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Tulpenrallye 2006

The story of 2006: That the Tulpenrallye should start abroad was no longer a matter for discussion. This year Villefranche-sur-Saône was chosen as the starting location, on the Route du Soleil and therefore easy to reach from the Netherlands by motorway. Once again a number of competitors sadly failed to make the start, retiring on the way there. 152 crews reported in at the start hotel. The organisers recognised that sponsorship was becoming ever more important, and for the first time laid on a dinner with the event's sponsors at the start location. Alongside the regular sponsors, the main sponsors, or Partners, were given a little more attention still. For this edition those were the IT services provider Atos Origin and F. van Lanschot Bankiers. As a Partner of the Tulpenrallye, Atos Origin had developed a new system for recording the competitors' passage along the route electronically, and for calculating and publishing the standings during the rally. For this the competitors were issued with control cards containing a chip. At the controls along the route the time of passage was stored on them electronically. At the end of the day these were read into the computer, after which the classification was quickly drawn up. The system made its debut in an international rally on the Tulpenrallye, and it was promising. The first day's route ran from Villefranche-sur-Saône through the Massif Central to St. Flour. At 440 km this was immediately the longest day. The weather gave the competitors a good deal of trouble. It had rained hard all night, there was a fair amount of fog on the first regularity test, and later in the day the crews drove through an enormous hailstorm with hailstones the size of small stones. On the second day the route ran through the ski area on the Col de Peyrol (1,400 metres), but it had to be diverted that morning because a great deal of snow had fallen during the night. As a result a large number of competitors reached the lunch venue very early, but the staff there managed to keep it all running smoothly. That evening the competitors arrived in Limoges, and from there on the Wednesday they drove further west in France, to Blois. Dinner that evening was taken in the magnificent castle in the middle of the town. On the Thursday the route went along the western side of Paris — something that had not often happened on the Tulpenrallye — to Beauvais. On the Friday the crews headed north, and by way of a lunch halt and a regularity test on the fast circuit of Croix-en-Ternois they reached the evening's finish in the Belgian city of Ghent. The final day's route was laid out largely in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen, and included a regularity stage run under a special set of regulations. Among the leading contenders were Eddy van den Hoorn / René Smeets, Bert Dolk / Erwin Berkhof, Ruud Strooper / Ingeborg Guliker, Jos Lommerse / Marleen Hendrikse, Harm Lamberigts / Arthur Denzler and Bart ter Borg / Rutger ter Borg. Over the course of the week a particularly close contest developed, with the opening days of the rally the most demanding of all. Eddy van den Hoorn / Renée Smeets had to retire with a broken dynamo mounting. Dolk and Berkhof built steadily on their leading position through the week, and by the Friday evening they looked reasonably certain of victory. That changed on the Saturday, when they came to a standstill in Zeeland with no idea at all what was wrong with the Alfa. Happily, after 13 minutes the organisers' service crew arrived and got the car running again. Bert Dolk and Erwin Berkhof thus took the 53rd Tulpenrallye. In doing so they achieved something unique, winning the rally three times in a row. Bert Dolk was now the only competitor to have won the Tulpenrallye five times. He had won a modern edition back in 1973, and later another classic edition together with the Belgian Robert Rorife. All week Dolk and Berkhof had been engaged in a close battle with the crews of Jos Lommerse / Marleen Hendrikse and Ruud Strooper / Ingeborg Guliker, who eventually finished second and third. Throughout the week in which the rally was run, the gap between these three crews was never much greater than 100 penalty seconds. Ans Berkelaar / Huib Berkelaar were the winners of the touring class.

Winners

  • SportingBert DolkErwin BerkhofAlfa romeo giulietta sprint ·
  • TouringAns BerkelaarHuib BerkelaarDatsun 2000 sport ·

This edition

Kilometres
2,300
At the start
152
At the finish
128
Start
Villefrance-sur-Saône (F)
Finish
Noordwijk (NL)
Rally director
Abe van den Brink

Final standings: lowest total penalty points wins. Crews that did not finish are listed at the bottom and do not count towards position. Every column is sortable.

