Vintage Racing Club of BC

The Spirit of Westwood Lives On!

October 15, 2012

Editor in Chief Tom Johnston has just published the Autumn 2012 edition of Vantage – the VRCBC Newsletter. This time, Robin Fairservice tells the story of Elva Cars, which started as a very small specialist builder in the mid – 1950’s and eventually went on to build the excellent Courier and many successful sports racers. Mike Tate talks about meeting our special guest, Walter Wolf at the BCHMR. Tom Johnston tells the story of Port Moody’s IOCO Hill Climb. There are also two ‘you were there’ race reports: Tom describes his experience with his JM3 Formula Atlantic car at the ‘Monterey Historics’ in August and Madeline Wood describes her dad (Ian’s) weekend, which included a black flag(!) at the CSRG Charity Challenge at Sonoma Raceway in October.

You can find this edition and all of the previous Vantages under the About VRCBC menu, or download it directly by clicking here.

October 12, 2012

PI leads the grid to the Starter. – Jock Hobson photo

Veteran VRCBC MGB chauffer Pierce Isaacs – a.k.a. PI – was on the Pole for the second REVS Vintage race on October 6th. Just like all of his other fellow pole-sitters (i.e., the Vettels, Hamiltons and Alonsos of the racing world), Pierce was called upon to autograph countless (well, … maybe eight) photos for his sponsors and Fan Club (well, … maybe other team members and hangers-on). It can be tough at the top sometimes but Pierce came through like a champ.

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October 12, 2012

Smoke Screens ‘R Us – Jock Hobson photo

Everyone is familiar with the ‘Where’s Waldo?’ series of books for children. Well, this is the Vintage Racing Club’s adaption: ‘Where’s the Lotus Seven?’ Somewhere hidden in the smoke screen in the above photo are Mark Brown and his Lotus. (See the post below for all the action from an on-board video perspective.) It is understood that the first prize for finding Mark in all that smoke will be a slightly used fragment of a (previously) high performance Camaro connecting rod, generously donated by Heavy Chevy Enterprises  – Dennis Repel, prop.

Thanks to Quizmaster Jock Hobson for the photo.

October 10, 2012

Updated: October 16, 2012

The Pacific Forest Rally is over for another year.

The final results are available on the Canadian Rally Championship web site (here).

It’s that time of year again. Those ‘Gravel Road Racers’ – otherwise known as the Special Stage Rallyists – were back in town. This year’s edition of the Pacific Forest Rally hit the roads around Merritt on October 12th and 13th for the fifth round of the 2012 Canadian Rally Championship. There is only one event left after the Pacific Forest, so all of the teams were pushing really hard, including our local hero, Pat Richard of Squamish who drives for the national Subaru team.

You can download the event program here and the post-event report on the Western Driver web site (here).

We know it’s hard to believe but some folks actually think special stage rallying is almost as exciting as Vintage racing!

 

October 9, 2012

Double Race Winner Geoff Tupholme takes the Chequer – Brent Martin photo

Updated: October 12, 2012

The VRCBC’s Finest were in Fantastic Form during the SCCBC’s Flying Feathers Weekend on Saturday, October 6th. There were lots of entertaining battles throughout the field in both of the races. The weather was perfect and it was a great way to celebrate Thanksgiving and to finish off another great season of Vintage road racing at Mission Raceway Park Road Course.

The final results are available on the SCCBC web site (www.sccbc.net ) or just click here.

Thanks again to Brent Martin for providing (most of) the photos below.

Update: All of Brent’s photographs are now posted on his web site (here). Look for the ‘Mission Raceway (Vintage Group) Oct.6, 2012’ album.

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