Bank holiday events roundup
Plans for the weekend? Put the DIY on hold, we've got some better suggestions...
Nick Mason's F1 at Beaulieu last year
If anything it should at least be noisy, with a planned start up of the GT40-engined Ford Supervan, 48 Litre Packard Bentley and 27-litre Napier Bentley in the museum's grounds, which should rattle a few teacups.
Chris Evans' inaugural Carfest event runs over Saturday and Sunday at Jody Scheckter's Laverstoke Park Farm in Hampshire. The event's sold out, but those who've made it will see live music and a hillclimb led by Evans' own 'Magnificent Seven' Ferrari collection along with various supercars, Group B rally cars and the Marussia F1 car. Amongst the displays there'll also be a stand from our friends at Classic & Sports Car magazine who are bringing along a Lamborghini Miura and a Jaguar XKSS. A second event, Carfest North, will run at Cholmondley castle in Cheshire on 8th-9th September with a third of ticket revenue going to BBC Children in Need.
Varied machinery will be at Pentillie FoS
The festival will also include the H&H Classics Open Sale, the first trialling in the UK of an alternative type of car auction. So called 'open sales' are enormously popular in the USA but until now have yet to make their way to these shores. Essentially they allow vendors to buy a pitch to sell their car whilst a conventional auction takes place in the background - so if their car isn't selling on their pitch, they can change tack and enter it into the main auction instead.
Elsewhere in terms of motorsport action the BTCC hits Knockhill, the FIA World Endurance Championship will be at Silverstone and British Superbike championship riders will no doubt by getting airborne over Cadwell Park's mountain.
At the annual Dunsfold Wings and Wheels event, priceless aircraft and cars will combine, including, we're told, the very same Porsche 962 featured as our Pic of the Week a while back.
In a similar vein, vintage aircraft rub shoulders with supercars at the Props and Pistons event at Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre.
Plenty of vintage machinery will be on display at the Knebworth Classic Motor Show on Sunday and Monday, and the Pentillie Festival of Speed in Cornwall will combine an MSA Hillclimb with stunt plane displays and an off-road driving course.
And if you're after something completely different, Transitmania hits Billing Aquadrome from today until Sunday...
If any PH member wants to give their time and are willing to take members of the public out for passenger rides by supporting children's charities then please visit the Bears website for more information http://www.sportingbears.org.uk/
Or you can PM me and I'll let you know everything you need to get started
. If you or your friends / family are coming, please make time to pop over to our marquee
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