FV-25 Road America 1988

[pacratt]

FV25...Road America...1988
Can you identify the cars and/or drivers?
Some are pretty easy/obvious.
But chime in anyways.
Always nice to hear from anyone/everyone.
Glenn

[pacratt]

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[fvracerone1]

I owned and drove that car.... STAR CARS ST ONE.

Frank Vella

[Steve Davis]

This was the 25th year of Formula Vee Birthday party - the first b'day party I know of.
I can identify a few of them ...
#53 - Mike Vrchota - I think that's a Caracal C with elite bodywork.
#74 - Mark Edwards - Glamdring (2nd place Runoffs 1989 behind Bill Noble) I THINK that's Mark leaning against the trailer and that's Ron Chuck sitting in the chair next to the door).
#80 - Stevan Davis - Racer's Wedge (1987 Runoffs Winner).
#33 - George Fizell - Caracal D - (1986 Runoffs Winner and 3 other years) George in car and wife Sandy standing holding his helmet.
#86 - 'Handsome' Dave Smith - Citation (this car was NEVER seen 'dirty' - always IMMACULATELY CLEAN.
#1 - Butch Deer - Formcar. DRE was the ONLY FV parts dealer at the time .. at least on the east coast - run by Butch and Ron Rutenberg. Ron ran a race in a Formula Vee EVERY YEAR FOR FIFTY YEARS before his driving retirement in 2018!

There are others that I can ALMOST identify, but I'll leave that for others to fill in. While looking to see if I could find RESULTS for this event (I didn't) - was trying to figure out if winner Black Car #0 was Bill Noble or not .. should've been 00 if it was him .. and it probably was. At any rate.. I ran across this link on the SCCA website.

https://www.scca.com/articles/201362...he-older-stuff
It is a series of links to old videos on youtube and the like . mostly from RUNOFFS. I found 1989 and 1992 and there are others if you want to check them out. There is also a link to another set of videos at that same link.

Steve, FV80

[pacratt]

This was the 25th year of Formula Vee Birthday party - the first b'day party I know of.
I can identify a few of them ...
#53 - Mike Vrchota - I think that's a Caracal C with elite bodywork.
#74 - Mark Edwards - Glamdring (2nd place Runoffs 1989 behind Bill Noble) I THINK that's Mark leaning against the trailer and that's Ron Chuck sitting in the chair next to the door).
#80 - Stevan Davis - Racer's Wedge (1987 Runoffs Winner).
#33 - George Fizell - Caracal D - (1986 Runoffs Winner and 3 other years) George in car and wife Sandy standing holding his helmet.
#86 - 'Handsome' Dave Smith - Citation (this car was NEVER seen 'dirty' - always IMMACULATELY CLEAN.
#1 - Butch Deer - Formcar. DRE was the ONLY FV parts dealer at the time .. at least on the east coast - run by Butch and Ron Rutenberg. Ron ran a race in a Formula Vee EVERY YEAR FOR FIFTY YEARS before his driving retirement in 2018!

There are others that I can ALMOST identify, but I'll leave that for others to fill in. While looking to see if I could find RESULTS for this event (I didn't) - was trying to figure out if winner Black Car #0 was Bill Noble or not .. should've been 00 if it was him .. and it probably was. At any rate.. I ran across this link on the SCCA website.

https://www.scca.com/articles/201362...he-older-stuff
It is a series of links to old videos on youtube and the like . mostly from RUNOFFS. I found 1989 and 1992 and there are others if you want to check them out. There is also a link to another set of videos at that same link.

Steve, FV80

Yes, this was the 25th in 1988, but...

• It was the SECOND birthday party - there was the 20th in 1983.
  
• Vrchota's Elite #53 was a perfect Caracal-C copy that he made himself.
• George Fizell won the runoffs in '83 & '84 with a Z-12, then '86 & '88 with that D-car.
  
• Dave Smith's "beauty" was a Predator...he was the midwest Predator dealer.
• Actually...Butch Deer was the DRE driver...Ron Ruttenburg was the wrench.
  
• The black Caracal-D #0 was indeed bill Noble. (there may have been a number conflict due to 140+ entries)
  
• The overall Brundage Cup winner of the event was Eric Tremayne in his Stiletto.

Glenn

p.s. Who's that 'Steven Davis' guy?