- November 29, 2010
- Porsche 911 Rally, Porsche 911 RSR
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Roger Albert Clark Rally: a 911-free zone
Today is the final day of the Roger Albert Clark rally in Yorkshire, UK. The weather has been very challenging, with 20+ cm snowfalls closing stages and even entire sections of the event. This is the worst weather in this area of Great Britain for late November/early December since 1993.
Normally, a 911 driver looks to the sky, sees the clouds forming and thinks ‘yes – today is a good day’. But here we are, four stages from the end of the rally and there is not one 911 in the top 20 runners. Fifteen of the top twenty are Ford Escorts! This is clearly unrepresentative of the relative strengths of the cars: further investigation is required.
Francis Tuthill, friend of TwinSpark Racing, is currently the leading 911 in 33rd position. Francis is running a Tuthill Challenge car, one [...]
In mid-2008, Zuffenhaus US, based in Charlotte, North Carolina announced a new product, at that time being prototyped and set to enter the product development cycle.
The new arrival was a finned brake caliper which used all the stock internals of the Porsche 917 caliper in a new cast body, made to the same obsessive quality as the originals. The difference was that these new brakes would bolt straight on to stock 911 suspension, with no tricky/risky machining needed, as per the 930 brake conversion for standard-body 911s. The brake package would also fit under 15″ Fuchs wheels.
As my good friend Keith Walters of Zuffenhaus said, when he announced the package on Pelican in July 2008, “they are designed as a [...]
It’s been a busy week here at TwinSpark’s UK outpost. As the latest addition to the company furniture, I’ve been settling into my shareholder chair, and swapping Skype calls with my partners, looking at what we’ve got and considering what we’d like to have. Top of the want list is the same as any retailer: more customers.
Steve Ballmer, the CEO of Microsoft (a company whose founders are renowned for Porsche enthusiasm) once said: “We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either.”
Now, if you asked me as a long-term Microsoft user, was Windows 2000 in touch with customer needs and the [...]
