GT3 Legends

New for Donington Historic Festival, GT3 Legends launched in 2024 as a cooperative effort between Motor Racing Legends and Jarrah Venables. The series caters for the early period of GT3, from its founding in 2006 up to 2012. Monsters like the BMW Z4, Ferrari 458 and Morgan Aero 8 Supersport highlight entry lists.

Entry is open to all GT3 cars homologated by the FIA between 2006 and 2012, with updates permitted up to 2015.

Historic Touring Car Challenge with Tony Dron Trophy 

The 70's and 80's Touring Cars of Motor Racing Legends' Historic Touring Car Challenge are the machines most of us wished our parents (or we!) drove back in the day, with a mass of crowd-pleasing ‘favourites’, from Mk1 Ford Escorts and  Capris, BMW CSL ‘Batmobiles’, Group A Rover SD1s, MG Metro Turbos, Alfa Romeo GTVs, TWR XJSs to BMW E30 M3s, Nissan Skylines and flame-spitting Sierra RS500 Cosworths.  Not to be left out, the Tony Dron Trophy sees Ford Capris and Mk 2 Escorts wheel-to-wheel with Triumph Dolomite Sprints, Chevvy Camaros, Alfa Romeos and Golf GTIs.

Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy & Stirling Moss Trophy 

The combined grid for Motor Racing Legends' Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy for pre-56 sportscars and Stirling Moss Trophy for pre-61 sports racers brings some of the most beautiful machines in motorsport history to Donington’s sweeping curves.  Expect to see Jaguar D-types and Maserati 250S, Lotus XI and XVs, Lister Jaguar Knobblies, Lola Mk 1s, Austin-Healey 100Ms and Cooper T39 Bobtails.

U2TC

The Under 2 Litre Touring Car category celebrates a fine era of racing and features packed with ‘60s icons like the Lotus Cortina and Alfa Romeo Giulia GTA. Entry is open to all touring cars under 2 litres homologated before 1966.

FJHRA 'Silverline' Championship for historic Formula Juniors

The FJHRA Formula Junior Championships are booming, with huge worldwide interest in the category for up to 1100cc single-seater racing cars. Although Formula Junior only existed from 1958 to 1963, it continues to be one of the most popular of all historic racing categories.

Superformance Ferrari Club Classic 

The Superformance Ferrari Club Classic - the only classic Ferrari racing series in the world - returns to the Donington Historic Festival in 2024 for more wheel-to-wheel action and promises to provide thrills aplenty in three races across the weekend. Expect close racing across several classes for road-legal and modified Ferraris up to the era of the 355 Challenge, including 308, 328, 348, 355, 456, 550, Mondial and more!

‘Mad Jack’ for Pre-War Sports Cars

Attracting the finest vintage machines out on track – some more than 100 years old - the ‘Mad Jack’ for Pre-War Sports Cars, which will see behemoth Bentleys wheel-to-wheel with powerful Bugattis, Aston Martins and Frazer-Nashes and giant-killing Morgans in a grid which echoes the very earliest days of racing at Donington Park.

The Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall Cup 

This is an epic, three-hour race for GT, Sports Racing and Touring Cars built before 1966, so promises a feast of on-track glamour, pace and action.

Eligibility covers everything from Cobras and E-types to Falcons and Mustangs; Austin-Healeys and MGBs to Lister Jaguars and Lotus 15s. Each car can have up to three drivers and refuels ‘in-race’.  

HRDC Jack Sears Trophy

The HRDC Jack Sears Trophy for 1958-1966 tin-tops evokes the formative years of Touring Car racing which evolved into the BTCC. Thundering V8 Falcons, Mustangs and Galaxies are harried by nimble Lotus Cortinas, Alfa GTAs and pesky Mini Coopers, and not to be ruled out are the evocative ‘50s racers, with powerful Austin Westminsters, racy Austin A35s and A40s plus a myriad of near-forgotten models such as Riley 1.5s and Standard Tens.

HRDC Gerry Marshall Trophy (for pre-83 Group 1 and 1 ½ Touring Cars

The HRDC Gerry Marshall Trophy for pre-’83 Gp.1 and Gp.1½ Touring Cars celebrates the intense battles of this era when the likes of Gerry Marshall, Tony Lanfranchi, Barrie Williams and a host of determined racers went head-to-head in the crowd-pleasing BTCC ‘Tin-Tops’ Series. Bellowing V8 Rovers stave off the 3-litre Capris, while Triumph Dolomites pitch battle with Ford Escorts, 1275GT Minis and rarities such as Opel Commodores.

HRDC Dunlop Allstars (for pre-‘66 Sports, GT and Touring Cars) and HRDC Classic Alfa Challenge (for 750-116 Alfa Romeos)

Echoing the ‘Allcomers’ racers that were a staple part of Club racing in the 1950s and ‘60s, the HRDC ‘Dunlop Allstars’ brings a refreshing and eclectic grid to any historic meeting. Bringing pre-’66 Sports, GT and Touring Cars together on the same grid has produced one of the HRDC’s most successful series. Adding the glamorous ‘Classic Alfa Challenge’ cars to the ‘Dunlop Allstars’ to great effect in 2022, the decision was taken to retain these Italian beauties in this successful mix of historic cars. From mighty Cobras through to Austin A35s, with the added spice of Alfa GTs and Touring cars – this is an intoxicating cocktail for any petrolhead!

Historic Motor Racing News Pre '63 GT

The Historic Motor Racing News Pre ‘63 GT series is regarded as one of the most prestigious series in historic motorsport. Supported by the Royal Automobile Club, Pre ‘63 GT grids attract a unique array of 2-seat GT cars built and raced in the Tourist Trophy and other high-profile events of the period. Previous editions of Pre ‘63 GT have attracted a distinguished grid featuring prized machinery from a seminal era in motorsport, when Ferrari 250SWB, the ubiquitous Jaguar E-type, early AC Cobras, Aston Martins, Lotus Elite and Austin Healey lined-up with Porsche, Alfa Romeo, Morgan, Triumph and rarer breeds such as Ogle, Turner and Reliant. 

GRID CONTACTS:

• GT3 Legends
• Historic Touring Car Challenge with Tony Dron Trophy
• Pre-War Sports Cars
• Pre-63 GT
• Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall Cup
• Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy
• Stirling Moss Trophy
• U2TC

Contact Gillian Carr at Motor Racing Legends.

GRID CONTACTS: 

• HRDC Jack Sears Trophy 
• HRDC Gerry Marshall Trophy
• HRDC Dunlop Allstars and HRDC Classic Alfa Challenge 

Contact Julius Thurgood at HRDC.

GRID CONTACTS

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