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Originally Posted by MGDavid
I always supposed it was to add provenance and track record to the car thus 'enhancing its value'.
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That is the theory but a historic event is not a professional competitive contemporary event and as such does not really add any provenance.
Provenance should be about something's history.
Admittedly at some point in the future current events will be part of history but the events aren't of historic significance.
Showing that a car works should add something to the value but given the amounts being spent just on running some cars these days shouldn't be worth so much.
And as many people have discovered buying a race winning car does not guarantee success, chances are the driver had something to do with the result...
But there is more chance of buying success in historics than contemporary cars, which takes us back to the why bother...