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PETROLHEADONISM LIVE Knebworth House, Herts September 18-19, 2021

They say you should never meet your heroes as they will always compare badly to the image you have in your head. That’s certainly not the case with Richard Rawlings. Definitely one of the biggest living automotive personalities alongside the likes of the Clarkson trio, Lewis Hamilton and those that dominate the digital sphere like Shmee with his millions of subscribers on YouTube, everything about Rawlings compares well.

Rawlings’ presence in the UK was thanks to Ciro Ciampi and his partners, the people behind the inaugural Petrolheadonism LIVE show at Knebworth House. Holding a huge open-air car show in September is brave because of the notoriously unpredictable UK weather in the autumn. But Ciampi not only did that, he booked Knebworth for the same weekend as the Goodwood Revival and with the world still adversely affected by Covid

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