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A huge field of cars leaves the assembly area for the Historic Touring Car Challenge...
#SilverstoneClassic
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Ready for the weekend:
@HowardDonald
has been out testing an Austin A35 ready for our Celebrity Race this Saturday!
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Can you ever have too much Volvo? The answer is most definitely no! 🐕🇸🇪
#SilverstoneClassic
//
#BTCC
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Touring car time! Always hugely popular. That Nissan Skyline is fantastic!
#TheClassic
#Silverstone
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A seemingly infinite stream of Minis, led by rally legend Paddy Hopkirk, out in force to celebrate the iconic car’s 60th birthday at the
#SilverstoneClassic
!
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Our
#BTCC
Diamond Jubilee Parade on Tin Top Sunday includes everything from 50s & 60s title-winners to a proper cult hero - the Volvo 850 Estate.
For the first time in years, both wagons will be reunited with 1998 champ Rickard Rydell flying in to drive!
#SilverstoneClassic
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The Classic will pay special tribute to Henry Hope-Frost; the much-loved broadcaster and freelance journalist who tragically lost his life in a road traffic accident while riding home from work in March aged just 47.
➡️
#SilverstoneClassic
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#FEVER
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That’s the 2018 Silverstone Classic!
Many thanks to everybody who paid us a visit and to everyone who kept the Classic’s wheels turning, our partners and, of course, all of our competitors.
We hope we’ll see you back here next year, 26-28 July!
#SilverstoneClassic
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What. A. Weekend.
Thanks to all the marshals who gave up their time so generously, the drivers who gave us amazing racing, our partners & exhibitors for their support, everyone behind the scenes who has worked hard to create a brilliant bank holiday weekend, and each of YOU 🎉
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We are hugely saddened to learn of the passing of the legendary Paddy Hopkirk. Our thoughts are with Paddy’s family at this time. RIP Paddy – keep tearing it up in your Mini.
Here we remember the 2019 event when Paddy was reunited with his Monte Carlo rally-winning Mini 😍
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Yeah this just happened. 😁 41 XJ220s including 4 Le Mans cars!!!
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Day 3 of The Classic.
We dedicate today's racing to the entire marshal community 🧡.
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DAMON HILL IS JOINING US AT THE CLASSIC 🎉
@HillF1
will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of his 1996 world championship win with demonstration laps on Sunday!
READ MORE:
#TheClassic
#Silverstone
#DamonHill
#F1
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Will
@HowardDonald
win our Celebrity Race this Saturday? He's been out testing the Austin A35 he'll be driving!
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We're wishing
@MBrundleF1
a very Happy Birthday! 🎂
Here's a throwback to The Classic 2021, when Martin and
@AlexBrundle
took part in the 60th Anniversary E-Type challenge
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📸 Set up in full swing here at Silverstone... the perfect time for a nosy around the paddock and pits!
🎟 Tickets are on sale until midnight tonight and are only available in advance ➡️
#SilverstoneClassic
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Is the Ford Capri the car
@mikebrewer
always promised himself? You can find out for yourself when the arch Wheeler Dealer reviews this striking dark blue 2.8i Brooklands model during his Car Clinics at the
#SilverstoneClassic
...
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Pleased to have
@WilliamsRacing
with some of their classics at
#SilverstoneClassic25
. See them
@SilverstoneUK
http://t.co/xjs6YGWRMd
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The last word aptly goes to the Minis, who saw out
#SilverstoneClassic
2019 in style, with a record 109,000 people through the gates!
We’d like to thank all the spectators, drivers, teams, marshals, exhibitors & everyone else who made this year’s Classic the biggest & best yet!
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David v Goliath stuff for
@JakeHillDriver
in the International Trophy for Classic GT Cars (Pre ‘66), as he steered his Lotus Elan beyond, and then fended off the more powerful E-types and Cobras...
#SilverstoneClassic
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Tin Top Sunday’s first Tin Top encounter! The Gallet Trophy For Under 2 Litre Touring Cars (U2TC) is underway...
#SilverstoneClassic
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@BrianJohnson
vs
@HowardDonald
!
@acdc
vs
@takethat
! Who is it going to be!? Celebrity Race Saturday 29th July -
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Triple
@BTCC
champ
@ColinTurkington
will be racing this ex-Steve Soper 1991 BMW M3 on Sunday at the Classic...
🗣 CT: “Getting the opportunity to drive a piece of BMW history is amazing – I can't wait to get it out on the Grand Prix circuit at Silverstone.”
#BTCC
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📢 On our final
@WheelerDealers
Wednesday,
@MikeBrewer
's very own Porsche 912E – heading into Mike Brewer's Car Clinics presented by Haynes this weekend...
It's one of 2099 912Es sold exclusively in the USA only in 1976, enamel blue – imported & completely restored in 2014.
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Our
#BTCC
Diamond Jubilee Parade on Tin Top Sunday includes everything from 50s & 60s title-winners to a proper cult hero - the Volvo 850 Estate.
