Silverstone Classic 2014

[fathomfive]

Back home with sore feet, sunburn, fantastic memories and 2000 photographs to sort through.

Awesome, awesome weekend. Thoroughly chuffed we went.

[ellroy]

Just back, after the first time there, with Ellroy jr, what an absolutely biblically epic weekend.

I've seen cars I could only dream about seeing in the past let alone owning and the friendliness of all attending was up there with LM.

I have spent the weekend drooling and annoying the LM tribe with reasons they should attend via FB.

Absolutely fan fking tastic!

[fathomfive]

Highlights:

Mustangs, so many, including the two flying yesterday.

Group C cars yesterday evening. Absolutely stonking.

Being 6 inches from a Ferrari 250 GTB this morning as it was being prepped. Just glorious.

Yesterdays wander round the pits under the Wing. Wow.

Really there are too many moments to go through.

Roll on 2015!

[fathomfive]

A few from the phone...

[AllezWasps]

A really great weekend....so much to see and some fantastic racing.

If I had to pick a single highlight, it was the Lamborghini Miura Jota traveling along the circuit road....quite simply the best noise I have ever heard from any car ever! The most amazing car and an indescribably wonderful concerto playing out of its four oversized exhausts!

Did anyone get any film of it with engine running?

[fathomfive]

Was that the red one with the almost trumpet-like exhausts?

[LSsupercar]

AllezWasps said:

A really great weekend....so much to see and some fantastic racing.

If I had to pick a single highlight, it was the Lamborghini Miura Jota traveling along the circuit road....quite simply the best noise I have ever heard from any car ever! The most amazing car and an indescribably wonderful concerto playing out of its four oversized exhausts!

Did anyone get any film of it with engine running?

We followed it out of Silverstone at some speed, I have a little video clip I can upload. The sound was epic, I'll never forget it.

[Janesy B]

What a great weekend, I somehow managed to avoid getting sunburn which is always a plus for my albino complexion. In contrast to Donington where a day is enough, there's just so much to see and do over the weekend you're never left without something. Highlight was the sun setting with some group C cars spanking it around, quality. Pics will come in the next week as there's a few.

IMG_6809 by Bryan Janes, on Flickr

Edited by Janesy B on Sunday 27th July 21:57

[havoc]

Only 2 days this year, and feel like I missed stuff.

On the plus side, I spent more time catching up with friends, more time soaking up the atmosphere in the pits, and LOVED the GT Legends.

Missed the Jota running - would've loved to have heard that - but did get to look all round and sit in a mint-looking Hako-Suka (original Skyline GTR) yesterday, AND I got to meet Sir Stirling today, which made my entire morning!

[fathomfive]

That Hako-Suka was lovely, wasn't it?

[Robert W]

Couldn't be there because of family birthdays Sat and Sun. Gutted. Can anyone point me to larger collections of photos from this year. Having little luck with google. I may be a bit soon of course!

[Janesy B]

Robert W said:

Couldn't be there because of family birthdays Sat and Sun. Gutted. Can anyone point me to larger collections of photos from this year. Having little luck with google. I may be a bit soon of course!

Found this from someone I follow on flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dennisgoodwin/sets/7...

I'll have a fairly large album up soon too.

[ewand]

I didn't manage to stay for the group C on Saturday; did the Mazda 767B run as advertised? It didn't show for the Goodwood 72MM, and only made 1 lap at the 24h du Mans support race...

[Janesy B]

No it didn't.

[Cheib]

Look forward to seeing your photo's gents!

[supertans]

Great weekend of racing etc, such a shame it ended on a downer with the death of a driver in the pre '66 grand prix race late sunday afternoon. Condolences to his friends and family.

[HIS LM]

There are a shed of load of pics on here - a great day it was too

http://www.sportsmaserati.com/showthread.php/14795...

[ellroy]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Some very sad news to temper the happiness.

[TrackTalentUK]

ewand said:

I didn't manage to stay for the group C on Saturday; did the Mazda 767B run as advertised? It didn't show for the Goodwood 72MM, and only made 1 lap at the 24h du Mans support race...

It didn't run on the Saturday, in fact I didn't see it in the paddock, but i'm not sure about Sunday's race.

[Trtj]

Very sad news of the death last night of a great personality. I was in the grandstand next to the medical centre and from their no-one knew what was going on at the time.

I have to say the Sunday for me was a bit of a disappointment. There just didn't seem to be that much racing with long periods of wait in between racing and little indication of the timetable of events, not just racing. Entertainment was pretty thin on the ground. Commentary was patchy and there were very few big screens to watch the action. I know Silverstone isn't the best circuit for spectators but I have to say I thought the infield was lacking too. What made it for me was the huge number of dedicated fans and their car clubs putting on amazing displays. Not a patch on the Revival, but a great day with good weather.