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Announcing our 2023 Schedule of events:
March 31 - April 2 - VIR – VDCA Wild Hare April 24 – Summit Point – Advanced / Refresher Clinic May 16-18 – Summit Point – Driver School May 18-21 – Summit Point – Jefferson 500 June 22-24 – Thompson, CT – Vintage Motorsports Festival July 14-16 – PittRace –...
VRG July Newsletter is out!
Austin A35 in action at Vintage Motorsports Festival 9 - at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park Catch the latest edition of the VRG newsletter here: https://vrgonline.org/vrg_newsletter_thompson_2022/ Spectacular photos from Bill Stoler inside, The Grimaldi Cup, and a...
The May Newsletter is out!
Checkout the May 2022 Newsletter recapping all the great action and folks from this year’s Jefferson 500 at Summit Point Motorsports Park!
VeeRG 2022 – Get out your Vees! Get out your Vees!
The 2022 VeeRG has released this year's schedule and is looking to get those Formula Vees out on track with that trademark Formula Vee nose to tail racing! Stop by the VeeRG section of the VRG website for details and downloads of this season's schedule and event...
VRG – Virtual Racer League
VRG goes virtual racing! https://vrgonline.org/vrg-virtual-racer-league/
VeeRG 2020 and New Community Mailing List, Virtual Racing – oh my!
VeeRG 2020 Race Schedule, New VRG Mailing List, and VRG Virtual Racing League on iRacing – oh my!
VRG Facebook Feed
Missed the event at Watkins Glen? - here's a peek of the VRG fun in the Finger Lakes of NY.😀
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VRG weekend at WGI is underway!
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Loved seeing all the cars. The pinto was the best!!!
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Go Jordan Maire Go!!!!!🏎️🏎️🏎️
It is with great sadness that we learned Tivvy Shenton, a pillar of the VRG community, passed away on August 30, 2023. As most of you know, Tivvy had been battling some health issues recently and not too long ago underwent a necessary but complicated medical procedure. Ultimately, his underlying medical issues were just too much.
Sadly, he lost his wife Yvonne just a few months ago. Tivvy was one of the key individuals who created the Vintage Racer Group (VRG) in 2004. He raced several vintage race cars, most notably a white Jaguar XK 140 FHC that he wailed around like no other, most often at the front of the pack. Tivvy's shop, Tivvy's Autocraft, specialized in the restoration and repair of historically significant English and European race and street cars. Early in his career he held technical roles at Rolls Royce, Allan Mann racing, the BMW factory race team and with Ralph Broad of Broadspeed. He was also on the small team that developed and built the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang cars.
Tivvy was well known and loved by everyone in the VRG paddock. He was the Chief Tech inspector at nearly all VRG race events since the club began, only missing a few. For many years, he also led the Tech inspection process for the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix and for VSCCA prior to 2004,
We will have more to share in the coming weeks.
VRG Admin note: Thanks to Bill Stoler for sharing the photos of Tivvy in the post below.
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Tivvy and Yvonne. Wonderful memories and miles of stories to be remembered. Our wedding day, 20 years ago. Eve got him to wear a suit and tie.
He made everyone feel welcome and like an old friend even when meeting for the very first time.
Tivvy was a great person .Always fun to be around.
I knew Tivvy when he first came to the States in the 70’s. He worked for a family friend on his BMW CSL coupe and the TR7/8 rally cars.( John Buffum) I was a 13 year old kid , first time I met a Englishman . The rest is a long friendship, Im sure going to miss him. Rest in Peace My friend! Putz
It is hard to envision a world without our dear friend in it. God speed Tivvy. Keep the tire side down.
One of kind. Very sad news!
A sad day.
Heartbreaking.
I loved seeing Tivvy. What an icon. Godspeed Tivvy and God bless his family.
Probably saying "fucking hell Robert!" there's your problem.