{"id":4675,"date":"2022-09-01T11:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=4675"},"modified":"2022-09-01T11:09:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:09:37","slug":"porsche-group-c-parade-at-silverstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=4675","title":{"rendered":"Porsche Group C parade at Silverstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the highlights at Silverstone Classic was the Porsche Group C parade, celebrating the 40 years of Porsche in Group C. \u2018The Classic\u2019 had other themes as well: a homage to Frank Williams and to Lewis Hamilton, for example.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Classic<\/a>\u2019 as Silverstone likes to call it, makes the most of its move to the end of August, with the benefit of a bank holiday on Monday in the UK. The weekend of 27-28 August was filled to the brim with historic racing and different displays. A 100,000-strong crowd saw Rick Astley round up the weekend, if that should be considered a bonus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Carlo Senten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Porsche train<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, back to racing. First of all, as you probably have been aware, Porsche is celebrating the 40 years of Group C and its 956 and 962. Derek Bell led an impressive parade of 956s and 962s, ahead of John Fitzpatrick in the newly restored \u2018JDavid\u2019 Porsche 956 he raced before. Collector Henry Pearman was responsible for curating this impressive train of 956s and 962s on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Carlo Senten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tributes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, Silverstone Classic had built up a display to honour Lewis Hamilton. All seven cars with which he won an F1 crown were lined up, opposite to some of the cars he raced against. Frank Williams was honoured at what was his home circuit as well. Finally, and we are just doing a quick recap here, Damon Hill was present to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of his father\u2019s first F1 title, in 1962 with BRM. At the time, Graham Hill was the first British driver in a British car to take the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Carlo Senten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Formula 1<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On the track, Mike Cantillon took victory in his Williams FW07C in both races of the Frank Williams Memorial Trophy for F1 cars (1966 \u2013 1985). In Race 1 of the Masters Endurance Legends, Jamie Constable (Pescarolo 01) took victory after a penalty set Steve Tandy (Peugeot 90X) back. Race 2 went Tim de Silva\u2019s way in another Pescarolo prototype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Carlo Senten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Touring cars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Julian Thomas and Calum Lockie steered their AC Cobra Daytona Coup\u00e9 to the front of the 50-minute Masters Gentlemen Drivers race. The same duo won the Pre-66 Touring Car race in a Ford Falcon as well. Tom Bradshaw had to nurse his Chevron B19 across the finish in the Masters Sports Cars Legends race, but it\u2019s the result that counts, isn\u2019t it? The 1990 Nissan Skyline came out strongest of the touring cars in the Tony Dron Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo Carlo Senten<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Finally, The Classic featured two new races in the GT4 category. Seb Hopkins led from start to finish in race 1 in his Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS. Race 2 saw Freddie Tomlinson triumph in his Ginetta G56 GT4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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