Zandvoort Masters 1999:

The Libertel Dutch Touring Car Championship

Marcel Alderden paid dearly for his obstructive driving: in one of the last laps Euser pushed him out of the way and Alderden only managed to finish in 16th place.

By pushing Alderden out of the way Cor Euser finished in 2nd place, a great and in my opinion well deserved result. But then the Renault team protested and the men in suits (BoBos as they're called in Holland) decided to disqualify poor Euser.
Euser was taken out of the overall classification and obtained no championship points in this race. But Euser retaliated in the way he always does: by winning the championship in the following races...

Toon van de Haterd drove well in his first race of the season but stressed the brand new Honda engine too much until it gave up on him.

Gentleman driver Kalff took full advantage of all the mayhem around him. He drove a clean and strategic race as always and after the demise of Van de Haterd, the off-track excursion of Coronel and the disqualification of Euser he ultimately ended up in second place.
Kalff is one of the few drivers in this class with driving skills up to an international standard. Nowadays he's best known as a sports commentator on both Dutch TV and Eurosport (Dutch as well as English) and he's close friends with F 1 ace Johnny Herbert. Some years back he won championship titles in European Formula Ford 1600 and Opel Lotus series, but lack of money (and probably motivation) kept him from breaking through to higher ranked classes.

Rob Karst is not as distinguished as Kalff but drove an impeccable race. He took the lead from the start and didn't make mistakes. This paid off in the end, he won this DTCC race with a 4 second gap to Euser and 8 seconds to Kalff. It took him 33 minutes and 11 seconds to complete the 16 laps, averaging a speed of 124.379 kph. Unfortunately his Integra didn't prove as reliable in the following races.

Donald Molenaar took 3rd place with his Renault Mégane Coupé in this tumultuous and somewhat dissatisfying race. The spectators looking for accidents and sensational driving were well served; the ones looking for good and proper racing had a hard time taking this race serious. If anyone had to be disqualified it should have been Pim van Riet who collided with almost everything on the track. And Alderden was almost as much to blame for Euser pushing him off the track as Euser himself. No, it wasn't a very good day for the Renault DTCC team at all....

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