B/F: Y’all be Yippin!

Celebration of Life

We celebrated the life of Matthew G. Yip on 4/2/2022 – 30 plus year SCCA member, iconic figure in DMV, National SCCA Board member, PDX founder, long time instructor, competed in the notorious General LI VW GTI, crew member for a GRANDAM team – now Weathertech Sports car series. Off track: Accomplished violinist, cat rescuer, Grand Touring Motorsports Fellowship Award for selfless commitment to community. Mentor and friend to all…

In his own words…

The following Break/Fix episode is dedicated to long-time GTM member Matthew Yip. Matthew had been struggling and striving through his battle with Kidney failure for many years. On 11/15/2021, we were informed that he was found at home, on the couch, in a state of eternal rest. We are all very shocked and saddened by this sudden news. This full-length Pit Stop was remastered from segments along with never before heard extras from the following episodes: What Should I Buy? Ugly Cars Parts 1 & 2, The British Owners Club, WSIB: Wagons Edition, The Silver Monster, Regrets & The Desert Island and many other episodes where Matt was a guest host. He was a legend in our community, and an important role-model and helped get GTM started back in 2014. Everyone has a story… and Matt’s live on here on Break/Fix.

The Slideshow

Download this slideshow as a PowerPoint presentation!

Kwok Family Tribute to MGY

Missing Man formation (in-car view)

Jordan’s mini-Documentary “Hooked”

[EDITORS NOTE 3/27/22] – FINAL DETAILS on Matthew’s Celebration of Life are available here >>> MGY Celebration of Life Event – This event will be held in 2 places, and also live streamed via our Twitch, and later available here on this page or our Youtube Channel.

[EDITORS NOTE 12/10/21] – VIRTUAL MEMORIAL; In case you missed the Virtual Memorial for Matthew, take a look at the video below.

[EDITORS NOTE 11/16/21] – Matthew G. Yip (1966-2021)
As many of you are probably aware, Matthew had been struggling and striving through his battle with Kidney failure for many years. Yesterday (11/15/2021), we were informed that he was found at home, on the couch, in a state of eternal rest. We are all very shocked and saddened by this sudden news.

Retrospective
I have been very fortunate to be close with Matthew for nearly 30 years. He’s been a mentor, a guide, a leader, a motorsports yogi, my older brother from another mother, and often in his later years played the role of curmudgeonly crazy uncle. But we loved him just the same. He was more than just a “track friend” or “an autocrosser” or “petrol head” – he’d been to many of our weddings, children’s births, shared holidays, and more… for many of us, he was family.

If you know Matthew you know he was full of countless stories, which he loved to share. Whether you’d heard them once or a hundred times “ya know” – he loved nothing more than to share his wealth of knowledge with anyone and everyone. You can relive some of Matt’s stories, in his own voice, on this special podcast episode: https://gtmotorsports.podbean.com/e/yall-be-yippin/

Matthew and his Honda were also heavily featured on Jordan Fureman’s video “Hooked” where he shares some of his inner thoughts on what Motorsports really meant to him: https://youtu.be/wt459XO65xk

Many might not know he was an avid blogger for our organization and his work can be found here: https://club.gtmotorsports.org/category/hazmattracing/

Matthew was the epitome of fellowship… always giving of his time without complaint and without want/need for more than anything but to help others. #selfless. Matthew is a larger-than-life personality in our Motorsports community, and he *will* be missed.

Memorial Service
Earlier this year to help celebrate his 55th birthday, we put together a tribute at the following URL: https://club.gtmotorsports.org/b-f-yall-be-yippin/ – and we will continue to update this URL as part of the Memorial, so please check back often.

Arrangements for Matthew’s memorial are still being determined, so please stay tuned for additional information in the coming days.

Eric Monterastelli – GTM Crew Chief – eric@gtmotorsports.org

[EDITORS NOTE 11/24/21] – Matthew featured in WDCR SCCA “Straightpipe” Magazine. Download a copy here: Straight Pipe 11, 2021.

In this full-length PitStop episode we go behind the scenes with long-time GTM member Matthew Yip in a completely non-sequitur collection of stories, memories and quotes as we pay tribute to Matt on his 55th birthday! Sit back, enjoy, and remember to Like, Subscribe and Support us on Patreon. Matthew is also one of our recurring author’s on GTM’s website, so please check out his work! >> HAZMATT RACING BLOG. This episode is part of our Pit Stop mini-series.