- July 14, 2013
- TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Overall wins for TwinSpark RSR 3.0 at Assen TT track
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 [...]
- July 6, 2013
- Hot Rod Porsche Parts, R Gruppe Europe, TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Jack Olsen Update: Black Beauty Porsche Video
I swapped some emails with fellow R Grupper Jack Olsen this week, catching up on news of Black Beauty II. Jack and I have not yet met, but he was the inspiration behind pics for my last set of t-shirts. His popular 911 has inspired much, much more.
The t-shirt stuff came from Pelican Scott’s idea for a forum thread to share self-portraits of owners and Porsches in a Jack Olsen style. That selfie was groundbreaking back in the day! The thread has been running for eight or more years, and has some top notch laughs; those in the know snapped up the shirts when we shot them like Jack.
Jack’s car is a legend. His first car – Black Beauty I: a ’73 911 [...]
- May 27, 2013
- TwinSpark Porsche Parts
- Posted by Rick Bruins
- Comments Off on Staying Power gives EB Porsche a Brands Hatch edge
Our friends at EB Motorsport had a good weekend at this year’s Brand Hatch Historic Festival, part of the 2013 FIA Masters Historic series. Masters Series events enjoyed full grids all weekend, with plenty of cars on track doing battle: just what the spectators wanted!
EB’s terrific Guards Red Porsche 911 3.0 RS suffered a few irritating glitches, which ruled it out of two events, but the Light Yellow 911 RSR went well all weekend. The 3.0-litre Porsche 911 RSR couldn’t quite match the pace of the bigger-engined cars on the straights of the Brands Hatch GP circuit. A pair of Corvettes outqualified the EB Motorsport Porsche 3.0 RSR by just over a second for Monday’s racing.
As ever, [...]
