Thruxton Retro 21st & 22nd June 2025
PORRITT PINCHES RINDT RETRO PRIZE
The newly-rebranded Thruxton Retro festival took place over the Summer Solstice weekend, having started life using the Thruxton Historic moniker since 2018. Among the other attractions present was a music stage, that featured a headline show from renowned ABBA tribute act Björn Again on Saturday night, as well as displays from various owners clubs and a high-speed demonstration each day from a collection of high-powered single seaters right up to Formula One.
The newly-rebranded Thruxton Retro festival took place over the Summer Solstice weekend, having started life using the Thruxton Historic moniker since 2018. Among the other attractions present was a music stage, that featured a headline show from renowned ABBA tribute act Björn Again on Saturday night, as well as displays from various owners clubs and a high-speed demonstration each day from a collection of high-powered single seaters right up to Formula One.
Jochen Rindt Trophy: The 1970 Formula One World Champion Jochen Rindt had great success in Formula Two at the flat out Hampshire venue, winning the International race on Easter Monday three times. The Austrian, who is the only driver to have the sad distinction of winning the F1 World Championship posthumously, has been commemorated by the Classic Racing Car Club for the past couple of years with a pair of encounters for F1 feeder series machines of the 1970s and 1980s from Formula Two down, with the aggregate victor receiving the trophy bearing Rindt’s name. FF1600 hotshoe Rory Smith put his Formula Atlantic Ralt RT4 on pole position by more than half a second from Chris Porritt‘s Olympus Cameras F2 Chevron B40. The American Formula Atlantic Swift DB4 chassis of former Donington GT racer Jim McGaughey headed the second row by 0.305 seconds from Mark Harrison’s ex-Ricardo Zunino March 772 Formula Two car. Just 0.115 seconds slower in fifth was the fastest Formula Three car guided by Murray Shepherd and the Lola T670 only had 0.176 seconds in hand from the Argo JM6 of classmate Paul Dibden. Soon-to-be octogenarian Mike Wilds lined up seventh aboard the ex-John Nicholson Lyncar 005 that the New Zealander took to a pair of British Formula Atlantic titles and he shared the fourth row with Richard Cooke’s March 793 F3 car. The top ten was completed by Steve Barlow’s F3 Ralt RT3 and the leading FF2000 class Royale RP30 of Ian Pearson. A light rain shower fell during the lunch break ahead of opening race and it was uncertain how much water would fall but the high ambient temperature ensured that the surface was dry again as the field took the rolling start. Rory Smith led from Chris Porritt off the line, with Murray Shepherd’s F3 Lola up to third from row three by the Complex. Smith opened a gap of 1.749 seconds during the opening quarter of the race before the Ralt caught a gaggle of lapped cars at the Club Chicane, which brought the top two together again seven minutes in. Smith was forced to follow another car through the chicane on the next lap and Porritt took his chance to grab the lead with a run up the inside towards Allard. Smith stayed with Porritt around the 2.356 miles but would be frustrated again as the Ralt was forced wide when they came across another group of slower cars at the chicane, which extended the Chevron's lead massively and the reigning Walter Hayes Trophy holder threw both hands off the wheel in exasperation. The Ralt couldn’t reel the Chevron back in during the second half so Porritt was victorious by 9.681 seconds from Smith. Mark Harrison’s March 772 Formula Two car crossed the line in third after a steady start and passed the fast-starting Shepherd Formula Three Lola in the late stages. Mike Wilds, who was celebrating sixty years in motorsport at the weekend, finished a good first lap in fifth before slipping back a spot to sixth behind Paul Dibden's F3 Argo by the finish but the Formula Atlantic Lyncar was first in its class. Poleman Porritt made a poor start to the second race on day two as he had inadvertently turned off the BDG’s electric fuel pump, whilst Smith bolted into the lead and set to work devouring the near ten-second margin Porritt held to claim the aggregate trophy. His lead stood at 6.961 seconds after just one lap and the Ralt had overturned the deficit with change by the completion of lap two. Smith got his lead out to an impressive 17.430 seconds before Porritt started to eat into margin during the second half of the twenty minutes as the surface became more contaminated with oil. Seventeen seconds became fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve and the Ralt’s lead was down to 8.305 seconds as they went onto the last lap, which was further whittled down to 7.013 seconds at the chequered flag and translated to 2.668-second aggregate victory for the delighted Formula Two Chevron pilot. Porritt had climbed back into second place at the end of lap two at the chicane after falling to fifth on the opening lap. Mark Harrison was the man Porritt passed to move into second and the Formula Two March had a lonely race to the flag in third despite some flapping bodywork and also completed the Jochen Rindt Trophy podium on aggregate. Mike Wilds was a fantastic fourth after getting away from Richard Cooke and Steve Barlow as he celebrated his forthcoming 80th birthday with another class win for the Lyncar, having first raced at Thruxton in 1972. Anthony Hancock took over the F3 Lola piloted by Murray Shepherd on Saturday and raced through to fifth overall from near the back of the grid, taking the Formula Three class win away from Cooke's March 793 in the closing minutes.
