West Coast Corvette Challenge
About Us
The West Coast Corvette Challenge represents one of the newest endeavors to promote the love of Corvettes and drag racing on the West Coast. There is an ever-growing number of us who own Corvettes of all years and models, and in various configurations from "bone to blown". In March of 2002 I posted a thread on the Pacific Section of the Corvette Forum. I wanted to find out if there were other vette owners who might be inspired to start an annual all-Corvette drag racing points series. In the first few weeks there were almost a hundred replies and over a thousand hits on this topic alone. I guess I got my answer!
Well, one thing has been leading to another in the pursuit of this dream. Where to race? What type of race? When to race? How to get organized? Logo? Website? T-shirts? Safety? Points? Rules? Sponsors? You get the picture. One of the first things we then asked ourselves was this: has anybody else done something similar to what we wanted to achieve. No sense in re-inventing the wheel.
Fortunately for us John Mackey of the East Coast Supercharging Corvette Challenge in New Jersey saw our post and he responded. Their event sounded very much like what we wanted to do. After numerous e-mails back and forth and posts to the thread, we realized that our big brothers on the other coast had their act together and so, with their permission and active support, we have modeled the WCCC along very similar lines as the original.
All of their events are sponsored by a single track. We owe these folks much as they have actively encouraged us to try and put on a similar event. Many thanks to John Mackey and Edgar Perez in particular for their ongoing wisdom, experience, support, and encouragement.
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For the West Coast Corvette Challenge inaugural year of 2002 we ran five events. In 2003 we scheduled 10 events. We constantly update news about our events on our homepage: The Latest WCCC News!
Our ideas about WCCC events reflect our varying needs. Some of us have little or no experience drag racing and so we thought to create a series of events for Corvette drivers to get out and see what their cars were MADE TO DO. Some of us have a bit of racing experience and want to learn more about modifying our cars to gain lower e.t.'s, more m.p.h., and quicken our 60' times as well as our reaction times. And still others are more experienced racers who, like most of us when we were 16 years old, just wanted to be the quickest and fastest guy in the world's coolest production sports car ever made!
Each West Coast Corvette Challenge event is a drag race. We have some basic common sense rules that each driver must agree to comply with. We will begin racing for series points with the beginning of the 2003 season. At each event drivers have the opportunity to earn awards as well.
Note: At the end of each racing season we will donate a significant portion of our net proceeds to a charity that supports those surviving family members who have lost a loved one in the line of duty. We are dedicated to providing whatever relief we can to widows and orphan's who's father, son, husband, mother, daughter, or wife died in the line of duty while serving as a firefighter or peace officer. In our inaugural year we donated to the UFA Widows and Children's Scholarship Fund of the New York Fire Department. In 2003 we have designated the South Bay Police and Firefighter Memorial Fund as the focus of our efforts.
INSPIRED?
If any of the following on our "Drag Racing Motivation Checklist" reflects some of your thinking then you might want to consider attending one of our events:
- I want to try drag racing for the first time.
- I want to make my one-thousandth pass in front of other vette owners!
- I want to race ONLY Corvettes because I am now bored to tears from routinely waxing Vipers, Mustangs, and Porsche Turbo's!
- I want to learn about performance mods for my car.
- I want to share some of my racing knowledge with newcomers, just as others helped me to get started in our sport.
- I like the idea of comparing notes about computer tuning late-model vettes.
- I want to know how to build a '63 vette from the ground up so that it will run a ten-second dial!
- I am a beautiful, young woman, who just loves to see men - any men - race their Corvettes.
- I am a racer who is also a Dad. This would give me an opportunity to come to the race track with one of my kids so that we can have some "quality time" together… ;-)
- I want a trophy. ANY trophy will do. I've got a fifty percent chance of earning one if I go to a WCCC drag race.
- I like the idea of an annual points series. I wanna race!
- I could care less about the points. I wanna race!
If only one of the above apply, you are a definitely a candidate to try the West Coast Corvette Challenge. Five or more boxes and you are naturally born to come out and play with us!
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We hope that the information presented in our website has been helpful in telling you a bit about who we are and what we hope to accomplish for ourselves and others who love racing Corvettes. Please let us know if there is additional information that you would like posted here. This site is continually updated and grows and expands to reflect our experience and your input. Welcome aboard - we hope to see you at the drags real soon!
As always, please feel free and encouraged to contact us if you would like any additional information. Hope to see you at the track!
Dave Dowdell
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