Category: TwinSpark Porsche Parts

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]