Vintage Racing Club of BC

The Spirit of Westwood Lives On!

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!

November 2, 2024

Byron Meston working hard to keep his 1969 Datsun 510 ahead of Ian Wood in his 1969 Volvo 142S through the reconfigured Turn 8 during one of Sunday’s Vintage races. – Brent Martin photo

Posted: November 2, 2024

Unlike the previous race weekend, the weather was ‘less than ideal’ for the SCCBC’s ‘Fall Finale’ / CACC #6 October 26th-27th race weekend at the Speed Fanatics Motorsport Course at Mission Raceway Park. The Vintage races on Sunday were the seventh and last (already!) IWE-REVS points events for 2024 for VRCBC members. Time flies when you’re having fun!

The Vintage results are available on this website (here) under the Race Results menu, and the full weekend results are available on the SCCBC website (here). Brent Martin braved the rain to take his usual great photos of the on-track action. You can see some of them below and the rest on his website (here).

Our REVS Sunday Vintage races are part of the full weekends of road racing organized by the Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC) and sanctioned by the Confederation of Autosport Car Clubs (CACC). The full 2025 season schedule will be posted on the SCCBC website Schedule page (here) once it is finalized, probably some time in January. Make sure to check it out and in the meantime, get those Vintage racing cars ready!

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October 10, 2024

Green Flag! Steve van Meel (’75 Chevrolet Camaro) and Brett Payne (’72 Porsche 911 RSR) lead the pack into Turn One. Visible behind them are (left to right) Werner Berger (’90 BMW 325is), Robin Liu ( ’71 Datsun 240Z), Jon Wright (’90 BMW E30) and almost hidden behind the Porsche, Pat Hall (’72 Datsun 240Z). – Brent Martin photo

Posted: October 10, 2024

The weather was perfect for the Vintage racing on the Sunday of the SCCBC’s ‘Wet Leaf Classic’ / CACC #5 October 5-6 race weekend at the Speed Fanatics Motorsport Course at Mission Raceway Park. This was the sixth IWE-REVS points event for 2024 for VRCBC members.

The VRCBC always say: ‘The Cars are the Stars!’ and ‘Vintage means Variety!’ and this weekend proved it! The Vintage entry included in (approximate) alphabetical order, an Austin ‘Big’ Healey, four BMWs ( a 2002, three E30s) a Camaro and a Corvette, six Datsuns (a 1200, two 510s, three 240Zs), a Ford Focus SVT, a Honda Civic, a Mazda Miata, a MGB, a (tube chassis) Pontiac Grand Am, two Porsches (a 911S, a 911RSR), a Triumph (Dolomite) 2000, and a Volvo 142S. This is why Vintage racing is so much fun to take part in and to watch; the cars are so different and everyone has someone to race with.

The Vintage results are available on this website under Race Results (here) and the full weekend results are available on the SCCBC 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).

Our REVS Sunday Vintage races are part of the full weekends of road racing organized by the Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC) and sanctioned by the Confederation of Autosport Car Clubs (CACC). Check out the full season schedule on the SCCBC website Schedule page (here). There is only one weekend left! Time flies when you’re having fun!

Gunther ‘at work’.

Our last Vintage races are on the Sunday of the SCCBC’s ‘Fall Finale’ / CACC #6 race event over the October 26 – 27 weekend. Registration for both drivers and volunteers is open. And remember, if your racing car isn’t ready, be like Gunther Ruppel and volunteer to work on a turn! The links are on the SCCBC web site (here).

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September 19, 2024

Peter Strachan in his 1972 Datsun 510 leads Alex Zuccaro and his 1985 BMW 325is through Turn 5 during a Vintage race on Sunday, September 15th. – Brent Martin photo

Posted: September 19, 2024

The weather improved just in time for the Sunday racing during the SCCBC’s ‘Back to School’ / CACC #4 September 14-15 race weekend at the Speed Fanatics Motorsport Course at Mission Raceway Park. This was the fifth IWE-REVS points event for 2024 for VRCBC members.

The Vintage results are available on this website under Race Results (here) and the full weekend results are available on the SCCBC 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).

Our REVS Sunday Vintage races are part of the full weekends of road racing organized by the Sports Car Club of BC (SCCBC) and sanctioned by the Confederation of Autosport Car Clubs (CACC). Check out the full season schedule on the SCCBC website Schedule page (here). There are only two weekends left!

Our next Vintage races are on the Sunday of the SCCBC’s ‘Wet Leaf Classic’ / CACC #5 race event over the October 5-6 weekend. Registration for both drivers and volunteers is open.

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