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As I write this post, a fantastic event is taking place to raise funds for a fellow R Gruppe member in California. The benefit is in aid of long-serving Gruppe member Roger Grago, who is currently recovering from brain surgery.

At the time he was diagnosed, Roger was in the middle of switching from one job to another, and one health insurer to another, so when he suddenly needed emergency surgery to take a tennis ball-sized tumour out of his head, he was uninsured. Though the surgeon donated his services, there were still hospital bills and follow up treatments to pay for, running into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Roger’s R Gruppe and Der Kleiner Panzer networks swung into action, quickly organising hospital visits [...]

Above: Woodstock in demo-laps at Zandvoort’s Oldtimer Festival 2010, driving beween GT/TC Championship participants.

Yesterday the Dutch Post-Historic Championship Overall Results were announced. TwinSpark Racing’s Leonard Stolk and Lex Proper finished the 6 race championship in 2nd and 4th overall out of 33 cars in the 1965-1981 period class. Overall champion is Marcel Frijlink in his ZakSpeed Ford Escort, having won every one of the 6 races with a clear lead. We had the satisfaction of finishing ahead of everybody else who we could beat at the level of car speed.

We had certainty about the class win already, but obviously it was very exciting to find out we had done so well overall. The secret has been consistent results and finishing every race. We have a lot of work to do over the winter to finish the preparation of the Hulk and the 2,5 liter S/T “Bloody Mary”.

Bloody Mary has returned [...]

What started as a nervous week full of last minute preparation, ended well with a satisfying class victory  for Team TwinSpark Racing on Sunday. Outgunned by low-flying Escorts and other more radical RSR’s, we scored a 4, 4 and 5 out of 22 cars, enough to add the points we needed for the Class championship.

The competing red and yellow ’74 911 RSR of Rolph Smulders crashed in lap two of qualifying, right in front of me, coming out of the Renault corner. Rolph bent the left front seriously, but got out without a scratch.However sad for him, this is what can happen when the pressure for the championship is on. We all go all out and that puts you over the edge on occasion…

Lex was driving the Hulk, our ’74 911 RSR, with a new radical engine. Unfortunately we had had no time to fine tune the settings of the engine and this [...]