Supercars Challenge is a Dutch racing series with a number of classes for cars to compete in and for SuperSport-class competitor Eric van den Munckhof, the season may as well have never started. After taking a race win with his BMW Z4 in the season-opener at Belgium’s Zolder circuit, van den Munckhof suddenly found his entire year going to crap in five consecutive rounds. If it weren’t for bad luck, he’d have no luck at all, as they say.
In Round 3, the Dutch driver suffered through a big crash at the top of Spa Francorchamp’s famous Eau Rouge complex, hitting the wet curbing and then spinning into the wall at the high-speed Radillon corner. Back at Zolder for the next round, his BMW’s engine let go. In Round 5 at the Assen TT Circuit, he got punted into the barriers and then clobbered a second time by the car that put him into the Armco. A second engine failure at Snetterton in Britain must have been costly and van den Munckhof finished his season at Spa, where he ran over some dropped oil and smashed into the wall hard enough to injure his hand.
After five consecutive weekends with broken cars, he opted to sit out the final Assen round. “To be honest, I’m getting fed up with all this bad luck,” he says at the end of the video. We can understand that.
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