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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Applications Being Accepted for Lime Rock’s Labor Day Vintage Festival

Murray Smith, organizer of Lime Rock Park’s annual Labor Day weekend vintage racing extravaganza, announced that applications for this year’s event are now being accepted. Historic Festival 30 (and its companion “Sunday in the Park” concours) is Friday, August 31 through Monday, September 3.

Vintage racing classes include: Pre-war sports and racing cars; Sports/racing cars, 1954-62; Sports/racing cars, 1923-66; Single-seater race cars, 1956-1964; Historic Formula I 1967-83; Porsche 911 and 914, 1956-74; Sports racing cars, 1967-1979; GT and production cars, 1946-54, 1955-64, 1965-75; and Formula 2, Formula Atlantic, Formula C.

Smith has arranged for Sir Stirling Moss to be the honored guest through the weekend, and he’s working on gathering a healthy number of the cars that Moss drove to some of his many famous victories. Expect demo laps of those.

Call Jeanette Veitenheimer, HF30 administrator, at 860.435.5000, extension 308, or email her at historics@limerock.com. You can find a pdf of the registration docs at limerock.com, clicking on “Historics” at the top of the page, then going to “Participant Registration.”

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