[caption id="attachment_7457" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Mark Brown 'three-wheeling' through Turn 9 on September 23rd - Mike Stanway photo[/caption] Thanks to some clever camera work by Mike Stanway, we now finally know why Mark Brown is so fast in that dang Lotus Seven of his - he only...
[caption id="attachment_7494" align="aligncenter" width="451"] Race 1 - 'Which way did he go?' - Mark Brown photo[/caption] The other stories described Dennis Repel's very 'interesting' day at Mission during the Volunteer Memorial Weekend. In Race 1, he made lots of smoke (as in tire) while dealing with a sticking throttle...
Dennis Repel (Chevy Camaro) lays down a smoke screen in Mission's Turn 2 in an (unsuccessful) attempt to confuse second place Mark Brown (Lotus Seven S3) - Michael Stanway photo[/caption]
Dennis Repel was leading the first race on September 23rd when his throttle stuck open entering Turn 2. Mike Stanway captured the moment as Dennis laid on the anchors big time while a startled Mark Brown, who was right behind, tried to figure out what to do. Mark said later: "My instincts told me to steer towards the air without tire smoke and it seemed to work."
With judicious use of the kill switch through the rest of the race, Dennis was able to recover back to second place. In the subsequent laps, it was Phil Roney who got to watch the display. (See the other photos below.) Great photos Mike; thanks.
[caption id="attachment_7154" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Mark Brown and his Lotus Seven - Paul Bonner photo"][/caption] Have you ever wanted to be a an old-time riding mechanic, looking both forwards and backwards while your driver threw the racing car around the bends and pounded down the straights? Well, here is...
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Updated: May 23, 2012
The 27th edition of the All British Field Meet (ABFM) - 'The Greatest Show on British Wheels' - was held on Saturday, May 19th at Vancouver's Van Dusen Gardens. The weather was perfect and all of the cars looked great. The VRCBC display was in its traditional location, right inside the main entrance, greeting the very large crowd of visitors as they entered Memory Lane.
The VRCBC was very well represented by Mark Brown's two time REVS Champion Lotus Seven, Al Harvey's MGB, Al Reid's MGB, Ralph Zbarsky's MGB GT, Nick Woodhouse's Austin Healey, Ivan Lessner's multiple REVS Champion Austin Healey, and John McCoy's Lotus Cortina. There was a great deal of interest in the cars and in Vintage racing at Mission Raceway Park Road Course.
Update: The winners of the many awards and prizes are now posted on the Western Driver / ABFM website (here) soon. Our congratulations to VRCBC racers, John McCoy and Nick Woodhouse who took first and third places respectively in the Race Cars category.
The following few photos give you some idea of what was a very enjoyable day.