123 crews
126Bert DolkNetherlandsErwin BerkhofNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulietta sprint—1
255Jos LommerseNetherlandsMarlen HendrikseNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia 1300—2
3120Ruud StrooperNetherlandsIngeborg GulikerNetherlandsAlfa romeo1750 gtv—3
452Renger GulikerNetherlandsPim ‘t HartNetherlandsFiat1600 s—4
513Jan EbusNetherlandsJan BerkhofNetherlandsMercedes-benz300 sl roadst.—5
615Jan VaandragerNetherlandsKees VaandragerNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 roadster—6
7101Daan ReekersNetherlandsPieter v. KruisdijkNetherlandsMgmgb gt—7
896Cees de JongNetherlandsCees de JongNetherlandsVolvo123 gt—8
914Rinus SinkeNetherlandsBart den HartogNetherlandsAustin-healey100/6 roadster—9
1087Georg BögershausenGermanyHans Werner MullerGermanyNsu1000 tt prinz—10
1145Karel WestermanNetherlandsMartin RoosenboomNetherlandsPorsche356 b—11
1237Rob PetersNetherlandsPeter v. HoofNetherlandsTriumphtr 4—12
13108Berry KruitboschNetherlandsHans BrinkmanNetherlandsVolvo123 gt—13
1439Rob WoudNetherlandsMarion WoudNetherlandsPorsche356 b—14
1579Leendert den HaanNetherlandsInez v.d PollNetherlandsVolvop 1800—15
1678Maries DinauxNetherlandsEric v. StraatenNetherlandsPeugeot404—16
1762Franz ZapfeGermanyAnja BögershausenGermanyMercedes-benz220 se b—17
1841Rob v.d. CampNetherlandsOnno den BoerNetherlandsMaserati3500 gt—18
194Peter PrattUnited KingdomRyan PickeringUnited KingdomTriumphtr 2—19
2060Hans in der MaurNetherlandsBart WillemsNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia sprint gt—20
2132John AlbistonUnited KingdomGraham WatsonUnited KingdomAlfa romeogiulia sprint—21
2221Niels SerryNetherlandsJeroen v.d. HekNetherlandsJaguarxk 150 fhc—22
23102Cees HoogendoornNetherlandsCor VerbruggeNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia 1600 s—23
24112Ron Lopes CardozoNetherlandsBrigitte StekelenburgNetherlandsPorsche911 s—24
2550Henk BaarsNetherlandsWilco BeijerNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk ii—25
2699Stef MooimanNetherlandsEd BijsterNetherlandsBmw1602—26
2716Patrick DiemerGermanyChristian v. ZedlitzGermanyFordthunderbird—27
2854Hans van DalenNetherlandsPeter de MunnikNetherlandsPorsche356 sc coupé—28
29114Peter DutmanNetherlandsJoep GoethartNetherlandsAlfa romeo1750 gtv—29
3048Rolf LieNorwayTom GranliNorwayMgmgb—30
31118Theo VerhoeffNetherlandsMaurits VerhoeffNetherlandsMgmgb gt—31
3225Charles SerryNetherlandsJacqueline SerryNetherlandsJaguarxk 150 fhc—32
3364Michiel HehenkampNetherlandsRon NakkenNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia 1600 s—33
3428Rob MuhringNetherlandsAndré KivitNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 roadster—34
3567Rutger ReindersNetherlandsGerrit ReindersNetherlandsMorrismini cooper s—35
36110Hans BakkersNetherlandsMartijn LevertNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk iii—36
3766Aad LourensNetherlandsPieter den BoefNetherlandsMercedes-benz250 se coupé—37
38105Sijmen VerveerNetherlandsBastiaan StapelNetherlandsFiat850 coupé—38
3990Maarten BosNetherlandsHelma WortelboerNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia sprint gt—39
40111Joris BuijsNetherlandsDavid BuijsNetherlandsPorsche911 targa—40
413Ernst Jan v. KouwenNetherlandsHenco BouwmanNetherlandsAlfa romeo1900 ti—41
