The Silverstone Classic is an annual three-day car and race event at the UK's Silverstone circuit, home of the British Grand Prix. Over a long weekend every July, the event features a large number of historic racecars in races and static displays and draws together a large number of car clubs. It is billed as ‘The World’s Biggest Classic Motor Racing Festival’. Founded in 1990, the Silverstone Classic was one of the first of motor sport meetings dedicated entirely to historic racing cars and enjoyed considerable success and popularity during the following years. The arrival of similar historic festivals such as the Goodwood Revival and Festival of Speed saw the event lose some of its appeal at the start of the following decade. In recent years, though, the Silverstone Classic has re-established itself as a major historic motor sport festival attracting a crowd of 80, 000 in 2011 and in 2012 was voted as one of the World’s best historic motor sport events by Octane magazine. Another major accolade followed in 2013 when the Silverstone Classic won the prestigious ‘Motorsport Event of the Year Award’ at the third International Historic Motoring Awards (IHMA). The Classic celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015 with a special Silver Jubilee event which included a parade of silver cars to mark the milestone occasion. he weekend includes numerous races, from historic Formula 1 cars to Le Mans Group C prototype and touring cars. The RAC Tourist Trophy for Historic Cars has been staged at the Silverstone Classic since 2010. In 2010 and 2011, the Silverstone Classic schedule also featured a celebrity race run in competition prepared Fiat Abarth 500s (2010) and Morgans (2011).Both races were won by Rick Parfitt Jnr, son of Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt. Others to have participated are Brendan Cole and Zoe Cole, Heston Blumenthal, Luther Blissett, Paul O’Duffy, Sally ‘Traffic’ Boazman, ‘Comedy Dave’ Vitty and Jo Wood. As well as Cole and Blumenthal, the 2012 line-up.
