Tag: Porsche

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 [...]

So far, 2010 has been a very interesting year of Porsche fun for all of us connected with TwinSpark Racing. Leonard and Lex have been preparing and racing their company cars, I’ve been zooming all over the UK, Europe and the USA writing articles for Porsche and other car magazines, and we’ve come together to enjoy some incredible events, such as the recent Bergmeister Tour, and Classic Le Mans.

When it comes to enjoying the Porsche 911 with like-minded enthusiasts, there are many routes to choose from. TwinSpark Racing covers them all, in both parts and participation!

We began the year with the Winter Trial, our annual rally experience in the snow and ice. If circuit racing is not your thing, perhaps rallying is for you. Next year’s event will run from January 23 to 28, 2011, [...]

TwinSpark CEO Leonard Stolk hosted a small dinner in Amsterdam last week. Invited along were two of the most well-known Porsche works racing drivers of the factory’s late ’60s and early ’70s heyday: Gijs van Lennep and Tetsu Ikuzawa.

All of our readers will know of Gijs: hard-fighting winner of the Targa Florio and Le Mans races, behind the wheel of some special racing Porsches. But what of Tetsu? Let’s learn a little more about this very special guest.

In the 1966 Japanese Grand Prix, the mighty Porsche 906 was beaten hands-down by the homegrown Prince R380: a car with more than a hint of Ferrai 250LM. Distraught with Germany’s defeat by England in the World Cup (maybe) and Germany’s loss to a Japanese Ferrari copy in the Japanese Grand Prix (definitely), the factory put a lot more effort into the 1967 race.