2018 Silverstone Classic
Silverstone, Northants
July 20-22, 2018
Way back in 2005 I interviewed ex Formula One driver and 1969 Le Mans winner Jackie Oliver, who was at the time the chairman of Silverstone Circuits Ltd, and he told me: “Running race meetings does not have the popular spectator appeal it used to in the Sixties and Seventies. I just don’t think that the paying public are prepared to come in their tens of thousands and watch race cars go around. I think you have got to provide other elements.”
Prophetic words indeed and something that the current team who organise the Silverstone Classic have clearly grasped. They not only lay on one of
