I have vintage-raced for nearly half my life, judged at concours events from Lime Rock Park to Amelia Island, and restored more than 50 cars, including some fairly significant old race cars. I have also worked with vintage-race-car shops in most of the U.S. states as well is in Europe. Thanks to this experience, I…
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You answer your own question. Its simple. Its an either or preposition. Pick one and go for it. What do they say…”you can’t have your cake and eat it too”!
“The racing and concours worlds are almost diametrically opposed. In racing, the goal is to build a car that outperforms others on track. In concours events, the goal is to restore a car as closely as possible to how it was originally. (In too many cases, much better even than it was in-period).
If you build a concours-correct race car, you have little chance of winning a race. And if you build a vintage race car to win on track, you have little chance of winning a concours.”