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GT & SCC: The rumbling AC Cobras of polesitter Chris Chiles Jnr and Alex Thistlethwayte made the early running of the ninety-minute enduro on Saturday as they thundered away from the front row starting Cooper Monaco of Ollie Crossthwaite in third. The pair eventually split up themselves until the Safety Car was required just after the half-hour mark after contact with the Chiles Cobra left Nick Sleep's Ford Mustang GT350 stranded at the Complex. The leading Cobra had just called into the pits for a once over at the time of the interruption, with Thistlethwayte moving into the lead as a result and the Cobra decided not to stop under the Safety Car. The field were released again at the halfway mark with seven cars between the two ACs. With Chris Chiles Snr not showing the rapid pace of his son, the Cobra began to fall away before completing a short stint and pitting again with 37 minutes left. Chiles Jnr stepped back in and the Cobra had slid down to eighth when he rejoined. Thistlethwayte finally pitted from the lead with 33 minutes left after a lengthy innings, which promoted the Cooper Monaco now in the hands of Nick Finburgh into the lead. Murray Shepherd was installed in the Thistlethwayte Cobra and he made some inroads into the Cooper’s advantage but was still some 36 seconds down when the Cooper pitted for a second time inside the last 20 minutes, handing new leader Shepherd a lead of 35 seconds with quarter of an hour remaining. Shepherd thus stroked home the Thruxton circuit owner’s AC Cobra to a commanding victory by 50.301 seconds. Attention then turned to Chiles Jnr’s pursuit of the Cooper for second place, with the Cobra facing a 21.431-second chasm to bridge in the final fifteen minutes if it was to snatch the runner-up spot. Chiles Jnr rose to the challenge and began consistently taking two-three seconds per lap out of the Cooper’s buffer. The brutish AC swept through into second in the high speed section around the back of the circuit with just over three minutes left. The best of the Jaguar E-Types was fourth in the hands of Alistair Dyson, despite a sixty-second penalty for exceeding the maximum stint length, and two more E-Types came home in fifth and sixth as they squabbled to the line, with Mark Burton/Jason Minshaw’s low-drag coupe fending off the John Clark/Ben Mitchell lightweight by 0.868 seconds. Bruce Montgomery single handedly won the GT3 class with his Austin Healey 3000 in seventh from the similar car of Alex Hewitson/Jack Rawles in eighth. The diminutive Lotus Elan 26R of Steve Jones/Ben Tinkler was ninth and the TVR Grantura of Malcolm Paul/Rick Bourne secured the GT2 class spoils at the foot of the top ten. A short distance behind the Blackpool machine, the big Healey of Nils-Fredrik Nyblaeus/Jeremy Welch narrowly defeated the Mini-based Broadspeed GTS of TC1 class winners Matt Green/Alice Locke by 0.558 seconds in eleventh and twelfth.
