Racing Related

06 Jul

Posted at 08:00h in REVS by
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[caption id="attachment_7249" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Pace Lap for the first race - Brent Martin photo[/caption]

The VRCBC's third set of REVS races of the 2012 season took place on the Sunday of the SCCBC's 'Long Time Running' Weekend on June 23rd and 24th. The Vintage racers consider themselves lucky to have avoided the dramatic weather conditions on the Saturday. It flooded, it rained, a thunderstorm passed overhead, and the wind blew bits of cottonwood trees all over the back stretch. Never mind the power outages!

Update - July 6th: The just- released SCCBC July Pit Pass has some excellent photos and stories about the 'wild and woolly Saturday'. You can find it on the SCCBC website (here) - click on the News - Pit Pass button and look for 2012.

Sunday's weather on the other hand, was perfect and the VRCBC gang enjoyed themselves - except for reigning REVS champion Mark Brown who had a rare DNF with a broken 'halfshaft'. The results are now posted on the SCCBC web site (here) or you can go directly to our 2012 Season Results page (here).

Next up is the BC Historic Motor Races (BCHMR) on August 4th and 5th featuring not only the usual set of exciting Vintage races but also two special features for this year, the Third Annual International Formula Vee Challenge and the Childrens' Charity Grand Prix. All this on only one weekend! Check it out at www.bchmr.ca

Thanks to Brent Martin for providing us with some of his photos of the on-track action.  (see below) You can see all of his photos from the weekend on his site (here) - Just look for  the 'Vintage Group' album.

Update - July 9th: Brent's photos have also been posted on the autocourse.ca web site (here). Look for the VRCBC logo and the 'Long Time Running Weekend' link.

04 Jul

Posted at 16:29h in Non-VRCBC News & Events, Racing Related, SOVREN by
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[caption id="attachment_7291" align="aligncenter" width="480"] 'The π Man' (aka Pierce Isaacs) leads Tim Pickstone. - Jim Moody photo[/caption]

Several of the VRCBC's racers attended SOVREN's Pacific Northwest Historics event at Pacific Raceways over the July long weekend. Thanks to Jim Moody, we have some photos of 'our heroes' taking maximum advantage of some additional on-track warm up time before the BC Historic Motor Races that will be held over the August 4th-5th weekend at Mission Raceway Park Road Course. You can find more info on the BCHMR here and you can check out Jim's photos below. (Thanks Jim.)

29 May

Posted at 10:21h in Racing Related, REVS by
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[caption id="attachment_6873" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Some of the grid gets set for the first Session on Saturday- VRCBC photo"][/caption] Updated: May 29, 2012 The weather was perfect for the Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC)  'Mother's Day Special' Race Weekend on May 12th and 13th.  The VRCBC racers did their part to honour all mothers with their special 'Double - Double' - holding two races on each of the Saturday and Sunday. Not all of the cars (or drivers!) managed to complete both days, but there was some excellent battles throughout the field in all four events. The results are posted on the SCCBC web site (here - click on 'Race Results') or they can be viewed directly here. Photo Updates: A big thank you to these photographers for making their photos available to us.

Brent Martin has posted his photos here. He has also posted them to autocourse, the well-known, eastern Canadian motorsports website. (Just click here and look for the VRCBC logo.) You can check out all of Brent's photo albums at his web site: http://www.martinsactionphotography.smugmug.com/

Gerry Frechette has posted photos of all of the Mother's Day Weekend activities on his web site (here). Click here for his Vintage photos. Paul Bonner's photos of the Vintage races are now included in the gallery below. See the Links page (here) to contact Paul.

24 May

Posted at 10:48h in REVS by
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[caption id="attachment_7154" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Mark Brown and his Lotus Seven - Paul Bonner photo"][/caption] Have you ever wanted to be a an old-time riding mechanic, looking both forwards and backwards while your driver threw the racing car around the bends and pounded down the straights? Well, here is...