds forming and thinks ‘yes – today is a good day’. But here we are, four stages from the end of the rally and there is not one 911 in the top 20 runners. Fifteen of the top twenty are Ford Escorts! This is clearly unrepresentative of the relative strengths of the cars: further investigation is required.

Francis Tuthill, friend of TwinSpark Racing, is currently the leading 911 in 33rd position. Francis is running a Tuthill Challenge car, one [...]

In mid-2008, Zuffenhaus US, based in Charlotte, North Carolina announced a new product, at that time being prototyped and set to enter the product development cycle.

The new arrival was a finned brake caliper which used all the stock internals of the Porsche 917 caliper in a new cast body, made to the same obsessive quality as the originals. The difference was that these new brakes would bolt straight on to stock 911 suspension, with no tricky/risky machining needed, as per the 930 brake conversion for standard-body 911s. The brake package would also fit under 15″ Fuchs wheels.

As my good friend Keith Walters of Zuffenhaus said, when he announced the package on Pelican in July 2008, “they are designed as a [...]

What started as a nervous week full of last minute preparation, ended well with a satisfying class victory  for Team TwinSpark Racing on Sunday. Outgunned by low-flying Escorts and other more radical RSR’s, we scored a 4, 4 and 5 out of 22 cars, enough to add the points we needed for the Class championship.

The competing red and yellow ’74 911 RSR of Rolph Smulders crashed in lap two of qualifying, right in front of me, coming out of the Renault corner. Rolph bent the left front seriously, but got out without a scratch.However sad for him, this is what can happen when the pressure for the championship is on. We all go all out and that puts you over the edge on occasion…

Lex was driving the Hulk, our ’74 911 RSR, with a new radical engine. Unfortunately we had had no time to fine tune the settings of the engine and this [...]