[caption id="attachment_11850" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Adrian Ratcliff with his Genie Can Am car, which he had personally restored over several years. - photo courtesy GVMPS[/caption] Updated: June 28, 2016 Sadly, one of the original members of the VRCBC passed away suddenly on June 8th. Adrian Ratcliff had appeared...
Gunter Pichler (1964 Jaguar E-Type) leads Ian Thomas (1970 BMW 2002), Peter Valkenburg (1969 Porsche 911), Ian Wood (1969 Volvo 142S) and the rest into Turn 2. - Brent Martin photo[/caption]
Posted: June 13, 2016
The third CACC-sanctioned race weekend of the 2016 season at Mission Raceway Park Road Course was held on June 11-12. The SCCBC named this the Mission Hospice Charity Weekend, with various fund-raising activities in support of the Hospice. The Vintage REVS races were held as usual, on the Sunday.
The complete results for all of the weekend's racing are available on the SCCBC website (here). The Vintage and the Open Wheel / Sports Racer results are also available in PDF under the 2016 Season menu on this web site (here).
Our next Vintage races will be on the Sunday of the August 6-7 weekend. See you there!
Check out Brent Martin’s photos of the Vintage action below. (Thanks Brent!) His complete gallery of photos from the weekend will be available on his web site (here) soon.
[caption id="attachment_11798" align="aligncenter" width="450"] Jim Latham and his favourite Vintage racing car 'Greta', a 1968 Volvo 122S - VRCBC photo[/caption] Updated: June 13, 2016 The local motorsports world lost a long time member last week when Jim Latham passed away on May 27 after a long battle...
VRCBC member Geoff Tupholme lifts a rear wheel en route to a new personal best and Vintage Class win in his very fast Austin Mini. - Brent Martin photo[/caption]
Posted: June 4, 2016
The May long weekend saw the 59th(!) annual running of the Knox Mountain Hillclimb in Kelowna. Our 'travelling correspondent', Brent Martin has forwarded some of his photos of VRCBC members, old friends of the Club plus some other interesting 'older' racing cars. You can see all of Brent's event photos on his web site here.
The final results are available on the Knox Mountain Hillclimb site (here) or directly here and here.
The scramble begins! Time to grab a seat for a few exploratory laps of the brand new Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit. - VRCBC photo[/caption]
Updated: June 6, 2016
The Club held a meeting on Vancouver Island for the first time on Saturday, May 14th. Club members from the Mainland took ferries and met up with other Club members and their guests from the Island at the brand new Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit in the Cowichan Valley.
Update: Autoweek magazine recently published this story about the Circuit.
Our host Brent Evans gave us a tour of the beautiful facility and briefed us on the Circuit's features and their exciting plans for the future. Everybody had an opportunity for a few 'managed' laps around the challenging track, either as a driver or passenger.
After lunch, those with interesting cars had the chance to do some parade laps. The group then travelled to Club member Steve Clark's home in Victoria, where we met more enthusiasts, held our regular May meeting and were able to view Steve's very impressive collection of vintage motorcycles and cars, including the well-known Vintage racing cars he brings to our races at Mission.
A big thank you to both Brent and Steve, and to the many others who helped organize this very enjoyable day. Perhaps we can make a trip to the Island an annual event.
A lot of well-known motorsport personalities of the past and present attended. See how many you can spot in the following photos.