Prescott Hillclimb, Gotherington, Cheltenham GL52 9RD, Sunday 29th May 2016
This annual weekend festival of French motoring will this year have Italian clasics taking centre stage on the Saturday but we are once again concentrating our efforts on the Sunday (French Day) so please come and join us in the CPUK enclosure. Tickets are available to buy online with a significant discount (currently £15 per day, as opposed to £25 on the gate). When booking your tickets, please remember to enter the Club’s promotion code – PUG16 - which should automatically trigger Prescott to send you a club parking pass. Please also let Alison know that you are coming so she can endeavour to get an adequately sized parking area this year!
Contact: Alison Budd email events@clubpeugeotuk.org I
NFO FROM PRESCOTT WEBSITE Prescott Hill Climb will be transformed in celebration of fine French and Italian automobiles, themed entertainment, trade stalls and visiting car clubs. Plus special competition classes for French and Italian marques. The paddock will be packed with iconic French and Italian classic cars and supercars from a Bugatti Veyron Supersport, a Bugatti Veyron Pur Sang, the Veyron’s older cousin the Bugatti EB110 Super Sport, a Voisin or two, a LaFerrari, a Ferrari Enzo, a 1965 Ferrari 275 GTB, a Ferrari 330 GTC, a Ferrari Fantuzzi 196S, a 1975 Maserati Khamsin, an Alfa Romeo 156 ETCC, an Alfa 1750 6C, a Lamborghini Countach Diablo TT right through to the Nelson Piquet 1990 Benetton F1 Car. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Lamborghini Miura, the ‘Twiggy’ Miura, aptly named after its first owner Justin de Villeneuve (Twiggy’s manager in the 1960s) will also be heading to Prescott. Another highlight includes six ERA’s, four of which will be competing on the Saturday including the iconic ex Raymond Mays R4D – the most celebrated chassis in the marque's history. ERA R4D was built by English Racing Automobiles as the last development classic voiturette racing car in the 1930s, designed to compete with the highly successful Bugatti’s and Maseratis. Visitors to will also be in for a real treat, when the ‘Beast of Turin’ roars into action. The Beast of Turin is the one surviving example of a pair of land speed record contenders the Italian automaker built before WWI. The Beast of Turin’ was built in 1910 with the express intention of beating the land speed record, held at the time by Blitzen-Benz. Its 28.5-litre Fiat S76 engine was capable of providing an impressive 300bhp - enough to propel the car to 116 mph, and a one-mile land speed record, in 1911. Plus, we are delighted to announce that the Ferrari 250 GT SWB chassis 2119 famously driven to victory in the Goodwood Tourist Trophy of 1960 by Stirling Moss will be displayed courtesy of its current custodian Ross Brawn. This particular car has a spectacular history, having competed in seven other races, bringing in five more wins, two for Stirling Moss in 1960, which also included a trip to the Bahamas, and three wins for Mike Parkes in 1961. The Ferrari 250 GT Short Wheelbase is one one of the worlds most coveted and valuable cars, and one of the most revered Ferrari's combining a great engine with a fine chassis and a beautiful body. Representing the dawn of motoring is a 1904 Mors Brighton car. Mors was an early French car manufacturer and one of the first to take part in automobile racing, the company's founder Emile Mors understood that racing provided both technical and promotional benefit to his company. The 24 horse power model on display has a 5.5 litre four cylinder engine and was one of the first 100 veteran cars to be officially dated by the Veteran Car Club when the process was instigated after the War, Certificate No 99. Aside from the impressive array of vehicles both on and off track, will be a whole raft of entertainment to keep the whole family amused. Gracing the main stage will be Mark Halliday, known throughout Europe and the USA for his Dean Martin act in the hit musical “Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas”. Plus ‘Opera’ – possibly a first for a motorsport event? ‘Oyster Opera’ are professional opera singers that will transfix you with their act, but beware you might be invited to waltz along with the soprano to Verdi's Brindisi, be enveloped by a smouldering Carmen, or have a charming, budding Pavarotti serenade you on one knee. Alongside the roving accordion player, and popular stilt walkers will be the stunning Vegas Showgirls swapping their feathers for flapper dresses and performing Charleston routines to French inspired Electro Swing songs. Taking to the skies above, will be Tiger Aerobatics and their vintage air display (both days, weather permitting).
