‘Laps for Laguna’ charity race boosts West Coast vintage racing calendar

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emailBy Steve Nickless | January 27, 2022 3:25 PM ET

The Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) published its 2022 racing schedule in mid-December, of interest to the vast West Coast vintage racer community. A May 21-22 race date was of interest to a much wider audience, however.

“Laps for Laguna” is a new event, the joint creation of both the CSRG and non-profit Laguna Seca Raceway Foundation (LSRF). The late-spring unrestricted-sound (no mufflers!) vintage event will feature CSRG run groups and a whole host of off-track special events celebrating many of the enthusiast and marque clubs in the Salinas Valley and Monterey Peninsula, with all proceeds going to the non-profit 501c3 LSRF.

The weekend grand plan emerged from a fall 2021 social event when long-time vintage racers Martin Lauber and Locke de Bretteville, exchanging pleasantries, discovered that each was looking to organize a May 2022 vintage race at Laguna Seca Raceway.

“Our dates were a week apart,” said Lauber, an LSRF director. “And basically, we were going to sabotage one or the other’s event!”