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<\/a><\/p>\nIt is 2002, Marck just bought a 1969 Dodge 440 six-pack Super Bee and took it for the first time to the airfield of Drachten in the North East of The Netherlands. He, and what later became the Voodoo Hemi Racing Team, went there with a friend to experience some races. After spending a whole weekend alongside the track, they loved it so much that they went home with the idea to start racing with the Super Bee that Marck just bought! Over the winter of 2002, they prepared the car and began competing in 2003 in the street machine class (12.1 sec at 112 miles per hour).<\/p>\n
In the following years, Marck and the team continued to race several sportsmen classes at the airfield in Drachten. One day, they decided that it is time for more speed and more adrenaline! He was doing a complete restoration on a 1970 Plymouth Road Runner (body off) at that time but changed the plans to a drag car. He lowered a 1200 horsepower 636 Hemi engine in the Plymouth and ran 10.90 seconds in Super street. And before they even knew it, they were running 8.90 seconds (at 156 miles per hour) in Super comp. It was a stunning performance for such a heavy car. The team went in 2006 for the first time abroad to compete within Super Comp at Santa Pod Raceway (UK). It was a whole new adventure. One particular category caught their attention at Santa Pod; Pro Modified! They enjoyed watching pro mod door slammers going down the track, and from that moment, they knew that one day it would be them competing in Pro Modified. But they quickly realized that this class is at this stage too high on the ladder and it comes with serious cash flows and time.<\/p>\n [gard]<\/p>\n Marck and the Voodoo Hemi Racing team continued their adventure with the Roadrunner until 2008\/2009, where they decided that it is time to step up their game. Marck had an original Super bird and decided to use this model as their race car body. Marck ordered a 1969 Roadrunner fiberglass body and brought it to Chassis Engineering to put the chassis under the body. The original roof height was lowered by 2 inches, and they made the molds for the doors and front-nose to transform it into a 1970 Super bird. One-piece at the time, they assembled the car and put the 1200 HP 636 Hemi in it to race\u00a0 Super Pro ET for a few years with low 8 seconds.<\/p>\n At the same time, he builds the Little Green Wagon. An exact copy of the Little Red Wagon that Marck saw in the Don Garlits Museum in Florida (Bill Maverick\u2019s wheel stander). Marck raced his Little Green Wheelstander for 2 years in Drachten, step by step a little higher, but unfortunately, he crashed in 2009. Marck just walked away with minor injuries, but the Little Green Wagon suffered severe damage. The wagon is nowadays standing in Marck\u2019s backyard.<\/p>\n In 2014, he sold the 636 Hemi and trans, and bought a Keith Black Blown Hemi and a Lenco Transmission to race Super Pro ET in 2015 and went directly in the high 6 seconds. In 2016, Marck and the team were finally ready for their ultimate goal of racing Pro Modified. Marck sold the KB and bought a BAE with a lot of know-how from Pro-Dutch Racing, it came with a steep learning curve and a lot of headaches. They had a good start in 2016, but the car was still 300 Kg too heavy! After putting the car on a diet and removing 225 kilos, the car\u2019s performance improved significantly and went faster and faster, and finally, it went into the low 6-second zone. To finish as runner-up in the FIA \u00a0final in Hockenheim with a 6.12 seconds.<\/p>\n Halfway through the 2016 season, Marck managed to buy a rolling chassis, the Dodge Daytona (ex Pete Farber car), out of Denmark. The previous owner had it sitting in the garage for two years. Marck and the team transformed it into a Superbird. After making some improvements to the engine and transmission, they debuted the current Superbird in 2017. Marck and the team continued to improve themselves over the years, reaching the 5-second mark, and won the English Pro Mod championship in 2019. Of course, I couldn’t resist asking him a series of detailed question;<\/p>\n Why did you want to race Pro Modified? In which he replies, “I started at the bottom and climbed the ladder to Pro Modified.<\/em>“<\/span>\u00a0We always enjoyed Pro Modified races. We always dreamed about it. So you understand that it was always in the planning, but it just costs time and a lot of cash!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n