Bleekemolen win Zandvoort 500
The start of the Zandvoort 500 (photo: Chris Schotanus)
Source: Circuit Park Zandvoort
The Zandvoort 500, the opening race of the Winter Endurance Championship was won by Sebastiaan Bleekemolen and Ronald van der Laar in a Team Bleekemolen-prepared Porsche 997 GT3 Cup. As many as 43 cars took part in the wear and tear under unstable conditions was run.
The pole for the race was won by Jeroen Bleekemolen and Peter van der Kolk, representing a 140 BMW GTR shared. The youngest scion of the family Bleekemolen appeared with his pole position time 0.2 seconds faster than brother Sebastiaan Bleekemolen, who qualified second. Jan Evers and Frans Verschuur clocked with their orange DNRT V8 Silhouette third time, the Radical SR3 impressively fast-RS by Marijn van Kalmthout and Danny van Dongen, who trained at quarter time.
Rob de Laat and Theo de Prenter, the winter champions last season, qualified with their BMW Compact Modified place at eighteen, which meant half position in Division II, the class of 3 liters. The pole position in this class went to father and son Storm, a BMW 330i. In Division III pole went to Tom Coronel who, together with Pauline Black and Marc Koster for the team Schubert Motors came out with a BMW 320d. The fastest time in Division IV was clocked by Duncan Huisman and Lisette Braams, driving a BMW 120d.
The start of the race it seemed best to proceed for Jeroen Bleekemolen. Without too much wheel spin he hit a hole compared to the competition. Both the Porsche Sebastiaan Bleekemolen, as the V8 DNRT Frans Verschuur did the less well off. They had to see how few cars better of the grid road accelerated, including the Radical leading to the second sprint, but that same round even the V8 Star of David Hart and Nicky Pastorelli and the Marcos Mantis of Cor Euser and Diederik Sijthoff before had to . For more positions until that moment could not be fought, because coming out of the Tarzan Bay, the Renault Clio Robert den Otter and Marcel van Berlo collided with the Volkswagen Golf Jeroen Mul, with a first neutralization as a result.
After the neutralization, there was a nice battle between David Hart of the V8 Star, Bleekemolen Porsche V8 and DNRT Frans Verschuur. In the seventh round, however, it is wrong between Hart and Verschuur, which the latter with a broken front wheel comes to rest. The car to mountains, was the second time the race is neutralized. The damage appeared to return to the pits to fall into, causing a short repair was sufficient orange DNRT V8 her way back to prosecute. Meanwhile, Sebastiaan Bleekemolen rushed towards the BMW of his younger brother to take over the lead. Not much later, the V8 DNRT Huub Vermeulen Frits Hessing and past the BMW. After forty laps of the car and the duo Bleekemolen van der Kolk stop along the track. An electrical problem caused a premature failure thus turn.
Meanwhile in the other divisions also exchanged the necessary teams of position. In Division II, the proposed leave and the Prenter put things through the pipeline deal. In Division III, had a strong Jeroen den Boer opening stages and took the lead. But it was the BMW 320d of Coronel / Black / Koster strongly revenge. Meanwhile, Fred Wood and Frank van der Vossen Dires climbed to first place in Division IV.
After the expiry of the maximum driving time, which was set at four hours race, the Porsche of Sebastiaan Bleekemolen and Ronald van der Laar first flagged. David Hart finished with Nicky Pastorelli in second place, the Renault Mégane Trophy race car Hoevert Fox, Wilco and Harry Becker Coal. David Hart was the third time that during the Zandvoort 500 finished on the podium. Huub Vermeulen Frits Hessing and fell in fifteen minutes on the clock away from the top three and fell later. Just outside the stage and ended Euser Sijthof (fourth) and Sybren van der Goot and Andre de Vries (fifth), this time not raced a BMW, but the second Porsche Team Bleekemolen. Tom Coronel, Pauline Black and Marc Koster finished in sixth place in the overall standings. This trio took the victory in Division III for Jeroen den Boer and his team mate Leon Rijnbeek (second) and the Renault Clio by Pim van Riet and Rene Steenmetz (third). Notable was the strong performance of Van Hout and Van Dongen combs. They finished with their Radical SR3-RS in eighth place overall and as a custom in Division I. In addition, they recorded the second fastest lap time.
In Division II, went to Rob de Laat profits and Theo de Prenter. With one lap behind the winning duo were Simon and Dick Clever Freebrid flagged with the BRL Light. Leo and Nick Etman finished with their BMW 130i Cup car in third spot. In Division IV, the diesel class, grabbed Volkswagen drivers Ivo Heukensfeldt-Jansen and Ger van den Brink victory. Second, Frank Wood and Van der Vossen flagged for Braams and Huisman.
Rash
1.
S. Bleekemolen / van der Laar, Porsche 997 GT3 Cup, 101 laps in 4:01,09,446 (108.23 km / h) 2.
Heart / Pastorelli, V8 Star at 58.157 seconds 3.
Fox / Becker / Coal, Renault Megane Trophy, 1 lap.
Class Winners
Division 1: S Bleekemolen / Van der Laar, Division 2: The Release / The Prenter, Modified BMW Compact, 94 rounds, Division 3: Coronel / Black / Koster, BMW 320d, 97 laps, Division 4: Heukensfeldt-Smith / Van Brink, Volkswagen Golf TDi, 90 laps.
Next match: Sunday, January 3, 2010 - New Year's Race - Circuit Park Zandvoort.
