1970 Rebirth II

After I saw Holger's poster about another rebirth race with the beautiful FLY cars from
Le Mans 1970, Le Mans Club Denmark decided to ship four members from Copenhagen
to Taps and participate with two teams. Michael and René in Team 1 in a Porsche 908
Flunder no. 29 and Danny and Klaus in Team 2 in a Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga no. 8.
Take off very early saturday morning from the
"Devils Island" as Jutlanders like to call Seeland
and we landed at Holger's place 8:45, so we had
time to see Holger's track Circuit Taps and say
hello to the other teams before practice.
Circuit Taps is a piece of art - it is unbelievable
what Holger has manage to squeeze down on
the table - tracks, buildings and figures! And not
two curves are alike and every thinkable Scalex-
tric Classic track is reprensented on the track!
Beside the track Holger has his own DC Bar, just
to show that Holger must be Denmarks greatest
David Coulthard fan and he has collected every
thinkable item with DC and McLaren West.
Well, back to practice were the place soon would
be crowded. All the different curves made it very

difficult to push the cars too fast.
It was now time for Holger's speech - the nine teams was called and the rules were run
through and who should race when and where. Each driver should race 15 min. in each lane
and that would give 2 hours in total time for each team.

STARTINGLIST:
1. Lola T70 MK IIIB no. 4 – RC and Gebrüderen
2. Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga no. 5 – Mureren and Danmarksmesteren
3. Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga no. 8 – Klaus and Danny (LMCD)
4. Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga no. 11 – Ironside and Finn
5. Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga no. 12 – KOF and Jes
6. Porsche 917K no. 20 – Panikken and Holger
7. Porsche 917K no. 21 – Web and VaCool
8. Porsche 908 Flunder LH no. 27 – Tobak and Formanden
9. Porsche 908 Flunder no. 29 – René and Michael (LMCD)

First time Holger did his Le Mans 1970 Rebirth race Web and Tobak won, but this year they
decided to split up and therefore stay unbeaten!
The teams prepared the cars to the last moment and twice it happened that a car was not
ready for start and therefore lost important laps. Some were unhappy with the chassis and
borrowed a new chassis, while another team hadn't recieved the car from the shop but it was
fixed with a new set of starting numbers on a similar car. Even though the teams were fighting
for great prizes everybody was helping each other.
10:00 the first heat was started - with the characteristic Le Le Mans start - with a red Lola
against three red Ferrari’s, which didn't make it easy for the guys who should put the cars back
on the track!
Klaus was the first member from LMCD to drive and he drove the Ferrari no. 8 to a 3rd place,
only 1,7 lap behind no. 2, so it was acceptable. But efter the first 15 min. Mureren had done
62,1 laps and with it the first stone was laid down for the victory and the second stone was
laid down by Danmarksmesteren in 2nd heat when he drove 66,4 laps. Danny from LMCD drove
62 laps in 2nd heat. The fastest lap times was between 12,65 secs. and 16,45 secs., so Klaus’s
best laptime at 14,19 secs. and Danny’s best laptime at 13,57 secs. were not bad at all, when
you think about that almost all the other drivers have raced here before.
In 3rd heat it was tinme for René to drive the
Porsche no. 29 and he did 61,7 laps (13,08
secs.), which was enough for 2nd place in the
heat and Michael took 1st place in 4th heat
with 63.9 laps (12,23 secs.), so maybe there
was hope for a Top-3.
Heat after heat was raced, and those drivers
who didn't race or put the cars back on the
track visited Panik in the DC Bar, were he ser-
ved draught beer, soda or coffee. But it was
mostly the draught beer Panik served!
12:00 lunch was served in the kitchen, were
Holger's wife had made some nice food for the
drivers who was not driving at the time.
Panik did not only served beer in the DC Bar, he
also formed team with Holger and he managed
to tear down the Dunlop bridge - not once, but twice! After three hours of racing the fastest
laps dropped to around 12 secs. and Mureren made the fastest laptime in the last heat when
he clocked 10,40 secs.
While we were racing, the four lads from LMCD talked to the more famous guys in Danish
slotrace - Danmarksmesteren, Web, KOF, VaCool and many more - and we got some great tips
and ideas and even had a personal invitation to Kolding.

But it all ended up with Mureren og Danmarksmesteren, Ferrari 512S CL no. 5 being winners of
Le Mans 1970 Rebirth II with 35,8 laps down to 2nd place Web and VaCool.

FINISH:
1. Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga no. 5 568,3 laps – Mureren and Danmarksmesteren
2. Porsche 917K no. 23 532,7 laps – Web and VaCool
3. Porsche 908 Flunder LH no. 27 530,4 laps – Tobak and Formanden
4. Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga no. 12 526,6 laps – KOF and Jes
5. Porsche 908 Flunder no. 29 520,5 laps – René and Michael (LMCD)
6. Lola T70 MK IIIB no. 4 510,2 laps – RC and Gebrüderen
7. Porsche 917K no. 20 508,4 laps – Panikken and Holger
8. Ferrari 512S Coda Lunge no. 8 482,2 laps – Klaus and Danny (LMCD)
9. Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga no. 11 466,7 laps – Ironside and Finn

INDIVIDUAL RESULT:
Danmarksmesteren 288,5 laps
Mureren 280,0 laps
Web 278,6 laps
KOF 270,6 laps
Tobak 270,3 laps
Holger 268,1 laps
Gebrüderen 262,0 laps
René (LMCD) 260,8 laps
Formanden 260,1 laps
Michael (LMCD) 259,7 laps
Jes 256,0 laps
VaCool 254,1 laps
Danny (LMCD) 254,0 laps
RC 248,2 laps
Panikken 240,3 laps
Ironside 238,5 laps
Klaus (LMCD) 228,2 laps
Finn 228,2 laps

The guys from Le Mans Club Denmark would like to thank Holger for letting us come and race
and thanks to everybody for recieving us so nicely. We absolutely fell that it was a succesful
trip and it won't be the last time we travel to Circuit Taps!