425Constant StegerNetherlandsEric StegerNetherlandsJaguarxk 120 dhc—42
4311Bart ter BorgNetherlandsRutger ter BorgNetherlandsJaguarxk 140 fhc—43
4443Bart v. EeuwijkNetherlandsDries NijsenNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk iii—44
4595Frans van BuerenNetherlandsMieke van BuerenNetherlandsVolvop 1800 s—45
4694Pieter BartelseNetherlandsRobert WeitmannNetherlandsMgmgb gt—46
4777Hardy BruinsNetherlandsHugo RepkoNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk iii—47
4884Cliff EnglandUnited KingdomPeter RushforthUnited KingdomAustin-healeysprite mk iii—48
49104Aasmund KleveNorwayJan Egil JenssenNorwayVolvo123 gt—49
5070Arie van ErkelNetherlandsTheo van ErkelNetherlandsPorsche911 coupé—50
5174Simon v.d HedenNetherlandsPerry RijnbeekNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia super—51
5271John TemminkNetherlandsFrank Oude NijhuisNetherlandsPorsche911 s—52
5336Wim v. LieshoutNetherlandsMichiel CapelleNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk ii—53
5488Jake van BeestSwitzerlandThijs van BerckelNetherlandsPorsche911 s—54
5529John TaylorUnited KingdomBill GrangerUnited KingdomRileyone point five—55
5682Gerrit TeerinkNetherlandsPeter JansenNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk iii—56
57122Klaas-Willem v. OmmenNetherlandsRobert MousNetherlandsPorsche911—57
5886Mark MoermanNetherlandsEdward v. DongenNetherlandsAlfa romeogt junior—58
5930Hans OsterholtNetherlandsBen v.d RijstNetherlandsTriumphtr 4—59
6012Wim v.d LagemaatNetherlandsKlazien v.d. LagemaatNetherlandsPeugeot203 c—60
61126Pieter OostdamNetherlandsMike BeukNetherlandsJaguare-type fhc—61
62124Hans LampierNetherlandsEric LampierNetherlandsPorsche911 s targa—62
6392Ruth EttlinSwitzerlandRegine HanscheNetherlandsSimca1000 coupé—63
641Olaf PothovenNetherlandsRob v.d. BergNetherlandsCitroënta 15 cv—64
6573Laurens MoesNetherlandsRonald MoesNetherlandsAustinmini cooper—65
6622Gerard RooksNetherlandsGerard WeckNetherlandsAustin-healey100/6 roadster—66
6798Hans KuijvenhovenNetherlandsPieter KuijvenhovenNetherlandsVolvo123 gt—67
6823Piet JettenNetherlandsDries JettenNetherlandsTriumphtr 3a—68
6958Peter BeukNetherlandsLilian v.d. TogtNetherlandsVolvopv 544 c—69
7061Jan ScholtensNetherlandsCarlijn ScholtensNetherlandsMgmgb—70
7168Paul WijnsBrazilEric DuffhuisNetherlandsTriumph2000 mk i—71
7256Hank MelseNetherlandsNicole MelseNetherlandsPorsche356 sc—72
7381Evert MastenbroekNetherlandsPeter SpruijtNetherlandsLanciaflavia 1.8—73
7438Dieter SiedelGermanyThomas LemkeGermanyTriumphtr 4—74
75117Oscar UhlhornNetherlandsJan JongbloedNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia—75
7640Jan ZwaanNetherlandsHans RoerinkNetherlandsMercedes-benz300 se—76
77113Frans DiepeveenNetherlandsRoel RosbagNetherlandsAustinmini cooper s—77
78115Ernst FreiSwitzerlandEmil SahliSwitzerlandTriumphtr 5 pi—78
7927Leunis de KamNetherlandsRichard de KamNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 roadster—79
8010Horst TrappenGermanyMatti KreutzerGermanyAustin-healey100 bn 2—80
81109Ruud OudmanNetherlandsJacques ArendsNetherlandsAlfa romeo1300 gt junior—81
8291Jasmijn BuijsNetherlandsMarco BuijsNetherlandsJaguare-type fhc serie i—82
8389Just GonggrijpNetherlandsPaul v.d. PuttenNetherlandsVolkswagen1600 tl—83