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Heroes of FF1600 Sprint Series: The top eight Heroes of FF1600 runners qualified within a second of pole position as 1.365 covered the top ten starters and the invited modern cars of United FF1600 front runners Charlie Mann and Tom Nippers’ Van Diemen secured the front row starting positions, with 0.121 seconds splitting the Ray from the Van Diemen. The Van Diemen RF90 ‘stealth bomber’of reigning Castle Combe FF1600 champion Felix Fisher was the quickest of the Pre ‘93 machinery in third. Tom Nippers outdragged the poleman from the start of Race One to lead Charlie Mann and Felix Fisher into the Complex for the first time. The top three lapped together for the first couple of circulations but Fisher dropped away considerably from the lead pair during lap three but he still held third with his older chassis from the two Oldfield Motorsport Van Diemens of Connor Willis and Spencer Shinner. Free of pressure from the chasing Castle Combe top man, Mann began giving Nippers plenty of heat. A draughting contest ensued as Mann hit the front for the first time on lap five but Nippers soon got the lead back and the pair continued to swap the lead between them right up to the Club Chicane for the final time. Mann and Nippers had already been side by side down to Church and they were abreast again under braking into the chicane. With the race win on the line, neither wanted to give way and Nippers cut the middle element as Mann ran wide out of the left but the Ray beat the Van Diemen to the line by 0.170 seconds to secure a hard fought victory. American Willis closed in on Fisher with time ticking down but the RF90 held onto third. As Spencer Shinner fell away from his Oldfield Motorsport stablemate Willis, Robert Hall ranged up to the Van Diemen and took fifth place from the former Historic FF1600 champion on the penultimate lap. Hall headed a five-car train over the line as the Firman fended off Shinner Will Liston, Benn Tilley and a penalised Drew Cameron. The second outing for the single seaters was the final race of the weekend and its duration was cut to thirteen minutes due to timetable pressure. Charlie Mann led for most of lap one but Tom Nippers and Felix Fisher both passed the Ray at the chicane. Nippers came round with a huge lead on lap two from Mann as Willis fought to hang on to third from Fisher, who'd been shuffled back earlier in the lap. Nippers broke the tow to win by an increasing margin from Mann in a lonely second, some 3.128 seconds down. Robert Hall ushered Fisher back to fifth on lap five as Richard Tarling's Reynard went out after impressively joining the group from a back of the grid start on lap two. Fisher reclaimed third with four-and-a-half minutes remaining but his hold of the position was shortlived as Willis went back ahead next time around and Hall's Firman also temporarily displaced the RF90. The scrap for third went down to the last lap as Willis just kept Fisher at bay, who was at the wheel of the leading Pre ‘93 car. The intense fight for fifth exited the chicane three-wide after Benn Tilley’s Van Diemen RF85 drifted wide over the chicane exit run off and Australian Will Liston darted to his outside but Drew Cameron got a great a run up the inside to pip Liston to the flag by a tiny 0.004 seconds as Tilley fell to seventh. Having been in contention for a podium finish, ex-Castle Combe champion Hall faded to eighth after starting the last lap in fifth.
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CSCC Classic K and Hawthorn Challenge: The Classic Sports Car Club’s Classic K series and Mike Hawthorn Jaguar Challenge faced forty minutes of competition on Saturday afternoon. Paul Thompson initially led from pole but then Nathan Dod's similar TVR Griffith hit the front just under quarter of an hour in, with front row starter Will Linley going with them as well. Thompson went back ahead again at the chicane five minutes later but next time around Dod outbraked himself challenging Thompson and briefly fell to third behind the Elan of Linley. Thompson's TVR pitted first at the half-distance mark to hand over the reins to partner Jon Payne, which put Dod's Griffith back into the lead. The leader pitted one lap later, with Linley's Elan 26R following the TVR in and both were driving solo. The stops shook out with Linley's Lotus just ahead of Dod's TVR as quarter of an hour remained, with a small gap back to Payne's Griffith in third. Dod reclaimed the lead with ten minutes left before Linley pitted the Lotus trailing smoke a lap later to leave the Blackpool machine in the clear to win by more than half a minute from the Thompson/Payne Griffith. Alex Thistlethwayte had gone with the lead battle in his Mustang during the early portion of the race but slipped into no-man’s land in fourth, whilst the Jerry Bailey Mustang fended off Mike Jordan's advances for fifth place throughout the opening stint but the Midlander pitted first to put his 2013 BTCC champion son Andrew into bat and the Mini was well ahead when the musclecar made its stop. Flinging his Mini around with verve, Jordan started catching Thistlethwayte for third place in the dying minutes and the pair were glued together through the chicane for the final time but the Mustang’s V8 grunt just beat the Mini to the line. However, the American machine had a 35-second penalty applied for a short pit stop to gift the Jordans a place on the rostrum. Alistair and Nick Dyson took the concurrent Mike Hawthorn Jaguar Challenge with their Jaguar Mk2 after Grant Williams' Mk2 'BUY 1' was removed from the results for running non-conforming tyres and top qualifiers Glenn Pearson/Thomas Butterfield's Mk1 Saloon failed to finish.
