Målet med rekonstruktionen är att bolaget ska överleva och kunna driva verksamheten vidare.

.

The company has the last two months been working intensively to solve the economic situation due to the cancelled and postponed event in Anderstorp. In order to ensure its survival, it was decided in the Stockholm City Court September 7, 2010, upon application by the company’s principals, to put the company in reorganization. This means that all who have demands on the company, both businesses and individuals, will be contacted by a designated administrator shortly.

The main focus of the reorganization is that the company will survive and be able to operate properly.

Race biljetter (kombinationsbiljetter med The Race Legends och Roxette) kommer ej att gälla till entrén för konserten med Roxette i Halmstad, lördagen den 14 augusti. Anledningen är att området för spelningen i Halmstad har en begränsning vad gäller publikkapacitet.

Köpta race biljetter gäller till nästa års evenemang. Datum för detta presentera under september månad på theracelegends.com.

Eventuella krav på återlösen ska ställas till: refund@theracelegends.com senast den 15 september 2010.

Vi tackar alla biljettköpare för Ert tålamod och förståelse för den uppkomna situationen och hoppas få se Er på något av våra framtida evenemang.

.

INFORMATION REGARDING RACE TICKETS

Race tickets (combination tickets to The Race Legends and Roxette) will not be valid to the entrance of the concert with Roxette in Halmstad, on 14th of august. The reason is that the area of the concert in Halmstad has a limitation in terms of audience capacity.

Purchased tickets are valid for next year’s event. The exact date will be announced this September on theracelegends.com

For refund of tickets, send your information no later then september 15th to: refund@theracelegends.com

We want to thank all ticket buyers for your patience and understanding due to the situation and hope to see you at one of our future events.

The Race Legends event at Anderstorp Raceway this summer is moved to May 2011 due to a slow pre-sale of tickets both private and corporate market.

Click HERE to read the message in English

Klicka HÄR för att läsa meddelandet på Svenska

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.

.

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.

.

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.

.

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)

I live in the little seaside tourist village Åhus (home of ”Absolut Vodka”) in the south eastern part  Sweden. Born 1957 in Ghanaian but now also naturalized Swedish.

Work as a surgeon at the University Hospital of Malmö, Sweden. Married to Eva-Carin. Children: Denise , Nickie , Kevin.

Always been a racing fan and watched a lot of F1 racing in the 70`s -80`s in Ghana. This was an inspiration for some local racing which I did with my first cars, a Fiat 850 special and later a Dadsun 160j.

I was introduced to formula racing by my neighbour and old Formula Vee veteran – Åke Lind. Became a member of Åhus Racing Team, which at most had  14 racing cars on its list (mostly Formula Vees). Other cars in the team included  among others Ronnie Peterson’s F3  1966 model “Swebe” which is now placed in a car museum in the town of Simrishamn not far from Åhus.

My first racing car was a formula vee  model-Slymper that needed a real make-over.  After several months of slow progress, I sold it and bought another formula vee model –Dolling in 1993 that needed lesser adjustments and refurbishing  to be done to it. I am still racing with this car as of today.

The Dolling was home built by Willy Dolling (Sweden) in 1966, with parts mainly imported from Germany. It was his second model car out of a total of 52 cars built between 1966 -67.  In 1996 my Dolling and I won the RHK (Racer Historiska Klubben) – Championship Cup for Formula Vee in Sweden.

My team at races is made up of my mechanic  Jerker Winblad, assistant Samir Mahmood, my staunch supporters Nickie and Kevin (support services), and my worst rival Lennart Mattsson in his RPB –Formula Vee.

Due to the nature of my work and family considerations I do not race as much as I really would want to, but every race event I have participated in has always been a joyous one. The racing family extended from Sweden to the continent when I joined HMR –Holland;  very professionally administrated by Helana van der Wouden. My first race with the HMR was at Nurburgring in 2006, a present from my colleagues at work. I immediately “caught the bug” and have since then tried to participate in some of HMR`s events across europe every year. Apart from Nurburgring, I also enjoy SPA –Belgium and Zandvoort – Holland.

One of my ambitions is to be able to race the whole of the HMR championship seasons circuit some day, and………I´m just wondering …..if the F1 track in Turkey (with its amazing 3 left handed turns, all taken in one) will ever be added to the championship!

.

Full name: Louis Banka Johnson

Class: A

Vehicle: Dolling Formula Vee from 1966

Start nr: 7 (was nr. 17)
Team: HMR
Age: 52
Career: Surgeon

2006 – 9th (debut-year)

2007 – 10th

2008 – 10th

2009 – had no time for racing in Europe

In drifting the speed is important, but it´s not always the one with the highest speed that wins in the end. Instead, the winner is the one who skid’s widest with the nicest line trough the track. Also the public’s ovations can determine the outcome.

Drifting comes originally from Japan, where you compete in different classes. There can be one, two and up to six cars on the track at the same time. Sweden had their first competition in drifting 2005, and the tracks can be from a couples of curves to a hole racing track, as they will at The Race Legends.

Drifting is always run on asphalt.

.

Body: All cars can participate, even homemade cars with four wheels.

Engine: Engine is free except of N2O.

Transmission: Free

Fuel: Free choise of fuel, originaltank is compulsory.

Weight: it depends from car to car

For more information visit drifting’s official site HERE

The Formula One legend Riccardo Patrese, a driver with 257 Grand Prix entries, steps up to the challenge this summer. He is The Race Legends fourteenth ready driver.

