Go to the first RAC concours with Classic & Sports Car

By Aaron McKay
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 | 12 Jun 2025
Classic & Sports Car – Go to the first RAC concours with Classic & Sports Car

The Royal Automobile Club will assemble hundreds of classic cars and ’bikes on the lawns of its Woodcote Park estate near Epsom, Surrey, on 9 July 2025 for its inaugural concours – and you can be there.

Tickets to The Royal Automobile Club Concours are limited to members, selected car clubs and partners of the Royal Automobile Club, and as a reader of Classic & Sports Car you can buy tickets using the code cscm-ksdmmpmj when you checkout here.

Classic & Sports Car – Go to the first RAC concours with Classic & Sports Car

Members’ cars will form a further attraction on 9 July

For the first edition of its concours, the RAC will award prizes to seven categories of classic cars and ’bikes.

The concours classes for 2025 are: Mille Miglia, Limousines, Grand Tourers, Coachbuilder’s Art, Brighton (for pre-1905 Veteran Car Run participants), Riviera and Looks a Pillion Dollars, the latter for classic ’bikes.

As well as vying for victory at a divisional level and the Best of Show accolade, there is a People’s Choice prize that will be voted for by showgoers.

Star cars already revealed include a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300SLR in the Mille Miglia set and the colourful 1964 Rolls-Royce Phantom V, originally owned by John Lennon, in the Limousines category.

Classic & Sports Car – Go to the first RAC concours with Classic & Sports Car

75 years of BRM will be marked at Woodcote Park, this gas-turbine-powered racer forming part of the display © James Mann

In addition to the concours, expect several feature displays including celebrations of 75 years of Formula One, 125 years of the 1000 Mile Trial and 120 years of the Tourist Trophy.

The 75th anniversary of BRM, who won the 1962 F1 constructors’ title, will also be honoured with a special showcase, one of the highlights of which will be the gas-turbine-powered 1965 Rover-BRM campaigned by Graham Hill and Sir Jackie Stewart at that year’s Le Mans 24 Hours.

This experimental prototype racer began its Le Mans career in 1963, effectively placing eighth, then 10th in ’65, before retiring from competition.

Classic & Sports Car – Go to the first RAC concours with Classic & Sports Car

This 1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom has already won one concours © Valletta Concours

The centenary of the Rolls-Royce Phantom will be celebrated, too, with a set including the boat-tailed 1928 Phantom that scooped Best in Show at the 2024 Valletta Concours d’Elegance.

Known as 17EX, this ex-Maharaja of Kashmir Phantom was one of four experimental cars built and tested to 100mph, wearing aerodynamic Jarvis of Wimbledon bodywork and powered by a 7.8-litre engine.

British cars of 1950 will be remembered in a further display, while Supercar Boulevard will bring a more contemporary angle to this automotive garden party.

Classic & Sports Car – Go to the first RAC concours with Classic & Sports Car

Join the party at the RAC’s first concours on 9 July

The Royal Automobile Club Concours at Woodcote Park, Surrey, kicks off at 10am on Wednesday 9 July, with a Grand Arrival following at 11am and prizegiving in the afternoon.

Tickets are strictly limited to members of the RAC, plus invited motoring organisations and establishments, including Classic & Sports Car.

To reserve your place, click here, select ‘Guest’, make your selection then, on the next page, enter cscm-ksdmmpmj in the ‘club code’ box.

Each ticket is £50 and gives access to the event plus a programme; parking is not included.

Visit the event website here.

Images: Royal Automobile Club/James Mann/Valletta Concours

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Aaron McKay

Aaron is Classic & Sports Car’s Deputy Editor