The first race on Saturday was a true demonstration of keen driving performed by Martin Stretton. The championship is managed by the Silverstone-based Historic Sports Car Club and open to cars built to period regulations for Formula 2, Formula Atlantic and Formula B, starting from 1967 and running right to the end of the 1978 season. Spectators could relive the good old days of classic Formula 2 racing. Henk de Boer scored his second third spot of the the weekend. On Sunday it was once again Klaas Zwart who settled the score claiming his second victory of the weekend finished 1:08.659 earlier than Ingo Gerstl. Dutchman Henk de Boer completed the podium in his Panoz DP01 Champcar. Zwart started his interception regaining the lead, claimed by a overwhelming victory with a gap of almost forty-seven seconds in front of Gerstl. A few laps later Zwart got off track as Gerstl regained the lead. During the first two laps spectators saw a great battle between the two of them, won by Zwart. Remarkably Ingo Gerstl got the better start and took the lead in front of Zwart. Seventeen agile looking single seaters entered the first race on Saturday afternoon.
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The only driver who tried to get as close as possible was Austrian Ingo Gerstl in a Dallara GP2 car, facing a gap of 3.740 seconds. Zwart scored a unbeatable pole position with a lap time of 1:24.993. Dutchman Klaas Zwart was without doubt a class of its own in his very quick 2004 Jaguar R5, formerly driven by Mark Webber.
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Joaquin Folch could only try to follow the very quick Briton as he finished second with a gap of no less than one minute! Frenchman Patrick D’Aubreby drove his former Martin Brundle Tyrrell 012 to a third place.įastest and loudest cars of the weekend were the different single seaters of the BOSS GP series, Europe’s fastest single seater category featuring Formula 1, Champcar, GP2, Formu-la 3000 and World Series by Nissan and Renault cars from the nineties. Just ten cars saw action on Sunday giving victory the Richard Eyre in the epic looking Williams FW08.
Briton Steve Hartley finished second in his Arrows A4, fellow countrymen Richard Eyre drove his Williams FW08 to a third place. Three different constructors claimed the top three claimed by a victory of Joaquin Folch. Thirteen historic Formula 1 cars entered the qualifying session giving pole position to Spaniard Joaquin Folch in a former Nelson Piquet Brabham BT49C with a fastest lap time of 1:34.860. On Sunday it was Briton Phil Harvey in a Austin Cooper who scored best in front of Olivier Leibel (Autobianchi A-112 Abarth) and German driver Thomas Bohlmann in a very tiny Steyr-Puch 700C. German driver Peter Walter (Fiat Abarth 1000 TC) and fellow country man Patrick Hug (NSU TT) completed the winners podi-um on Saturday. 44 Autobianchi A-112 Abarth of Frenchman Oliver Leibel. Fifty two historic dwarfs entered the first regularity race on Saturday won by the nr. The Abarth Coppa Mille, British Car Trophy and the NSU TT Trophy are three different historic categories combined into the Battle of the dwarfs. The tiniest cars on track during the event were the different Autobianchi, Fiat, Mini’s en NSU’s gathered in the ‘Kampf der Zwerge”. Besides the racing action on the track spectators found their way to special presentations about Jim Clark, Stefan Bellof as well as historic race car transporters.
Unique was the “Race History on Track” presentation, featuring former single seaters from no less than six decades of race history.
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Around 21,500 spectators saw 218 participants divided into eleven different categories during the 2012 Bosch Hockenheim Historic – Jim Clark Revival, from April 13-15th on the Hockenheimring in Germany.Ĭhanging but dry weather conditions over the weekend treated spectators and drivers to some interesting and challenging action.
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