FEATURE : SILVERSTONE FESTIVAL
Thundersports is back at Silverstone
Club racers get Silverstone Festival opportunity
The Club will take three significant grids , featuring over 150 cars , to the 2023 Silverstone Festival ( 25 to 27 August ), which is the new brand for the former Silverstone Classic .
The Club not only hopes to give many of its members the chance to race at this magnificent event but is also throwing open an invitation to racers from other series across the UK , and indeed Europe , to come and be part of the biggest and best historic motor racing festival of the season . The HSCC grids will cover three distinct categories of car , ranging from powerful single seaters to productionbased sports and saloon cars . The Club is opening up the chance to race at the event to a whole crop of drivers who have not previously had a suitable race to enter and can now be part of the Festival for entry fees that will be as close as possible to those for lower profile race meetings .
The new races will be the Silverstone Formula Libre Trophy for any pre-1990 single-seater and the Road Sports Trophy for pre-1980 production sports and saloons . As it has done for the last two seasons , the HSCC Thundersports category will also be racing at the event , which runs over the August Bank Holiday weekend .
Two 20-minute Formula Libre races will be open to a wide range of powerful single seaters built and raced before 1990 . The race will pay tribute to the incredibly popular Formula Libre races that were a staple part of Silverstone race meetings in the 1970s , notably in the
Jaybrand Formula Libre Championship .
This new grid could feature Formula 1 , Formula 2 , Formula 3 , Formula 5000 and Formula Atlantic cars from the late 1960s to the late 1980s . Formula Ford 2000s of the 1970s and 1980s can race and there is even an opportunity for cars from period Formula 3000 , Formula Vauxhall Lotus and Formula Renault to join what will be a spectacular grid .
At the heart of the Formula Libre race will be cars from the HSCC ’ s existing Aurora Trophy , Geoff Lees Trophy , Classic F3 Historic Formula Atlantic and Historic FF2000 grids . However , the club is eager to welcome other cars not normally seen within its race meetings , so is inviting drivers in any pre ’ 90 slicks and wings single seater to take part .
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Big crowds and big atmosphere