The outline details of this year’s Oulton Park Gold Cup (July 28-30) have been confirmed as the Historic Sports Car Club takes the reigns for an annual highlight of the season at the fantastic Cheshire parkland track.
With the HSCC running the race organisation for the event, four significant HSCC categories will be at the heart of the race programme, including the debut at Oulton Park of the spectacular Thundersports category for sports racing and GT cars of the 1970s and early 1980s. The grid is sure to include a gaggle of Chevrons, built by the brilliant Derek Bennett in a dis-used mill in Bolton.
Taking the Oulton Park story back to the late 1960s will be a round of the HSCC Historic Formula 3 Championship for the wonderful one-litre screamer single-seaters that brought drivers like Emerson Fittipaldi to prominence. Many of the cars run in period liveries and they make a fabulous sight and sound.
Stepping back an era will be the Historic Formula Junior cars for the single seaters of the late 1950s and early 1960s, while the HSCC Historic Touring Car Championship will also be part of the three-day event. Adding tremendous diversity and appeal to the event will be seven other grids taken from across historic and vintage racing to give the event as wide an audience appeal as possible.
Once again the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association will bring a fabulous array of pre-1966 Grand Prix cars to the event, while the Classic Sports Car Club Special Saloons and Modsports category was a real hit with fans in 2022. Motor Racing Legends will bring its Historic Touring Car Challenge, which features touring cars as diverse as Nissan Skylines and Lotus Cortinas, and the combined Woodcote Trophy and Stirling Moss Trophy for sports cars of the 1950s.
From the Historic Racing Drivers’ Club will be the new Gerry Marshall Trophy for Group 1 touring cars of the 1970s and early 1980s and the Jack Sears Trophy for pre ‘66 Touring Cars. Finally, two grids from the Vintage Sports Car Club will turn the clock back to the 1930s.
Andy Dee-Crowne, CEO of the HSCC, said: “Once again, we are very proud to be the organising club for the Oulton Park Gold Cup. We have a great race line-up, including four of our own grids and we are looking forward to a great weekend of historic racing at this wonderful parkland circuit.”