Tag: VSCC
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The Silverstone Festival: UK Historic Motorsport Festival Programme and Attractions
It’s the beginning of August and time to prepare for the biggest public meeting of the UK Historic Motorsport Season. The Silverstone Festival takes place on Friday to Sunday 23rd to 25th August 2024. Since its inception as the Coys Silverstone Classic in 1990, the event has inevitably grown and…
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Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024
In the late Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a super computer known as “Deep Thought” takes eons to work out the answer to life, the universe and everything. In fact it takes so long to calculate that the computer forgets the question. I suspect Douglas based…
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Vintage Sports Car Club New Year Tests
A rather dull start to Sunday became a very sunny day at Brooklands in Surrey for the 2024 VSCC New Year Driving Tests. To anyone unfamiliar with the discipline, driving tests involve threading one’s way through a series of cones in the fastest possible time. Easy, until you realise that you…
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Back In Time
Before my life became complicated by building pipelines and Energy facilities, I would often be found at a race circuit; Brands Hatch; Donington; Silverstone etc. In fact anywhere where cars were being put through their paces, I would be there, cameras in hand. Bruno Giacomelli GP De Europe 1983 – Photo:…
Peter Mallett Racing 