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.