Category: Historic Racing 911

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]