Formula Vee 55
Several posts on the various racing forums have asked about what is happening in the way of an FV55 event. The folks in Jacksonville have recently announced their event at Roebling in the fall. Our local vintage organization, CVAR, has changed their FV Feature Race from August at Hallett, which can be brutal, to April at Hallett which is a prime time for racing in the mid-continent. With the help of a half-dozen like-minded vee racers, we have put together what we hope will be an interesting version of the FV 55th Anniversary to take advantage of this opportunity.
The date is April 13-15, 2018 at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit, about forty miles west of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Hallett has a friendly and welcoming staff, encourages overnight camping and has available garages and hook-ups. Hallett is a one point eight mile old-school track kept in excellent condition in a vee-friendly layout that includes four up/down segments that provides over eighty feet of elevation change for a lap that takes just a bit over ninety seconds. The FV Feature Race is an annual CVAR event where the Group Three Vees get an extra thirty-minute race on Saturday afternoon followed by a podium presentation, special trophies and liquid refreshment. We have developed quite an array of sponsorship from our friends in the FV community to share with entrants this year. This race will also be part of the Victory Lane national series.
Let me say up front that this FV55 event is taking place within a regular CVAR Vintage Racing weekend with FV being one of the six scheduled race groups. CVAR is a member of Vintage Motorsports Council (VMC) and our Group Three Vees are basically Monoposto-legal cars. CVAR does also accept VMC member entries in Group Three of other vintage based vees that are presented with a vintage preparation and spirit in an FV1 class. Unfortunately after SVRA’s experiment at Indy we can not accept entries for this event of current vees like Vortechs or Protoforms or Firsts.
The weekend will go like this; Friday is a test day with alternating test day groups in 15-minute sessions. Saturday has a qualifying session for each of the six race groups followed by two qualifying sprint races for the six groups. The day ends with the 30-minute FV Feature for FV and FV1 cars. Sunday has a brief multi-group warm-up, the last qualifying race for each group and the CVAR series points race for each group. Vees will have over an hour and a half of scheduled on-track race time in five separate races plus testing and qualifying. My goal is to have fifty-five vees on the grid for FV55 at Hallett, hope to see you there.
The CVAR web site is http://www.corinthianvintagerace.com/
The Hallett web site is http://www.hallettracing.net/
Mike Rogers
CVAR Group Three Rep
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