It is three days of on-track practice, qualifying, sprint races and two special Enduros plus a Saturday sit down dinner in The Gallery, all on legendary Virginia International Raceway. The Friday Enduro is the Wild Hare Run, an Australian Pursuit Race. The Vintage Enduro is on Sunday morning. VDCA is the organizing club with VRG members accepted at VDCA member rates. Cars and Drivers meeting VDCA, VRG, VSCCA and VSCDA requirements are invited.
Healthy vintage racing requires vintage racing clubs, shops/parts, circuits and media. This special Vintage Racing Resources issue of Victory Lane Magazine presents seven special sections of over 115 regional and national racing shops and racing equipment suppliers. The regions are: Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, Mountain States, Northwest and Far West.
Victory Lane Magazine for over 35 years is the vintage racers favorite focusing on presenting and promoting vintage racers, vintage racing clubs, host circuits and all the resources to support vintage racers. It is published online on the first of each month since July 2020, and in print prior to that since 1986.
For information or for contributions of stories, reports, or news contact Dan Davis, Phone 650-321-1411, or email [email protected]
The schedule has over 80 vintage racing weekend schedules to help plan a great vintage racing year. It has many special feature groups and 70 international vintage race schedules for even more info.
This is the annual How to Get Started in Vintage Racing special issue with a large four page feature that presents all aspects of getting started. To actually obtain a vintage racing license there is a feature on 2022 vintage racing schools held by the major vintage racing clubs. The Ace Factor book by the Vintage Motorsport Council, reviewed in this issue, is an excellent book for would be or beginning racers.
As usual there are features, columns, and news of events. Twelve monthly issues each year are online the first day of each month. It is all available with no password, no fee at www.victorylane.com
Concours in the Hills has sold out and online registration for Exhibitors is closed. Spectators however are most welcome and entry is free. The concours encourages donations. 2022 is set to break records.
This is NOT a formal “white gloves” concours but rather, a fun and relaxed car show open to all makes and models. A variety of Food trucks ensure that everyone has a wealth of choices in the catering department. The 8th Annual show on Saturday February 12, 2022 will yet again take over the whole park creating an automotive spectacle. Look for a story in the March issue of Victory Lane.
This is the first vintage racing weekend of 2022 at Laguna Seca.
For this event all vintage classes are welcome and will enjoy user friendly, liberal on-track time over the weekend. This is an event noted for a good time on a legendary North American road racing circuit.
For entry or info: call Cris Vandagriff, 818-249-3515 (CA)
CVAR on February 11-13 visits Circuit of the Americas for their Inaugural River City Road Races
Info: Herb Hilton, phone 713-816-7713, email [email protected]
VDCA has a new event February 12-13 at Roebling Road to open their six vintage racing weekend schedule.
Phone 461-622-7554, www.vintagedrive.com
The HMSA Spring Club Event March 11-12 at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca opens Laguna’s vintage racing event season.
Info: www.hmsausa.com
CVAR’s Mike Stephens Classic March 18-20 at Hallett Motor Racing Park has sprint races for all classes and features for vintage Formula Vees.
Info: www.corinthianvintageautoracing.com
VARA’s High Desert Challenge March 19-20 Willow Springs Raceway opens the southern California vintage racing season.
Info: www.vararacing.com
VDCA’s season opens with “vintage excitement and competition in a friendly and fun club environment at one of the south’s iconic tracks.”
Since 2000 this vintage racing club has been run by vintage racing drivers. Its purpose is preserving, enjoying and racing reasonably period authentic sports and racing cars from the golden eras of the fifties and sixties through the 1980s and into the 1990s.
The schedule for the Roebling Road weekend calls for Saturday practice and Feature races. There is a Sunday morning Enduro and afternoon sprint races. Registration fee of $300 covers all races and Enduro.
Registration is open at MotorsportReg.com.
The southern Florida 2.2 mile 10 turn road circuit offers a top experience for both experienced drivers, racers and novices. Participants in each of three groups will receive four 30 minute on-track sessions each day for over 6 hours on-track during the event. The event is organized to deliver an enjoyable experience for drivers, families and crews. It is a meeting of friends and fellow enthusiasts who will enjoy the sportsman like on-track emphasis whether novice or experienced driver. For one $2600 entry fee members may bring up to three cars. The entrant and two family members may drive them during the weekend. There is lunch each day for drivers and guest. Driver instruction is available to enhance the experience. The event hotel is the Hilton Garden Inn in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Info and registration at www.gorace.com
All vintage road racers are invited to join CVAR racing members for three days of vintage racing on this famed Formula One circuit.
This is an opportunity to race with one of the top vintage racing clubs in North America. One with the well known, friendly and welcoming vintage spirit with liberal track time and low cost $500 entry fee to enjoy one of North America’s great circuits. All CVAR participants are on-track twice each afternoon. The mornings are sessions for the Edge Addicts Club.
For full details: schedule, load-in, car and driver eligibility, etc. contact Herb Hilton, mobile: 713-816-7713 (TX) or email: [email protected]
Since the mid 1950s innovative Lotus racing cars have won many major international and national races plus series championships. The international race list includes The Indy 500, Monaco F1, and class wins at Le Mans.
A few Lotus USA highlights include a variety of wins. The Lotus Eleven dominated SCCA GM from 1966 through 1968. The Lotus Formula Juniors were legendary from the Lotus 18 in 1960 through the Lotus 27 in 1963. Jackie Stewart’s first U.S. race and win was in a Lotus Cortina at the SCCA 1964 Marlboro 12 Hour for sport sedans. Gus Hutchinson won SCCA’s first pro-formula series, The 1967 Continental Grand Prix in a Lotus 41C FB. George Follmer won the 1965 USRRC Championship in a Lotus 23-Porsche. Jimmy Clark’s 1965 Indy 500 victory in a mid-engined Lotus sealed the trend of the new mid designs to dominate Indy. Dan Gurney’s 1962 coasting last lap win in Frank Arciero’s Lotus 19 at the first Daytona Pro Road Race was a storybook tale.
The Dan Gurney Arciero Lotus 19 will be on display at the event. In vintage competition will be examples racing on track of great Lotus racing car types: Lotus F Jrs, Lotus 23s, Lotus Elevens, Lotus Elans, Lotus Cortinas, Lotus Espirits, Lotus FBs, Lotus Sevens and more.
This is the largest vintage racing weekend in the Pacific Northwest and attracts a wide variety of exceptional vintage racing cars and drivers. More than 200 are expected.
For info: www.sovrenracing.org
The MGVR Focus Races for 2022 will be at the VARAC Vintage GP, June 16-19, Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and at the Put-in-Bay Sports Car Races Reunion, September 20-23, Put-in-Bay Airfield. The annual Vintage Collier Cup race for MGs only will again be held during the SVRA vintage races with Speed Tour, September 7-11 at Watkins Glen.
MG Vintage Racers celebrated their 40th anniversary in December 2021 with a special anniversary newsletter containing dozens of MG racing stories by members from many decades and a history of MGVR. It is a great read!
MGs were important to creating post world war 2 sports car racing, first at Watkins Glen in 1948 and the late 1940s and early 1950s sports car races across the US. They were the most popular sports cars of the times in the races and on the roads.
To subscribe to the MG Vintage Racers Newsletter delivered by email and get a copy of the December newsletter contact editor Dave Nicholas, [email protected]
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