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Editor's Ramblings
I hope you all had a great Christmas and that 2017 is
everything you wish for.
Here we are back in the swing of things and there is a lot
going on. The Standing Regulations for 2017 would
normally be in the middle of the magazine as an 8-page
lift-out, but they have been held over to the March issue.
The calendar for 2017 is as published in the December
issue except for the Collie Icebreaker, which is on February
26 and not March 5, so you'll need to get yourselves
moving a week earlier. See page 5 for the updated dates.
Elsewhere in the magazine, there is a photo-gallery from the Vintage Stampede, Mark
Duder's report from Classic Adelaide plus club and Dad's Army news.
On the subject of club news, I received 126 photographs of the 30th Anniversary Dinner
from John Napier-Winch. I couldn't possibly include all of them in the magazine, but our
Web Master, Frank Clay, is going to place them on the web site.
I receive regular email news update from the other VM,
Vintage Motorsport
, and in
November there was an interesting item, which I shall
quote from as follows:
"Mazda Motorsports is partnering with the Sportscar
Vintage Racing Association to Jointly organise the
Mazda Miata Heritage Cup, open to 1990-1993 1.6-litre
spec Mazdas, at five SVRA events in 2017."
Coincidentally, the five events chosen are among the
SVRA's weakest in terms of entries, so the MX-5
expansion is an obvious remedy to any shortfall of
racers. I'm pretty sure that CAMS supported a one-make series for the early MX-5s, so it
might be possible to work with CAMS to allow early 1.6-litre MX-5s to run in our events
with regulations based on those used for the one-make series.
I must thank Octane magazine and writer Andrew English for permission to use his article
about where historic motor sport is going. It raises a number of interesting points and while
it is aimed at the British and European scene, much of it applies here, too. See page 20.
Celebration of the Motorcar
On the same day as the Vintage Stampede, a number of VSCC members put on a 30th
Anniversary display at the Celebration of the Motorcar at Cottesloe Civic Centre.
Bob Campbell
A US spec Miata (MX-5) set up to
race. Vintage Motorsport photograph.
Jim Krajancich's
Bugatti was a
centrepiece
The VSCC display
at Cottesloe