Racing Related

17 Oct

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[caption id="attachment_5045" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Glen Gibbons (Alfa Romeo GTV) leads Stanton Guy (in Al Reid's MGB) - Karen Gibbons photo"][/caption]

Update: The Final Results are now available here.

The Thanksgiving weekend 'Turkey Chase' was the Sports Car Club of BC's last event of the 2011 race season at Mission Raceway Park Road Course. The VRCBC's own Vintage racers were out on Sunday, doing their part to run down any stray gobblers that happened to also be 'racing along the River's Edge'.

It is very easy to see from these photos - a big thank you to Karen Gibbons - why Vintage road racing is popular with so many. Vintage racing cars cover the whole spectrum of type, size, age and potential performance on the track. It is this variety that makes it so much fun for everyone. The cars really are the stars.

The weather was perfect and the racing was excellent. It was a great way to end the VRCBC season. Thank you to our hosts - the SCCBC.

16 Oct

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[caption id="attachment_5117" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Nick Woodhouse in his beautiful Austin Healey 100-4 - Paul Bonner photo"][/caption]

Thanks to Paul Bonner we have a great selection of photos of VRCBC members 'chasing the gobblers along The River's Edge' in the Vintage races during the SCCBC's Turkey Chase Weekend at Mission Raceway Park Road Course. The photos below have been compressed for the web site. If you are a big fan of one of these 'star' drivers or (more likely) are one of the Turkey Chasers yourself, you can get larger, high quality versions by contacting Paul Bonner directly by email at: phbonner@shaw"dot"ca

29 Sep

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[caption id="attachment_4681" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Tim Pickstone, 1963 Porsche 356C - Paul Bonner photo"][/caption] Nine of the VRCBC's best racers made the trip across the border on the Labour Day weekend to take part in the 9th Annual Columbia River Classic put on by our friends, the Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts (SOVREN) at Portland International Raceway (PIR). Thanks to Paul Bonner we have these photos of them in action. Thanks Paul.

13 Aug

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  [caption id="attachment_4412" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Paul Kuckein, Gunter Pichler, Mark Brown lead the pack into Turn 1 - Gerry Frechette photo"][/caption] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [caption id="attachment_4413" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Terry Hollinger, Dave Klein and the rest of the pack - Gerry Frechette photo"][/caption] These are just two of the 158 (!) great...

09 Aug

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[caption id="attachment_4385" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Gunter Pichler laps Evan Williams - Jim Moody photo"][/caption]

Vintage Racers were out in force at the Children's Charities Grand Prix over the August 6th-7th weekend at Mission Raceway Park Road Course. Seventeen drivers were entered for the two Vintage closed wheel races along 'the River's Edge', including Myles Winbigler and Dave Klein up from the State of Washington. There was some great racing throughout the field - in the words of Lotus Seven pilot Mark Brown: "It was awesome!". Dave Kuckein won both races in his Camaro, with Gunter Pichler taking second from Mark in the first race. Mark returned the favour in the second race. Dennis Repel earned the Hard Luck Award for the weekend with a broken throttle cable ruining practice early and then a broken axle in the first race.

The full results for practice, qualifying and both races are available here. (Thank you to SCCBC's Timing & Scoring team.) Check below for some action (and not so much action) photos. (Thanks to Jim Moody for the use of his.)