8459Paul RuysNetherlandsHans LangemeijerNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulietta ti—84
85123Daan HartgersNetherlandsPiet MozesNetherlandsTriumphtr 250—85
8693Wilbert KieboomNetherlandsMegan ElveUnited StatesPorsche912 coupé—86
8733Roderic BunnUnited KingdomAdrian MorrisUnited KingdomMgmga 1600 mk i—87
8824Sijbrand v.d. MastNetherlandsTaco v.d. MastNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulietta spider—88
8918Frank v. DeudekomNetherlandsSven AartsenBelgiumTriumphtr 3—89
9020Uwe QuackGermanyClaudia GrefrathGermanyAustin-healey100/6 bn 4—90
9146Frans de ZoeteNetherlandsJoan v.d. LustgraafNetherlandsAustina 40 farina—91
9242Robert FluttertNetherlandsLaurent FluttertNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia sprint—92
9335Rolf KaufmannSwitzerlandReto SandmeijerSwitzerlandTriumphtr 4—93
94125Martij VerveerNetherlandsHans VerveerNetherlandsFiat124 coupé—94
9547Rob VersteeghNetherlandsTon BisterboschNetherlandsMaserati3500 gti——
9685Albert BoekelNetherlandsJoep WandersNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia 1600 s——
979Jan RijninkNetherlandsClaire RijninkNetherlandsTriumphtr 3——
9857Lisa LankesNetherlandsJacques LimpensNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk iii——
9953Marius HoogendamNetherlandsErik BruênsNetherlandsFordlotus cortina——
1007Leo van GansewinkelNetherlandsAnja LieuwmaNetherlandsJaguarxk 140 dhc——
10151Susanne v. BoldrikNetherlandsBart ToninoNetherlandsBmw700 cabrio——
1022Eric van SandeBelgiumEddy GullyBelgiumVolvopv 444——
103121Harm LamberigtsNetherlandsArthur DenzlerNetherlandsFordescort 1300——
10463Eddy v.d HoornNetherlandsRené SmeetsNetherlandsVolvo122 s——
105107Martin PettittUnited KingdomKen HughesUnited KingdomVolvo133——
10676Jan HaakmanNetherlandsErwin HeenemanNetherlandsFordlotus cortina——
10780Mark HagenziekerNetherlandsRemco HagenziekerNetherlandsJaguare-type——
10897Jordi v.d. HeuvelNetherlandsErik HartmanNetherlandsMgmgb gt——
10975Tim BuijsNetherlandsBastiaan BuijsNetherlandsTriumphtr 4——
11034Frans FrogerNetherlandsMarije FrogerNetherlandsPeugeot404——
111100Daan PetersNetherlandsMaarten PeetersNetherlandsMgmgb gt——
11283Cock GoedegebuurNetherlandsRobert RorifeBelgiumAlfa romeogiulia sprint gt——
11365Bart v.d KloetNetherlandsMiriam v.d. KloetBelgiumAlfa romeogiulia 1600 sprint——
114103Loek de RooijNetherlandsRosita OffingaNetherlandsAustinmini cooper mk i——
11517Flip WentinkNetherlandsErik VeldhuizenNetherlandsSaab93 de luxe——
1166Kees v. DisseldorpNetherlandsEric v. DijenNetherlandsAustina 50 cambridge——
117119Pieter WalravenNetherlandsFrans SmitsNetherlandsLotuselan plus 2——
1188Henk JanusNetherlandsThomas HeikensNetherlandsAston martindb 2/4 mk ii——
11949Michael AxhausenGermanyMonika AxhausenGermanyMorrismini cooper s——
120116Pim JanusNetherlandsFred FrogerNetherlandsMgmgb——
12144Roeland JanusNetherlandsRoland van OortNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk ii——
12231Cor NoorlanderNetherlandsHettie NoorlanderNetherlandsJaguarxk 150 fhc——
12319Frits JanusNetherlandsTon JanusNetherlandsAston martindb 2 mk iii——
41 crews
1173Ans BerkelaarNetherlandsHuib BerkelaarNetherlandsDatsun2000 sport—1
2163Roel KosterNetherlandsGuy DanneelsBelgiumCitroënid 19 b—2
3142Willem KokNetherlandsJudith de HaasNetherlandsAustin-healey100/6 roadster—3
