If on the one hand the Spa Six Hours, the event giving its name to this grand gathering of classic cars orchestrated by Roadbook Organisation on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, will once again be top of the bill during this coming weekend of 19th, 20th and 21st September, with no less than one hundred entrants, it’s worth noting that the other 11 series featuring on the programme are of an equally exceptional level. The aficionados and keen amateurs of F1, Prototypes, GT and Touring cars of yesterday and of a previous era will fully delight them, on this the greatest circuit in the world as from this coming Friday…
Bringing together some twenty F1 single-seaters from the seventies and the eighties, these will be on hand in their original livery for the FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship guaranteeing a royal battle amongst some stalwarts of the discipline, such as Manfredo Rossi Di Montelera (Brabham BT42), Gregor Fisken (McLaren M23), Simon Fish (Ensign N180), Steve Hartley (Arrows A4) and Martin Stretton (Tyrrell 012), not forgetting at least two Belgians, Christophe D’Ansembourg (Williams FW07/C) and a certain … Loïc Deman (Arrows A6) known for his dreaded top speed. In fact it’s worth coming on down to the circuit merely to admire the former Didier Pironi Ligier JS11/15 driven by Hugues Taittinger… …
The older brigade, the stars of the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association boast such names as Ferrari, Brabham, Cooper, Maserati, Lotus, Aston Martin, etc. The oldest, the Maserati A6 GCS Monofaro entered by the Belgian Christian Dumolin, dates back to 1947, and the most recent, the Brabham BT11 of the American John Romano, was on the race scene in 1964. Everything has been said…As for the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association, it will remind one and all that this discipline acted as the stepping stone to F1 at the beginning of the ‘60s…
If the Prototypes make you dream we would definitely recommend the CanAm Interserie Challenge, that brings together a major gathering of McLaren, March, Lola, Shadow, Aston Martin and Chevron with at times some insane power units. However the top reference competition is undoubtedly the FIA Masters Historic Sports Car Championship, with its batch of Lola T70, T290 and T212, McLaren M1C and M1B, Chevron B8 and B16, Elva MK8 and MK7, etc. Solid machinery, with notably the Belgian Marc Devis, who will be out to perform brilliantly on home ground. On the other hand the Historic Sports Car Club will be bringing together Porsche 901, Ford Mustang, Ford Galaxie, Morgan +4 and +8, Jaguar E-Type and XK150, not forgetting some nimble Lotus Elan.
Which leads us on to the Grand Touring cars, with the Masters Gentlemen Drivers Pre-66 GT, the private hunting ground of AC Cobra, Jaguar E-Type, Aston Martin DB4, Bizzarrini 5300, TVR Griffith and Grantura, Chevrolet Corvette and many more. As for the British Sports – GT & Saloon Challenge, it will be offering a rich cocktail of more than … 70 cars on the same starting grid with such varied machinery as the Ford GT40 and Chevrolet Corvette down to the MG Midget! Pure prestige will also be on hand for one and all to admire with the combined forces of the Woodcote Trophy and the Stirling Moss Trophy, with such noble machinery as HWM, Jaguar D-Type and C-Type, Aston Martin DB2 and DB3, Lister Knobbly, Lotus XI, Frazer Nash Le Mans Replica, Ferrari 246S, Jowett Jupiter, Maserati 200 SI. What else?
For those who have a weakness for Touring cars that have written the history of the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the Masters Touring Cars will conjure up an incredible reminiscence moment, with BMW 3.0 CSL, Aston Martin DB4 Lightweight, Mercury Comet Cyclone, Alfa Romeo GTAm, not forgetting a great series of Ford Mustang, Galaxie, Falcon, Cortina and Escort. Regular Spa visitors, the under two litres Touring cars U2TC will provide the usual confrontations between the BMW 1800 TISA, Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA and Ford Cortina Lotus, manned by such drivers as Frank Stippler, Carlos Monteverde, Martin Stretton, Norman Nato, Sean and Michael McInerney, Jackie Oliver and other stalwarts …
Organised in close collaboration with the Fédération Belge des Véhicules Anciens (FBVA), which will be converting the Salons of the Eau Rouge into Maison FBVA throughout the three days, this 2014 vintage of the Spa Six Hours promises to be grandiose, and for an entrance fee of 30 euro for the three days (20 euro for the Sunday only, and free for the under 12 year olds), Roadbook Organisation is inviting you to take trip in an incredible time machine, obviously taking in the Village of the Spa Six Hours in the heart of the Endurance paddock, the celebration of 50 years of the Ford Mustang, simulators for the young, not forgetting the Parking 14 specially reserved for FBVA classics which will be taking on the appearance of a superb mobile museum. And lest we forget, the Spa Six Hours Paddock Girls, which you will undoubtedly come across during the weekend! See you in Spa!