{"id":21776,"date":"2011-07-26T13:45:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21776"},"modified":"2023-01-23T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T16:24:01","slug":"silverstone-classic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/silverstone-classic-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverstone Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s one of those events that you might not think is what you’re all about.<\/p>\n

But if you save your pennies for Bernie Ecclestone’s circus<\/a> to come to the Northamptonshire countryside – you really should consider hitting the Silverstone Classic. For us, the Silverstone Classic <\/a>offers much more bang for your hard-earned bucks.<\/p>\n

The appeal is obvious to many of us. Think of every kind of racing formula to have graced the circuit for the last seventy odd years – think of cars and bikes from every era of 20th century racing in fact: and you have it all there.<\/p>\n

But not only can you watch these rare and classic cars get an outing at the place for which they were bred – you can get truly up close and personal with the men and women and the machines themselves. There was music, classic aviation displays – an amazing weekend, in other words.<\/p>\n

Highlight for us this year was undoubtedly the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the E-Type. Apparently close to a thousand etypes were on site and on-track, a record grid of 52 racing E-types contested a round of the E-type Challenge<\/a>, the special race series created for 2011 to mark the anniversary year.<\/p>\n

Buy your tickets early for next year’s extravaganza.<\/p>\n