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FJHRA Formula Junior: The category of choice for developing talents in the late 1950s and early 1960s contested a pair of races, with one on each day of the event. Polesitter Stuart Roach held Nic Carlton-Smith at arms length throughout the early running until the race leader had to follow a backmarker through the Club Chicane, which put the second-placed Lotus onto the Alexis’ gearbox. However, Roach soon stretched his advantage agan to prevail by a handsome 5.329 seconds. Nathan Metcalfe a lonely third in his Lotus, some 13.834 seconds in arrears of Carlton-Smith's similar car. Ray Mallock finished as the top front-engined car in fourth with his eponymous U2 but he was being chased down by the Condor of Adrian Russell, who was just 0.580 seconds down across the line. Poleman Stuart Roach locked up into the Complex on lap one of Race Two but still held onto his lead, with Nathan Metcalfe an initial second. The top three lapped together until Nic Carlton-Smith used the slipstream to tow up to second place into the Club Chicane after six minutes and the Lotus repeated the move on leader Roach a lap later to hit the front. Lapped traffic kept the Lotus and Alexis together for a couple of laps before Carlton-Smith hurled the Lotus clear and they both dropped Metcalfe’s Lotus in third. Carlton-Smith eventually crossed the line some 3.258 seconds up the road from Roach, with Metcalfe another 18.228 seconds back from the Alexis. Adrian Russell was the leading front-engined contender to finish in fourth after passing Ray Mallock on lap four and the Condor spent a lot of the race squabbling with James Hicks’ Caravelle until its disappearance in the closing stages with failed rear suspension. The U2 of Mallock wouldn't make it to the end and departed the fray on lap six.
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FISCAR: Jonathan Abecassis jumped into the lead from the outside of the front row, with the pretty Alfa Romeo Disco Volante of Christopher Mann launching up to second through Allard but the polesitting David Alexander squeezed his Lotus by at the Complex. The Elite would lead by the end of lap four but the top two stayed together until Alexander pitted fourteen and a half minutes in. The promoted Healey 100/4 of Abecassis waited until there were just ten minutes left to made his mandatory stop four laps later. Alexander had already pitted again before Abecassis came in for his only stop and the pair were within ten seconds of each other when the Elite pitted once more with seven minutes left, after erroneously believing he had been twice given drive-through penalties, to all but confirm Abecassis’ triumph as the Lotus was now over 23 seconds down on the Healey with five minutes remaining. Abecassis duly brought home the win by 21.949 seconds from the chastened Lotus pilot. Mann’s beautiful Alfa Romeo claimed third place on-the-road after an early three-way contest with the Andrew Mitchell/Mark Morgan Lotus Elite and Nigel Winchester’s Lotus 7, which wouldn’t reach the chequered flag, but was excluded for ignoring a black flag. As a result, the Lotus Elite of Brian Arculus inherited third place.
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Other Races
Gary Culver drove away from the field in each of the three Ferrari Club Classic encounters, with Chris Butler looking likely to twice make it a 328 1-2 but was pipped by the Tim Mogridge 355 Challenge car late in the opener. Colin Sowter’s 355 Spyder took third behind the 328 second time out. The trio of races were enlivened by the progress of Nigel Jenkins after he was disqualified from qualifying when it was found that the 355 Challenge car was underweight post-session. Jenkins was forced to start from the back of the grid with a ten-second penalty in each of the first two races. He reached fourth in Race One and was just 0.208 seconds adrift of a place on the podium, whilst in Race Two he again climbed to fourth but couldn’t quite bridge the gap to Sowter. The start order for the third outing was decided by the finishing positions in Race Two so the 355 would be sat on the second row. Jenkins dropped back to fifth at the start but the 355 Challenge was up to second around half-distance and was lapping faster than Culver in the closing stages. However, the 328 had it under control and won by 6.404 seconds from Jenkins and Butler's 328 in third.
