Brooklands Takes On Pebble Beach
Brooklands Festival promises 'world class' concours event
Organisers of the Brooklands Motoring Festival (June 28 and 29) are hoping to turn it into a world class concours event as well as featuring two days of driving tests for classic cars.
The event only started last year, this year being called ‘The Double Twelve’, but Brooklands has ambitious plans for it.
This year Lewis Hamilton and Stirling Moss will appear, as will McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen.
The McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 car will be displayed alongside other single seater racing cars from the past decades.
Competitors will have their vehicles judged in the Concours d’Elegance, while the tests will take place in on the Members’ Banking and the notorious Test Hill of the original circuit, as well as on the modern handling circuits at Mercedes-Benz World.
Points awarded for both car and test will be added to give an overall score, ensuring that the overall winner will be the best driver using the best-kept vehicle.
A spokeswoman for the event told PistonHeads: ‘We want this to be a world class concours event that can compete with the likes of Pebble Beach.’
Allan Winn, Director of the Brooklands Museum, added: ‘We will be replicating the exact tests undertaken in the past so it will be interesting to observe whether driving skills have advanced or diminished in the 80 years since these Rallies were first held.
‘We aim to make ‘The Double Twelve’ the UK’s premiere Concours event which will rival the best in the world, so drivers competing in the inaugural event will be making history.’
2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance® to Feature Lancia, Lamborghini and General Motors CentennialEvents of Pebble Beach Automotive Week Culminate with Aug. 17 Show
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. (December 5, 2007) – The 58th annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008 at The Lodge at Pebble Beach™, will showcase the historic Italian marque Lancia, Italian super sports car Lamborghini and the General Motors centennial. The full field of 175 collector cars will also include several special classes.
“Fantastic styling, an impressive race history and innovative engineering are earmarks of Lancia’s more than 100 years of automotive manufacturing,” says Sandra Kasky Button, chairman of the Pebble Beach Concours. “Lamborghini, the ‘bad boy’ from Italy, is less than half the age of Lancia, but the brand has captured the heart of auto connoisseurs worldwide and has ‘A-plus’ collectability.
“And then there’s GM, the world’s largest auto company. Their history, achievements and multitude of vehicles built during the last century are legendary, so we can only focus on a few highlights. In particular, we’re concentrating on the engineering, styling and forward-thinking of the GM Motorama road show, the striking, high-powered Cadillac V-16, the GM Woodies and GM-powered sports cars.”
• Lancia, founded in 1906, is known as one of the most distinctive, innovative marques in automotive history. Among numerous accomplishments, Lancia was the first company to produce V-4 and V-6 engines. Superlative prewar and postwar examples of the marque will be featured at Pebble Beach.
• The salute to General Motors’ 100th year will include cars from the GM Motorama road show, which transported GM prototypes and concept vehicles across the United States for public exhibit from 1949 to 1961. Another highlight will be a special class for the Cadillac V-16, one of the premier automobiles of the prewar era, though only 4,386 “Sweet 16s” were manufactured from 1930 to 1940. The Concours’ GM spotlight will also shine on GM Woodies and GM-powered sports cars.
• Lamborghini, founded in 1963 and acclaimed as the manufacturer of some of the fastest, most expensive Italian super (sports) cars in the world will also be featured. The focus at Pebble Beach will be on concept cars, prototypes and cars with custom coachwork.
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