Vintage Racing Club of BC

The Spirit of Westwood Lives On!

March 14, 2013

IMG_3056VRCBC members and guests gathered at TBC Indoor Kart Racing in Richmond on Tuesday, March 12th for the Third Annual VRCBC One Hour Enduro. There was some great racing throughout, with just enough ”bump drafting” to entertain the ‘hundreds of screaming’ (well, maybe not) fans.

After a full hour of racing, Team Tiger (Doug Yip, Trevor Yip and Steve Hodge) had completed 106 laps, taking first place by 2 laps from Big Bull Racing (Keith Robinson, Paul Higgins and Ian Wood). The battle for third place was really intense with Team CPR – not the Railroad (Gunter Pichler, Greg Campbell and Phil Roney) only beating Team Turn Worker (Roger Salmonon, Thomas Leisner and Angus Glass) by 16 seconds. They in turn only held onto fourth place by one (!) second from Team Zoom Zoom (Al Harvey, Brian Harvey and Rod Davison). The complete results are here.

And special congratulations to the drivers with the two fastest laps; Trevor Yip (at 30.330 seconds) and Roger Salomon (at 30.781 seconds). Trevor is a kart racer who switched to Formula Vee last season. Roger began as an Assistant Starter at Westwood in 1969 and has been contributing his time and expertise as a race official ever since. It is very fitting that he showed all of the ‘regular racers’ how to turn a fast lap!

Apologies for the poor quality of the photos below; the photographer was overcome with excitement!

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March 14, 2013

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And they’re off!! Frank Winterlik (1971 Porsche 911) and John McCoy (1969 Ford Escort Twin Cam) – Paul Bonner photo

The full schedule for the VRCBC Vintage races at Mission Raceway Road Course during 2013 is now available on the 2103 Race Schedules page under the Calendar menu. (here)

January 24, 2013

Long time 'Big Healey' racer, Ivan Lessner (L) is charged by Stanton Guy with the custodial responsibility for the Austin Healey Owners Club of Victoria (Australia) car badge donated to the VRCBC by Les Mathieson at the 2012 BCHMR. Ivan is also 'modelling' a 2012 Sandown Historics T-Shirt from Les. - VRCBC photo

Long time ‘Big Healey’ racer, Ivan Lessner (L) is charged by Stanton Guy with the custodial responsibility for the Austin Healey Owners Club of Victoria (Australia) car badge donated to the VRCBC by Les Mathieson at the 2012 BCHMR. Ivan is also ‘modeling’ a 2012 Sandown Historics T-Shirt from Les. – VRCBC photo

The VRCBC had some special visitors at our 2012 BC Historic Motor Races. Les Mathieson and his wife Zonda, Austin Healey enthusiasts from Victoria, Australia dropped by to cheer on our ‘Big Healey’ racers. They also presented the Club with an Austin Healey Owners Club of Victoria car badge. (Of course, they received a VRCBC car badge in exchange.)

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November 26, 2012

2013 REVS Champion, Paul Haym – Gerry Frechette photo

This year’s Annual Gala & Banquet was another great success with the usual potpourri of excellent food, ‘speeches’, serious (and not-so-serious) year-end awards, door prizes and dancing. Congratulations to Paul Haym, this year’s REVS Champ and to all of the other award recipients. We look forward to seeing everybody at the track in 2013.

A sampling of Gerry Frechette’s photos of the evening are shown below. You can check out all 150 of them at Gerry’s web site (here). Just click on the ‘Recent’ tab and look for the ‘VRCBC Awards Banquet’ album. Thanks Gerry and Sue.

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November 22, 2012

The VRCBC Vantage (2007 – 2012) Anthology is available in both hard cover (L) and soft cover (R) versions – T. Johnston photo

Just in time for your letters to Santa, Editor Tom Johnston has compiled an anthology of the seventeen (17!) VRCBC Vantage Newsletters from Summer 2007 to Autumn 2012. There are two versions; a soft cover version in black and white and a hard cover version in full colour.  Getting a copy couldn’t be easier. Go to the Vantage Newsletters page under the About VRCBC menu – or just click here – for the details.