FORMULA JUNIOR TO CELEBRATE 60 YEARS
Special display planned at the auto sport international show
Formula Junior will celebrate its 60th birthday with a feature display of cars at Autosport International at the Birmingham NEC (January 11-14).
The HSCC will feature Formula Junior on its central historic racing display with six of the period single-seaters, one from each year of the category. Formula Junior was an international race category for six seasons from 1958 to 1963 and the cars on display at the NEC will show how much race car design advanced in just that six- year period.
Formula Junior is the world’s best-supported historic category with racing on five continents and over 300 active cars. It is for racing cars up to 1100cc, using production-based engines. Each and every car on the grid is original and an amazing variety of chassis makes it an incredibly diverse category. The leading designs are from Lotus, Brabham and Lola, but up to 150 marques built Formula Juniors in period.
The 2018 season is a particularly special one for Formula Junior as the category’s 60th year is also the final season of an unrivalled three-year Diamond Jubilee World Tour. The Tour will finally conclude at the Silverstone Classic in July.
Duncan Rabagliati of the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association said: “2018 is also the 25th anniversary of the FJHRA and the race at Mallory Park in 1993 when FJHRA and HSCC first came together to save the Historic Formula Junior race series. It is truly fitting that we should both be celebrating the success of this great little Formula, 25 years later.”
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