Sandy:
Who you race with depends on how you want to prepare your car and how you
want to race. As one who has raced with SVRA, HSR, and VDCA over the past
ten years, I prefer the style of racing now offered by VDCA. They have
reasonable entry fees, free enduros, great parties, Southeast venues, LOTS
of track time, and a great and friendly attitude. Because they are new and
relatively unknown, the grids are rather sparse, but that is a good thing
if you want to learn, develop your car and yourself, and have fun. If you
want out and out racing with over-prepared cars and don't mind racing with
Porsches and replicars, and non-period prepared cars, then HSR is for you.
They are expensive, charge extra for enduros, let anything into your class,
sometimes seem to be more interested in the almighty $$$ than in happy
vintage racers. SVRA is someplace in between. They are now part of HSR, so
some "creep" is expected by most of us. Their rules are al little more
strict and period authentic than HSR's. More of HSR will probably rub off
on SVRA that SVRA will rub off on HSR.
Preparing a car to VDCA specs will also meet the rules for the other two
groups, although you might not be competitive against the level of prep of
the typical HSR car. Preparing the car to HSR specs will not qualify you
for SVRA or VDCA. If you are just starting out in vintage racing with a new
driver and a new car, I would go the conservative route and race with VDCA.
That way you'll get lots of track time for a great price, time and help0 to
develop your car, all Southeast venues (6 races a year).
Hope to see you out there.
Bob
At 12:48 PM 04/01/2001 -0400, Sandy McCullough wrote:
>Even though this question has the possibility of generating a lot of
>responses. I think I'll ask it anyway.
>
>Contrary to Peter's preference for 124's (grin), the North Carolia MG Car Club
>is forming a racing team. We have a 1972 MGB that has been donated by one of
>our sponsors, Sports and Compacts. Over the next year, we will be stripping
>and restoring the B in Vintage form. The question is: Which club (HSR,
>VSCDA, SVCA, etc.) should / could we be associating with here in the east.
>From my research, it looks as if HSR is the best choice due to car
>classifications. I'm sure that all sanctioning organizations are good ones,
>but we need to know which would be the best for racing a '72 B on the circuit
>between Summit Point and Road Atlanta.
>
>Thanks in advance for your responses.
>
>H. W. "Sandy" McCullough
>Team Chairman
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