- September 12, 2011
- Historic Racing 911, Porsche 911 RSR, TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Defending the State of Art Grand Prix Lead
Had an answerphone message from Leonard on Friday. He was very excited about the upcoming State of Art Grand Prix Classic at Zandvoort, and our continued assault on the Techno Challenge for Historic GT and Touring Cars.
Leonard was leading the championship, so this was an important weekend. “We need to keep within a sniff of the podium, and there are a couple of cars that we’ll have to try to keep behind us if we want to retain first position. This weekend will be the first time I have raced with the Hulk on slicks, so how much faster will it make it?”
Good questions, and when the flag dropped for Race 1 on Saturday, our man had similarly good answers. In the end of race 1, he finished 4th, with a top speed just 2mph behind [...]
- July 28, 2011
- Classic Porsche Video, Hot Rod Porsche Parts, Porsche Road Trips, R Gruppe Europe, More Categories...
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- 2 Comments
Time for another Bergmeister retrospective! I love looking back at the pictures from this event, which saw TwinSpark Racing sponsor a mega road trip for ten classic Porsche 911s from the European R Gruppe tribe. We have so far driven from Amsterdam to Geneva to Briancon to Monaco: now we start day 4.
Having arrived in Monte Carlo the previous evening, day 4 saw us all set to enter the heart of the 2010 Bergmeister Tour: to drive classic Monte Carlo rally stages, following the genius RallyAtlas sat nav application (sadly now defunct).
Following a quick breakfast and some photos at the Cafe de Paris by day – in the famous Monaco Casino Square – we headed out of town. Our destination was Turini, [...]
- May 29, 2011
- Porsche Road Trips, R Gruppe Europe, TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- 1 Comment
Just had some pics through from Leonard and Daan, and a few words about the Carrera PanEuropeana they are on at the minute.
This RGruppe Europe event is a drive from the Netherlands down through Belgium and into Germany. The guys were staying close to the Nürburgring for two nights and today have headed back up towards Spa, for the end of the racing there, before coming home. Leonard speaks:
Weather is awesome, 11 cars good crowd. Jan de Boer (the so-called Bumpermeister) tapped the Armco in a hairpin, so bruised ego there, but car is still drivable. We will actually turn the piece of bumper he crashed off the left front into the rotating trophy! Everybody more cautious and keeping distance to [...]