A huge entry of 42 cars was received for the two fiercely competitive MG Owners Club Championship races on Sunday but only 41 would assemble to take the start after engine trouble ruled out Jake McDermid's ZR. A bad race for the family was completed as reigning champion Steve McDermid also non-started the race after pitting on the formation lap. After a second-lap stoppage for an incident at Goodwood, polesitter Fergus Campbell took the lead on lap one of the restart but James Cole, Matthew Harvey and front row man Scott Bugner went with the luminous orange ZR. Cole grabbed the lead at the Chicane on lap five and Bugner dumped Campbell back to third at the Complex soon after. Bugner ended the lap in the lead across the start/finish line to end a profitable circulation for the yellow ZR and he would hold the lead onto the final lap but Cole managed to find a way through. After Bugner appeared to have a run going exiting the chicane, Cole slammed the door shut on the yellow machine sprinting to the line to win by 0.185 seconds from Bugner and Campbell in third. Race Two was another encounter to have is duration cut down to eighteen minutes. The slipstream effect brought huge pack of cars together in the early stages. Scott Bugner cut the exit of the chaicane for the second time as Fergus Campbell took the lead and Jake McDermid moved up to second on lap three after starting from the sixth row. Two laps later, McDermid grabbed the hit the front at the fearsome Church Corner but Campbell wasn't for giving up and challenged McDermid next time around without success. The race leader had got away to the tune of one-and-a-half seconds heading onto the final lap before McDermid was badly held up by a backmarker at the Club Chicane and Campbell was closing closing closing on the run to the finish line but fell an agonising 0.202 seconds short of victory. The huge battle for third was down to six cars by the final lap, after Lee Sullivan pulled off and Tony Wigley was sent spinning up Woodham Hill, and Doug Cole fended the rest off to complete the podium.
Will Burnham led for the first five laps of the opening Mighty Mini Championship bout then got dumped to third by Greg Jenkins and Olly Samways onto lap? 58 Samways/latter pitted end of said lap with something rattling in the engine bay as Burnham led once more. Burnham couldn’t shake off Jenkins in his slipstream and the challenger went back in front on the following lap. Burnham led again with three minutes remaining and he was still ahead going onto the final lap. However, Jenkins was perfectly placed in the tow out of Church Corner and skated around the outside of Burnham into the chicane to steal the win after a cracking race. Morgan Bartley took third, whilst Ahmed Shahrabani split the fourth and fifth-placed tussle between James Bryan and Ben Butler on the last lap after starting from the rear of the field. The eighteen minutes of Race Two started in much the same vein as the opener with a three-wide approach to the chicane for the first time between Saturday’s top three. Olly Samways emerged with the lead, having borrowed a replacement engine from Ahmed Shahrabani, whilst Greg Jenkins led at the end of lap two. Will Burnham towed up from third to first on lap three as each took their turn to lead the way. The race lead continually switched between them throughout and Burnham led onto final lap but it was Jenkins who led out of Church for the decisive run up Woodham Hill. The top three spread themselves across the circuit charging up the hill and Burnham won the battle on the brakes into the chicane to seal victory by just 0.163 seconds from Jenkins and Samways, as 0.498 covered the three of them. However, first-past-the-flag Burnham copped a five-second track limit penalty so Jenkins was declared victorious from Samways by 0.335 seconds. but Burnham still booked a place on the podium in third as there was a big enough gap back to the six-car train for fourth. James Jenkins won that particular battle from Morgan Bartley, Chris Didcott and James Bryan, after John Jenkins and Ben Butler were uncoupled from the back.
Gary Culver drove away from the field in each of the three Ferrari Club Classic encounters, with Chris Butler looking likely to twice make it a 328 1-2 but was pipped by the Tim Mogridge 355 Challenge car late in the opener. Colin Sowter’s 355 Spyder took third behind the 328 second time out. The trio of races were enlivened by the progress of Nigel Jenkins after he was disqualified from qualifying when it was found that the 355 Challenge car was underweight post-session. Jenkins was forced to start from the back of the grid with a ten-second penalty in each of the first two races. He reached fourth in Race One and was just 0.208 seconds adrift of a place on the podium, whilst in Race Two he again climbed to fourth but couldn’t quite bridge the gap to Sowter. The start order for the third outing was decided by the finishing positions in Race Two so the 355 would be sat on the second row. Jenkins dropped back to fifth at the start but the 355 Challenge was up to second around half-distance and was lapping faster than Culver in the closing stages. However, the 328 had it under control and won by 6.404 seconds from Jenkins and Butler's 328 in third.
