Datsun 510 Tag

04 Apr

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[caption id="attachment_12606" align="aligncenter" width="450"] This doesn't happen very often! VRCBC VP Paul Haym leading the pack in his indomitable '69 Datsun 510. - Brent Martin photo[/caption] Posted: April 5, 2017

The 2017 race season at Mission Raceway Park Road Course has begun! The first Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC) event, sanctioned by the CACC, was held over the April 1-2 weekend. As usual, our Vintage REVS series races were on the Sunday, when the weather covered the full spectrum from hail, through heavy rain to sunshine! Welcome to BC in the springtime.

The complete results for all of the weekend’s racing are available on the SCCBC website (here). The Vintage Closed Wheel and the Open Wheel / Sports Racer (which includes our VRCBC racers) results are available in PDF under the 2017 Season menu on this web site (here).

Check out some of Brent Martin’s photos of the Vintage action below. Brent has many more motorsport photos on his web site (here).

The next race event is coming up quickly on the April 29-30 weekend, with Vintage races on the Sunday as usual. See you at the track!

16 Oct

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[caption id="attachment_11157" align="aligncenter" width="450"]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[/caption] 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).

22 Jul

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[caption id="attachment_10941" align="aligncenter" width="450"]Coming right at you! VRCBC Vice President Paul Haym in his classic 1969 Datsun 510 - Brent Martin photo Coming right at you! VRCBC Vice President Paul Haym in his classic 1969 Datsun 510 - Brent Martin photo[/caption] Updated: July 24, 2015

July 18-19 was another hot weekend in the Fraser Valley for the Sports Car Club of BC's Run for the House charity event for Ronald MacDonald House. The VRCBC ran their third REVS races of the season on the Sunday. The results are available on the SCCBC website (here) and are also posted on the 2015 Season Results page of this website (here).

As always, thanks to Brent Martin for providing us with the photos of the Vintage racing below. Many more of his photos of all of the weekend action - including the Charity rides - will be available on his web site (here) soon.

29 Jun

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[caption id="attachment_10842" align="aligncenter" width="450"]Roger van der Marel exiting Turn 9 in his beautiful 1967 Alfa Romeo GTV. - Brent Martin photo Roger van der Marel exiting Mission's Turn 9 in his beautiful 1967 Alfa Romeo GTV during the REVS races on June 28th. - Brent Martin photo[/caption] Updated: June 30, 2015

The weather was almost too perfect for the SCCBC's June Bug Race Weekend at the Mission Raceway Park Road Course. It was warm!

There was a good turn out of Vintage racers for the VRCBC REVS races. A real highlight was the appearance of Collin Jackson's beautifully restored and very fast 1973 Brabham BT40, a well-known Formula Atlantic competitor from the past.

The Vintage Closed Wheel and the Open Wheel / Sports Racer results for the Sunday are available on this web site (here). The complete results for the weekend are available on the Race Results page on the SCCBC web site (here).

Brent Martin has again provided us with some great photos - see below. He has also posted many more photos of the weekend's action on his web site (here).

07 Oct

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[caption id="attachment_3814" align="aligncenter" width="450"]1969 Ford Escort TC - John McCoy - Ioannou photo 1969 Ford Escort TC - John McCoy - Tony Ioannou photo[/caption] Updated: October 17, 2014 Gerry Frechette has posted some (97!) excellent action photos on his web site (here). Some of the VRCBC's finest took to the track for the final time this season during the SCCBC's 'Double Double Weekend' on October 11th and 12th at Mission Raceway Park Road Course. The results are available on the '2014 Season Results' page (here). John McCoy in his 'two-wheeling' Escort Twin Cam and Phil Roney in his TVR took first and second places respectively in both races; with less than a second between them. Dennis Repel took third in the first race with his Camaro and Ian Thomas in his BMW took the final podium spot in the second race. John has posted a short in-car video of the last few laps of his winning drive in the second race on You Tube (here). It is easy to tell that the track is still slippery. In the middle of all that were another BMW (Leigh Anderson), Gunter Pichler's XKE, the Datsuns (Paul Haym and Phil Linzey), the Porsches (Michael Hawthorne and Frank Chynoransky), the Volvos (Ian Wood and Peter Valkenburg), Ivan Lessner's 'Big Healey' and the MGBs (John Elliott and Al Reid). Over in the Open Wheel group, the always fast Alan McColl in his Formula Ford Tiga, VRCBC president Tedd McHenry in his Formula 4 Xpit and veteran Tom Sproule in his Formula Vee carried the Vintage flag. Unfortunately, Gayle Baird was unable to start either race after having some mechanical issues with her Vee on Saturday. Photos of some of the entrants below: