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Old 5 Feb 2004, 17:21 (Ref:864270)   #1
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Silverstone Historic Festival June 4th.-6th.

Have I missed something, or am I confused ? C&SC for March 2004 page 8 has a feature on the return of the Historic Festival. It seems to indicate a return to the Coys type of event, club displays, autojumble village etc. Historic racing includes Thoroughbred GP Cars, Group 4 Prototypes and Group C sports racers. No mention of Vintage or pre-war cars. Is it intended to have team races with pre-war LeMans sports cars, have any further details been published yet ? It is in the VSCC Calendar as a two day event, presumably Friday is for practice.
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Old 5 Feb 2004, 17:31 (Ref:864280)   #2
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Mr Imp your not alone.lets hope its true???????
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Old 5 Feb 2004, 17:44 (Ref:864289)   #3
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I presume it's the 2004 version of last year's two-day HSCC/VSCC meeting.
As for it being a return of the Festival, time will tell
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Old 5 Feb 2004, 20:39 (Ref:864512)   #4
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I think they were refering to the BRDC meeting on July 31/August 1st.
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Old 5 Feb 2004, 21:17 (Ref:864553)   #5
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This sounds too good to be true. Being the weekend before Le Mans is not ideal, but...

It sounds like the usual selection of good races too! Apart from the lack of a coupe of pre-war races.

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Old 5 Feb 2004, 22:14 (Ref:864623)   #6
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I believe the dates are correct. There will be pre-war classes, although I am not sure of details. It would appear to reflect an ambition of the BRDC to put on a real show. The suggestion is that released from the management responsibility for the circuits sold to Jonathan Palmer, the Silverstone team have the capacity to devote to the event. Await further details I guess. Looks like becoming an extremely crowded calendar of Historic events.
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Old 6 Feb 2004, 06:37 (Ref:865055)   #7
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Sadly, Silverstone is still under the mismagagement of Octagon/Interpublic or whatever the name is today.

The BRDC still own the freehold of the property and organise some events.
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Old 6 Feb 2004, 09:08 (Ref:865153)   #8
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Hopefully the man behind it is Murray Smith long time historic racer and a good guy to make things happen.
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Old 6 Feb 2004, 10:04 (Ref:865209)   #9
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Murray Smith was mentioned in the feature. It is to be hoped that his involvement will bring the improvements needed. A good guy everyone says.
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Old 7 Feb 2004, 07:20 (Ref:866130)   #10
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We need to get the BRDCs James Beckett to fill us in, a regular poster here last october/november around 'Walter Hayes trophy' time.
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Old 9 Feb 2004, 17:44 (Ref:868519)   #11
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If anyones interested,I am meeting Murray Smith inParis on Thursday so will have the latest on the "festival" to report when I return on Saturday........watch this space.
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Old 14 Feb 2004, 17:30 (Ref:874225)   #14
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The "news" is as follows.2004 will be a sort of "halfway house" event,due to lack of time etc.But there should be a good turnout of car clubs.A good variety of racing is being promised.The plan is to bring a PROPER Historic Festival back to Silverstone as before.
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Old 14 Feb 2004, 20:30 (Ref:874295)   #15
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Presumably your last comment means after 2004?
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Old 14 Feb 2004, 21:04 (Ref:874314)   #16
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Sorry David Yes I think we can look forward to a proper full blooded,all singing and dancing event in 2005.
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Old 16 Feb 2004, 13:12 (Ref:875741)   #17
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which will be good news! If its the BRDC meeting in June then its on the Int rather than the GP circuit which is a shame
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Old 18 Feb 2004, 21:29 (Ref:878704)   #18
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Oh Dear!

Looks like there is still a degree of uncertainty over the content of this meeting. Let's hope that the details of the meeting are decided and published soon, and that it is the basis of future VSCC events and not "modern" festivals promoted under the auspices of another club.

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Old 19 Feb 2004, 13:42 (Ref:879358)   #19
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June is a combined HSCC/VSCC/BRDC meeting on the Int circuit but the BRDC festival was going to be 31 Jul/1 Aug but it looks like its been cut back to just 31 July
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Old 19 Feb 2004, 21:04 (Ref:879762)   #20
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Details are scarce!

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The Silverstone Calendar gives the following details:

June
July
August

Personally, I'm glad to see that the VSCC is sticking to it's own terrority - races mainly for pre-War Cars with a couple of invitation races for early post-War Cars. Let's leave it to Coys (and their successors including Lord March) to organise the post-War festivals.

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Old 19 Feb 2004, 21:05 (Ref:879763)   #21
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Next time you see Murray give him my regards - we did some IMSA business together a few years ago in Canada. In fact I'm still historic racing a Lola Atlantic I bought from him.

I notice you trade as Ferret. Thought you might be interested in a sports racer by that name I was slightly involved in 40-odd years ago - http://ferret.homestead.com

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PS - "Walker, from Gloucester" - you weren't involved in the Villiers 250cc engined single seater calld a Walker were you? I drove one of those once. Pity. Put me off single seaters for decades!

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Old 30 Apr 2004, 14:14 (Ref:956953)   #22
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And the latest update of the programme is as follows:

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From the VSCC Website

Races The meeting will consist of races for the following categories of cars:

Friday 4th June ( Testing available 09.00 to 12.00: £50 per 25 minute session. Practice commences 12.30. First race 14.00.)
1 Millers Oils/AMOC Historic Formula Junior.
2 HSCC 70s Road Sports Championship for the Wesprey Castings Trophy (see note 21).
3 HSCC Historic Road Sports (see note 21).
4 VSCC The Hawthorn Memorial and Spanish Trophies (in two classes) for Front Engined F1, F2
and Tasman pre 1961 historic racing cars and pre 1952 Racing Cars.
5 HSCC Classic Formula Three.
Saturday 5th June
7 HSCC Classic Racing Cars for The Retro Track and Air Trophy.
8 VSCC The Bill Phillips Trophy for road-trim pre-war Sports Cars
9 HSCC Millers Oils Classic Sports Car (See note 20).
10 Group 4 Racing Sports Prototype and GT Cars.
11 Grand Prix Masters for Formula One cars built between 01/01/1966 and 31/12/1978.
12 VSCC Pre-war Team Car Race for standard and modified sports cars.
14 HSCC/HRSR Historic Racing Saloons enduro (see note 22).
Sunday 6th June
15 VSCC The Boulogne Trophy (for first Vintage Car) for pre- 01/01/1934 Racing Cars.
16 HSCC Derek Bell Trophy.
17 BRDC 50s Historic Sports Cars.
18 Grand Prix Masters for Formula One cars built between 01/01/1966 and 31/12/1978.
19 Group 4 Racing Sports Prototype and GT Cars.
20 HGPCA Drum Brake Sports Cars.
21 HSCC Legends Racing Historic Formula Ford.
The order of racing will not necessarily be as above.
So, only four races for VSCC eligible cars.

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Old 30 Apr 2004, 14:51 (Ref:956999)   #23
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personnally I think its a great meeting - bad news is that I have to rejoin HSCC to do the HRSR saloon car race! but Sunday willl be the best day with some seriously good racinf and all on the International circuit - cant wait
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Old 11 May 2004, 11:59 (Ref:967551)   #24
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This meeting is now only a 2 day meeting on 5th & 6th June, reason being lack of officials and medical staff.
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Old 11 May 2004, 13:17 (Ref:967653)   #25
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so how does that effect the timings? it should effect me too much as I was only racing Sat and Sunday. Will they cut the HRSR race from 45 mins to squeeze another race in then or have some been lopped off the card?
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