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The Vintage Racecar\/Vintage Roadcar<\/em> stand at the Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show was buzzing all weekend. With three iconic cars, Porsche 917, BMW GTP car and the Eagle HF89-Toyota, together with three legends of the track, Le Mans winner Richard Attwood (Friday), five-time Grand Prix winner John Watson (Saturday) and championship-winning Engineer, Technical Director and Constructor Ross Brawn (Sunday) ensuring a good flow of onlookers over the full three days of the event. German artist Uli Ehret was kept busy too, painting two new pieces of work, one featuring the Eagle-Toyota and the other the BMW GTP, but unfortunately he had to cut his time short due to the atrocities in Paris.<\/p>\n

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European Editor, Mike Jiggle, welcomes VR subscriber Dario Franchitti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Among other visitors to the stand were returnee VR subscriber Dario Franchitti who said, \u201cI used to subscribe to the magazine some years ago, but my busy lifestyle left me little time to read, now I’m glad to be \u2018back on board\u2019.\u201d VR also welcomed the 1970 London-to-Mexico Rally competitors Bronwyn Burrell and Trina Kerridge who took part in that audacious event. VR readers will be able to relive the tales of this rally in a future edition of the magazine, together with a profile of their actual Austin Maxi rally car. British Racing Drivers’ Club Secretary, Gillian Carr, remarked, \u201cThe excellent display of cars on the Vintage Racecar stand made my 90-minute wait to access the NEC car park worthwhile\u2014it must rank as one of the best stands of the entire show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole weekend was a tremendous success, with as many highlights as can be imagined,\u201d said European Editor, Mike Jiggle. \u201cRichard Attwood and the Porsche 917 were simply the stars of the show on Friday. Saturday, Grand Prix<\/p>\n

winner John Watson, despite feeling a little under the weather, sat for three to four hours chatting with fans, signing autographs and, of course, reacquainting himself with his BMW GTP car. Last, but by no means least, we signed off the show with Ross Brawn, whose career needed no introduction to the many visitors and fans. Readers will be able to learn of how he started the long road to motor racing royalty in a future issue of the magazine. Ultimately, we’ve tried to make the cars and stars accessible to our readers. This show has certainly gone a great way along that road to achieving our goal. Of course, none of this would have been possible without the generous support of the celebrities, the owners of the display cars and Phil Stott Motorsport and Pearsons Engineering for transporting them. On behalf of VR, I\u2019d like to offer our sincere thanks, we couldn’t have achieved this without them. It\u2019s some measure of the goodwill Vintage Racecar<\/em>\"\"<\/a> has built up in the UK and Europe over recent years with those at the forefront of our sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

With just shy of 69,000 attendees making the journey to Birmingham\u2019s NEC for the \u201cseason finale\u201d of the UK\u2019s classic motoring scene, it smashed the previous year\u2019s high of 65,000 for the three-day event, which boasted around 2,500 classic cars and bikes on display.<\/p>\n

The 2016 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show will return to Birmingham\u2019s NEC on November 11-13, 2016. For more information and the latest updates, visit www.necclassicmotorshow.com.<\/p>\n

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