Donington Historic Festival 2015

About the Event

The Donington Historic Festival 2015 was held 2-4 May at the 11-turn, 1.979-mile Donington Park in Leicestershire, England. The 5th annual event staged near Castle Donington was home to a motorsport nostalgia-fest, as this year’s Festival unleashed the sights, sounds and smells of over 400 historic racing cars dating from the 1990s back to the 1920s.

The nostalgic element was further strengthened by the presence of hundreds of classic cars in the infield and by the historic rally cars and karts which put on a storming display on the Melbourne Loop. Anyone standing in the middle of the race paddock could enjoy with one ear the sound of racing cars on track and, with the other ear, the noise of rally car tyres squealing on the Loop. At lunchtime, the air around the track crackled with unmistakable engine notes as Formula 1 cars from the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s including an ex-Ayrton Senna Toleman and an ex-Schumacher Benetton circled the track.

The variety and quality of the cars, drivers and grids were strong at Donington Historic Festival 2015. Single-seater fans certainly had nothing to complain about, with some 70 Formula Juniors providing enormous entertainment split across front-engined and rear-engined grids in the FJHRA Silverline series. Will Mitcham won both of the front-engined races in a U2Mk2, and it was also double victory for Sam Wilson in the rear-engined races in a Lotus 20/22.

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