Leading historic race organizer, Motor Racing Legends, has launched an all-new race series for Groups 1 and 2, and Group A Touring Cars, such as raced in the British and European Touring Car Championships between 1977 and 1985.<\/p>\n
The new series will be called the JD Classics Challenge, thanks to the help and support of the premier classic car dealership, JD Classics. As with all Motor Racing Legends\u2019 series, the races will be for real racecars from the era, running to the correct period specification.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe a lot of the genuine race cars still exist, sitting in garages, but they\u2019re not being brought out en masse as there isn\u2019t a series catering exclusively for them,\u201d explains Duncan Wiltshire of Motor Racing Legends. \u201cWe hope to change all that. We\u2019re also looking at inviting selected cars from American series\u2013IMSA production cars from the 1977-\u201985 period.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Europe, it was the era of TWR\u00a0XJS and BMW 528, of Alfa GTV6, Audi Coup\u00e9 and Ford Sierra XR4i, piloted in their day by such stars as Win Percy and Andy Rouse. Before that came the likes of Triumph Dolomite Sprint, BMW 3.0 CSL and Jaguar XJ12C\u2014not forgetting the evergreen Ford Capri.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a time that many of us remember clearly, and even more of us would like to see revived as a historic race series.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first round of the new series will be at the brand-new Donington Historic Festival, April 29 to May 1, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Leading historic race organizer, Motor Racing Legends, has launched an all-new race series for Groups 1 and 2, and Group A Touring Cars, such as raced in the British and European Touring Car Championships between 1977 and 1985. The new series will be called the JD Classics Challenge, thanks to the help and support of the premier classic car dealership, JD Classics. As with all Motor Racing Legends\u2019 series, the races will be for real racecars from the era, running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":569871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[432,15234],"class_list":["post-35412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-events","tag-events-vintage-racing"],"yoast_head":"\n