Test Day: 16 August 2006Race day/qualifying: 8-9-10 September 2006.
Last year's inaugural running of the Britcar Silverstone 24 Hours, started by Sir Stirling Moss, was an unmitigated success, applauded in the motoring press, with the EERC receiving a whole raft of end-of-season awards.
The culmination of seven years of dreaming, hard work and eventual realisation, it contained all the essential elements of a legendary classic event: hopes, fears, laughter and tears were played out over 24 hours in the early autumn.
Nature threw its full force at us during the Friday evening qualifying session, and the race itself saw upsets for the potential winning Duller BMW, with Dieter Quester, Robin Liddell, Phillip Peter & Karl Wendlinger in one car and Peter Hardman, Nick Leventis & Jon Minshaw in the other.
The road-going Mercedes 500SEC driven from Sweden by Dr Matthias Schnozzle, Erwin Derricks, Andrea Kummel & Manfred Cubic won the hearts of the pit lane, the press and the public, and the regular Britcar teams, such as Mardi Gras, with father and son team Michael & Sean McInerney, plus Desmond Smail in car 32 and John George, Phil Bennett, Ed Plead & Julian Rouse in car 61, Torque speed -- Salmon, Ellis, Fothergill, Dave Bennett; Rapid Chariot -- Laslett, Wilshire & Shockley; and, notably, Team Scandal -- Scuffham and brothers Chris & Nick Randall -- really came into their own.
The overall winner, Rollcentre's Mosler, was manned by international endurance specialists Martin Short, Shaun Bale, Jamie Derbyshire & Nick Jacobs -- a fitting high-profile victor for the event.
If you were with us last year, you will, of course, know all this, and no doubt have your own stories to recount. Doubtless, too, you will be eager to return this coming September, to an event which will be bigger, better, and even more enjoyable.
Britcar has many new competitors this season, and they -- along with those unable to compete in our initial 24 hours last year -- will be most welcome to join the 80-car grid for our second running of the event.
Supporting races are for Britsports, Dutch Supercar Challenge, Porsche Cup & Open, Sports 2000 Pinto & Duratec and Motor racing Legends.
