Vintage Racing Club of BC

The Spirit of Westwood Lives On!

October 16, 2015

Gunter Pichler ('64 XKE) passes Ivan Lessner ('58 Austin Healey 100-6 BNG) on the inside with Ian Wood ('69 Volvo 142S) close on his tail. - Brent Martin photo

Gunter Pichler (’64 XKE) passes Ivan Lessner (’58 Austin Healey 100-6 BNG) on the inside with Ian Wood (’69 Volvo 142S) close on his tail. – Brent Martin photo

Posted: October 16, 2015

Sunday October 11th saw the final Vintage racing of the 2015 season at Mission Raceway’s Road Course during the Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC) Turkey Triple Weekend. The Vintage – related results are now posted on this web site under the Race Results menu (here). The full results for all of the weekend racing are available on the Results page of the SCCBC web site (here). As always, our thanks to the SCCBC Timing & Scoring team for making this information available to us.

Brent Martin has again provided us with some photos (see below). Thanks Brent. You can find his full portfolio for the Turkey Triple Weekend plus a lot of other motorsport action on his own website (here). And remember, Brent is donating 50% of the revenue from the sale of photos from his web site during October to the E-Crew Firesuit Fund (here).

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September 15, 2015

Dennis Repel hustles his Heavy Chevy to the GVMPS Induction Ceremony in Cloverdale. - Brent Martin photo

Dennis Repel hustles his ‘Heavy Chevy’ Vintage Camaro to the GVMPS Induction Ceremony in Cloverdale. – Brent Martin photo

Updated: September 20, 2015

The Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneers Society (GVMPS) held it’s annual Induction Ceremony on Saturday, September 19 at their usual location, Shannon Hall in the Cloverdale Fairgrounds.

One of this year’s inductees in the Sports Car and Road Racing category was the VRCBC’s very own former Vice President and current Competition Director, Dennis Repel. Congratulations Dennis!

September 15, 2015

Ready to go!! The BEL Racing Team with their Honda S2000 in St. John's. L to R: Len Swanson, Alan McColl, Brad Law, Chris Lewoniuk and Doug Floer. - BEL Racing photo

Ready to go!! The BEL Racing Team with their Honda S2000 in St. John’s before the start. L to R: Len Swanson, Alan McColl, Brad Law, Chris Lewoniuk and Doug Floer. – BEL Racing photo

Posted: September 15, 2015

VRCBC members Alan McColl and Doug Floer have parked their Vintage Formula Fords for a week to go to the other side of the country and compete in the famous annual Targa Newfoundland with the BEL Racing team. (Team leader Brad Law is also a regular Formula Ford runner at Mission Raceway but isn’t a VRCBC member … yet.)

The Targa is a unique motorsports event in North America. It is on many enthusiast’s ‘bucket list’; not just because of the opportunity to drive fast on ‘The Rock’s’ challenging closed public roads but also because of the legendary hospitality of Newfoundlanders. The 2015 Targa started on Sunday, September 13 and will end on Friday, September 18.

BEL Racing is entered in the fastest ‘Targa’ class; they are aiming for an outright win. You can pretend you are right there by following the team’s exploits on their Facebook site (here). They are continually updating it with photos and on-board videos.

Good luck guys and watch out for the rocks and the moose!

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August 20, 2015

Collin Jackson in his beautifully restored 1973 Brabham BT40 is just one of the fast, classic racing cars that will be competing at the BC Historic Motor Races this weekend. - Brent Martin photo

Collin Jackson’s beautifully restored 1973 Brabham BT40 was just one of the fast, classic racing cars that competed at the BC Historic Motor Races this past weekend. – Brent Martin photo

Updated: September 2, 2015

The 2015 BC Historic Motor Races are now history! The 28th running of this annual VRCBC event was again held at the Mission Raceway Park Road Course over the Saturday, August 22nd – Sunday, August 23rd weekend. A big thank you from the VRCBC to all of our sponsors, fans and supporters, and of course, the entrants.

Update: The BCHMR’s own web site (here) now has the full results for the weekend.

We have received hundreds of photos from many photographers. (Thank you!) A lot of them will eventually be posted on the BCHMR web site but in the meantime, check them out on the VRCBC Facebook Group (here) and the BCHMR Facebook page (here).

August 6, 2015

John Elliott and his classic British Racing Green 1969 MGB are just one of the combos entered in this weekend's Vintage races at Mission Raceway Road Course. - Brent Martin photo

John Elliott and his classic British Racing Green 1969 MGB were just one of the entries in the August 9th Vintage races at Mission Raceway Road Course. – Brent Martin photo

Posted: August 10, 2015

The August 8th – 9th weekend saw the fourth CACC-sanctioned, SCCBC-organized race event – “Hot Summer Days” – of the season at Mission Raceway Park Road Course. As usual, the Vintage racing took place on the Sunday only but there was lots of action on both days in all classes, including Open Wheel racing cars and Sports Racers, and modified production Closed Wheel sedans and sports cars. There are many tight championship points battles across all of the classes, so the action was intense!

The full weekend Race Results are available on the SCCBC web site (here). The Sunday results for both Open Wheel / Sports Racer (which includes Vintage formula cars and sports racers) and Vintage Closed Wheel are also available on this web site (here).