Category: Porsche 911 Rally

After 2 years of anticipation and months of prep work to plot routes, organise hotels, polo’s, stickers and the like, our departure is near. BergMeisteR Tour III will see 8 early 911’s cover 4.500 km in 8 days. Our route will take us through Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France , Switzerland, Italy and Monaco.

Judging by a regular flow of enquiries, this event has started to reach a bit of halo-status among aficionado’s as the toughest test of early 911 resilience, shy of an endurance race event. Every element of the car is challenged in this road trip. Although we drive by the rules of the road, the driving is spirited and involves intense acceleration and braking. To give you an idea: last time, in 2012, I went through a set of Michelin TB’s in a week.

Silverado, our 2.7 RS engined ST model, has participated in 5 Winter Trials and Lex renovated the front [...]

This year’s Eifel Rally (July 25-27, 2013) celebrates forty years of the World Rally Championship. The entry list is filling up fast, with the group for course-opening cars already packed solid.

“These are cars whose family trees are not as rigorously inspected as other Slowly Sideways cars in the 130-strong entry”, said festival organiser, Peter Schlömer. “A few minutes after posting the entry form, the group was full – the enthusiast owners had been waiting to sign up.”

Well they might, for the Eifel has become Europe’s must-attend event for classic rally fans. This year’s rally will run to the tried and tested schedule, with a Thursday evening shakedown before the proper stages on Friday and Saturday. Rally highlights include:

• Walter Röhrl as patron [...]

Dropped into Tuthill Porsche earlier this week, where the team are getting Glenn Janssens’ Belgian Historic Championship-winning 911 together ahead of the season opener in Haspengouw on February 22-23.

Janssens will defend the title in his mega 911, as seen in the Chris Harris video below. The 3.5-litre twin-plug Porsche still runs the EB Motorsport slide throttle system as on sale in the Twinspark Racing shop but this year has added another Twinspark Racing product, in the form of a WEVO Billet Shifter with SL superlight shift knob.

We’ll be following Glenn’s progress through the year. Enjoy the video!