The Races
With qualifying all day Friday, and two full days of racing on Saturday and Sunday, DHF 2020 promises three action-packed days of historic motorsport excitement!
Watch this space for news of further grids for the 2020 Donington Historic Festival!
FJHRA/HSCC ‘SILVERLINE’ CHAMPIONSHIP FOR FRONT-ENGINED FORMULA JUNIORS
These lovely little machines, developed for a racing formula that was introduced 60 years ago to train and bring on future Grand Prix drivers, always deliver outstanding and highly competitive racing.
ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB WOODCOTE TROPHY
This series is firmly established within classic racing circles as the go-to series for competitive 50s racing. And it features some of the most beautiful road-racing cars ever built.
U2TC
The most popular car on this lively grid for pre-66 under two-litre Touring Cars may be the Ford Lotus Cortina, but there’s always stiff opposition from such models as BMW 1800 TISA and Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint GTA. 
FJHRA/HSCC ‘SILVERLINE’ CHAMPIONSHIP FOR REAR-ENGINED FORMULA JUNIORS
Close and exhilarating racing from nimble little machines that, back in the day, were the stepping-stone to Formula 1 for some of the greatest names in the sport.
‘MAD JACK’ PRE-WAR SPORTS CARS
These are the oldest cars competing at the event, with all sports cars built before 1941 being eligible. They may be the ‘elder statesmen’ at the Festival, but they don’t hang about!
GT & SPORTS CAR CUP
This grid is for genuine pre-66 GT cars and pre-63 sports-racing cars of a type that was raced in the World Endurance Championship in period.
HRDC ‘ALLSTARS’ FOR PRE-66 SPORTS, GT AND TOURING CARS
The HRDC grids are always hugely entertaining and this promises to maintain that tradition. Expect to see TVR Griffith vs Bill Thomas Cheetah, Austin-Healey Jamaican and Daimler 250SP ‘Dart’!
HISTORIC TOURING CAR CHALLENGE WITH TONY DRON TROPHY
This grid of pre-1991 British and European Touring Cars features the type of beefy machines that most of us could only dream of driving back in period.
PRE-63 GT
This sumptuous race series features such iconic machines as Short Wheelbase Ferraris, DB4GT Astons, AC Aces, MGA Twincams, SZ Alfas, Lotus Elites and E-type Jaguars – all to genuine pre-1963 specification.
STIRLING MOSS TROPHY
These purpose-built, pre-61 sports-racers look and sound fantastic – and the drivers are competing for the actual cup that Sir Stirling Moss won in the 1955 British GP.
A full set of race results from previous years (downloadable in pdf format) can be found on by clicking on the links below:
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