Bentley Drivers Club Silverstone race meeting

We’re now just a month away from the Bentley Drivers Club’s first-ever two-day race meeting, to celebrate its 60th continuous year of racing at Silverstone.

The latest attractions announced for the weekend of 8-9 August 2009 include track demonstrations of the fabulous 1933 Napier-Railton, John Cobb’s 24-litre, 168mph, aero-engined car, which holds the all-time lap record at Brooklands. The Napier-Railton will be running on both days of the BDC meeting, adding to the spectacular array of racing, demonstration runs and off-track displays.

Other highlights include:

The traditional Bentley handicap race: where else can you see an 80-year-old Bentley 3 Litre in flat-out competition against a relatively ‘modern’ Turbo R?

The Morgan Techniques Trophy race, which is hoping to showcase twenty 4-cylinder Morgans fighting it out on track – the largest number ever seen in one race

The Bentley Drivers Club ‘All-Comers’ race, where you might see everything from Lotus Sunbeams and Triumph GT6s, through to a modern McLaren – plus, of course, a generous helping of Bentleys…

The traditional Bentley Parade on the Saturday, in which any BDC member who turns up in a Bentley, new or old, can drive three laps of the Silverstone circuit

A track demonstration of the mighty, 600bhp, 217mph 2003 Le Mans-winning Bentley Speed 8

Off-track displays of Bentley race cars, including past Le Mans winners, Brooklands cars, and Bentleys that have raced at BDC events throughout the past 60 years

Among the cars on show will be the first-ever, official Le Mans works Bentley, the 1925 3 Litre which ran as car no. 10 (earlier Le Mans cars were private entries)

For advance tickets to the Bentley Drivers Club 60th Anniversary Meeting (just £8 per day or £15 for a weekend pass), see silverstone.co.uk - or for more information on the Bentley Drivers Club, see bdcl.org.