Riccardo Patrese was born in Italy 17th of April 1954. 1965 he started his career in karting. 1977 he debuted in Formula One in the Shadow Grand Prix team and kept driving in Formula One until his retirement in 1994.

Patrese’s record of 257 Grand Prix entries stood for 15 years, surviving the Schumacher era when Michael Schumacher retired on 250 race entries. Rubens Barrichello finally overhauled Patrese’s total, recording his 258th Grand Prix entry at the 2008 Turkish Grand Prix.

Read more about Riccardo Patrese at The Drivers.

Nationality: Italian

Age Today: 56

Active years: 1977-1993

Wins: 6

Podium finishes: 37

Fastest laps: 13

Races: 257

Pole Positions: 8

I started my motor sports career in 1964, by running the ice-track in ”Uppland Cup” for two seasons. 1967, I was tired of being employed and started Nacka Biltrim with specialty in car heating system.

1985 we developed the business by buying land and premises around the area Salstjö-Boo, just outside Stockholm. We became a authorized on Ford in 1977 in the aftermarket, which developed to that we are, since 10 years, also have an advanced sheet metal department and a car test line, which we pioneered and developed together with SUN.

For about 15 years ago, I started running in Historic Formula Ford 1600. 1998 I bought a March sportscar with a 2300cc prototype engine from Volva, an interesting construction, the only of its kind.

1999, I started running in the Dutch series HMR. First with a Formula Ford for two years and continued competing with a GRD Formula Atlantic in 1600 from 1974.

The competions have gone well, with a total win 2007. In the marathon table in the last 10 years, my overall standing is second, which I am very happy with.

The person who introduced me to the HMR series was Peter Sikström. The whole series is fantastic and we Swedes feel extremely welcome. I strongly recommend this series because it gives us the possibility to compete at the famous track down in Europe.

.

Full name: Rolf Johansson

Class: D

Vehicle: GRD Formula Atlantic from 1974

Start nr: 88

Team: HMR

Age: 68

Career: Owner of Nacka Biltrim in Sweden

Results from the last years in the HMR Championship-Class D:

2003 – 4th

2004 – 3th

2005 – 2th

2006 – 4th

2007 – Champion

2008 – 21th

2009 – 3th

FMX jumps with a hight of 15-20 m with different tricks.

This is what ”Frog & Flap” has to offer the audiance during the The Race Legends in the show compound in the event area.

Shortly there will be a further article about this show.

Click HERE to read more about The Shows.

Frans is born in 1951, married with Yvonne and has two daughters and two little granddaughters. Since 1957 he visites all the autosportraces you can imagine, such as races for exemple formula-cars, touringcars and motor Grand-Prix and NL – B – D. He growed up in an village full with Jaguar D’s X1920, A.R. Zagato, Devin, Porsche 590, Carrera, Lotus F3 and Lotus Elan.

In that day’s they did the testing in the evenings on the public road, so on young age he got already this virus.

1966 – started as a mechanic from the Apal Formula Vee Importeur.

1968 – 1968 Without knowledge from everybody, he drove the Hillclimb from Zolder (Belgium).

1971 – Followed the racing-course under supervision from Liane Engelman (a famous Dutch lady-driver), Toine Hezemans (a famous Dutch touringcardriver). Frans won than the racingcourse.

1972 – Bought a BMW 700 Sport to do ‘slalom races’ and rallycross and some in Zolder (Belgium). That’s was play without money, but a wonderful time.

1973 – Than racing with a Mini Cooper, but after two races it was over. After twelve laps in Zolder the tyres were wore out. That was a cost blade from 35 Dutch guilders in a week and the tyres that day’s costet around 100 Dutch guilders.

1974 – Got married, and became a visitor from all the races on the Nürburgring, for example the Eifelrennen, DTM etc.

1984 – Saved a Porsche 550 from the shredder. The Porsche was standing just in the street behind me, where a lived. After 5 years of restoration he was race-ready. I raced with this Porsche two hillclimbs and many rally’s untill the year 2000.

1994 – Became the owner of my Apal Formula Vee, build in 1966. Have raced very active with this Apal in a lot historic events and are still doing this with my Apal now since the establishment from the HMR 1996.

This year I will do my 100e race for the HMR-Championship since 1996, have stand 60 times on the podium, where from 10 times as winner, have set 5 times the pole and had 6 times the fastest lap in class A and collected until now 1153 points during all these years. In all these years only one time I felt out in a race with engine problems.

Jan Lammers, born June 2, 1956 in Zandvoort, is a racing driver and team principal from the Netherlands. He participated in 41 Formula One Grand Prix races, debuting on January 21, 1979. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1988and later participated the race with his own team Racing for Holland. Also, Jan Lammers is the seatholder of the Dutch A1 Grand Prix team.

Lammers starts in 1977 in the European Formula 3 Championship, but he does not get good results with his Hawke. Lammers won the 1978 European Formula 3 Championship with Racing Team Holland.

Lammers began his F1 career with Shadow in 1979. In 1980 and 1981, Lammers spent two seasons in the Formula One as an ATS driver, as well as driving for Ensign. For 1982, he moved to Theodore but his season was something of a disaster. He scored no championship points during his F1 career, and tried IndyCar racing before turning to sports car racing.

In 1992, Lammers made a two-race comeback in F1 for March, his first F1 appearance since 1982, which is the longest gap between two Grands Prix in the history of Formula One. He was signed for the team in 1993 as well, but they went bankrupt before the season started.