5 May 2012, 13:24 (Ref:3069810)
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Originally Posted by PeterMorley
When European historic racing took off in the mid 80s there were FIA & FISA Championships (or Trophys as they called them) for sports cars upto 1450cc (with an 1100 class) and a 1960 cut-off date.
They attracted a lot of Lola Mark 1s, Lotus 11s & 17s etc. to all the original historic racing festivals (Nurburgring, Monza, Montlhery, Zolder, Spa etc) but many of them ran 1220s, since they were more common and therefore much cheaper (which was important in those non-professional historic racing days).
The "exotic" big engined cars like Lotus 15s etc (!!) were much rarer and too expensive for most people to run in those days, so the grids tended to be pretty much as the 50s amateur events.
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Mmmm I like the sound of that.
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