Vintage Racing Club of BC

The Spirit of Westwood Lives On!

May 29, 2025

Vintage action! Pole sitter Brett Payne (1972 Porsche 911 RSR) and Alex Zuccaro (1985 BMW 325is) lead the field around Mission’s Turn 6 on the pace lap before a Vintage race start on Sunday, May 25th. – Brent Martin photo

Posted: May 30, 2025

The weather was (again) excellent for the second race event of the 2025 road racing season at Mission Raceway Park Motorsports Circuit over the May 24th-25th weekend. The Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC) hosted their ‘Great Northern Showdown’ event, sanctionedas always by the Confederation of Autosports Car Clubs (CACC).

 

The SCCBC ran their usual Closed Wheel (CW) and Open Wheel (OW) race classes on both Saturday and Sunday, while, as always, the Vintage cars raced on the Sunday only. All of the results for the full weekend are available on the SCCBC website (here). The Vintage results are also available on this website (here).

 

Brent Martin took his usual great photos of the on-track action. You can see some of them below and the rest on his website (here).

 

The next races will be during the June 21st-22nd weekend, with our Vintage races being on the Sunday as usual. See you at the track!

 

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May 5, 2025

Jim Brown, Mike Bailey and Paul Haym are getting our display ready for the crowds. Gunther Ruppel’s 1960 Austin Healey ‘Bugeye’ Sprite and Wally Trueman’s 1963 Formula 1 Scirocco were featured. (See the Classifieds section of this website for a full description.) – VRCBC photo

Updated: May 19, 2025

The 40th (wow!) edition of the All British Field Meet (aka “The Greatest Show on British Wheels”) was held on Saturday, May 17th at Vancouver’s beautiful VanDusen Botanical Garden. The weather wasn’t perfect this year – a little damp – a little sunny – actually, it wasn’t very typically British!

 

This year, the ABFM’s featured marque was that most British car of them all – Rolls Royce – and it also recognized the 40th annniversary of the Westcoast British Motorcycle Owners Club (BMOC). The display of modified classics also returned this year. This is a rapidly growing area of interest with automotive enthusiasts. Check out the ABFM website (here) for all of the information about this year’s event.

 

The VRCBC was again in its usual spot near the entrance.  Thanks to everyone who stopped by. We always enjoy talking to everyone about our Vintage racing cars, our big BC Historic Motor Races weekend in August, and about all of the road racing activity at the Mission Raceway Park Motorsports Circuit in general. Speaking of which, our next race event is this coming weekend, May 24th and 25th. Hope to see you at the track!

 

Another big ‘Thank You’ to the ABFM for again providing us with complimentary space. We look forward to seeing you there!

May 5, 2025

The pack enters Turn 2 on the first lap of a Vintage race on April 27th. Robin Liu in his 1971 Datsun 240Z leads Peter Valkenburg (1969 Porsche 911), Jon Wright (1990 BMW E30) and the rest of the pack. – Brent Martin photo

Posted: May 5, 2025

The 2025 road racing season at Mission Raceway Park Motorsports Circuit got started under perfect weather over the April 26th-27th weekend. The Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC) hosted their ‘Pacific Coast Season Opener’ event, sanctioned by the Confederation of Autosports Car Clubs (CACC).

 

As usual, the SCCBC ran their race classes on both Saturday and Sunday, while the Vintage cars raced on the Sunday only. All of the results for the full weekend are available on the SCCBC website (here). The Vintage results are also available on this website (here).

 

Brent Martin took his usual great photos of the on-track action. You can see some of them below and the rest on his website (here).

 

The next races will be during the May 24th-25th weekend, with our Vintage races being on the Sunday as usual. See you at the track!

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March 20, 2025

The calm before the storm! Three examples of the variety of cars raced on the Mission Raceway Park Motorsports Circuit wait for the show spectators to arrive. From left to right are a Legends, Formula Continental and Datsun Vintage racing cars. Thanks to Brent Martin for the photos.

Updated: March 25, 2025

The 2025 edition (‘Elevate’) of the Vancouver International Auto Show was ‘live’ at the Vancouver Convention Centre West from Wednesday March 19th to Sunday, the 23rd. Full details of the show are available on the Elevate website (here).

 

The VRCBC was there in the BC Motorsports display, along with our road racing partners, the Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC), plus Women in Motorsport (WIM), the Motorsports Emergency and Turnworkers Association (META), the Westwood Motorcycle Racing Club (WMRC), the Squamish Brackendale Rally Cross Club (SBRCC), the West Coast Kart Club (WCKC), and B.C. Legends. And for the very young (and smaller size!) motorsports enthusiasts, there was even a Soap Box Derby car from the Mission and District Soapbox Derby Association! And right next door to us in the Mission Raceway Park display was an extremely fast drag racing car from the B C Custom Car Association (BCCCA). Everybody enjoyed discussing their particular sport with many, many show goers.

 

The Show was a great success, setting a new one-day (42,000 on Saturday) and full event (138,000) attendance records! Our congratulations and thanks for the opportunity to the event organization staff and Executive Director, Eric Nicholl in particular.

November 26, 2024

A Vintage racing blast from the past! The VRCBC’s Doug Yip in his ’67 Sunbeam Tiger leading SOVREN’s Gerry Loeffler in his ’65 version at the BCHMR & Westwood 50 in 2009. – Paul Bonner photo

Updated: March 5, 202

The Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC) has just released their schedule (here) for the 2025 season at the Mission Raceway Park Motorsports Circuit. As usual, the VRCBC’s IWE/REVS Vintage races will be held on the Sundays of those weekends. Our BC Historic Motor Races will be held over the August 16th-17th weekend. (See the first BCHMR press release here.) The full Vintage schedule is available (here) under the Calendar menu on this website.

Start getting those Vintage racing cars ready! See you at the track!