February 14, 2026
Silverstone, Northants

This year the Vintage Sports-Car Club celebrated the 70th running of its Pomeroy Trophy. Taking place since 1952 (a few years were missed), it’s a unique event where pre-war cars take on more modern machines through a series of tests to find out which is the best all-rounder – culminating with 40 minutes of track time on the Silverstone circuit. This photograph is indicative of the wildly differing cars you’ll see competing in the ‘Pom’, showing Brett Dillon’s 1959 Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite up against Mike Thorne’s 1954 Austin A30 and Thomas Townsend’s 1953 Bentley Mk VI Special. This year’s results? Alas, as this issue was going to press the provisionals hadn’t been approved by the handicappers.