The issue when the Motorsport News National Racing Calendar is published is always a red-letter day. It is time to dust off the Thermos, get the red pen out and circle the events that will make up a feast of fun on the spectator banks in the months to come.
The Motorsport News staff members have picked out their must-see events here but, to be honest, whittling that down was hard enough. There is entertaining and ferocious racing in every corner of the British Isles from now until Boxing Day...
EVENT: SILVERSTONE FESTIVAL, SILVERSTONE WHEN: AUGUST 23-25
Grids of up to 60 cars, 20 races and an unrivalled array of period racing machinery makes the Silverstone Festival a stand-out of the historic racing season.
For many, the Festival is a celebration of the car and a burgeoning live music festival with some racing added on. However, for the more dedicated enthusiast, there is a monster race programme of 20 races on the Grand Prix circuit from some of the best historic categories.
Now settled on the late-August weekend, the Festival is an unrivalled celebration of historic racing spanning the Pre War era through to as recent as five years ago. However you look at it, this is an event on a grand scale. It is so big that the racing programme uses both of Silverstone’s paddocks to the full.
The big focus this year will be a celebration of Ayrton Senna. Three decades on from his tragic death at Imola, an unrivalled gathering of Senna cars will be a poignant central theme and will honour his Silverstone heritage both from F1 and junior single-seaters.
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