Crazy weather in California all week hurt the Porsche 911s racing at this weekend’s Long Beach ALMS event. With a wet track during free practice and qualifying cancelled due to heavy rain, Falken Tyres team mates Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers were the highest placed Porsche finishers in P6: not what the Doctor ordered. Now [...]
Porsche legend, Hans Hermann, has been inducted into the Sebring Hall of Fame. Hermann’s award came this weekend, during the 2012 12 Hours of Sebring. 2012 was the 60th running of the historic half-day race, an event Hermann (seen above with Fangio and Karl Kling) won twice in his career. In 1960, he won at [...]
Today the men were separated from the boys. We had a very full program on Winter Trial 2012. The roads were very tricky due to alternating wet, icy and dry surfaces. One 911 driven by a WRC crack team folded itself around a tree, some of our friends got threatened by an angry farmer, but [...]
Under grey skies we entered the Black Forest, where we encountered the first heavy snow cover. Gorgeous landscape and great driving roads. Somewhat icy remnants on the road made for fingertip handling of the steering wheel to nurse Silverado downhill. We ran three regularities today and had a few misses which were partly recovered. The [...]
I was in Amsterdam last weekend for the 2011 TwinSpark board meeting. I don’t want to make it sound bigger than it was. There were three of us: Lex, Leonard and I. Drinks were provided by a kettle and some instant coffee, with pepernoten biscuits (below with ‘The Organist’) the only sustenance for our ‘trial-by-balance-sheet’. [...]
