Road America's July 13-16 WeatherTech International Challenge & Festival, Salutes Triumph, Ferrari, F5000 and Trans Am
This big vintage and historic racing weekend on North America's greatest road racing circuit attracts over 400 participants. The impressive 4 mile circuit is compared favorably to one of the great circuits in the world Europe's SPA. Road America is a must do for all vintage racers. The featured Kastner Cup for Triumphs will celebrate 70 years of Triumph Sports Cars in America with special races. Ferrari will be honored with displays and on-track exhibitions. The Formula 5000 Drivers Association will celebrate the 1968-1976 pro series in featured grids. Historic Trans Am cars of 1966-1972 races add excitement.
The Thursday on-track practice and an evening vintage racing entrants party opens the festivities. Vintage racing action is Friday practices, Saturday races and Sunday Feature races. Friday night is the downtown Elkhart Lake Race Car Concours. Saturday night the town hosts a Sports Car concours. There are on-track noon rides each day available for spectators. Special race group parties and special events are to be announced.
Entries and info: www.roadamerica.com.
Invite From Monoposto Racing's President Travis Engen
Monoposto's first event of the 2023 season, HSR's The Mitty at Road Atlanta, is a little more than a week away, April 27-30. In addition to the cars that are entered, the trophies for the Monoposto 2022 champions will be there.
The Mitty is one of the great events on the racing calendar. This year's edition is the 45th, so the event has a long record of exciting racing. Nearly 300 cars are entered but as is the usual situation for the Mitty, formula cars represent one of the smaller run groups. This is partly due to HSR's practice of having only one open wheel run group, which is ultimately driven by the number of open wheel entries. This leads to the higher power, faster Monoposto cars dominating the entries and no doubt reduces entries in the lower power classes. While F5000 and Indy Lights lead the entry count there are also a couple of Formula Fords on the list. In past years, as entries grew before the event, HSR agreed to split the group and segregate the Classic and F70 cars. So ultimately, it is up to us as entrants to solve this chicken and egg problem by building the entry count.
From a driver's perspective Road Atlanta is an awesome track. Key challenges are carrying speed up the hill through turn 1 and downhill through the final turn to start/finish. The esses can be challenging as well, particularly if the track is damp. If you are new to Road Atlanta there are many hot lap videos available online to help you come to grips with the track. I will be happy to share my knowledge of the track and my own in-car videos to help you progress.
As stated above, the trophies for 2022 champions will be available. Because of the small entry count there will be no Monoposto party, but we will be searching out any of the 2022 champions at the track to make trophy presentations.
Info: www.monoposto.com.
FB Continental Grand Prix Reunion Series for 2023 Opens During SVRA Vintage with Speed Tour at Laguna SECA May 4-7
Many owner/drivers of FB Continental Grand Prix Cars enjoyed racing in the 55th Anniversary Continental Grand Prix Reunion Series last year. There was a total of 24 different drivers who participated with the attendance being as high as 17 during the fall VSCDA Vintage weekend at Road America! There really is nothing like racing with a large field of well driven historic FB cars. In 1967, the first year of the Continental Grand Prix Series, over 40 cars arrived at Lake Tahoe for grid places.
Monoposto Racing, the sponsoring group, had so much fun in 2022 they thought they would try it again! it is all about getting the cars out and enjoying them in a good field of similar cars.
This year the series will consist of 5 race weekends with 2 of them on the west coast and 3 in the eastern half of the country. Here is the schedule: SVRA Vintage with Speed Tour, Laguna Seca May 4-7; SVRA Vintage with Speed Tour, Indy June 15-18; CSRG, Sonoma Raceway September 8-10; VSCDA Road America September 15-17; SVRA Vintage with Speed Tour, COTA November 2-5.
At each of these events the group will work to get split starts or maybe even a dedicated race group if there are enough entries to justify that. Formula B driver/owners can help by entering early! Here are the links to the race organizer websites to do that. SVRA www.svra.com/events/. CSRG www.csrgracing.org/schedule.html. VSCDA www.vscda.org/events/ariens-art-on-wheels-vintage-weekend-featuring-vscda/. If you have any questions about the FB Continental events don't hesitate to contact Marc Giroux [email protected]. or Darrell LeBlanc [email protected].
Ten Days of Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix Motorsport Festival July 14-23
Vintage racing on North America's only true road course, Shelby Convention, five different car shows, a countryside tour, black tie gala banquet, airport hanger party with vintage aircraft and exotic vintage race cars, Ferrari marque of the year, 100,000 fans for Sundays Schenley Park Grand Prix!
It starts with a weekend of vintage racing at Pitt Race, then a week of happenings and then a weekend of vintage racing on the roads through the forest and meadows of Schenley Park. A real treat celebrating racing as it was from its beginnings through the 1950s and early 1960s.
Info and entry: www.pvgp.org.
VSCCA Driver's School and Spring Sprints May 5-6 Lime Rock Park, CT
Any muffled street or race car is welcome for the school sessions. Professional racing instructors will hold school classroom and on-track sessions at one of North America's great circuits. Non-members driver's school, VSCCA membership and race weekend is $630.
A optional Thursday 5-6 pm Meet-and-Greet party will open the weekend. Members race weekend entry is $500 before April 20.
Info: Driver's School: Charles Bordin, 914-968-5700. [email protected].
VSCCA Track Day April 21 Update at New York Safety Track Discount Through 14th
This is a chance to gain track time before the driver's school and VSCCA's first vintage racing weekend. Any street or race car is welcome. This is detailed in the previous March 27 posting here. The discount entry of $299 is extended through Friday, April 14th. Info: www.vscca.org.
2023 Full of Special Vintage Racing Features
It's the time of year in vintage racing when plans made in December are being finalized to race outside one's own club area in a few big vintage events and special features. The remaining 2023 vintage racing weekends and Special Interest Group schedules in the April online issue of Victory Lane Magazine are on pages 52-53. They are a monthly feature. The event ads, Vintage Highlights monthly section also have updates and details of coming vintage racing events.
This is a year full of special features in North America for vintage MGs, Triumphs, Can-Am cars, Sprite Austin Healey, Sprites/MG Midgets, Indy cars, F5000 cars, FB Continental cars, USRRC cars, Formula Fords, Pre-War cars, Del Monte Trophy Group, Porsches, Formula Juniors, Formula One and Corvette. There are also many special international events celebrating anniversaries and features listed on the schedule pages.
VSCDA May 4-7 Drivers School and Spring Brake Race Opens Club's 45th Season, GingerMan Raceway, MI
Registration for driver's school May 4-5 is open. The GingerMan Raceway is an excellent school circuit. Rental race cars are available for would-be vintage racers which lowers the beginning race cost. Successful students are eligible for the weekend races.
Drivers' School Info: [email protected]. or www.vscda.org.
The weekend of vintage racing May 6-7 opens the 2023 season long celebration of the founding of VSCDA in 1978. Registration is open. Five race groups will each enjoy practice, qualifying and race sessions Saturday. Sunday is morning sprint races. Sunday afternoon opens with Closed Wheel Enduro and a Sprite Midget Challenge race followed by afternoon 30-minute feature races for each of the 5 race groups.
Info: www.vscda.org.
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