26 Apr And We’re Off for Another Vintage Racing Season!
Once again, Brent Martin captures the torrid Vintage action! John Elliott (’69 MGB) closes in on Ryan O’Connor (’85 Camaro) through Mission’s Turn 5, shrewdly setting him up for a pass – or perhaps just some bump-drafting – along the straight between Turns 6 and 7 …. or maybe not!
Posted: April 26, 2022
The 2022 VRCBC’s Vintage racing season got underway on Sunday, April 24th at the Speed-Fanatics Motorsport Circuit. (If you haven’t already heard, that is the brand new name for our long time home, the Road Course at Mission Raceway Park.) This was the first event of the VRCBC’s very own IWE-REVS points series for 2022.
The Vintage races were just part of a full weekend of road racing organized by the Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC) and sanctioned by the Confederation of Autosport Car Clubs (CACC). The weather was excellent for racing and thanks (as always) to Brent Martin, we have some great photos (see below) of the action. All of Brent’s photos of the full weekend will soon be available on his website (here). Make sure to check them out and order at least one of yourself (or your favourite ‘hero’ driver) in action!
The complete results for the weekend, including those for Vintage, are available on the SCCBC web site (here). The next races at the Speed-Fanatics Motorsport Circuit are scheduled for the May 14-15 weekend. See you there!
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- Ryan O’Connor (’85 Camaro), Larry Sandham (Mini Vauxhall), Greg Cavouras (’91 Mustang), and Gayle Baird (’90 Honda Civic).
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- Gunther Ruppel manhandles ‘Annie’, his 1960 Austin Healey ‘Bugeye’ Sprite around Turn 5.
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- He’s baaaack! Phil Roney returns to the Vintage CW grid with this beautiful Cortina Lotus Mk2 powered by the classic Ford 1.6 litre Twin Cam.
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- Peter Valkenburg (1969 Porsche 911) desperately pursues Gayle Baird (1990 Honda Civic) into Turn 2.
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- Ryan O’Connor has the Camaro belching fire going through Turn 4.
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- Vintage is Variety! Greg Cavouras (’91 Mustang), Wynn Hollingshead (’91 Miata), Phil Roney (Lotus Cortina), John Elliott (’69 MGB), and Gunther Ruppel (’60 Bugeye Sprite).
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- The classic lines of Peter Valkenburg’s Porsche 911.
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- Cagey veteran Paul Haym in his 1969 BMW 2002 in Turn 5.
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- Larry Sandham rounding Turn 5 in his cleverly disguised Vauxhall. Larry has been campaigning this Mini Vauxhall throughout the PNW for many years.
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- If you squint, you can (almost) see that Shawn Allen has lifted his ’90 Miata’s inside front wheel off the tarmac in Turn 6.
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- Wynn Hollingshead streaking by in his ’92 Miata.
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- Vintage Discipline Director and VRCBC stalwart John Elliott shows how it was done with body English ‘back in the day’, in his BA Oil-sponsored MGB.
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