Hans Meskes: I am married to Kitty and have 2 kids: a son Carly of 24 years old and a daughter Kayleigh of 17 years.

Started as motorsport fan visiting races and rally’s in the seventies, helped some Dutch drivers with there Formula Ford but found more adventure and friendlier atmosphere in rallying. Started driving rally’s in 1980 with cars in the smallest class to keep it affordable with Honda Civic’s and Suzuki Swifts, after many class wins and highlights like competing twice in the Manx Rally I stopped in 1996. Two sponsors stopped, somebody gave the right price for the car and all the spares so that was that.

But there was still that racing with Formula cars and a empty garage….and there was now historic racing.

After a evening in 2002 at HMR series organizer Helana van der Wouden it was clear, why not buy a historic Formula car ( midlife crisis according my son).

I found a nice looking van Diemen FF2000 from 1978 in the UK  that was changed to FF1600 but had most  2 liter parts with it, brought it  to the Netherlands, restored it and started in 2003 with 2 races at Zandvoort.

Accidently I had the chance to buy a Dastle FF2000 from a colleague driver with broken engine and gearbox, build a new engine and repaired the box and did a testday with the car, let my son drive some laps and there it was; another driver in our HMR series.

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Full name: Hans Meskes
Class: C
Vehicle: Van Diemen RF78 FROM 1978

Type: Formula Ford 2000

Startnr: 48
Team: HMR
Age: 51
Career: Technical Support Engineer in the compressor business.

Results in the HMR Championship-Class C

2003 – 10nd (debut-year)

2004 – 6rd

2005 – 3rd

2006 – 5th

2007 – 8th

2008 – 3rd

2009 – 2nd

Rallydriver from 1980 until 1996: several times became champion in the -1300 cc class, with class-victory’s in the Tulpenrally, Hellendoornrally, SLS-rally etc.

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Carly Meskes (son): I am 24 years old and not married. Going always with my father to the races and got so in contact with the autosport.

In 2008 I entered myself with a friend to the licence-course in Zandvoort and at the end I succeeded by getting a licence for the historic formula-racing. My father Hans had the chance to buy a Dastle MK12 FF2000 and I got permission from him to race with this car for the HMR-Championship.

2009 was my rooky-year for me.

In my first year of Historic Monoposto Racing I became 3rd in the HMR-championship in the C-class for Formula Ford 2000.

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Full name: Carly Meskes
Class: C
Vehicle: Dastle MK12 FROM 1976

Type: Formula Ford 2000

Startnr: 40
Team: HMR
Age: 24
Career: Service Engineer in the compressor business.

Results in the HMR Championship-Class C

2009 – 3rd (debut-year)