A 1967 Camaro in the 2015 Heritage Touring Cup Championship

[eb911]

You have followed our first races in vintage racing with our 1967 Camaro in 2014.
I am very happy to announce that we will be part of the 2015 Heritage Touring Cup Championship which is now an FIA sanctioned International event. See details here : http://peterauto.peter.fr/en/plateaux/detail/id/37/nom/HERITAGE%20Touring%20cup

Two new rounds will take place in Italy with Vallelunga in March and the iconic and very fast Monza in July.

I will keep you updated on our results.

Just one shot of the lat 2014 round :

[Steve Holmes]

That is awesome Eric! I'm jealous. Monza will be epic in the Camaro

[Jon Mello]

Thanks for the update, Eric. That sounds terrific. You have to post some pics of the car at Monza! 

[369]

Looks like a second gen split bumper car in the background too?.?....(Green with lights on) now I know who I want to finish second!

[eb911]

Yes it is a 2nd gen split bumper Camaro, but as a group 1 car, it is quite slow.

[eb911]

Winter work in progress. Getting ready for the 2015 season.

[Jon Mello]

I hope you have fun and your results continue to improve!

[eb911]

The first race of the season is over. Vallelunga (Italy, near Roma) was a little difficult for us. Not the start of the season we expected.
We have experienced clutch problem early in the practice sessions and could not fix it. It was impossible to put the pedal down to the metal without clutch slipping.
So we used only half of the acceleration and got on the rpm gently. Very frustrating. But we decided to do the race nevertheless.
We qualified 18th out of 19 (No comment !) and started what was more cruising than hard racing.
It should be pointed out that Vallelunga is a very nice track but despite a first part that is quite fast, most of the circuit is quite slow with lots of corners we had to take in 1st, so in any cases in was the most difficult one of the season for our Camaro.
In the end due to lots of DNF, we finished 7th, quite unexpected ! We got back home with 15 points in the pocket and can't wait to express ourselves at Spa for the next round, where it will go muuucchhh faster !

Few pictures :

[eb911]

Few more and our new towing vehicle :

[Steve Holmes]

Thats awesome Eric! The two vehicle is pretty cool too.

Do you only get one race per event?

[Trans Åm]

Can you give some specs on your wheels and tires? I have been confused about what kinds of old school wheels are actually strong enough to race on, and you are running the exact wheels I love the most...now I just need to know who makes them!
Thank you so much.

[Steve Holmes]

Those are PS Engineering wheels, they were on the car when Eric bought it.

[Trans Åm]

Ahh I see, those are no ordinary Torque Thrusts! Those things were born to run!
Thank you very much for the reply.

[Jon Mello]

Eric, thanks for the report from your first race of the season at Vallelunga .

Sounds like a lot of frustration ended up with a good end result. Hopefully you'll get your clutch fixed before the next outing.

[MO]

Congrats for hanging in there and getting a solid finish.