Vintage Tag

09 Oct

Posted at 15:49h in Racing Related, REVS by
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[caption id="attachment_7605" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Double Race Winner Geoff Tupholme takes the Chequer - Brent Martin photo[/caption]

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.

27 Sep

Posted at 18:53h in Racing Related, REVS by
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[caption id="attachment_7471" align="aligncenter" width="450"] 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.