Its organizers maintain that the Silverstone Classic (July 20-22, 2012) is the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival and, going by the success of last year’s event with a total of 1104 race entries and 80,000 in attendance, it’s a pretty strong claim.
The wide ranging races will feature no less than 100 Grand Prix cars as well as spectacular Le Mans, GT, Group C, the Jaguar E-Type Challenge and new races for both F5000 and F2 cars that will be named after the late Peter Gethin, who died last December.
Also honoured will be car entrant Alan Mann whose distinctive red and gold liveried saloons and sports cars were an essential part of the UK’s and Europe’s racing scene in the Sixties.
The popular Morgan one-make fund raising race will take center spotlight as well and, yes, that is Sir Patrick Stewart, aka Jean-Luc Picard, posing for pictures as he will be racing at Silverstone next July. He told me that his only previous competitive drive had been at Long Beach “some time ago” although he admitted at not being terribly quick.
I hitched a ride for a few slippery laps in Alex Bell’s gorgeous Bizzarini, one of only two right-had-drive models made and fresh from a six-figure Sterling rebuild.
Although the drizzle had eased off by the time we were on track, it was viciously slippery and every time Alex planted his right foot the rear end broke traction. Heroics, I am glad to say, weren’t the order of the day but, even so, Alex worked up quite a sweat keeping the Italian car tame.
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