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Historic Rallying

Leonard recently unearthed a Porsche press release from 1972, talking about the transmission changes for that year: the arrival of four speeds as standard and five speeds as optional, and the replacement of the dog-leg pattern on previous 911s. This release heralds the arrival of the Porsche 915 transmission and is interesting stuff, though I [...]

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Tuthill British Historic Rally Championship contender, Dessie Nutt, has decided to return home with his rarely seen 3.0-litre Porsche 911, to compete in this year’s Circuit of Ireland, which runs on the 6th and 7th of April. The first stage is the Titanic Super Special, which runs around the all-new Titanic Quarter in Belfast City. [...]

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The 2012 Kololi Beach Club MSA British Historic Rally Championship starts today, with the Rally Marketing Mid Wales Historic Stages. A field of over 65 cars will tackle five classic Mid-Wales gravel stages. The action will be fired up from the start as the season opens with two assaults on the sensational climb of Pike’s [...]

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Organisers of The Winter Trial 2012 are taking their sweet time uploading pictures from the event to their website, so I thought I’d have a little cruise on Youtube and drag the videos uploaded by various competitors together. TwinSpark Racing ran the 2.7-litre engined Porsche 911 ST known as Silverado in the event with a [...]

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After an exciting morning running regularities through Western Slovenia, we all made it to the finish line in Trieste, where we were greeted by organiser Bart Rietbergen and his wife Jolijn, I can honestly say that I have never experienced the kind of cold we have here at the moment. The wind is blowing from [...]

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