BMW Car Club of America - Oregon Chapter

HOD: Sprinting Along The Ridge PacNW HPDE
2016-07-02 06:30 - 17:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Ridge Motorsports Park, 1060 W Eells Hill Rd, Shelton, WA, 98584, United States
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Portland Vintage Racing Festival
2016-07-08 - 2016-07-10 | OR
One of the premier events on our Club’s calendar is the Portland Vintage Racing Festival. Formerly the Portland Historic Races, this festival weekend gives our club the chance to show our cars and club to the masses. From Friday, July 8th to Sunday, July 10th Portland Int’l Raceway will welcome all car clubs in the region to setup corrals and watch the SVRA racers compete.
The SIG group promotes this event to bring out as many BMWs from the past to the present as possible. On Saturday and Sunday we will have a free BBQ for our members. Don’t forget to sign up for the parade lap around PIR. On Saturday and Sunday, all registrants will be able to drive on the racetrack! Sign up early. We are only allowed 25 cars per day.
Jaguar is the title sponsor again this year and they plan on bringing their cars for a test drive on the autocross lot. You do not want to miss driving these amazing cars. More details will follow in the weeks ahead.
SVRA is honoring Formula racing cars this year. This Formula Festival provides various racing opportunities to honor cars such as Formula 1, Formula 5000, Formula B, Formula Ford, Formula Vee and Formula Junior from the 1950-70s. As a special treat this year we will have two Grand Marshals – Al Unser and Al Unser Jr.
The whole weekend for one car, two people, and parking pass in our corral is still just $45. Children 12 & under are free. Tickettomato.com is handling all PVRF ticketing this year. A direct link to car corral ticketing is on our website. I look forward to seeing you at the SIGnature event of the year!

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July Board Meeting
2016-07-11 18:30 - 20:30 | Buster’s Texas-Style Barbecue, 11419 SW Pacific Hwy, Tigard, OR, 97223, United States
Join your Board of Directors in our monthly meeting to discuss club operations.
All BMW CCA members are welcome. The Board of Directors will conduct the meeting in a professional, orderly manner with firm time limits… but we’re notoriously prone to sidebars and rambling discussions when fun stuff comes up in the course of the meeting.

Please let us know you’re coming by submitting the form below. Upon confirmation, we will send you the meeting agenda.

HOD: Continued Development HPDE at PIR
2016-07-14 06:30 - 16:00 | Portland International Raceway, 1940 N Victory Blvd, Portland, OR, 97217, United States

44th Annual Forest Grove Concours d'Elegance
2016-07-17 09:00 - 16:30 | OR
The Club will be in attendance with our own BMW corral, but all cars entering the event have been selected and no additional vehicles will be permitted for judging. Attending the event as a spectator though is still highly encouraged. You can find ticket details on the Forest Grove Concours d’Elegance website.
Stroll around the beautiful campus of Pacific University and enjoy more than￼ 300 vintage, sports and collector cars on the tree-shaded campus of Pacific University on Sunday July 17th. Also enjoy live music, a beer garden, a wine pavilion and fine food. All proceeds benefit Rotary Club Foundation Community Service projects.
Special classes at this year’s show:

Porsche Street and Competition Cars
100 Years of BMW
Mercedes-Benz
Volkswagen

Concours 2016 Senior Judge
Our Senior Judge for 2016 is Miles Collier. Artist, philanthropist, and noted authority on collector cars, Mr. Collier is the founder of The Revs Institute for Automotive Research in Naples, Fla., which houses more than 100 important historic automobiles, including the Collier Collection. Mr. Collier hosts a biennial symposium on Connoisseurship and the Collectible Automobile that brings together automobile collectors and faculty from around the world to discuss critical issues in collecting and preserving important historic automobiles. Read Mr. Collier’s biography.
Concours 2016 Presenters
Our Presenters for 2016 are Keith Martin and Donald Osborne. Mr. Martin is the founder and publisher of the monthly Sports Car Market and American Car Collector magazines, and has been involved in the collector car hobby for over 30 years. Mr. Osborne has served as Judge and Presenter at many Concours events, and he also appraises and consults on classic and exotic cars across the US and Europe. He is also a host on ‘Jay Leno’s Garage’. Click here to learn more about this year’s presenters.

