Menno Groenendaal

My Mexican holiday has a little break for 2 weeks.

Last Monday I moved to Dallas, Texas for a special project for Tachyon Motorsport.

I can tell u I had a bit of a temperature shock getting here but now the weather is like fall in Holland rain and around 15 degrees. I try to stay off the fast-food this time but I can tell u it is really hard to find good restaurants for that.

I’m meeting some nice people here with a lot of knowledge on historic racing and fabrication. Maybe later I can tell a little bit more about the project. It definitely  pushes me in a steep learning curve.

Sunday afternoon Allard started the 3th race. It went well and he managed to take the car to the 8th place. The ABS system kept working and everything went well. In the middle of the race Michiel took the wheel and we dropped back 2 places. Michiel kept running solid lap times and reached the 9th place overall.

After all the setbacks this weekend we where pretty satisfied with this result. Next weekend Tachyon Motorsport will be in Zandvoort again for the State of Art GP Classic.

After almost an hour of waiting for the restart Michiel was ready to go.
But his race ended unfortunately really soon.

Immediately after the start the ABS system of the Mustang failed and Michiel was struggling to keep the car away from any damage. This resulted in 4 tires with flat spots. The car went into the Pits and the mechanics mounted 2 new front tyres as fast as possible.

Michiel went back on the track again and the ABS system failed again 300m away from the pit-lane. This time he was less lucky and he hit one of the barriers. The car came in pretty damaged and it took us till 2 o’clock to fix all the damaged. We borrowed a spare ABS computer from Racing Team Holland and tomorrow morning we will check if everything is working.

Sunday morning Allard was ready to drive race 2. After some resets the system was working and Allard could finally race with the Mustang instead of drive it. Unfortunately the stabilizer broke and he was struggling to keep the Mustang on the track. Allard managed to stay in 8th place and the team was happy to finish the race without any damage. Now we start preparing the car for race 3 where the drivers have to drive 50min with a mandatory driver change.

This weekend the Spectacolo Sportivo was held on the track of Zandvoort.

Spectacolo Sportivo is a track-day for Alfa Romeo owners. There where a lot of Alfa’s some really normal but also some exclusive models. Besides the static display they where driving on the track. For this ocasion the pit boxes where used as shops for Alfa parts or other items that have something to do with Alfa Romeo.

The NK htgt organized 2 races on Sunday and a free practise and qualifying practise on Saturday.

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Up-comming weekend I’m going to Assen, the Netherlands. During the Formido midzomerraces (midsummerraces)(Formido is a DIY store) the Ford Mustang GT-4 will race and the historic cars that Tachyon Motorsport supports.

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