Wednesday 14th July 2004

Classic GP Cars at Brands

Treat in store at Brands Hatch this weekend

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Brands Hatch is offering fans the chance to bask in Grand Prix action again this weekend with cars from the sport’s golden age turning a wheel in anger on the legendary 2.7m GP circuit.

The Classic Superprix’s Derek Bell Trophy race will feature no fewer than a dozen ex-Formula 1 and Formula 5000 cars including the March 76A of Tim Barry and the March 761 of Peter Williams as well as a host of Lotuses, Lolas and Brabhams.

The Grand Prix cars will be sharing centre stage with a host of similarly brutish Formula 2, F3 and Formula Atlantic machinery dicing for honours.

Also among the weekend’s action will be the awesome cars of the ‘70s Can-Am era in the Orwell Supersports Cup and the iconic sportscars of the 1980s in the Group C/GTP series.

One of the stars of the show will be the McLaren M8F of Richard Eyre, who will be hoping to go one better than McLaren’s modern-day star Kimi Raikkonen, who came second in last Sunday’s GP at Silverstone.

The event will feature a host of off-track attractions such as ‘hot rides’ in a rally car, an aerobatics display and a funfair, all guaranteed to satisfy classic car enthusiasts, families and motorsport fans alike.

There will be a special reason for Brands Hatch managing director, Jonathan Palmer, to be there, as he will be reunited with the Porsche 956 in which he romped to victory in the 1984 Brands Hatch 1000km race.

Palmer won the race, a round of the World Endurance Championship, on July 29, 1984, by three clear laps in what was at the time the fastest international sportscar race ever run at Brands. He will complete several demonstration laps in the car during the Superprix.

Classic Superprix tickets cost £10 per adult per day. Children aged 15 and under go free.

Link : www.motorsportvision.co.uk

[bad boy]

tempted to go to this (weather permitting...) never been to brands before, so can anyone recommend the best places to watch etc

[FourWheelDrift]

Outside of Paddock Hill Bend, there's a stand there where you can see almost all of the start finish straight, the run up to Druids, exit of Druids to Graham Hill bend, then as they enter Surtees and around the first part of Clark before coming back on to the start finish straight.

[bad boy]

thanks fwd

[Kickstart]

Went on the Saturday to watch the Group C cars - what an impressive sight and sound. The supersports race was excellent and those Chevrons really are fantastic cars.
What surprised me, was given all the publicity, how few spectators there were on Saturday for such a high profile meeting.

[foster3jd]

Kickstart said:

What surprised me, was given all the publicity, how few spectators there were on Saturday for such a high profile meeting.

What publicity?... I live 10 miles down the road and the first I'd heard about it was this thread, by which time it was too late to change my plans

>> Edited by foster3jd on Monday 19th July 02:17