TICKETS

Rose Cup Races
2016-07-29 - 2016-07-31 | Portland Intl Raceway, 1940 N Victory Blvd, Portland, OR, 97217, United States
The Car Corral ticket package is $35 and includes admission for two individuals and one car (in the BMW corral).
The car corrals are Saturday and Sunday only, but your tickets also grant admission on Friday.
The three day race weekend will include:

Friday SCCA Track Night in America where non-racers can drive their cars at speed in a more controlled environment.
Saturday Night Drags
Saturday night Cruise-in with live music and good fun
Spectator rides in race and exotic cars
The FroYo 5k run

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The following is an excerpt of a letter written by Gary Bockman, FOPIR President of the Board
The New Rose Cup Races
We’re very excited to announce that Friends of PIR (FOPIR) is now the promoter and operator of the Rose Cup Races following a hand-off from the Portland Rose Festival Foundation.
The Rose Cup Races has been a premier amateur road racing event in the Pacific Northwest since 1961. However, race entries and spectator interest had declined in recent years. It was time to create a new and improved Rose Cup.
While the Rose Cup Races will remain a Portland Rose Festival Foundation sanctioned event, full operational control has been transferred to FOPIR. The goal is to bring the event back to its traditional glory. We have great ideas about how to rekindle enthusiasm, and we are very motivated to create an exciting new era of Rose Cup Races. We know the success of the Rose Cup Races is very important for both the local motorsports community and Portland International Raceway (PIR).
Your BMW CCA Oregon Chapter is proud and excited to be participating in this year’s new Rose Cup Races. For the past six years we have maintained a BMW corral which is located alongside the front straightaway with other featured car clubs. This year will be no different. Please join us for a show of great BMWs and enjoy a weekend of watching some very exciting road racing.
The lineup of races includes:

The Rose Cup Race – Big Bore cars
Spec Racer Ford
Spec Miata
Pro3 BMW
Great American Stockcar Series – GASS
Vintage
Small Bore cars

The Pro3 BMW spec racing group is made up of E30 BMWs. These are 325i BMWs produced from 1985-1991. These cars have been race prepared to drive fast and are very competitive. There will be at least 25 E30s in this race. If you have never seen these cars race you will not want to miss it this year. Check the Rose Cup website for the race time schedules as we get closer to the race weekend.
The Car Corral ticket package is $35 and includes admission for two individuals and one car (in the BMW corral).
The car corrals are Saturday and Sunday only, but your tickets also grant admission on Friday.
The three day race weekend will include:

Friday SCCA Track Night in America where non-racers can drive their cars at speed in a more controlled environment.
Saturday Night Drags
Saturday night Cruise-in with live music and good fun
Spectator rides in race and exotic cars
The FroYo 5k run

To purchase tickets for the Car Corral or a daily pass please go directly to Ticket Tomato.
We hope to see a large group of BMWs to support this legendary race weekend.
See you there.
Bruce Feller
BMW CCA Board Member
Past President

Maryhill Loops Rally
2016-07-30 - 2016-07-31 | Maryhill Loops Road, Maryhill Loops Road, Goldendale, WA, 98620, United States
Join us for our 6th Annual Maryhill Loops Rally!
Each day will accommodate approximately 20 drivers and will cost $75, which includes a lunch.

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Registrants are initially limited to choosing either Saturday or Sunday, but may have the opportunity to register for both if space is still available one week prior to the event.
The Maryhill Loops Road is a few mile long private historic road that gains 850 feet elevation at an average grade of 5% with 25 turns, including 8 hairpins.

Cars are divided into groups of ten (two groups per day). Each car goes uphill only after the previous car passes the halfway mark. All cars drive downhill in a slow convoy. Special arrangements may be made for photo/video chase vehicles, but only after participants have had their fun.
Participants can register for Saturday or Sunday. We also have plenty of opportunities to volunteer for this event, including staffing checkpoints along the road, helping with lunch, preparing the course, and cleaning up at the end of the event.
The rally starts each morning with a photo session at the Stonehenge War Memorial around 8 AM.
Maryhill Loops Road is located in a desolate, wind-swept area with no restaurants, no facilities (porta-potty available), and few shade trees. Bring shade tents (the club will have a couple), sunblock, and lots of food and water. The club will host a Subway Giant Sub, chips, cookies, and some beverages, but please be prepared with your own snacks as well.
Lastly, the club will organize a no-host dinner on Saturday night at the Clock Tower Ales Restaurant and Brew Pub in The Dalles, OR. We will have a private room and please bring cash as we will need to pay as a group on a single tab.

FAQ
Q. Are non-BMW cars allowed at this event?
A. Yes! Only requirement is you must be a current BMW CCA member.
Q. How many times can you drive up in a day?
A. We’ve never actually kept track of that, but you probably get a run about every 45 minutes. Time flies throughout the day and you definitely get your share of turns. Often towards the end of the day we have fewer drivers going up, which then gives you the chance to do back-to-back runs or at the very least quicker turnaround times between the groups.