4148Hans v.d WeerdNetherlandsGep SalentijnNetherlandsSaab96—4
5174Paul LangendoenNetherlandsHenny HendriksNetherlandsPorsche912 targa—5
6154Hans ReijnenNetherlandsGerry BouwmansNetherlandsVolvop 1800 s—6
7166Rolf LemaireNetherlandsJoost de JongNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulia 1600 s—7
8160Jan ten CateNetherlandsHarry NijlandNetherlandsAston martindb 5—7
9164Pim Brunet de RochebruneNetherlandsStephanie Brunet de RochebruneNetherlandsJaguare-type dhc—7
10162Gerrit v. HofwegenNetherlandsKirsten v. HofwegenNetherlandsMgmgb—10
11141Bau WinkelNetherlandsRob MeijerNetherlandsFiat1100 e—11
12155Roel BloemNetherlandsInez BloemNetherlandsPorsche356 c—12
13157Ilona GatsmaNetherlandsJaap GatsmaNetherlandsMgmgb—13
14136Ruud WesselinkNetherlandsMiriam WesselinkNetherlandsCitroënta 7 c cabrio—14
15137Fred BromNetherlandsAndrew BromNetherlandsAlfa romeo1900 sprint c—15
16139Hans SchoutenNetherlandsMarcel BekemaNetherlandsLanciaaurelia b 20 s—16
17147Ransom AltmanNetherlandsSimon SuesanNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk ii—17
18152Job v. BreevoortNetherlandsCatelijne v. BreevoortNetherlandsPorsche356 b—18
19171Herman EeklesNetherlandsGordon MachielsenNetherlandsVolvo131—18
20156Armin van EwijkNetherlandsVera van EwijkNetherlandsPorsche911—20
21175Han MachielsenNetherlandsBoudewijn OomkensNetherlandsAlfa romeo1750 gtv—21
22172Ko den HerderNetherlandsAdri de BuckNetherlandsAustinmini cooper s—22
23176Henk KruitNetherlandsJacqueline KruitNetherlandsPorsche912—23
24168Bart AtenNetherlandsTon MeijsNetherlandsPorsche912 targa—24
25140Martin SlagtNetherlandsHenny SweeringNetherlandsAustin-healey100m—25
26167Jeroen LevertNetherlandsMarjolein SutmullerNetherlandsCitroënds 21 cabriolet—26
27153Dick DerksenNetherlandsRonald HofNetherlandsSimcaaronde coupé—27
28151Hans PadbergNetherlandsFernando HampsinkNetherlandsFordtaunus p3—28
29146Stef GoedvriendNetherlandsJoep GoedvriendNetherlandsTriumphtr 3a—29
30144Nico van DordNetherlandsGerard van StijnNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulietta sprint—30
31149Jean Paul VantorreBelgiumAnnie LonckeBelgiumAustin-healey3000 mk ii—31
32161Jon GeertjesNetherlandsErik GarritsenNetherlandsJaguar3.8 s berline—32
33138Heiner HerkenhoffGermanyAnja HerkenhoffGermanyPeugeot203 a—33
34150Bas ‘t JongNetherlandsJoke ‘t JongNetherlandsJaguare-type ots—34
35158Jos van RielNetherlandsTon RijnkelsNetherlandsAustin-healey3000 mk iii—35
36145Frans HeijsteeNetherlandsMichael GoudsmitNetherlandsAlfa romeogiulietta sprint——
37170Jules PekelharingNetherlandsMarcel GeurtsNetherlandsMercede-benz280 sl——
38169Henk OudshoornNetherlandsChristiaan OudshoornNetherlandsVolvo121 s——
39165Theo v.d LaanNetherlandsPieter KastermansNetherlandsAlfa romeosprint gt——
40135Robert Jan v. RheenenNetherlandsRobert BotNetherlandsBentleyspeed six——
41143Willem v.d. MeijdenNetherlandsJaap TruijensNetherlandsJaguarxk 150 fhc——
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From start to finish

  1. Noordwijk
  2. Ghent
  3. Villefranche-sur-Saone
  4. Saint-Flour
  5. Limoges
  6. Blois
  7. Beauvais

The map shows the route from headquarters to headquarters; it is not the route actually driven.

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