For a look at a progression of vintage Porsche race cars, click on this image. The previous installments in this series have cast a disparaging shadow on the current state of vintage racing, especially in regard to HSR's role in determining SVRA's future. Before reviewing the rest of this country's vintage racing, it seems both appropriate and timely to look at vintage racing from another perspective, a flip side which bodes well indeed for the future. A person's perspective and appreciation of motorsport is primarily influenced by the period in which that person first became infatuated with race cars.
Perspective is a personal choice based on experience.
Many of motorsport's most revered icons were not that old when vintage racing began in earnst in the late 1970s. The inclusion of more recent cars in vintage racing is not unlike amateur racing of the 1950-'60s, when new cars, having served their main purpose as factory or private professional racers, began a second life in SCCA events. Many of these veterans went on still further to form the original core of vintage racing. As modern technology pushed race cars to ever-higher levels of performance and accelerated obsolescence, it is now vintage racing instead of SCCA offering a pasture of asphalt to these outmoded warriors. The most original race cars are found in museums, not on the race track.