Vintage Racing Club of BC

The Spirit of Westwood Lives On!

September 16, 2012

Updated – October 1, 2012

The Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneers Society (GVMPS) held its 2012 Induction Ceremony, on the evening of Saturday, September 22nd. The three inductees in the Sports Car Racing category – Tom Johnston, Ian Wood and Roger Salomon – are VRCBC members. Adrian Ratcliff, one of the founders of the VRCBC and a former racer, but probably better known these days as one of our merry group of BCHMR race commentators, was inducted into the new Collector Car and Restoration category.

The long term contribution of each of these four gentlemen to motorsports in this region is very well known. Our congratulations on this well-deserved recognition.

The keynote speaker for the evening was Nigel Matthews, classic car columnist with the Vancouver Province newspaper, an internationally recognized Concours d’Elegance judge and the Marketing Manager for Hagerty Classic Car Insurance in Canada.

All of the information on the event is available in the press release (here) as well as on the GVMPS web site (here). Click on ‘Annual Event’.

Gerry Frechette has published his photos of the Induction Ceremony on his website: http://gerryfrechette.zenfolio.com/ (Click on the ‘Recent’ tab, and look for the ‘Greater Vancouver Motorsport Pioneers’ album.)

 

 

August 10, 2012

Jim Robinson’s Bugatti T51 was a BCHMR favourite with everyone. – Brent Martin photo

For the last while, the members of the VRCBC have been focused on the 25th running of the British Columbia Historic Motor Races (BCHMR), which were held at Mission Raceway Park Road Course over the August 4th-5th weekend.

The 2012 BCHMR has it own web site: www.bchmr.ca (or just click here). In addition to all of the pre-event information, that site is where you can now find all of race results and photos.

 

July 6, 2012

Pace Lap for the first race – Brent Martin photo

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.

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July 4, 2012

‘The π Man’ (aka Pierce Isaacs) leads Tim Pickstone. – Jim Moody photo

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.)

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May 29, 2012

Some of the grid gets set for the first Session on Saturday- VRCBC photo

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.

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