And... 1998 champ Rickard Rydell is flying in to drive! 🇸🇪
#SilverstoneClassic
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Utterly shocked and saddened to hear the tragic news this evening.
@henryhopefrost
was a consummate professional and a delight to have as part of the team. You will be so very missed, Henry. Rest in peace. All our thoughts are with your family at this impossibly difficult time.
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MINI CAR, MASSIVE LINE-UP!
#MondayMotivation
#MiniMonday
#TheClassic
#Silverstone
Mighty Mini Cooper celebrates 60 years with races at The Classic 2021➡️➡️
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What was your highlight moment of the weekend?
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Another shot of the JPS 635 CSi - original driver Jim Richards is entering the
@JETPetrol
Super Touring Car Trophy!
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We found something of yours,
@McLarenF1
👋
Can never have enough Papaya 😍
#SilverstoneClassic
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This summer’s
#SilverstoneClassic
has the honour of hosting the very first round of Aston Martin’s new Aston Martin Heritage Racing Festival Series, open to all non-current Aston Martin GT class race cars: DBR9s, Vantages and some exotic specials like the mighty Vulcan...
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Massive thanks to the guys and girls in orange, without whom we wouldn’t have a
#SilverstoneClassic
race weekend...
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🎥 The
#BTCC
celebrates its Diamond Jubilee year in 2018 and next month's Silverstone Classic will commemorate the landmark in style with a parade of some 60 iconic cars from the series' storied history set for Tin Top Sunday...
#SilverstoneClassic
|
@DunlopBTCC
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Cool car! Ric Wood's 1974 Ford Capri - Cosworth GAA engine 3400cc and about 470bhp.
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The
#BTCC
boys are out in force... Tom Ingram in the Corvette, Adam Morgan and Jeff Smith in Minis, triple champ Colin Turkington in the M3, Jake Hill in the Elan...
🎟 Tickets are available until midnight tonight, don’t miss out:
#SilverstoneClassic
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What. A. Weekend.
Thanks to all of you who attended the Classic 2021 and made it such a magical event. And a big hello 👋 to everyone who enjoyed our livestreams on YouTube & Facebook and followed the event from all around the world.
#TheClassic
#Silverstone
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📸 No better place for a poke around the pit garages than at the
#SilverstoneClassic
...
Legendary names and iconic machinery at every turn.
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Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Mini Cooper with The Classic Mini Challenge - true bumper-to-bumper racing.
#TheClassic
#Silverstone
@MastersHistoric
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This weekend is a big one for
@astonmartin
. It marks their return to F1! Did you know that their only previous F1 venture was back in the late ‘50s with the DBR4?
At the Classic, we often have DBR4s racing in the HGPCA grid for Pre '66 Grand Prix cars🤩
#TheClassic
#Silverstone
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The triple! XJ220 Le Mans teams reunited with friends from across the world plus the test van!
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Happy Birthday Murray Walker - 94 today!
The voice of many classic F1 weekends, here he is with Freddie Hunt at last year's Media Day.
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Thanks to everyone who made this year's
@Silverclassic
so special - a fabulous weekend. Bring on 2017!
#RockingandRacing
#SilverstoneClassic
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Going under the hammer at the
@silverstoneauc
sale at next month's Silverstone Classic... The 'King of the 80s classics' this Ford Sierra RS500 Cosworth –
#38
of 500 😍
➡️
#SilverstoneClassic
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📸 Almost as many Minis racing as paraded earlier! What a 60th bash this is proving to be 🥳
#SilverstoneClassic
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🐣 The perfect way to wish
#SilverstoneClassic
fans a very Happy Easter? A chocolate-themed racing car: the Middlebridge Reynard 89D raced by
@markblundellf1
in the 1989 F3000 Championship.
It’s been restored to its Cadbury livery & will be on show at July’s Classic!
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Go up-close with the iconic bikes and meet their riders down in the National Paddock with the
@wgpbikelegends
... Here’s
@Stavros6
warming up earlier today.
#SilverstoneClassic
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Get ready for high revving, iconic V8, V10 and V12s at Ignition GP this august bank holiday!
Here's a sneak peak at some of the cars taking part 👀
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📢 So, on with
@WheelerDealers
Wednesday & a stunning Porsche 356 for
@MikeBrewer
's Car Clinics!
It’s a '59 model, imported as a wreck from “Rusty Tubs” in Texas & completely restored – fitting given we'll be celebrating 70 years of Porsche at next month's
#SilverstoneClassic
!
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The man himself,
@mikebrewer
, is back today with his
@wheelerdealers
Car Clinics... Still to come on the Village Green Stage:
1020: ‘85 Capri 2.8
1100: ‘73 Camaro
1210: ‘24 Model T
1345: ‘68 Charger
1455: ‘67 Herald
1545: ‘71 Datsun 510
1645: Austin 7 Ulster
#SilverstoneClassic
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Who saw this cheeky C292 lurking in the paddock at the Classic?
