Vintage Grand Prix this weekend

Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course is host­ing the Mechan­ics Bank Vin­tage Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio this weekend.

The Sports­car Vin­tage Rac­ing Asso­ci­a­tion will race for the 30th time at the Mor­row County track, show­cas­ing his­toric race cars from many eras of motor­sports. The cars on track will range from a 1959 Elva Courier to a 2006 Ford GT MKVII.

There are three dozen entries hail­ing from the Buck­eye State. Car enthu­si­asts will gather at Mid-Ohio to enjoy a week­end full of vin­tage car rac­ing. There will be eigh­teen SVRA group races, a British Inva­sion race, a BMW/Alfa/Datsun race and two Enduros (hour-long multi-class races).

New to the fold this year is title spon­sor Mechan­ics Bank, which is Rich­land County’s only home-owned finan­cial institution.

“SVRA and the vin­tage event has been a sta­ple at Mid-Ohio for 30 year which is more than half of the track’s his­tory. Adding Mechan­ics Bank to event as title spon­sor is a great addi­tion and sign of sup­port from the com­mu­nity and we know they are as excited as we are to get this event rolling,” said Craig Rust, pres­i­dent of Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

A British Inva­sion will be cel­e­brated as the Fea­tured Mar­que of the event. Owing to the long and rich his­tory of British car man­u­fac­tur­ing, the Fea­tured Mar­que des­ig­na­tion was expanded to more than just one man­u­fac­turer in 2012.

From Jaguars to Bent­leys, Range Rovers to Rolls Royces, British cars are defined by their atten­tion to detail. Join us this week­end for the chance to see British-label car rac­ing and shows.

Pro­fes­sional racer Tom Yea­ger will be the Grand Mar­shal for this year’s Mechan­ics Bank Vin­tage Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio. Tom began his rac­ing career in Mar­ion, Ohio, rac­ing the city streets in a low­ered 1950 Mercury.

Yea­ger turned pro­fes­sional in 1966 through SCCA’s Trans-Am series, where he and his co-driver Bob John­son won at Vir­ginia Inter­na­tional Race­way and Mid-America Race­way. Cur­rently, he com­petes in SVRA events in a num­ber of cars such as Mus­tangs, Brab­hams and more.

Off-track, Saturday’s British Car Show­down and Sunday’s Con­cours d’Elegance will take over the infield with hun­dreds of cars expected to enter in each. Annu­ally, both shows are typ­i­cally one of the largest of their kind in the region.

Daily tick­ets for the Mechan­ics Bank Vin­tage Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio begin at $15 and week­end tick­ets are $30. For ticket and event infor­ma­tion call 800-MID-OHIO (800–643-6446) Mon­day through Fri­day, 7a.m. to 5 p.m. or visit midohio.com at any time. More infor­ma­tion on the event, includ­ing a detailed sched­ule, is avail­able at bit.ly/MBVGP12.

Posted by Rob Hamilton on Jun 20 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.