DINE WITH THE CHAMPIONS AT THE INTERNATIONAL HISTORIC MOTORSPORT SHOW
Tickets are now on sale for the annual HistoricMotorsport Awards Charity Dinner, which takes placeat The Chesford Grange Hotel, Kenilworth,Warwickshire on Saturday 26 February.
Guests of honour include champions on two wheelsand four, including Pentti Airikkala, Derek Bell,Russell Brookes, Mike Costin, Keith Duckworth, PaulEaster, Tony Fall, Timo Makinen, Sir Stirling Moss,Jim Redman, Ben Rood, Jeff Smith, Rosemary Smith,John Surtees and Barrie 'Whizzo' Williams.
Tickets (£60 each, or £540 for a table of ten) shouldbe ordered from Events Management (UK) Ltd, tel08450 706870. All profits will be donated to theMotorsport Safety Fund (MSF), the Motor & AlliedTrades Benevolent Fund (BEN) and the HistoricVehicle Research Institute (HVRI).
The Awards Dinner is organised in association withthis year's International Historic Motorsport Show,Europe's premier winter show for historic motorsport,which takes place at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry,on 25-26-27 February.
Offering as it does over 500 exhibitors, numerouslive action events, and both automobilia and vehicleauctions, the International Historic Motorsport Showcelebrates the combination of enthusiasm, nostalgiaand affordability which has created a significanthistoric motorsport industry.
The show organisers have identified more than 5,000companies involved in this industry, together with atleast 75 historic motorsport series and eventorganisers.
All these organisations actively encourage the use ofolder vehicles in racing, rallying, hillclimb & sprintevents, classic & sporting trials, autotests, autograssracing, dragsters and oval racing.
Classic competition motorcycles have been introducedfor the 2005 Show, with machines used in historicracing, sprints, classic scrambling and pre-'65 trials.
For the first time ever, therefore, all sectors of historicmotorsport will come together under one roof, whereeveryone involved can get together to do businessand discuss their plans with competitors, enthusiastsand the media.
FEATURES OF THE 2005 SHOW> Main exhibition halls cover race/speed, trials, ovals& short-circuit racing, nostalgia dragsters, classiccompetition motorcycles, memorabilia, art & modelsand a historic motorsport autojumble.> Over genuine 200 competition cars and bikes ondisplay.> Some 75 sporting motor clubs and event or seriesorganisers, representing race, speed, rally and trialsevents.> 200 engineering and preparation companies.> H&H Classic Auctions sale of classic andcompetition cars, plus memorabilia.> Virtual competition car showroom - find the car youwant!
LIVE EVENTS AT THE SHOW> Rally supercar special stage demonstration.> Championship-level autotest display.> The Winter Challenge Rally to Monte Carlo - thestart and first comeptitive test are on site.
Tickets for the Show itself are on sale from theTicket Hotline - 08450 706870.
