- February 19, 2010
- Porsche 911 Rally, Winter Trial Rally
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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From Joost we got this group photo of the teams we were drinking beers with and who have saved us from stranding in snow banks! Can’t believe it’s nearly a month ago that we left for this event…
- February 17, 2010
- Historic Racing 911, Porsche 911 Rally, Winter Trial Rally
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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With thanks to Cooper Goei and Rene Middelweerd who took these photos!
- February 2, 2010
- Historic Racing 911, Porsche 911 Rally, Winter Trial Rally
- Posted by Rick Bruins
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Now that The Winter Trial is behind us and Silverado has returned to TwinSpark Central to be serviced, it is time to evaluate how it behaved and what we have learned.
Tyres
We ran Vredestein SnowTrac2 15x6x185 in the front and the same size SnowTrac3 in the rear. The rear tyres were changed at the eleventh hour, when a blister had appeared on one of the 1 year old SnowTrac2’s. The Snowtrac3’s initially felt weak due to their soft side walls, but once the car was fully loaded and we had covered some distance, they seemed firmer. Steering became more twitchy when running without spares, luggage and co-driver and I’m convinced this had to do with the rear tyres in combination with the 26 mm rear torsion bars. Job for the next time: find snow tyres with stiffer side walls, but with the solid traction of this type of profile: we never had to [...]
