Back home, nursing my sunburn. Two vids featuring the Moslers in both the Britcar four-hour and the Dutch Supercar Challenge. More gory detail tomorrow.

The 2011 GT season is well and truly underway worldwide so it's time for Mosler Lover to play catch-up.

It's a leaner line-up for the marque this year compared to 2010 but there's still Moslers competing for honours all around the world.

Once again, the Dutch Supercar Challenge has attracted the most Mosler entries. Albeit one less than expected; Berry van Elk's car catching fire after an oil leak at Hockenheim and ending up as a charred hulk.


Thankfully the weekend went better for one Mosler driver. Alex van 't Hoff took the Mad and Daring team to top spot of the podium in race two.


There's no Mosler in the British GT this year but Britcar has two entries. Paul White and Calum Lockie at Strata 21 are out to impress; meanwhile, Javier Morcillo and Manuel Cintrano have already taken two podiums for Azteca with a second at Silverstone and third at Rockingham.


Down under, Klark Quinn has set the pace in the Australian GT series with two wins at the Clipsal Adelaide meeting, putting him into the championship lead.


In the V de V endurance series, Gabriel Abergel and Xavier Pompidou of Ruffier Racing took pole position in Jarama and finished seventh overall.


With the first round of the Japan Super GT postponed in the wake of the earthquake, Mevin Choo has had just the one outing in the GT300 class MT900M, finishing 15th in the 400km race at Fuji.

I'm off to Donington tomorrow for both the Dutch Supercar and Britcar races. Azteca have their Mosler on pole for the latter; Martin Short led the first Dutch race almost all the way before reported electrical problems forced his retirement. Here's hoping for plenty of excitement and not too much rain down at the Old Hairpin...


Photos (c) Dutch Supercar Challenge, Azteca, Australian GT, V de V.

Mosler Lover is returning. We've just got to get the gearbox sorted and give the bodywork a lick of paint.

First update will be early April.

Reluctantly, it's time to put Mosler Lover to bed. I just don't have the time to update the site anymore - I don't even get out to the circuits too often.

Thanks to everyone who's called by and enjoyed the site. Special thanks to the guys at Gravity International, MeXT, Eclipse and Topcats who were kind enough to contribute reports and photos along the way. Extra special thanks to Alex at Mosler Challenge, Jan Stevenson and Martin Short at Mosler UK and the man without whose vision I'd have had nothing to write about, Warren Mosler.

And a huge thanks to Matt from Classic Dreams for bacon buttys, cold beers and a balcony which let me get video footage like this:





























So the next time I'm at a GT circuit and someone wants to know what's just blasted past them, I can say "...it was a seven-litre V8 Moweslerr" ;-)

Barely sixteen minutes of racing bookended by high drama for the Moslers - race 2 of the GT Dutch Supercar Challenge was short on time but long on incident.

Six Moslers made in onto the pit straight for the start of the race but only three made it to turn one. Kevin Riley seemed to lose control on cold tyres as the rolling start took the green flag and he punched his KRM Mosler into the pit wall. Cue havoc in the pack behind; Berry van Elk stuffed his car into the wall too whilst the Moore International Mosler took a trip into the gravel/dirt that currently edges the track. The car dug in and rolled, ending up on its roof.

With the pit straight strewn in Mosler parts, the red flags were out. Thankfully, no-one had been injured. Clearing the wreckage took time and with the Superleague show running the clock, race time for DSC was ebbing away.

When racing finally got underway, Martin Short pushed hard and built up a slight lead in what had become a sprint to the line. The Topcats Mosler went with Short before being dropped off by an ever-improving Cor Euser in the Ferrari.

The last few turns of the race gave an unexpected twist, though. Advancing onto back markers, Short swung left into Luffield as Euser dived right. Boxed in, the Mosler lost ground as Euser pulled clear into Woodcote and took the chequered flag. Short said there was nothing he could have done - the Mosler had cut out into the last turn and he was left with no drive to fight Euser to the line.


Provisional result: 1st Cor Euser, Ferrari F430; 2nd Martin Short, Mosler MT900R; 3rd Ben Cluclas, Mosler MT900R

PS - if, at any time soon, T-Mobile can offer me a broadband service that holds a signal long enough to upload a video, I'll have some moving pictures to offer as well.....

Photos (c) Mosler Lover except for crash pictures (c) Dutch Supercar Challenge

Some things never change. If it's Silverstone in April, it rains. If Cor Euser is on form, regardless of the car he's driving, he's up at the front. If there's more than one Mosler in a race, they're hunting in a pack. The Dutch Supercar Challenge is over in England for its Easter holidays and there are more Moslers than ever before vying for podium places.

Qualifying for Saturday's 60-minute saw Cor Euser slot not his Marcos but a Ferrari into pole position. Martin Short and Kevin Riley put their Moslers into second and third respectively. The marques' other entrants also put on a strong show, with another three Moslers in the top seven.

Race one on Saturday got off to a damp start. With tyre optimisation and pit stop strategy to the fore, bold driving was always going to be rewarded. And so the British Moslers came to dominate with Martin Short, Topcats and Kevin Riley locking out the podium. Three Ferrari 430s followed them, including that of the apparently cautious Cor Euser. Berry van Elk came home in seventh, with Moore International Racing making eighth on their Dutch Supercar debut. Alex van t'Hoff brought the Mad & Daring Mosler home in nineteenth.

Mosler Lover will be trackside tomorrow for race 2.