A huge entry of 42 cars was received for the two fiercely competitive MG Owners Club Championship races on Sunday but only 41 would assemble to take the start after engine trouble ruled out Jake McDermid's ZR. A bad race for the family was completed as reigning champion Steve McDermid also non-started the race after pitting on the formation lap. After a second-lap stoppage for an incident at Goodwood, polesitter Fergus Campbell took the lead on lap one of the restart but James Cole, Matthew Harvey and front row man Scott Bugner went with the luminous orange ZR. Cole grabbed the lead at the Chicane on lap five and Bugner dumped Campbell back to third at the Complex soon after. Bugner ended the lap in the lead across the start/finish line to end a profitable circulation for the yellow ZR and he would hold the lead onto the final lap but Cole managed to find a way through. After Bugner appeared to have a run going exiting the chicane, Cole slammed the door shut on the yellow machine sprinting to the line to win by 0.185 seconds from Bugner and Campbell in third. Race Two was another encounter to have is duration cut down to eighteen minutes. The slipstream effect brought huge pack of cars together in the early stages. Scott Bugner cut the exit of the chaicane for the second time as Fergus Campbell took the lead and Jake McDermid moved up to second on lap three after starting from the sixth row. Two laps later, McDermid grabbed the hit the front at the fearsome Church Corner but Campbell wasn't for giving up and challenged McDermid next time around without success. The race leader had got away to the tune of one-and-a-half seconds heading onto the final lap before McDermid was badly held up by a backmarker at the Club Chicane and Campbell was closing closing closing on the run to the finish line but fell an agonising 0.202 seconds short of victory. The huge battle for third was down to six cars by the final lap, after Lee Sullivan pulled off and Tony Wigley was sent spinning up Woodham Hill, and Doug Cole fended the rest off to complete the podium.
Will Burnham led for the first five laps of the opening Mighty Mini Championship bout then got dumped to third by Greg Jenkins and Olly Samways onto lap? 58 Samways/latter pitted end of said lap with something rattling in the engine bay as Burnham led once more. Burnham couldn’t shake off Jenkins in his slipstream and the challenger went back in front on the following lap. Burnham led again with three minutes remaining and he was still ahead going onto the final lap. However, Jenkins was perfectly placed in the tow out of Church Corner and skated around the outside of Burnham into the chicane to steal the win after a cracking race. Morgan Bartley took third, whilst Ahmed Shahrabani split the fourth and fifth-placed tussle between James Bryan and Ben Butler on the last lap after starting from the rear of the field. The eighteen minutes of Race Two started in much the same vein as the opener with a three-wide approach to the chicane for the first time between Saturday’s top three. Olly Samways emerged with the lead, having borrowed a replacement engine from Ahmed Shahrabani, whilst Greg Jenkins led at the end of lap two. Will Burnham towed up from third to first on lap three as each took their turn to lead the way. The race lead continually switched between them throughout and Burnham led onto final lap but it was Jenkins who led out of Church for the decisive run up Woodham Hill. The top three spread themselves across the circuit charging up the hill and Burnham won the battle on the brakes into the chicane to seal victory by just 0.163 seconds from Jenkins and Samways, as 0.498 covered the three of them. However, first-past-the-flag Burnham copped a five-second track limit penalty so Jenkins was declared victorious from Samways by 0.335 seconds. but Burnham still booked a place on the podium in third as there was a big enough gap back to the six-car train for fourth. James Jenkins won that particular battle from Morgan Bartley, Chris Didcott and James Bryan, after John Jenkins and Ben Butler were uncoupled from the back.
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F1 Demo: Five-time Monaco Historique race winner Stuart Hall put on a spectacular display in the ROFGO collection ex-Raul Boesel Rothmans March 821 and unofficially lapped the Hampshite circuit in around the seventy-second mark. Further early 1980s Grand Prix machinery on show included Anthony Hancock's Fittipaldi F8C and Clive Wood's Ragno-liveried Arrows A3. A little more up to date was Lorina McGloughlin's Benetton B192 that Michael Schumacher drove to second place at the 1992 Australian GP and was also raced in the early part of the 1993 season by the German. Driver coach Lee Cunningham demonstrated the ex-Marco Apicella First Racing Reynard 89D with aplomb, whilst Jochen Rindt Trophy competitor Mark Harrison showed off his Reynard 94D. An unusual Lola T96/70 Mexican F3000 chassis with a 3.5-litre Chrysler V6 engine fitted was also let off the leash, the Lola a modified version of the Zytek-powered T96/50 used in the International F3000 series from 1996. Two Dallara chassis were painted in Formula One liveries past and present as a Red Bull-liveried Formula Renault 3.5 machine and a David Coulthard McLaren-inspired GP2 car took to the circuit.
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