A spectacular grid comprising 45 of the finest sports cars of the pre-1956 era will take the start of Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy race at Spa-Franchorchamps, to be held during the Spa Six-Hours Meeting, 5th to 7th October.
This is the final race of 2007 for the Woodcote Trophy, which aims to see genuine historic race cars running in their correct period specification.
Among the cars fighting it out at the front of the grid in the one-hour, two-driver race will be four Jaguar D-types, two of which are ex-works cars from 1954. There’s also the very quick Jaguar C-type of Nigel Webb and Gary Pearson, while the rare sight of three Allards – a J2, a J2X, and the 1952 J2X Le Mans of Tom Walker – will add to the spectacle. So too will the Maserati 300S of Andrea Burani and David Franklin, and a second Maserati 300S, this one piloted by Burkhard Von Schenk and Gregor Fisken of the fine historic automobile dealership, Fiskens, which sponsors the Woodcote Trophy.
But these are just some of the glorious sports-racers taking part, which also include Ferrari 750 Monza, Aston Martin DB2 and DB3S, Gordini 23S, Osca MT4 and plenty more.
Duncan Wiltshire, Chairman of Motor Racing Legends, says. “We’re thrilled that our final race of the season has attracted such a large number of high-quality entries. Right through the field are cars with serious provenance, running in period specification, and there’s likely to be just as much excitement over who wins a class for smaller-engined cars, on drum brakes, as there is over who takes the chequered flag first overall.”
Says Fiskens sales manager Will Stone, “Spa is an outstanding way for the Woodcote Trophy to finish off its year. It’s a remarkable circuit steeped in history, and is always an event that has that end-of-term party feeling!”
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