My 2009 vintage race season greeted me with delays and set-backs in the “freshening” of my race motor. I missed the SOVREN Defrost Kick-Off and the Spring Sprints, but with the help of club members Tom Monaco and Richard Mayer I was able to put all the pieces back together in time for General Racing Ltds. Wine Country Classic at Sonoma’s Infineon Raceway. GRL is the same group that puts on the Monterey Historics and everything they do is top notch.

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After 2 weeks straight of late night (or early mornings) in the garage my ’57 100-6 MM vintage race Healey was ready to do battle with the best Alfa’s, Porsche’s, Morgan’s, Corvette’s, MGA’s, and Lotus’ on the west coast.. My goal was keep it upright, stay on the track, finish somewhere in the middle and hopefully not have to spend all my time between races wrenching on the car.

I’m happy to say it all worked out as planned, somehow. The car ran great even with only 3/4 full throttle needing only tire pressure adjustments, fuel, and polishing. I qualified 24th out of 41 on Saturday and finished 17 out of 41 in Sundays feature race. Michele, my wife and 2 other couples who travel down for the event had a wonderful time wine tasting and visiting some of the Napa valleys beautiful winery’s and still made it back to the track in time for my races. I highly recommend this premiere event to any who enjoys vintage cars, vintage racing, great food, and world class wine.