The annual UK Historic Masters event took place at Brands Hatch over the bank-holiday weekend. Although the weather was rather grey and miserable we took the trip up to Brands to brighten up our day by inhaling brake dust and clutch smoke and punishing our ears with the sounds of old-school, fire-spitting, back-firing v12s.
We went up on the Sunday when they were using the Grand Prix circuit so we could witness the cars at full-chat down the long straights. As a bonus there was a 2004 Jaguar F1 with the V10 doing a few hot-laps for the crowd. Apparently it was clocking 186mph on the straight. 1.15.00 something around the GP circuit at an average of 110mph. Not bad for the conditions. (Pretty greasy.)
I'll start you off with some paddock and car-park shots:
A personal favourite!
Not sure if this one is original but I don't care!
Lola and Jag cooling down...
Every car should have arches like this!
Weird Aero kit on this Corvette...
Beauties...
I'm a sucker for an Alfa...
Don't know what this is but I like it, WATANABES!
This thing was hanging out next to the big purple machine, a McLaren i think...
Old Lotus, panel-beaten to an inch of its life...
Gutted I missed the touring car races the previous day, old school Capri here...
Mint Lola, was never really bothered about thes Lolas but they are growing on me, maybe its the sound of the 5.7 litre?...
Lovely Cobra, nice colour choice too...
And some more modern classics too...
This GT3 RS looked awesome from every angle, wish I was driving home in that!
TVR had some wicked colour combos didn't they, will they ever be back?
Well thats it for now, I'll post some on-track action tomorrow including the Jag F1 car, if you can't wait check my Flickr account
By the way if any admin people are down with this stuff I would love to collaborate, mail me up at tom@retributionbmx.co.uk
CHEERS!