By Jan Stevenson
A weekend of trouble and strife for Mosler’s at the TT Circuit at Assen, but for all that an exciting one with some moments of high drama and excitement.
Carworld Motorsport had a perfect start to the weekend by taking pole for the first race. Peter Versluis has swapped his beloved Ferrari ride for a jaunt in the Mosler Super GT more normally driven by CEO of Mosler Europe, Martin Short. With Short on hand to oversee things in the pits he couldn’t be in better hands. Alex Van ‘t Hoff started one place behind Versluis on the grid at 9th.
With Carworld starting what looked to be the best race of their season so far, Neils Bourhuis powered in the fastest lap second time round the circuit, and continued to battle up front until the pitstop, with Dave Basu as the main adversary. It was looking like a battle royale would develop as they came back, when the Carworld Mosler developed a problem with the fuel pump which left Tas Milko frustrated and stationary on the grass.
Despite a spin in the early part of the race, Versluis in the VeKa decked Rollcentre Super GT was taking the Mosler by the scruff of the neck and was soon slugging it out on track with his brother Jan. After they had pitted, they were neck and neck, and with Peter taking third place from Jan, a podium place looked almost assured, when the car ground to a halt with an engine problem and despite a thrilling race, Versluis was out of the running. With Alex van ‘t Hoff also out after less than ten laps with gear box problems it was turning into a bad day in Assen.
After a long night for the teams working on the cars, the three Moslers had to start from the back of of a very wet field which was started under the safety car, but in a charge worthy of Martin Short, from the back of the field Peter Versluis was soon back up near the head of the race. As he was making up four seconds faster than the leader in the last quarter of the race and up to third place.
Unfortunately at the restart Versluis made contact with the the Marcos of Moritz and dropped back. He then put the Mosler into a spin of epic proportions on the wet kerbs of the daunting 140 mph Ramshoek corner, went around barrier sideways at 100 mph and as the picture shows, had the Mosler on one wheel at one point!
At least lady luck was on the Mosler side this time, as Versluis gathered it up and continued to finish the race, in eleventh place, one place ahead of Alex van ‘t Hoff. Carworld Motorsport finished in 9th place in a relatively uneventful race.
"The pace of the Moslers was there to be seen, but niggling problems prevented good results." said Short later.
For more images, and video of the race visit the Dutch Supercar website.
A weekend of trouble and strife for Mosler’s at the TT Circuit at Assen, but for all that an exciting one with some moments of high drama and excitement.
Carworld Motorsport had a perfect start to the weekend by taking pole for the first race. Peter Versluis has swapped his beloved Ferrari ride for a jaunt in the Mosler Super GT more normally driven by CEO of Mosler Europe, Martin Short. With Short on hand to oversee things in the pits he couldn’t be in better hands. Alex Van ‘t Hoff started one place behind Versluis on the grid at 9th.
With Carworld starting what looked to be the best race of their season so far, Neils Bourhuis powered in the fastest lap second time round the circuit, and continued to battle up front until the pitstop, with Dave Basu as the main adversary. It was looking like a battle royale would develop as they came back, when the Carworld Mosler developed a problem with the fuel pump which left Tas Milko frustrated and stationary on the grass.
Despite a spin in the early part of the race, Versluis in the VeKa decked Rollcentre Super GT was taking the Mosler by the scruff of the neck and was soon slugging it out on track with his brother Jan. After they had pitted, they were neck and neck, and with Peter taking third place from Jan, a podium place looked almost assured, when the car ground to a halt with an engine problem and despite a thrilling race, Versluis was out of the running. With Alex van ‘t Hoff also out after less than ten laps with gear box problems it was turning into a bad day in Assen.
After a long night for the teams working on the cars, the three Moslers had to start from the back of of a very wet field which was started under the safety car, but in a charge worthy of Martin Short, from the back of the field Peter Versluis was soon back up near the head of the race. As he was making up four seconds faster than the leader in the last quarter of the race and up to third place.
Unfortunately at the restart Versluis made contact with the the Marcos of Moritz and dropped back. He then put the Mosler into a spin of epic proportions on the wet kerbs of the daunting 140 mph Ramshoek corner, went around barrier sideways at 100 mph and as the picture shows, had the Mosler on one wheel at one point!
At least lady luck was on the Mosler side this time, as Versluis gathered it up and continued to finish the race, in eleventh place, one place ahead of Alex van ‘t Hoff. Carworld Motorsport finished in 9th place in a relatively uneventful race.
"The pace of the Moslers was there to be seen, but niggling problems prevented good results." said Short later.
For more images, and video of the race visit the Dutch Supercar website.
