Historic Zandvoort Trophy report
Qualifying: make some noise!
SuperSixties kicked off Saturday’s proceedings at Zandvoort with an old fashioned 40-minute qualifying session. Noise was always going to be a problem, especially for the V8’s, and we saw some black flags appear during the session. Jan van der Kooi set the benchmark early on with a 2:02 lap in his Lotus Elan. The Frasson Cortina was the first to leave the scene with ominous white smoke appearing from the exhaust. Halfway through Roelant de Waard was topping the timesheets in his Shelby Mustang with Luc de Cock second in his Lotus Elan. Jan van der Kooi managed to split them in the end. Frans van Maarschalkerwaart and Jasper Izaks were fourth fastest in the Shelby with the first of the touring cars, Carlo Hamilton and van der Ende/Bijleveld next in Ford Falcons. Jacques Smeer secured start position 7 in another Shelby Mustang, with Hemmo Vriend in his Falcon and Lars Bondesson and Felix Feltes in their Lotus Elans rounding out the top-10. Hans Hugenholtz was 12th in his Ferrari 250SWB, bringing back memories of the Historic Zandvoort Trophies of the 1970s. In GTS11, Theo and Thijs van Gammeren were fastest in the Porsche 911, with Vincent Janssens, Holger and Tim Felske and Tiziana and Fabienne Mütschler in hot pursuit in their MGB’s. In CT08 series debutant Ernst Leemans is taking the fight to the hordes of Lotus Cortina’s in his Alfa Giulia Super. He was fourth fastest behind Ralf Wagner, Magnus Lillerskog and Gerrit Jan van Leenen. In the small touring car class Bert Mets was fastest and Fernand Lelong second in their Cooper S’s with Graziano Tessaro third in the Fiat Abarth.
Race 1: Shelby Mustangs rule
Jan van der Kooi looked to have Saturday’s SuperSixties race in the bag, but as the old saying goes: to finish first, first you have to finish. With 75% of the race gone, the Lotus Elan spluttered over start-finish and finally died after two slow laps. Roelant de Waard took full advantage to win the race in his Shelby GT350. Frans van Maarschalkerwaart and Jasper Izaks finished second in another Shelby after a clean fight with Luc de Cock in the Lotus Elan. Norbert Gross and Hemmo Vriend finished 4th and 5th in their Ford Falcons, after Carlo Hamilton and Martin Bijleveld eliminated themselves in a coming together. Sixth across the line was our octogenarian Swedish oldtimer Lars Bondesson in his trusty (and noisy!) Lotus Elan. Henk van Gammeren was third touring car home in his Falcon Futura with Bert Mets a strong 8th overall in his Mini Cooper S. Thijs van Gammeren brought the Porsche 911 home a class-winning 9th, having overtaken all the MGB’s which was impressive as co-driver Theo had started from the pits. Vincent Janssens was best of the B’s from the Mütschler sisters. In CT08 the runaway leader was Ralf Wagner, but he dropped out after 5 laps. That handed the lead to Magnus Lillerskog, with Gerrit Jan van Leenen not far behind. After the pitstops Lillerskog had a safe lead while Patrick Vanspringel stole second in class from Van Leenen. SuperSixties debutant Ernst Leemans steered his Alfa to a solid 4th. Fernand Lelong was second in the baby class in his Mini, while Bernd Horlacher had forsaken his Cooper for the spare car, an Austin-Healey Sprite.
Race 2: Luc de Cock seals the win for Lotus
Frans van Maarschalkerwaart made a great start to take the lead in Sunday’s SuperSixties race at Zandvoort in his Shelby Mustang GT350, from Luc de Cock in the Lotus Elan and Roelant de Waard in his Shelby GT350. Jan van der Kooi started 20th, having fixed the electrical issues on his Lotus and made great progress, so much so that he took the lead after 3 laps. It was very short lived though, there had been a slight trail of smoke emerging from the back of the green Lotus, and after less than a lap in the lead, the differential failed. One lap later, Luc de Cock found a way past van Maarschalkerwaart and managed to pull away, helped by the fact that wily old Frans was under constant attack from De Waard, with some chancy outbraking manoeuvres into Tarzan.
De Cock timed his pitstop a bit too ambitious and incurred a 10 second time penalty, which did not hurt him as after 19 laps he had a 19 second lead. Jasper Izaks took over from Frans van Maarschalkerwaart and secured second with a solid drive. Norbert Gross initially held fourth, but it was Carlo Hamilton who made his way through to take that place and touring car honours, the first of for Ford Falcons in the top-10 with Gross in 6th, Hemmo Vriend 7th and Henk van Gammeren 9th. Hans Hugenholtz made a cautious start in the Ferrari SWB, but soon got into his stride. The glorious sounding V12 was music to the ears of the fans, while Hans’ grandchildren cheered him on to 5th. Lars Bondesson brought his Lotus Elan home in 8th while Jacques Smeer rounded out the top-10 in his Shelby GT350.
Theo van Gammeren again started the Porsche 911 from the pits, the car having trouble with standing starts. And as on Saturday he, and after the pitstop Thijs, managed to overtake all the MGB’s to win the GTS11 class. Vincent Janssens again offered most resistance while Egbert Kolvoort finished 3rd in class. Gerrit Jan van Leenen made a rocket start to take the lead in CT08, from Magnus Lillerskog, Patrick Vanspringel and Ralf Wagner. The four Lotus Cortinas had a good scrap and finished in the order Wagner, Vanspringel, Lillerskog and Van Leenen. Bert Mets again won the small touring car class, from Fernand Lelong. Behind the Mini’s, Graziano Tessaro finished 3rd in class in his Abarth 1000TC.
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