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The time is drawing near - the moment of truth is almost upon us.
After a winter of people earnestly promising me that they will give the Vintage Sports Car Club race meetings a try, the big one is almost here. The Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy meeting takes place at Donington Park on May 19 & 20. As well as a full programme of Historic motor racing (which has every prospect of being epic, if today's VSCC season opener at Silverstone was anything to go by), the Donington track will be graced by demonstrations of no less than the 1930s Auto Unions which carved their legends there sixty years before.
So - who's up for this one? Are there any more secret closet VSCC nuts out there, who live for the Meccano rumble of a Bentley, or the staccato crackle of a Maserati?
Does a Riley's burr or an ERA's rasp make you stop and listen, or does the tearing calico of a Bugatti do it for you?
Or are all of these delights as yet unsampled? Who is willing to give a whole new world of motor racing a chance? A world where dynasties of racing enthusiasts do battle in cars as diverse as a 900cc Morgan trike and a 24-litre aero-engined Bentley - in the same race!
Come to Donington, and sample the sound of an MG Montlhery C-Type, emulating the shrill warning cry of a sewing machine defending its young....
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