Wheel-to-wheel action for BTCC anniversary

| 13 Jul 2018
Classic & Sports Car – Wheel-to-wheel action for BTCC anniversary

Fans of the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) are in for a treat at this year's Silverstone Classic (20-22 July).

To mark 60 years of this much-loved series, some of its biggest four-wheeled and two-legged stars will take to the Northamptonshire circuit in four races, as well as a 60-car parade on Tin Top Sunday.

In all, more than 150 cars that either have raced in the BTCC or that accurately represent those that have done will participate in this celebration, as well as six championship-winning drivers from across the series' history.

Classic & Sports Car – Wheel-to-wheel action for BTCC anniversary

1998 champion Rickard Rydell is set to star at the Silverstone Classic along with his Volvo 850 Estate

The six drivers' champions are: the oldest living BTCC champion John Fitzpatrick (1966), John Cleland (1989 and 1995), Tim Harvey (1992), 'Super Swede' Rickard Rydell (1998), Jason Plato (2001 and 2010) and Ash Sutton (2017).

And other touring-car aces including Steve Soper, Sam Tordoff, Patrick Watts, Nick Whale, Jeff Allam, Jason Hughes, Rob Huff and Karl Jones will also be in action on track at the Silverstone Classic.

So, what cars will you be able to feast your eyes on?

Classic & Sports Car – Wheel-to-wheel action for BTCC anniversary

There's going to be lots to delight touring-car fans from across the generations

Rydell will be reunited with his now-iconic Volvo 850 Estate, there will be last year's championship-winning Subaru Levorg, an Austin Westminster as raced by the late Jack Sears to the inaugural crown in 1958, Doc Shepherd’s 1960 title-winning Austin A40, another series champion in the form of Frank Gardner’s Ford Escort from 1968, plus Graham Hill’s 1962 race-winning Mk2 Jaguar, 'BUY 12'.

Harvey will also be competing in the Historic Touring Car Challenge at the wheel of a Rover SD1 Vitesse, Cleland is racing his ’97 Vauxhall Vectra and Sutton is set to campaign a 1996 Honda Accord.

It promises to be an evocative and mouth-watering occasion for touring-car fans past and present.

Want to be there? Tickets for the Silverstone Classic must be purchased in advance and are available until midnight on Thursday 19 July – click here.