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High-speed thrills at the 2024 Silverstone Festival: a photographic report
Historic racing enthusiasts poured into Silverstone on the weekend of August 22-24th for the annual Silverstone Festival to enjoy the sights and sounds of some of the 20th century's greatest racing cars being raced hard, just as they were originally intended. Sports, Grand Prix and saloon cars from the '50s onwards put on an exciting spectacle for visitors, and decidedly unpredictable weather—glorious sunshine one minute and biblical rainfall the next—added to the drama of it all.
One of this year's headline attractions was a celebration of the life of Ayrton Senna, which included a special display of his cars, motorcycles and go-karts, including all six of his championship-winning cars from Formula One, Formula Three and Formula Ford.
After Friday's qualifying, sheets of rain fell during Saturday's racing, but it didn't prevent John Spiers driving his 1955 Maserati 250F to victory in the H.G.P.C.A. race for pre-1966 Grand Prix cars, despite being challenged by much more modern machines. Spiers had already tasted victory earlier in the day when, with Nigel Greensall, he won the R.A.C. Woodcote Trophy in a 1958 Lister-Jaguar 'Costin'. Meanwhile, Lukas Halusa and Alex Ames took first place in the Stirling Moss Trophy with their 1954 Jaguar D-type. With the sun out once more and sinking gently into the horizon, the Masters Sports Car Legends race took place. The red Ferrari 512M of father and son David and Olivier Hart duelled closely with a yellow 512M for much of the race, but as that slipped back, James Claridge and Goncalo Gomes, who had been having their own battle with Alex Brundle, took second place with their 1976 Lola T296, oupacing Brundle's 1969 Lola T70. In the Masters Racing Legends race for Formula One cars 1966-85, Stuart Hall in the 1982 March 821 eclipsed the 1982 Tyrell 011 of Matthew Wrigley by just 0.345 seconds.
On the Sunday, perhaps the performance of the weekend came from Will Nuthall and his 1960 Cooper T53. Having retired from the H.G.P.C.A. race on the Saturday, he started a miserable 39th in the Sunday race but ended up the winner. The day's proceedings had started with a Formula Junior race contested by more than 50 cars, of which the victor was the 1963 Lotus 27 of Michael O'Brien. The R.A.C. Tourist Trophy was a showdown between two A.C./Shelby Cobras. The 1962 machine of Gregor Fisken narrowly beat the hard-driven example of Spiers and Greensall. Masters Racing Legends then returned and Wrigley in the Tyrell this time had the satisfaction of beating Hall in the March, but it was another close finish, with barely more than a second separating them.
The weekend came to a close with a couple of packed races, again with over 50 cars taking part. The first was the Pure Michigan Mustang Celebration Trophy for pre-1966 saloon cars, where American V8s had the edge over the British cars. Sam Tordoff took first place with his Ford Falcon, while chased by Julian Thomas, also in a Falcon. A Ford Mustang driven by Jann Mardenborough and Jimmy Broadbent made it a Dearborn hat-trick. The curtain-closer was the International Trophy for pre-1966 GT cars, and that was a close-fought battle between Julian Thomas and Olivier Hart, each in Shelby Daytona Coupés, but Hart who took the chequered flag by less than a car length.
Matthew Pitts was our man with a camera, so you can get a sense of the excitement through his photography.
Words: Zack Stiling
Photographs: Matthew Pitts Photography
Pubblicato:
martedì settembre 3rd, 2024
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