by John Glynn | Jan 21, 2013 | Classic Porsche Blog, Race and Rally
I had a good chat with Mads Jensen in Denmark last week: driver and team manager for the Scandinavian team, State of Art racing.
You’ll know State of Art from the videos I post every year, following the Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix: always exciting and usually featuring Björn or Stig winning in a Porsche. This year, Mads is putting a Porsche-only race together at the Jyllandsringen GP on August 24-25th: I’m delighted to help publicise the event. Mads says:
“When Jyllandsringen is organising its annual Grand Prix Denmark 24th-25th August 2013, one of the main attractions will be a 40-minute race exclusively for historic Porsche 911 race cars. We expect 40 registered cars from across Scandinavia and possibly the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, which will compete in 3 categories divided by age groups: Up to 1965, 1966-1971 and 1972-1976.
This event started with one single idea: To create a race with only classic 911’s. I race a 911 myself and know almost all 911 drivers/race car owners here. I contacted the organisers of Grand Prix Denmark and suggested to gather all 911’s. There are about 30 of these cars here in Denmark and 21 of them have signed up so far.
There is a max of 45 cars on the track, so we decided to invite people we are connected to from abroad. In addition to the race, we are organising a Porsche gathering to celebrate the 50 years anniversary. I am an active member of the Porsche Clubs and online communities and they are all onboard for this, as is the Danish importer.
We are expecting 300 club members to exhibit their cars in the dedicated 911 paddock. Everyone gets a few laps on the track in the lunchbreak and we host a party in the hospitality area. Finally, if we can get funding, we are planning to invite former Porsche works drivers.”
Sounds cool. So is the poster for the event, created by 911 fan and online friend Paul Wilson in Copenhagen. Rather optimistically seems to show an ST in front of a RSR, like Twinspark Racing’s Viper Green Hulk 911 Porsche RSR. If that’s Waldegard with Stolk coming up behind him, I am seriously impressed!
I’m planning to be there, and fingers crossed a few of you will attend also. The website is Danish only at the minute, but it’s in the process of being translated. Check it out at www.porscheclassiccup.dk.
![Jochen Mass Drifts Porsche 935 at Silverstone]()
by John Glynn | Jan 19, 2013 | Classic Porsche Blog
Spending time with former PCGB Production Championship driver, Josh Sadler at Autofarm last week brought back memories of a recent chat with Michael Hodges at MPH Communications. Michael shared stories from his time running PR for BFGoodrich tyres in the great days of sportscars, when BFG ran a team of Porsche 962s in IMSA.
“The Daytona 24 Hours in February was a great deal better than a soggy UK!” says Michael. “I am also old enough to have been around in the days when a photographer’s pass allowed you to crouch down at the apex of corners and shoot away.
“This picture (above) is Becketts at the 1976 Silverstone 6 Hours. Lap after lap, Jochen Mass planted his Porsche 935 in the same spot and drifted past in a whoosh! It was only a 135mm lens, so I could just about touch the paint. And I don’t think we even had tabards. Madness: but fun.
“I also got BFGoodrich to sponsor the Porsche Club GB Production Championship for three years. Really great times, when genuine 2.7RSs slugged it out. Driving standards were brilliant.”
No one needs to ask what the Cult of Porsche means, when people like Michael can share these kinds of stories. Sums it all up perfectly!
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by John Glynn | Jan 18, 2013 | Classic Porsche Blog, Market & Prices, Porsche People
Working on a classic Porsche insurance value for a friend’s 924 Carrera GT the other day, it occurred to me that the last time I had a chat about GT and GTS values was with 924 superfan, Derek Bell, in the car park at the Goodwood Kennels while writing a feature on his Porsche 928 Club Sport for Porsche World magazine.
Endurance superstar Derek famously owns a red 924 Carerra GTS (above), given to him by Porsche, and driven back to the UK in legendary style with the late Russell Bulgin alongside. I had a quick look at prices online and send DB a short email reminder to check the agreed insurance value for the car, as who knows where they might stop in the current climate. I included a link to a 924 Carrera GTS that’s been for sale at Freisinger for a while, priced at €80k.
I got a speedy reply, assuring me he was up to date on 924 values and noting one sale at over £100k! I wondered if he meant USD but for sure adding in the provenance would take values for his own car to a whole other level.
Is your classic Porsche insurance value up to date? Contact me if you want some help: used car market values are my specialist subject. Do not put this off!
by John Glynn | Dec 8, 2012 | Porsche News, Race and Rally
Porsche has just given a brand new 991 Carrera S to the man it calles ‘the best private Porsche driver in the world’. And he’s from Great Britain.
Following his first full season in international GT racing, twenty eight year-old Nick Tandy can celebrate winning the Porsche Cup as the best private driver in the world. On the occasion of the Night of Champions on 8 December in the R&D Centre at Weissach, Nick Tandy received the Porsche Cup from Dr. Wolfgang Porsche, the Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Porsche AG.
The Porsche Cup carries a total value of €253,000. Drivers earn points in eighteen Grand Touring and prototype race series worldwide, as well as selected long distance races. Entering the season as reigning Carrera Cup Deutschland champion – no mean feat in itself – Nick raced International GT Open with Marco Holzer in the Manthey GT3 RSR, in a 911 GT3 R in ADAC GT Masters, in ALMS for Flying Lizard and TRG, and in a GT3 R in the British GT Championship.
Part of the prize was a new Porsche 911 Carrera S, after the Briton scored the grand total of 7,510 points across his season. Second-place Raymond Narac received €30,000, while third man Paolo Ruberti went home with €25,000.
Tandy’s story is an emotional one – more of that later – so a big well done on this marvellous achievement. When the flag drops, the bullshit stops: a few racing critics out there might do well to remember that.
by John Glynn | Dec 7, 2012 | Porsche News, New Models, Race and Rally
Porsche Motorsport has just sent over this teaser pic of a new 991 race car with its nose sticking out of a garage. It’s a very small view of next year’s big deal, but still creates some excitement.
This new 991 racecar is showing GT3 R-style/Cup Car bodywork: quite a bit narrower than the Porsche 991 RSR spy shots we revealed a few days ago. The rear shot attracted the most likes ever on the burgeoning Ferdinand Porsche Mag Facebook page, with almost 600 thumbs to its credit so far. Here’s some video of the new 991 in action:
Stuttgart is starving us of technical details for the 2013 Cup car and RSR programmes, but we’ll share what we learn as it comes along.
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