His Pro Dutch Racing team took their time to look at all options, but now the car is heading for the States to be repaired by Alan Pittman Race Cars. When everything is ready, the team will travel to America too and the Camaro will undergo an extensive test program.  

After three races Robert Joosten was the number four in the 2012 FIA European Pro Modified Championship. With high expectations Pro Dutch Racing went to Hockenheim for the start of the second part of the season. As everybody knows right now, the German track was very slippery and the Dutchman was the most important victim of it. In the burn out for the first qualification run the Pro Dutch Racing Camaro went a bit sideways and although Joosten lifted the throttle and tried to steer back into the groove, the car slid to the other side of the track with the front end into the wall. With the last two races within four weeks after Hockenheim, the crash made an early end to Pro Dutch Racing’s 2012 season.

Robert Joosten - here with Speedgroups Åsa Kinnemar in Hockenheim.

After considering all options, the ’70 Camaro is on its way to the States now and accompanied by the truck-trailer and all Pro Dutch racing-equipment. It will arrive December 22 and go to Alan Pittman Race Cars. There the damaged front end of the chassis and the body will be repaired. Although the team already checked the car completely, Pittman will do it all over again and the Pro Dutch Camaro will get the latest updates. Alan Pittman Race Cars is one of the smaller chassis builders, well known for the cars they built for Mel Bush. Pittman himself still races in the ADRL and won a championship in 2012. When Pittman is ready, the Camaro will go to Troy Critchley. His shop will be the home base for the team when they travel to the States as well.

Early 2013 the Pro Dutch Racing Camaro will undergo an extensive test program in the States. Not until all set-up options are extensively tested, the truck, trailer and race car will come back to Europe for the first race of the 2013 FIA European Championship, the Main Event at Santa Pod.