Race Retro’s racing icons
THIS year's Race Retro, the international historic motorsport show, will celebrate 100 years of iconic racing cars, with vehicles spanning the years from 1908 to present day.
Running at Stoneleigh Park from tomorrow, (March 14) until Sunday, racing cars on show range from a 100-year-old Panhard Levassor Grand Prix car to a 2007 Aston Martin V8 Vantage N24, which has been purpose-built to compete in events in 2008.
Iconic cars include a 1960 Ferrari 246 Dino, a 1965 Lotus 26R and a 1991 Reynard 913. There'll also be a newly-restored 1986 Lotus 98T Formula
1 car, and a 1938 ex-works Brooklands speed model Aston Martin.
Other features include a collection of Ford works rally cars, from the Ford Zephyr to the current Focus World Rally Car, displayed as part of the show's tribute to Ford's motorsport successes.
Exhibitors Historic Motorsport and David Sutton Cars will have the World Championship winning Rothmans Escort Mk2 on their stand, as well as hosting a visit from Bjorn Waldegard, the 1997 World Rally Champion and winner of the 2007 East African Safari, who will also appear on the Live Rally Stage.
The British and World Sidecar Champions and their racing vehicles will make their Race Retro debut, to celebrate the evolution of sidecar racing.
The motorcycle area will feature the famous Yamaha Classic Racing Team, as well as a replica Ace Cafe and the inaugural Cafe Racer Concours, featuring iconic cafe racers from the 1950s and 1960s.
Among the famous faces will be rally hero Markku Alen, who will join a line-up of star drivers on the Live Rally Stage, including Pentti Airikkala andRussell Brookes.
Other famous drivers and co-drivers, such as Nicky Grist, Paddy Hopkirk, Tony Mason, Rosemary Smith and Stuart Turner, will be at the show too.
Malcolm Wilson, the former WRC driver and British Rally Champion, will open the show tomorrow morning.
3:11pm Thursday 13th March 2008
Print 
Email this 
Comment
What are these links for?
If you liked this article and would like to share it with others on the web who might be searching for good content we've made it easy for you to do it.
At the bottom of all articles, you'll see links to six sites. These sites - commonly called 'social bookmark' or 'social news' sites - have large communities of web users who share and rate interesting, useful and fun things on the web.
Clicking the links will automatically add the address of the story you are reading to one of these sites, letting you share it with others. Each site will ask you to register to share stories. Registration is free and once a member, you can store, recommend and search for stories that interest you.
More on Digg
More on del.icio.us
More on Furl
More on reddit
More on NowPublic/
More on Yahoo!
