You can hear and see this at the Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort

This weekend you can visit the Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort on the Zandvoort circuit. We were of course going to take a look at the training courses and qualifications. Exciting!? or do you mainly see guys who do not have the talent but the money to race?

To fall for the door: the level of the participants varies a lot. The slowest participants in the FIA ​​Masters Historic Formula One can safely take their Formula 1 car for a tour of the Veluwe, because they set lap times that the first Peugeot 205 GTI that does its best to get a trackday . On the other hand, the fastest participants also go seriously fast; although they have to avoid the moving chicanes that set times above two minutes, they can still do laps of just over a minute and a half.
Daryl Taylor proved yesterday that this can sometimes go wrong: he wrote off his Shadow DN1 from 1973 in the Scheivlak. At the Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort, however, it's not about the races, it's mainly about seeing all those fantastic classics driving.

On Saturday evening, that happened every year, as a parade through the village. This parade recalls the years when a Formula 1 race was held at Zandvoort and the teams tinkered with their cars at garage companies in the village - due to the lack of pit boxes that were large enough. At that time, the cars were simply driven on the road to and from the circuit. Incidentally, not all cars can participate in the parade, because the speed bumps are an impregnable obstacle for the lowest cars.

But of course it is mainly about the cars on the road. In addition to the Formula 1 cars, there are a great many other cars, including the Historic Sports Cars, pre-1966 touring cars and pre-war cars. Worth mentioning are the demos that Porsche provides, with cars that have come over from the Porsche Museum especially for the Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort. Also nice is the racing class with BMWs, which is there this year because of the 100 anniversary of BMW. In it you see 2002s competing against 3.0 CSLs, with the field in the warm-up rounds being led by the BMW 3.0 CSL Hommage R and the BMW 2002 Turbo Hommage.
In these classes you also see all kinds of famous drivers, from Jan Lammers to Gijs van Lennep, while BMW brings Prince Leopold von Bayern and former DTM champion Harald Grohs into position. Adrian van Hooydonk and Harm Lagaay are also racing today. But we are on the bench this weekend in front of the only Dutchman to start an F1 car at Zandvoort: Frits van Eerd. That's something different from Max.