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HSR and SVRA announce restructuring

February 25, 2010
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Politics is nothing new in racing, nor is the division of a genre into two series. While the IRL & INDYCAR mess is fresh in everyone’s minds, there have been others that continue to this day. SCCA, IMSA, NASA all have somewhat different philosophies and have dealt with the split issue.
In vintage racing, there [...]

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Vintage racing Healey on maximum attack

October 22, 2009

While attempting to convey the glorious sound of a big Healey that won the heart of our man Allan, we showed a quick video yesterday of a short drive in an Austin Healey road car. Some of us found that video a bit less than inspiring. Gary Faules went hunting and came up with this [...]

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Gallery: Time Warp Racing lining up for Saturday’s race

July 19, 2009

I know that static shots are never as fun as the on track stuff, but when I found myself on the mock grid for the TWR Vintage GT qualifier race at the Honda Indy Toronto I thought it posed a good opportunity to provide everyone with some before shots. Of course there are a few [...]

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Hooters girls invade the G70+ paddock

July 11, 2009

What happens when there is a monsoon at the Honda Indy Toronto? Easy: Everyone goes indoors, including the giant herd of Hooters girls. Always on the lookout for stuff our readers will enjoy, I managed to convince a couple of fun loving young ladies to join me on a tour of the G70+ paddock. Some [...]

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Gallery: VARAC Historics in a soggy pit lane

July 5, 2009

What is worse than sitting on pit lane in a soggy suit waiting for a session to start? Sitting in a open top car while the rain is still pissing down. After the break we’ve got a rather large gallery of rather uncomfortable looking cars and their pilots prior to a wet practice session at [...]

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Gallery: VARAC Historics on track

June 28, 2009

While Saturday was a rainy, nasty mess at Mosport for the 2009 VARAC Festival, Sunday was bright and beautiful. A perfect day to for vintage racing. Over the past few years, my racing galleries have been mostly pit lane and paddock stuff as I just couldn’t seem to get the knack for using the manual [...]

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Group 70+ slips and slides at Mosport

June 20, 2009

VARAC’s Group 70+ class is basically a run what ya brung home for race cars from 1970 onwards that don’t meet the traditional classes that VARAC layed out oh so many years ago. It has also become home to some of the older traditional cars that don’t quite fit the profile of the other classes. [...]

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A soggy day at Mosport for the VARAC Festival

June 20, 2009

I managed to grab 442 photos today during my rain soaked visit to the 2009 VARAC Festival at Mosport. It will take a while to edit all of those, but for now this shot pretty much sums up the day.

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VARAC Festival under way at Mosport

June 20, 2009

The 2009 VARAC Festival got under way at Mosport yesterday under sunny skies. Today promises to be rainy all day, but for tomorrow should be bright and sunny again. What better way to celebrate Father’s Day that to check out some beautiful scenery and wicked old race cars!
Warwick Patterson was at the track yesterday and [...]

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2009 VARAC Festival at Mosport next weekend

June 13, 2009

While big pro race events are always fun, there really is no better way to immerse yourself in motorsports than to visit (or compete in) a vintage festival. Here in Ontario we are lucky to play host to one of the best festivals run by VARAC at Mosport each June. Its hard to believe that [...]

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