Category: Porsche 911 Rally

We have just arrived at our hotel in Valkenburg, The Netherlands, starting point of Winter Trial 2012. After a send off by local retailer The English Hatter in Laren, who sponsored our group with sweaters, we sped off towards the southern most tip of The Netherlands.

This year our group of friends is fielding a very diverse set of cars, including a Lancia Beta Monte Carlo, driven by Rene Middelweerd and Cooper Goei. Always like playing with an un-pinned hand grenade, the maintenance crew is already checking out the first niggles on the Lancia…. And we only done a 40 second test just now! I’m probably going to get T-boned by our friends for writing this, but it’s too nice an opportunity for a tease to pass up!

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Many happy returns of the season to all our friends and customers, wherever you are at this time of year.

Enjoy the festivities, and see you in 2012 for some big Porsche fun! Lots of changes coming to TwinSpark in 2012, but that’s a conversation for another time!

The review programme of the 2011 Dunlop/WONAGO MSA British Historic Rally Championship will make perfect festive viewing when it is screened for the first time on Motors TV at 9pm on Christmas Day. The 2011 championship was fought to the finish, with an Escort and a 911 neck-and-neck for the overall crown.

The spectacle of Porsche 911s, Ford Escorts, Saabs, Vauxhall Chevettes and Hillman Imps tackling classic forest and asphalt stages is surely the perfect antidote to the regular Christmas Day TV programmes. The two-hour review covers all the action, as crews competed from the forests of Wales to the closed public roads of Ulster and Flanders. The programme will include stunning in-car footage, as well as interviews with some of the characters involved in historic rallying.

As well as the initial prime-time slot on Motors TV, the programme will have [...]