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Pro Dutch takes number 1
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Pro Dutch welcome new sponsors !

Pro Dutch Racing is very proud to announce that top Pro Dutch sponsors are "back on board" for 2009. With the help from the sponsors we are capable to fight for the top places at the FIA European championship 2009.
Also welcome on board new sponsor R.B.C !

Pro Dutch takes FIA #2

After a hart breaking dnq at Hockenheim, where we lost the
lead in the European championship, Pro Dutch hit back
at the european Finals at Santa Pod raceway.
After 2 days of raining it al came down at 1 qualifing
chance. The Pro dutch corvette was back in winning mode
and after qualifing at the nr 4 spot ( out of 27 cars )
it was racing as it should be.
We were good underway to the final round, when the rain
hit us again. and stopped racing for this year.
We still ended up at the number 2 spot in the european
championship. The first Dutch to do so in promod
and with good chances to take it all.
We are very proud to do so, and ofcourse
are looking for this number 1 spot next year !
we will be back.... harder then ever.

Pro Dutch takes win at Mantorp !

I ( still ) cannot belief it, we made it thru a tuff 24 car field to end up in a all Dutch Final.

What do you think for a semi final finish, new track record and personal best with
a 6,17 hit at Sunday Eleminations !

report from dennis: FINLAND ROCKS!!!
Yes, Finland was great! I’ve never been to Finland and I didn’t really know what to expect, but after this weekend I can say that Finland holds some great memories. After the normal long flight with multiple plane changes and security checks I arrived in Turku, Finland; a nice small airport that you can’t get lost in. I called to see where the other guys were; Robert and Anton were at the track with the truck and Leon, Jan and Martijn were in Helsinki so it would be a couple of hours before they would be able to pick me up. I walked around outside for a little and the air was sweet and fresh with the temperature nice and cool. It felt like good racing weather. Got to the track and we got everything set up. One thing that surprised me was the fact that it only gets dark for an hour or so at night. That really helped me with the jet lag because we just kept working and next thing you know it’s 2 o’clock in the morning. So, off to bed and then back up at 7 to get ready for some racing. Finished up all the numerous odds and ends and then went out for our first pass. Since our outing at Santa Pod didn’t work out like we wanted, we took a step back and stuck our old baseline setup in the car to see what would happen. Ok, first pass gets us a 6. 530 and that’s just about what we expected. Things are looking promising. Now we’re going to make some changes. Second run and we run a 6.406 which is ok, but we need more. So we work until about 3 am (it’s still daylight) and get some changes set up in the car, get a few of hours of sleep and then back up for more racing. The day starts off with some good news as we hear that they’re going to try and get in three qualifying passes for the Pro classes today. That’s what we want, a chance to make some laps and get a good setup for our new combination. Our first pass of the day is a 6.397 in the right lane, the next pass in the left lane gets us a 6.342 so we’re still inching forward. We’re moving the right direction, but it’s just not responding like we’re expecting. Back in the truck we sit down for a long discussion to figure out what we’re going to do tomorrow morning ( raceday ). Ok, back to the car and work again until 3 am. We know the left lane is a little better than the right and we set up the car for the right lane (even though we won’t have lane choice). Ok, eliminations time! We roll up against Micke (last years Pro Mod Champion) and he selects the left lane, that’s great for us because with our setup we pop off a 6.174 and set a new track record ! That’s great, even better than we had expected. It’s back to the pits to get ready for round two against our fellow countryman Marc Meihuizen. The second round brings us a winning 6.292, but we were a little out of the groove causing some issues with the run and it will cost us lane choice against Lindahl brothers in the semi’s. Well, the semi’s are going to be tough. Lindahl has been making good runs all weekend and we’re going to have to run the right lane which hasn’t been able to support much more than a high 6.2’s this weekend. We set up for a low 6.2 and then hit bad tire shake that put us out of the running. Overall we had a great weekend and learned a lot about how to get all our new Oddy engine power down the track. I would say that this has been the one best weekend we’ve had with the car and it has given us a lot of confidence that we’re doing what needs to be done to be competitive. We’ll move on to Sweden and work on improving on what we did in Finland. Expect even better news on the next report!

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Yo, this
was hell week !

Wendsday 14 May we got the engine here, put it in the car and finished up saterday. All due plan. till... Leon ( eagle eye we call him )

found a leak at the rear axle housing. ( wich we inspected over the winter )

we took it apart to find that both spindles ( that goes into the housing ) were cracked ! panic... were and how to fix this. A call to andy robinsson, and he said you need to be here monday morning first thing and i will fix it. So get out the complete rear housing cleaned it and put it in the trunk to rush to Andy ( UK ). He started at 08"00 till 22"00 put it back in the trunk drove home

( tuesday 06"00 ) sleep few hours, put back in the race car, finished up some things, threw everything left into the trailer and went off to the pod
( cause we still wanted to test at thursday ) Only to find out that there was

a strike going on at the france harbour ! $#@!! it took me 24 hours to get to the pod. to late for testing.

o.k friday recapp, we started the engine ( wich sounded REALLY strong ) everything looks ok.

Billy flying in at saterday, but then the trouble started again, his bag was not in the plane ! full with parts we needed. On the track we put the new setup in the engine and went out.

blew the tires off at the hit. pedal it, get it back and drove a 7,1 with a little pop at the end. back in the pits the burst panel was out. the plugs looks ok. nothing burnt and shows way rich..

founded the problem ( we tought ) a stucked injector. some piece of shit was in cil 1 injector. so changed the clutch took out power and went out again.

blew the tires at the hit, pedal and went to the back, were i had a funny car explosion just before the finish line ( nobody saw it ! only lex joon who was looking at the top end ) BIG fire that went out right away, what happend

was that the manifold just cracked due the backfire the engine gave, it melted the co2 lines to the lean out system

that sprayed co2 right away and put out the fire. pff.. lucky me..

Back in the pits billy good not belief what he saw. they all tought
nothing happend.

next. what happend. well we screwed up big time. stuppid.stuppid

after looking better into the data it shows we were making some mistakes

we ware lucky we did not burnt the engine down to the ground.

For now it looks like only the manifold is gone, this engine is much stronger, no valves damaged, no valve springs !

all bearing looked like new. the blower is ok.
just some TLC

back to start. and all over again.