Dickie Meaden

Aug 28, 2024 | motorsportmagazine.com | Andrew Frankel |Doug Nye |Sam Hancock |Dickie Meaden

A back of the grid to victory drive, a front-engined icon humbling rear-engined Formula 1 machinery, Daytona Cobras racing to the line side-by-side and a sensational parade of Ayrton Senna’s cars were just a few of the highlights of this year’s Silverstone Festival. The 2023 edition – although most people still seem to call it the Classic – celebrated 75 years of Silverstone and set the bar very high. What would the organisers come up with this year to improve on that?

Jan 24, 2023 | motorsportmagazine.com | Mark Hughes |Dickie Meaden |James Elson

The Double: it’s one of the toughest physical tests in sport, never mind racing. It starts with a full 200 laps of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway – most of which will be spent north of 200mph – against 32 other fearsome IndyCar competitors in the ‘500’. Then it’s onto a private jet – via a chopper to add to the Mission Impossible atmosphere –  and a 700-mile zoom down to North Carolina for the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte, NASCAR’s longest event.