Sports-racing and GT cars from the 1950s and early ’60s will race at the British Grand Prix meeting at Silverstone this year.<\/p>\n
The invitation race, set to be held after the headline event on Sunday afternoon (July 7), will bring together machines from the two eras in a capacity 44-car field.<\/p>\n
It’s expected that the leading entries from the BRDC’s Historic Sports Car Championship will represent the 1950s, while cars like Ford’s GT40, AC Cobras and Jaguar E-types will represent the pre-65 classes.<\/p>\n
The 1954-60 division will be split at 1500cc, and the 1961-65 cars will be divided at 2000cc.<\/p>\n
It is planned to invite cars with significant history to contest the 1960s section of the race. The race will be organised by the Historic Sports Car Club in a deal that cements the relationship between the club and Octagon Motorsports. In August, the HSCC will run the International Historic Festival at Oulton Park on behalf of Octagon.<\/p>\n
The HSCC’s Executive Director Grahame White said: “‘This is a great privilege for our club and extremely good for historic Motorsport. We will be putting on a race to include two groups of sports-racing cars from the 1950s and 1960s, which will run together for the first time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":739,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,226,35762,214,22251,5981,117456,115463],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121670],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/30963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/739"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/30963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246811,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/30963\/revisions\/246811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30963"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=30963"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=30963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}