Fabulous 4-Hour! You’ve got to go to this.

This summer, something special happened at Donington Park. It’s being repeated for 2018. Go. You’ll love it.

It may have been a year in the making and longer in the dreaming, but Classic Bike Trackdays delivered with the awesome inaugural Endurance Legends event at Donington Park earlier this summer.

From the on-track action through to the club stands, the sidecar passenger rides to rubbing shoulders with the racing stars of yesteryear – the event had it all.

Despite slightly naff weather on the Saturday, the Sunday saw the sun shine and the grandstands were packed for the main event of the weekend – the 4-Hour classic race.

As if that wasn’t enough, racing legend Freddie Spencer led some of the parade laps and was there to speak to fans. What made the event a winner was the ability to pop into the pits and see the amazing machinery up close and personal, chat to the riders and experience the action in the pits: this was an informal event and very good fun. Like bike racing used to be.

Massive big-ups have to be given to the organisers Classic Bike Trackdays and the hard work of Darin Frow, Rob Scott and all the CBT team. They put together and ran a brilliant event which promises to be even bigger and even better next year. Yup, you read that right, it’s all happening again next year and (if rumours are to be believed) for the foreseeable future. Rob from Classic Bike Trackdays said: “Everyone put in so much hard work to put this event on. We are so pleased that it went as well as we could have expected. In fact, it probably went better! The track action was superb, the vibe in the paddock was brilliant and there was so much to see and do over the weekend that we hope the visitors had a great time and will come back again.”

On-track the big focus was on the Team Classic Suzuki entry of the Vintage Parts-backed Katana, ridden by James Whitham, Steve Parrish and Michael Neeves. Sadly a first lap crash for Whit – who wanted to get in front and pull away – meant the lads had an early bath. Neate Racing took the overall honours in the main feature race.