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🎥
@RickardRydell
speaks on being reunited with an old friend in the Volvo S40 & memories of his time in the
#BTCC
...
We'll celebrate the series' 60th year at July's Classic in style, with a parade of some 60 iconic cars from the series' storied history set for Tin Top Sunday!
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Celebrity team
#3
@wgpbikelegends
:
@TheWayneGardner
@Freddiespencer
@Stavros6
@MariaCostello
& captain
@SoperSteve
!
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.
@PorscheGB
&
@Porsche
have brought along some incredible machines for us to drool over at
#SilverstonecClassic25
http://t.co/u4iUQt6XXH
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Good noise from the JET Super Touring Car Trophy protagonists...
Rickard Rydell tops the session and is on pole, by just 0.043s - 20 years after he last drove his
@DunlopBTCC
title-winning Volvo S40 in anger.
#SilverstoneClassic
//
#BTCC
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With a heavy heart, we’ve reached the difficult decision to cancel this year’s event.
If you’ve bought tickets, you will have an email from us so please check your inbox. More info at
Thank you for your support & understanding at this toughest of times.
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Happy Birthday John Surtees - four times 500cc motorcycle and a Formula One World Champion!
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Nish Khambhaita’s 1971 Datsun 510 is all set for
@mikebrewer
’s Car Clinics at the
#SilverstoneClassic
...
This rare model is a tribute to his father’s East African Safari Rally days during the 60s and 70s, Nish has restored it in rally trim to match to his dad’s old rally car 😍
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Mammoth Classic Car Displays: Top 10 attractions at Silverstone Classic ->
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The Twilight Tribute to Le Mans - a truly stunning finale to today’s spectacular on-track action...
#SilverstoneClassic
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115 McLarens on track!
Who doesn't love the sound a McLaren makes at
@SilverstoneUK
@Mclaren
@Silverclassic
#silverstoneclassic
#silverstone
#mclaren
#supercars
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Arriving in style! The stunning 1931 Bentley Blower is put to work, towing the Continental GT3 into position for display...
#SilverstoneClassic
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🎥 The
#BTCC
celebrates its 60th year in 2018 & the Silverstone Classic (20-22 July) will commemorate the landmark in style with a parade of 60 iconic cars from the series' storied history set for Tin Top Sunday...
🎟 Tickets only in advance from £45 ➡️
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Next from the
@MHCollection
ahead of Tin Top Sunday's
#BTCC
60th celebrations... John Rhodes and Steve Neal at Becketts Corner in Cooper Car Company Mini Cooper S's, Silverstone Martini International Trophy 1968.
#SilverstoneClassic
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BRING. IT. ON.
Want to come along? Tickets are available online until midnight tonight!
#TheClassic
#Silverstone
@SilverstoneUK
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the legendary Sir Stirling Moss. He was a great friend to the Classic and a hero of the ’50s racing scene. He will be much missed. Here pictured with us at the 2014 event leading out a parade of Grand Prix cars. RIP Sir Stirling
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The Le Mans
#52
Jaguar XJ220C has arrived at Don Law Racing from Japan so it can join the 25th Anniversary Celebrations at
@Silverclassic
!
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Flaming 500s!
The Sierra RS500s in the
@JETPetrol
Super Touring Car Trophy were fire breathers!
#Cosworth
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Mini magic!
A record 76 of the miniature heroes have turned out at
@SilverstoneUK
to celebrate the car’s 60th birthday with a parade led by the legendary Paddy Hopkirk in his Monte winner!
#SilverstoneClassic
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In just two weeks’ time, tin-top legend Gordon Spice will be celebrating 50 years of the Ford Capri at the Classic.
Spice took the top class honours in the
#BTCC
five seasons in a row between 1976-1980 and one of his multiple winning red Capris is still racing at the Classic...
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Breaking News! 🚨
The original
@wheelerdealers
@mikebrewer
returns to The Classic with his popular Car Clinics in association with
@cargodsofficial
. Mike will also be joined on the main stage by
@f1elvis
! Here's a sneak peak below at what Mike and Elvis have in store for you...
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We'll be joined by a motorsport legend this weekend at The Classic
1996 F1 World Champion Damon Hill will be on the main stage on Friday to talk about his father's title winning campaign with BRM 60 years ago in 1962 - what a treat!
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Sadly the Spitfire didn't make it into the sky today, but there were a number of fire-ups!
#SilverstoneClassic25
http://t.co/pKfvFSXO5z
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Silverstone has seen some epic
#BTCC
moments in the last 60 years – the 1992 season finale being one of the most controversial with
@SoperSteve
&
@jclelandracing
in the barriers &
@timharvey7
crowned champ.
They'll be back racing tin-tops at next weekend’s
#SilverstoneClassic
!
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Early morning shot of the XJ220s already in the paddock, many more joining us tomorrow for the 25th Anniversary parade.
#Silverstone
Classic
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On the hour all day until six! The Merlin roar blaring around the JET Village Green...
#SilverstoneClassic
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