A great turn out for Council’s Double Dose Challenge at Blackhawk Farms Raceway. Sixteen cars practiced, 13 qualified and 12 started the race. Four CPVRG members made it to the race this weekend with another podium finish for member Bill Oakes. Enjoy.
Summer heat and threats of rain made for another great July race at Blackhawk Farms Raceway and the CPVRG crew. Member Bill Oakes in his 1973 Datsun 240z posted a 2nd place finish after some good racing with the usual suspects, the Manta and Porsche 914. Ride along:
A CPVRG member didn’t just win Midwestern Council of Sports Car Clubs’ Vintage Driver of the year for 2014 – two did! Congratulations to member John Connell and John Saccameno for being named this year’s MC Vintage Drivers of the year . Very well deserved, boys.
We’ve fallen behind a bit in our postings for this year, so here’s a video from a podium win by member Bill Oakes at last weekend’s “Generating Speed” V/H race.
Many more details to come – beautiful artwork by CPVRG member Mark Atkinson kicks off our season!
An end of the season tradition for us is Chicagoland Sports Car Club’s Loooong Race, a 100 mile race (broken into two sessions for Vintage/Historic) at Blackhawk Farms Raceway. It’s usually the largest grid of the year for us with 30 to 40 vintage race cars, and this year had…
Checkered Past Vintage Race Group brought home second (Bill Oakes), third (John Saccameno), and fourth (John Wheeler) places at Midwestern Council Sports Car Club’s race, Steel of Track, on September 29. One more race to go, and it’s the big one, Chicagoland’s Loooong Race on October 19th. Come to the track and…
The CPVRG gang had plans on a better turn out for our return to Gingerman Raceway in many years, but bad weather, work plans, and a broken differential thinned out the pack a little. Still a good time at a very nice track. Hope to be back next year.
The first race of the 2013 season is in the books. What started as a very cold and windy weekend ended in perfect weather for the CPVRG gang. Special thanks to this year’s sponsor of the CPVRG site, Sport and Specialty Restorations and Vintage Racing Shop.
North Suburban Sports Car Club is proud to announce that we will once again hold our Indoor Racing School at Autobahn Country Club. This event is the perfect way for anyone interested in competing in our racing programs to find out how to get involved either behind the wheel or…