Vintage Racing Services

VRS Party 2010

THE FIRST REAL RACE OF THE SEASON; THE VRS-GPNY CASH FOR SPEED CHALLENGE!!

Friday, March 12th from about 3:30 till…. the wee hours and WHAT A PARTY IT WAS!  We did something new for the annual VRS bash to celebrate all of our on track acts and a “achievements” in 2009.  THE PARTY STARTED WITH SOME REAL RACING!!!

Thanks to our friends at Grand Prix New York and Larry’s uncanny ability to liberate just the right amount of cash to cover, we all enjoyed loads of fast laps in their entertaining, if not a tad diminutive vehicles.   It really was good fun to have a track to ourselves to mix it up a bit and prove, at long last, that racing does in fact pay!  Sure, we all know about its enthralling entertainment value and adrenaline spikes aplenty, but the VRS event at GPNY paid real dollars.   Brian found the dough somewhere so we handed it out attached to very sophisticated GRADE 8 gold cad plated bolts.  Long after the cash is gone these on desk card, letter or note holders will serve the winners well.

Practice, an under attended ladies race (shame shame girls!!), then we split up into 10 two man teams for our half hour enduro… Whew…this is hard work, but good fun!!  Victory went to Brian Rechtiene and Josh Lewis with John Bubela and John Treshor a close second and Ben Sinott and Tim Ritchie almost by, but needing one more lap to finish better than 3rd.  The VRS Grand Prix finished the event with the smooth, steady and always on track Richard Kresch taking first, our own Brian Rechtiene taking his money back with a 2nd, and Ben once again besting 9 other racers to take 3rd.  Great time indeed and thanks to all who snuck out of work a bit early to attend the trackside activities and managed to get cleaned up and to the festivities afterward.

Racing requires energy and our hosts Richard and Jane Kresch gracefully came to the rescue as they have a number of times in the past.  We all left GPNY in Mt Kisco, NY on the Rally d’Kresch finding ourselves at their home in the north end of Greenwich, CT a short while later.  Painkillers of all descriptions started our evening in style.  Thereafter all were treated to a simply superb dinner followed by the annual “awards” ceremony for which anything untoward that occurs to anyone of us trackside is fair game.  Fun indeed, huge thanks to our hosts and all of those VRS stalwarts who shared their time and tales with us all on this evening in March 2010.