How’s the Saker?

Posted on 08-02-2016 at 14:08 by perry_snijders – 6 Comments”

For many years already, were in Etten-Leur race cars built, but recently there was big news on the Saker. The brand is acquired. What are the plans? We spoke with new owner Johan Faucet.

‘We have just two cars sold, ” says Johan Faucet elated. That doesn’t sound like a huge number and you Volkswagen dealer on the corner has that number probably before the lunch scored, but for Saker, it is quite a bit. ‘In the whole of 2015, there are five Start were sold, compared to twenty in the peak value. Of course we want to go back to that twenty. With a new owner, a new network and fresh blood to be able to do that, we think.’

Let’s get back to what a Saker exactly is. I had also never been so into it till I was in september 2009 got a phone call. ‘If you are interested in spionagefoto of a new model of the Saker? Then you need next week at Assen.” (Or did you really think spionagefotografen all those cars toevállig encounter?) So said, so done — and if caught we the RapX. That RapX is one of the four models that the brand delivers. The RapX and GT are close, the Sniper and Sprint are open. Subcutaneous are actually the same cars: a tubular chassis with a light body on it, powered by a Subaru engine. “Well, we want the RapX this year and give an update,’ says Johan Faucet. “Also, the ability to at least 400 hp and we also wanted the car equipped with a sequential gearbox.’

Nevertheless, the latest models now have a six year old. “That’s right and therefore we’re also working on the development of a new model. The intention is that in 2018 to present.’ And Start for the street? “That’s in the past have tried, by Saker himself, and also by Isis, but a Saker is really designed as a racing car and therefore, it is very difficult to get ‘m on the plates. There must be all of a sudden a hand brake, the lights should be at a certain height, and so on. It can all be through a detour, and through loopholes in the law, but that is a gray twilight zone where you don’t want to sit. We examine it for the model in 2018 to appear, because it is a bucketlist-thingy for us.”

Maybe you think already from the first lines of this article: “who is that Johan Crane, anyway?” That can, of course, but he is no stranger in the motorsports. His company, Johan Crane Motorsports rental racing cars, but you can also go for preparation, maintenance and circuitservice for your own race car. He can also transport from and to the circuit of your car care at trackdays; useful if you have a Ferrari and you’re in the mood to take on the Nürburgring or on the Ascari circuit to drive, for example. Just before he Saker took over, he was already in the news, when Kia, an enthusiastic press release sent about the Kia Picanto Cup. How is it there? Crane: “The delivery of the cars was delayed, so the time was our biggest enemy.’ It sounded almost too good to be true: a year in racing for an amount of less than eur 20,000 (excluding VAT). Dromerij? Apparently not. Crane: “Because the Kia’s were too late for this season to be able to race, we have for 2016 a one way ticket will Cup up. An official Dutch championship for a season, approximately 12,500 euros, exclusive of VAT costs. Then you rent the car, but you have the whole season the same car.” It sounds like a bargain, especially when you know that circuits will not be free, but we suspect that Crane knows what he is doing; he has already quite some experience in the PTC Cup, which Aygo’s record against C1’s and 107’s. However, do not think he only experience with boodschappenautootjes: itself, we learned how to Faucet to know when he with a truck full of Ferrari’s at Ascari was…