John Glynn's Blog | 911 Porsche tales & other stories
Remembering Jean-Luc Thérier
I’ll never forget my 13th birthday. I had an appointment with an orthodontist in Cork to have a brace fitted, so my dad drove me down from Limerick in his new E21 BMW 320. Zero present presence on my first day as a teenager had left me suitably depressed, with the [...]
Brawn GP meets Tuthill Porsche
Dropped in to Tuthills the other day to find Brawn GP’s graphics guys on site striping up the Frederic Dor Safari car, which is off to Norway tomorrow. This is the car I am talking about – a real favourite of mine:
John and Neil from Brawn (now Mercedes Formula 1) were interesting to watch. The [...]
Old meets new – with a twist
I was talking to my remarkable friend Leonard Stolk at classic Porsche racing parts suppliers Twin Spark Racing in Amsterdam on Tuesday, just before he left to take his Winter Trial rally car out for a good blast to blow out some cobwebs, and get the 2.7 RS engine in the back of [...]
Safari sorts the Men from the Boys
It’s the end of day 5 in Kenya: half-way stage of the 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally. Tuthill Porsche’s efforts have not gone entirely according to plan but then, this is a marathon – not a sprint.
Despite some major interventions thus far (one of which took the team from third to fifteenth place), all [...]
Tuthill Safari off to a flying start
Following months of preparation, Francis Tuthill’s attack on the 2009 East African Safari Classic is finally under way. Despite the very different desert terrain, day 1 saw the team get off to a great start, with Gerard Marcy and Stephane Prevot finishing first in their Tuthill Porsche, seventeen seconds ahead of second place.
“There were [...]