Category: WEVO

A friend of mine in the UK recently bought this strange device. It’s a gated shifter, built on top of the standard 915 housing from a 1974 to 1986 Porsche 911. I could only think of one guy that might have something to do with designing this, so I emailed Hayden at WEVO. Sure enough, it was one of his designs from the mid-1990s.

The average man in the street looking at the gated shifter would think it looks like a foolproof device that is bound to help the 915. Hayden says the opposite is true.

“We delivered about 20 of these in 1998/early 1999, at a prohibitive price,” he told me. “We used them on both stock 915’s and our XT-915, that has no synchros and allows for clutchless upshifts. Customers of the super fast-shifting XT-915 continued to encounter shifting [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]