Tag: Historic Racing

Today the men were separated from the boys. We had a very full program on Winter Trial 2012. The roads were very tricky due to alternating wet, icy and dry surfaces. One 911 driven by a WRC crack team folded itself around a tree, some of our friends got threatened by an angry farmer, but all of us came home with a smile on our faces.

If you didn’t keep pace today, you were sure to make a steep drop down the leader board, because there were so many opportunities to lose point you wouldn’t believe it. The terrain here in Slovenia is quite rough and there were several outstanding opportunities to launch yourself into a 700-metre abyss. We gracefully declined those invitations, but a Jag just ahead of us got dangerously close.

The tests today were a lot of fun, but driven on dry surfaces. This means [...]

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 [...]