Tag: R Gruppe

Two weeks ago the Dutch Historic Automobile Racing Club (HARC) announced that it will add two new divisions to the National Historic Touring & GT Championship, in line with FIA TC and GTC classes. Having lobbied for this move a year ago we were delighted to see that HARC now believes such championship for cars homologated between 66-75 and 76-81 is viable.

Team TwinSpark will be entering its two RSRs: Woodstock 73 and The Hulk 74 driven by Lex Proper and myself. It looks like at least one of our R Gruppe buddies, Ronald Aardse, will enter as well with a 2.8 MFI engined RS clone. However we are sure that this convenient two weekend, 6 race event will draw out quite a few more Porsches from the 66-75 era and not just from Holland. You can mark down May 14-16 and September 10-12, both at Zandvoort’s Grand Prix track.

We will be competing [...]

It’s Wednesday afternoon and I’m on my way back to Amsterdam from a foreign assignment. My plane has just come in so there’s good chance I’ll be arriving in Amsterdam as scheduled. Tomorrow is T-2 for our Winter Trial adventure and I finally have time to consider how close our departure is now.

My friend Lex and my son Daan have been keeping an eye on the finishing touches to the rally car in my absence of the last 10 days. Our mechanic has been honing the wiring to the kill switch, which seemed vulnerable to chafing by the fuel tank. The Messerschmitt fuel pumps have been connected and double checked and to avoid risk around the ignition set up, Ton has downgraded it from optical to points-based. The logic being that we don’t know the origins of this ignition system (not OEM), so bringing spare parts is not a short term option. I didn’t [...]

“Woodstock” has been with us for 3 years now and has gone through a constant upgrade process. It is an original 1973 911S chassis which has been modified to RSR spec over the years.

The nickname “Woodstock” was given recently by TwinSpark’s business manager, Daan Stolk, and refers to the Charlie Brown character, particularly to his color…

We acquired the chassis in 2006 from a German car trader. It came with an ONS pass which showed it had competed actively in the German Youngtimer Trophy. Unfortunately its then owner abandoned the RSR at shop after he was faced with a repair bill which he couldn’t pay. Subsequently the engine, gearbox and all of the interior were sold off by the repair shop, to cover the bill. The suspension remained however and in that barren state the car was moved to the shop where we bought it. Step by step the chassis was completed with the [...]