Category: Winter Trial Rally

Today we feature our friends Fer and Gerard who are at the table with us here in Maribor, Slovenia. They drive a restored 1973 2.4S Targa with the roof open all day long. Today was 10C below 0, but both got out of the car completely sunburned, due to the altitude we drive at. You find their picture, with their car appended to this posting. These diehards alternate driving and navigation each day, which makes for interesting dinner talk, not to be repeated on this blog…

Driving on some of Slovenia’s smallest mountain roads, we saw many incidents, due to cars getting off the road, in one case even in to a ravine! But Porsches are built to last, so that car was pulled out of the 15 meter deep ravine and is supposed to arrive back from the evening loop any time now. Imagine…

Lots of time is spent in this event, saving [...]

This morning we completed the first test of the Winter Trial on the ice and snow track at Altenmarkt in Austria. We completed the two laps with only one spin and were 1,5 minutes faster than last year. This was so much fun, it’s got be illegal…

And we’re off! Enjoy the noise in the tunnel!