15 high-profile grids set for Silverstone Classic
Fifteen high-profile grids from across historic racing will form the race line-up as the Silverstone Classic returns this summer.
The 2020 event was lost to the COVID pandemic, so this year’s event (30 July-1 August) will mark a delayed 30th anniversary for the biggest event of the genre.
It is being billed as the ‘Greatest Hits’ edition, featuring single seaters, sports and GT and touring cars from a century of racing history.
Anniversary races to mark 60 years of two British motoring icons, the Mini Cooper and Jaguar E-type, will be prominent.
Many of the 15 categories will feature grids of more than 60 cars and the Mini races are set to have a 60-car grid.
Some races will include pit-stops and driver changes and others will run to a double-header format with races on both Saturday and Sunday.
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“When we were forced to postpone our 30th birthday party last summer, we vowed to offer visitors an even bigger and better celebration in 2021 – our brilliant race card certainly does that,” said Nick Wigley of promoter Goose Live Events.
“The line-up not only includes all the ‘Greatest Hits’ grids as promised 12 months ago but also the bonus of Mini and E-type anniversary showdowns.
"This must be our best-ever line-up!”
Grand Prix cars from the 1950s through to the early 1980s will contest the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association and Masters Historic Formula 1 races, while the 2019 record grid of more than 50 Historic Formula 2 cars of the 1970s is set to be repeated.
Nearly a century of sports car racing will be headlined by the Pre-War Sports Cars of the 1920s and 1930s and the sports-prototypes of the last 20 years in the Masters Endurance Legends.
Though not confirmed, the Endurance Legends is likely to take the into-the-dusk slot on Saturday evening.
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