Vintage Racing Club of BC

The Spirit of Westwood Lives On!

December 19, 2017

Typical BC Historic Motor Races action! – Brent Martin photo

Updated: January 25, 2018

The VRCBC is very pleased to announce that the expected dates for the 2018 British Columbia Historic Motor Races (BCHMR) will be the weekend of August 18th and 19th, 2018 at our home track, the Mission Raceway Park Road Course, Mission, BC. There will also be a Practice Day (open to all racing cars; not just Vintage) on Friday August 17th.

The BCHMR provides an action-packed weekend with plenty of racing for all classes of Open Wheel / Sports Racers and Closed Wheel racing cars at a very affordable entry fee. Check the BCHMR’s own web site (here) for regular updates.

Update: Our first press release is now online on Inside Track Motorsport News (here). Watch for it in the magazine soon.

We wish everyone a great racing season and we look forward to seeing you in August.

And mark your calendars now!

November 25, 2017

Updated: November 26, 2017

Many of those who attended the VRCBC’s special ‘Westwood Mural Unveiling’ meeting at Mark’s Auto Body in Port Coquitlam or our Annual Banquets have asked about one of the DVD’s we have shown.

This was ‘The Last Race’, a DVD produced by Hans Sipma about the very last Vintage race event, ‘The Tenth Annual Historics Weekend’, held at Westwood over an early July weekend in 1990.

Update: Hans has now posted his video on YouTube. You can find it here. Thank you Hans!

The entry list of almost 100 cars that is included with the DVD contains many familiar names, quite a few of whom are still Vintage racing today. And you will recognize a lot of the faces too (although they are considerably younger!) when you watch it.

The DVD captures a lot of the activity and fun in the Paddock as well as having some great video of the on-track action, which features everything from classic Morgans to ‘Vettes and XKE’s, and from Formula Vees and Fords, to the beautiful 1948 Talbot Lago Grand Prix car, captured by Kane Rogers in his cover illustration.

Click here to download Hans’ info sheet for his DVD.

November 22, 2017

Posted: November 22, 2017

The VRCBC was awarded the Confederation of Autosport Car Clubs (CACC) Club of the Year Award for 2017 at their Fall General Meeting on November 19th. Our Club was particularly recognized for the success of this year’s BC Historic Motor Races. Thank you to the CACC!

November 22, 2017

Our MC for the evening, VRCBC Past President Tedd McHenry, valiantly attempts to maintain order! – Charlie Baird photo

Posted: November 22, 2017

The VRCBC held its always-popular Annual Gala & Banquet on Saturday, November 18th at the Delta Town & Country Inn. A good time was had by all. There was even some (semi) serious bench racing and planning for the 2018 season, in between the laughs!

Thank you to Past President Tedd McHenry for (most of the time) managing the evening and to Charlie Baird for taking the photographs.

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November 3, 2017

Karlo Flores and ‘Nina’, his Porsche 356B en route to a class win and 16th overall in the La Carrera Panamericana 2017. – photo courtesy Karlo Flores

Posted: November 4, 2017

The VRCBC’s very own ‘hombre‘, Karlo Flores has returned from the 2017 edition of La Carrera Panamericana with a class win and a sixteenth overall finish. In 2016, Karlo and his co-driver Juan Carlo Salgado were second in class by only four minutes (story here).

This year, they found a five minute advantage during the seven days, which was just enough because the second place car was only one minute behind them! The final results are available here.

The team’s video (here) provides an excellent idea of what an enjoyable event this is. Congratulations Karlo!