{"id":497146,"date":"2017-11-29T10:48:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=53224"},"modified":"2024-12-03T02:24:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T02:24:44","slug":"vscc-sets-donington-park-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/","title":{"rendered":"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) &#8211; Recap &#038; Photo Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vintage Sports-Car Club will celebrate the 80<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of its first standalone race meeting \u2014 held at Donington Park on April 23, 1938 \u2014 with a Formula Vintage Historic Festival befitting the occasion. The Festival will take place at Donington on Sunday June 24 and mark the VSCC\u2019s return to Donington (above, Pete Austin photo) following a four-year absence.<\/p>\n<p>The event will feature a selection of cars taken from the VSCC&#8217;s own Racing Grids, supported by a number of selected guest races, with the full race program to be published early in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Formula Vintage Historic Festival at Donington Park in June will complement the 2018 Formula Vintage season, which features six rounds beginning at Silverstone on April 21-22 before appearing at Oulton Park on May 19, Donington Park on June 24, Cadwell Park on July 22, Mallory Park on August 11 and Snetterton on September 23.<\/p>\n<p>For compete information please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vscc.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.vscc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vintage Sports-Car Club will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its first standalone race meeting \u2014 held at Donington Park on April 23, 1938 \u2014 with a Formula Vintage Historic Festival befitting the occasion. The Festival will take place at Donington on Sunday June 24 and mark the VSCC\u2019s return to Donington (above, Pete Austin photo) following a four-year absence. The event will feature a selection of cars taken from the VSCC&#8217;s own Racing Grids, supported by a number of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":579742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,13063],"tags":[11468,432,15234,17625],"class_list":["post-497146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-events","category-vintage-car-racing","tag-vscc","tag-events","tag-events-vintage-racing","tag-vintage-race-formula-vintage"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) - Recap &amp; Photo Gallery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) - Recap &amp; Photo Gallery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Vintage Sports-Car Club will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its first standalone race meeting \u2014 held at Donington Park on April 23, 1938 \u2014 with a Formula Vintage Historic Festival befitting the occasion. The Festival will take place at Donington on Sunday June 24 and mark the VSCC\u2019s return to Donington (above, Pete Austin photo) following a four-year absence. The event will feature a selection of cars taken from the VSCC&#8217;s own Racing Grids, supported by a number of [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-11-29T18:48:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-03T02:24:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"622\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John Zimmermann\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John Zimmermann\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"John Zimmermann\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/96b206a07dacd5614967544b2c3b0e35\"},\"headline\":\"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) &#8211; Recap &#038; Photo Gallery\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-11-29T18:48:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-03T02:24:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"(VSCC) Vintage Sports Car Club\",\"Event (Car Events &amp; Shows)\",\"Event (Vintage Races)\",\"Vintage Race (Formula Vintage)\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Car Events &amp; Shows\",\"Vintage Races &amp; Rallies\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/\",\"name\":\"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) - Recap & Photo Gallery\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2017-11-29T18:48:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-03T02:24:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/96b206a07dacd5614967544b2c3b0e35\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2017\\\/11\\\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":622},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) &#8211; Recap &#038; Photo Gallery\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Supercars.net\",\"description\":\"Exotic and Supercar news, information, pictures and videos\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/96b206a07dacd5614967544b2c3b0e35\",\"name\":\"John Zimmermann\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/DNFD62DX0AA8wcD-293x293.jpeg\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/DNFD62DX0AA8wcD-293x293.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/10\\\/DNFD62DX0AA8wcD-293x293.jpeg\",\"caption\":\"John Zimmermann\"},\"description\":\"John Zimmermann was exposed to racing at birth. His father worked for famed race car builder Kurtis Kraft, and later as a mechanic at Indianapolis and on the Championship Trail for drivers such as Rex Mays, Ted Horn, and Troy Ruttman. John has written about racing for more than 25 years, first at RACECAR before helping found both On Track and RACER, overseeing the latter for a dozen years. He was also motorsports editor at AutoWeek and editor of SportsCar, and his book The Atlantic Championship celebrates the first 25 years of Formula Atlantic. His freelance work has appeared in Road &amp; Track, Motor Sport, Autosport, and Vintage Motorsport, among others.\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/john_zimmermann-2\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) - Recap & Photo Gallery","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) - Recap & Photo Gallery","og_description":"The Vintage Sports-Car Club will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its first standalone race meeting \u2014 held at Donington Park on April 23, 1938 \u2014 with a Formula Vintage Historic Festival befitting the occasion. The Festival will take place at Donington on Sunday June 24 and mark the VSCC\u2019s return to Donington (above, Pete Austin photo) following a four-year absence. The event will feature a selection of cars taken from the VSCC&#8217;s own Racing Grids, supported by a number of [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/","og_site_name":"Supercars.net","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/","article_published_time":"2017-11-29T18:48:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-12-03T02:24:44+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1080,"height":622,"url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"John Zimmermann","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@supercars_net","twitter_site":"@supercars_net","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"John Zimmermann","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/"},"author":{"name":"John Zimmermann","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/96b206a07dacd5614967544b2c3b0e35"},"headline":"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) &#8211; Recap &#038; Photo Gallery","datePublished":"2017-11-29T18:48:02+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-03T02:24:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/"},"wordCount":159,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg","keywords":["(VSCC) Vintage Sports Car Club","Event (Car Events &amp; Shows)","Event (Vintage Races)","Vintage Race (Formula Vintage)"],"articleSection":["Car Events &amp; Shows","Vintage Races &amp; Rallies"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/","name":"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) - Recap & Photo Gallery","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg","datePublished":"2017-11-29T18:48:02+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-03T02:24:44+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/96b206a07dacd5614967544b2c3b0e35"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Donington-1950s-Sports-Racing-Cars-Image-by-Pete-Austin.jpg","width":1080,"height":622},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/vscc-sets-donington-park-return\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"VSCC Formula Vintage (2018) &#8211; Recap &#038; Photo Gallery"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/","name":"Supercars.net","description":"Exotic and Supercar news, information, pictures and videos","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/96b206a07dacd5614967544b2c3b0e35","name":"John Zimmermann","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DNFD62DX0AA8wcD-293x293.jpeg","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DNFD62DX0AA8wcD-293x293.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DNFD62DX0AA8wcD-293x293.jpeg","caption":"John Zimmermann"},"description":"John Zimmermann was exposed to racing at birth. His father worked for famed race car builder Kurtis Kraft, and later as a mechanic at Indianapolis and on the Championship Trail for drivers such as Rex Mays, Ted Horn, and Troy Ruttman. John has written about racing for more than 25 years, first at RACECAR before helping found both On Track and RACER, overseeing the latter for a dozen years. He was also motorsports editor at AutoWeek and editor of SportsCar, and his book The Atlantic Championship celebrates the first 25 years of Formula Atlantic. His freelance work has appeared in Road &amp; Track, Motor Sport, Autosport, and Vintage Motorsport, among others.","url":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/author\/john_zimmermann-2\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}