I’m sure it is going to be a great season but I also know that I have to focus on school in the first half of the year.. My A-levels exams are coming closer, so does the begin of a new life as school will be done shortly. It is not totally done though, my plans after that are to study mechanical engineering informatics. I am still thinking about other solutions but this is mainly my wish.

Unfortunately, I can’t tell you anything about my plannings so far, as it is not fixed yet. I am not rushing in any way though because last year started calm and quite like this as well. Everything is possible, still. So, I don’t see the point why being nervous about actually having nothing but several events with my dad so far. Of course, I hope things will change in the next few weeks but there is nothing I can do about it and I won’t do anything about it. Time will tell!

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Josy

Thanks for all your support during the year! It was an amazing season and I enjoyed and learned a lot. I am really looking forward to 2012, it’s going to be even better, that’s at least the way it looks like at the moment.

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Josy

A few weeks have passing by since my last blog post and things have changed a lot. It’s crazy what can happen in some bits of time! I have now more than one option for next year where I am totally happy about and I have to make a decision in the next few weeks. I am not able to announce anything about it yet but I can tell: It’s going to be a great year 2012. Basically, I will not do a lot of rallying in the first half of the year but my rally season will start on a high, beginning in May. I do not leave out doing my home Rally Grönegau in June (10th) and surely will travel round a lot after that. I am really much looking forward to all that already!

For now, I am still looking back on what I’ve achieved this year and I am still enjoying every single moment I had together with Jan Nijhof. I will let you know about my further plannings as soon as it is fixed.

Best wishes,

Josy

Yeah, the year 2011 was passing by and we have a bit more than a month to go until 2012. I can look back to a very nice rally season with a lot of ups and downs but generally I have learned a lot and this is the moment where I want and have to thank some people.

I can’t really complain about this year’s season.. We had a lot of bad moments but there was also our overall victory in Hengelo where I am still really a bit smiling about as it is my first o/a win. And that with a Dutch driver, isn’t that just crazy? Haha.. I have never thought that before! Anyway, I learned really a lot this year and I am really looking forward to what’s coming next year. I definitely will focus on school in former case but end of April everything will be finished, so that I am more free for rallying. At least for the while I am “on holidays” to shorten time until my studies. I have no real clue yet what I will do next year but I am not afraid though because I had no real plans this year as well and it turned out amazing as well.

In fact, big thanks to Jan Nijhof who upgraded my 2011 season and made one of my dreams come true: To sit in a strong car and next to a great driver in Rally Köln-Ahrweiler and to do a fastest stage time out there. He not only gave me the chance to improve my co-driver skills by learning to read in Dutch, he also showed me his skills where I was really fascinated about already before. We won in Conrad Euregio ShortRally, which is my first overall victory in my career so far and I really enjoyed that day. So, thanks Jan that you made this possible.

Big thanks as well to our mechanics of Reconsales Autosport. You did a perfect job during every single rally and without you we would have never achieved these results, so these are not only our achievements, these are yours as well! Thanks to Ron, who actually builded our “Vicious Vicky”, the new M3 E30 in a record time and with a lot of love, haha. Thanks as well to Rob, Alex and Marten who worked perfectly during Rally Köln-Ahrweiler, and Thijs who was helping during CE ShortRally.

Also, thanks to my Dad Jürgen Beinke and to my uncle Axel Beinke, who always support me when I am rallying. I really appreciate that and it is amazing to have you around during a rally. It’s amazing to know when your family likes and believes in what you are doing. Thanks for that!

And finally, thanks to all our fans who supported us on the stages and to all media people who took great pictures and videos of us to keep this memorable season in mind!

Your Josy!