- April 5, 2011
- Historic Racing 911, Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche Road Trips
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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Part 1 of our Spring Spa story ended as we arrived at the circuit. After a nice lunch – Spa sure knows how to feed people – we unloaded the car and went out to warm up the slicks the car had been fitted with.
Lex is racing Woodstock this year, on slicks. Leonard is not a slick expert, preferring the progressive TBs that the car usually runs on. As the sun kept shining, the laps piled up.
Eventually, it was time for our newest employee. Gerwin, to take his first ride in a Porsche: on track in an RSR at Spa. I’m sure whatever Leonard had planned for the occasion, it wasn’t what actually happened.
- March 8, 2011
- Historic Racing 911, Porsche Road Trips, R Gruppe Europe, TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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Porsche have announced their sponsorship of the fourth RennSport Reunion: an unmissable extravaganza of classic Porsche race cars, in a concentration unseen anywhere else on earth.
That’s the upside! The downside for us Europeans is that it’s on in North America. RennSport Renunion IV will be held at Laguna Seca on October 13th-15th this year, followed by the Porsche Race Car Classic on the 16th, at The Quail in Monterey. The press release says 14th to 16th: I’m currently treating it as “arrive in Monterey in the 13th”.
I know it’ll be expensive to get there, but we’ve already been doing our research on the best value for money accommodation in the area and booking it fast. Who knows what prices, exchange rates and flight costs will do later in the year? Flights are already silly money and [...]
- September 29, 2010
- Classic Porsche Video, Historic Racing 911
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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Above: Woodstock in demo-laps at Zandvoort’s Oldtimer Festival 2010, driving beween GT/TC Championship participants.
Yesterday the Dutch Post-Historic Championship Overall Results were announced. TwinSpark Racing’s Leonard Stolk and Lex Proper finished the 6 race championship in 2nd and 4th overall out of 33 cars in the 1965-1981 period class. Overall champion is Marcel Frijlink in his ZakSpeed Ford Escort, having won every one of the 6 races with a clear lead. We had the satisfaction of finishing ahead of everybody else who we could beat at the level of car speed.
We had certainty about the class win already, but obviously it was very exciting to find out we had done so well overall. The secret has been consistent results and finishing every race. We have a lot of work to do over the winter to finish the preparation of the Hulk and the 2,5 liter S/T “Bloody Mary”.
Bloody Mary has returned [...]
