Tag: 911 RSR

Under blue skies, in summer temperatures we kicked off our racing weekend here at Assen, The Netherlands: Round 2 of the Dutch Historic GT and Touring Car Championship by Dantuma. The field includes one other ’74 RSR, of Gerd Rijper as the rest of the Porsche participants are (re-)building cars and engines. They will trickle in again over the course of the season and into the next year.

Qualifying happened in the morning and I took pole with a fastest ever 1.58.5 lap time, 3.5 seconds faster than the car had ever been on this track.

The Hulk as undergone quite a bit of work over the spring and Lex has changed the hubs, disks, pads, sway bars and the exhaust. The car sits on 16inch wheels now and drives even more sturdily than before. Actually it drives like a dream.

The new exhaust (our own prototype) has created more room for outflow and has [...]

Leonard Stolk, MD of Dutch classic Porsche specialist, Twinspark Racing, announces a major distribution deal for lightweight Porsche parts and classic racing equipment, made in Britain by Yorkshire-based EB Motorsport.

The 2011 Dutch Historic GT champions, TwinSpark Racing, and twice World Sportscar Master champions, EB Motorsport, forged their agreement while both MDs were still in racing overalls, following the 2012 Masters round at Zandvoort in the Netherlands.

Mark Bates, EB Motorsport:

 “We started making our lightweight Porsche panels after disappointment with the parts bought when building our first 911. We now manufacture a wide range of quality products for classic 911 road cars and racers.

“Handing sales & distribution to fellow enthusiasts and racers at TwinSpark Racing, a respected [...]

Team TwinSpark participated in a non-championship 1 hour race during the Open Exhaust Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort on September 1 and 2. Lex proper and I shared the wheel during this race amongst 60’s and 70’s Sports Car prototypes and what an experience that was! Zandvoort has only 7 days a year during which there is no noise restriction. We could therefore drive The Hulk on megaphones for the very first time and experienced what an RSR sounded like in the day. I drove qualifying with ear plugs in, but decided that this was a waste of aural pleasure and raced without them!

As a coincidence my niece Emilia Mendieta, a Vassar cinematography graduate and producer, who lives in new York, was present that weekend and we asked here to make a video impression of the event, using both round-the-track video [...]