Aston Martins, Ferraris and Porsches are three of the most revered car marques in the world, yet you can see championships featuring all of them at the Castle Combe Circuit’s A Plant LUX Traffic Sportscar Raceday on Bank Holiday Monday August 27.

The Astons have two races, one exclusively for the marque, plus the Intermarque championship which also allows other non-Astons to take part.

Heading Class C2 is Bath’s Geoffrey Lewis in his 5.3 litre V8 Coupe with marque specialist, John Goldsmith from Salisbury, in his DB6. Mark Campbell from Stonehouse is fourth in the overall championship and leads Class A1 in his Pre ’60 DB2/4. Lewis will also be racing the Porsches, Ferraris and Sunbeam Tigers in the Intermarque race.

Pewsey’s Graham Reeder and Yeovil’s Gary Culver were the men at the front of the field for last year’s Pirelli Ferrari Formula Classic race and are back for a re-match in their similar 328 GTBs. They run in the lightly modified class for road cars, with Malmesbury’s Peter Fisk and Monmouth’s David Hathaway running their 328s in the class for standard cars.

Porsche lovers have four races for the ‘Open’ and ‘Club’ championships featuring examples of most of the models, both front and rear engined. Bath’s Chris May has his 944 S2 and Bristol’s David Parnell a 944.

The circuit’s own championships are really hotting up, with the pressure on to determine the 2007 champions.

Bradford On Avon’s Ed Moore took a knock to his chances in the Melton Concrete Products Formula Ford 1600 championship at the last round after a misfire dropped him out of the points, helping Saltford’s Steven Jensen to close the gap. Nevertheless Moore still has a useful 15 point advantage with a potential 62 up for grabs in the remaining two rounds.

The rest of the field trail by some distance, but Bratton’s Ben Norton has definite potential for an outright win, whilst Bridgwater’s Josh Fisher has already picked up his first of the season at the last round in the Wayne Poole Racing Mygale.

Castle Combe’s Andy Jones is working the unique Ray GRS07 hard and is second only to Moore in Class A, with Trowbridge’s Stephen Gibbins looking for a finish after retiring his Van Diemen RF01 at the last round.

Sensation of the Pre ’90 class is currently Chippenham’s Adam Higgins, now the man that championship class leader, Jim Hamilton, from Kington St Michael, has to beat to defend his slender lead from the debutant.

The turbo four wheel drive cars are still struggling to overcome their reliability issues in the National Mobile Windscreens Saloon Car Championship, but are a spectacle nonetheless.

Nailsworth’s Keith Murray kept his Audi A4 Quattro out of trouble earlier this month to take the win, but has a new challenger this time in the shape of a Mitsubishi Evo 8 in the hands of Cheltenham’s Laurence Kilby.

Bristol’s Mark Wyatt should have class B sorted in his 2 litre Astra, Weston Super Mare’s Alex Ferguson, moving up to this class with a bigger engine in his 205 GTi.

Calne’s Tony Hutchings’s overcame more qualifying dramas at the last round to take another Class C win with his MG ZR, putting him back in the lead of the overall championship. That was at the expense of Chippenham’s William Di Claudio, whose engine gave way in the Class D Peugeot 106, losing him the overall points lead.

Marlborough’s Howard Spooner blitzed the savesometax.co.uk Castle Combe Special GT Championship race last time and could do the same again in this, it’s 25th anniversary race. His main rival, Bath’s Guy Woodward has a 50 horsepower deficit to Spooner’s Nissan powered Jade, but his Chrysler engined example should still be able to claim a podium reliability permitting, Woodward having a poor season in that respect.

Bristol’s Tony Michael and Trowbridge’s Mark Funnell will be trading places in Class C, Michael ahead on points, but nothing separating them in terms of speed.

Castle Combe’s Keith Sprules has formidable opposition in Class D in his Ferrari 360, no less than six of these amazing cars now competing in that class. The paddock is worth a visit just to see those!

Monday’s action starts at 8.40 am with qualifying, racing getting under way from 12.30pm.

Admission prices are £15 for adults, £7-50 for OAPs, £2-50 for paddock transfer, whilst accompanied children under 15 are admitted free.