Event Information For ' Southport Classic and Speed'

Date: 17 September 2025-17 September 2025

Times: tba

Car Information

Enter your vehicle on line. Any type, any age but especially Veteran and Vintage as well as classics and modern/present day. This will be a free family event focussing on all things automotive! Southport Classic and Speed 2022 builds on the great success of 2021 and will once again celebrate our motoring and motorsport heritage. NB rumour has it that there may be a special celebration dinner on the Saturday - tbc. We are delighted to celebrate the historic Grand Prix's that took place at our motor racing circuit at Aintree, which remains the UK's only purpose-built Grand Prix Track. This year marks the 65th anniversary of one of the most important races ever to take place in this country, the 1957 Grand Prix de Europe held in July. This marked a groundbreaking milestone in our motor racing providence and history when Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks became the first British Drivers, driving a British car, the Vanwall, to win the British Grand Prix. The Vanwall featured a Colin Chapman designed chassis with the aerodynamic body designed by Frank Costin (brother of Cosworth founder, Mike). This was the turning point in the success of British Formula 1 racing teams with Vanwall going on to set another precedent the following year by becoming the first British Team to win the Formula 1 Constructors World Championship. It is fair to say, since then, we have never looked back.

About Southport Classic and Speed

We are delighted to repeat our new event for the North West and invite you to enter your vehicle or join us for a great day out at the Seaside: Southport Classic and Speed 2024. The 2021 Classic and Speed event attracted an amazing array of 250 cars from three centuries of motoring - veteran, vintage, historic, racing and modern classics - to the 34-acre Victoria Park, in celebration of Southport’s motor sporting heritage. The parade started at 5:30pm and thread its way along Lord Street and the Promenade, the scene of the 1903 Speed Trials. Opposite the Bliss Hotel, the Mayor of Sefton, Cllr Clare Carragher, performed the ceremonial flag drop The Speed Trials on the promenade in which Dorothy Levitt competed attracted over 50,000 spectators, many of them accommodated in grandstands erected along the one kilometre course in front of the many hotels and boarding houses. It was a truly landmark event and one of the very first competitive speed events in the country, predating such well known venues as Brooklands, Donington Park and Goodwood.

Location: Victoria Park Southport

Area: Lancashire

Region: North West

Postcode:PR8 1RX

Organiser Information

Now entering our fifth year, Ormskirk MotorFest is run and organised by Aintree Circuit Club in conjunction with West Lancashire Borough Council.

Contact Name: Michael Ashcroft

Contact Address: On-line form on web site

View Website: https://www.southportclassicandspeed.com/

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Admission

Standard Admission (£): Free public admission

Admission with classic car (£): See organiser

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