Vintage GP: Long live the old Formula 1 🎥
GP-REVIVAL FROM 1961 Many Swiss spectators make an annual pilgrimage to the Nürburgring for the classic car Grand Prix. In 2020, it will be especially worthwhile: there will be a special Formula 1 revival run. BBC's high-quality video shows the highlights of the 1961 German GP. The winner was Stirling Moss, who is still alive today, on Lotus-Climax, ahead of the two Ferrari 156s ("Shark Nose") of [...]
BBC's high-quality video shows the highlights of the 1961 German GP, with the winner being Stirling Moss, still alive today, on Lotus-Climax, ahead of the two Ferrari 156s ("Shark Nose") of Wolfgang von Trips and Phil Hill.
Around the Nordschleife
The organizers of the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring have finalized the first details of the event program. As part of the 48th edition of the renowned racing festival for historic vehicles, which is always attended by many Swiss, there will be a revival run next year.
This demonstration drive is intended to commemorate the 1961 German Grand Prix on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. At the original venue, owners of the historic Formula 1 cars from one of the most legendary races the Eifel race track has ever seen in its history want to come together.
Broad racing program
They complement a program for which many other highlights have also already been confirmed. For example, the sports cars of the 1950s in the popular evening race on Saturday or the revival of the racing cars from the German Racing Championship (DRM).
Other touring car and GT races will be on show, as well as single-seaters from Formula Junior - in which Zurich's Bruno Weibel won the FIA Lurani Trophy European Championship title for the third time in 2019 on a Lotus 22 - to Formula 1.
Together with the Drivers' Association for Historic Racing (FHR), the new edition of the AvD Historic Marathon is also planned for the Friday of the event on the Nordschleife.
High gear on the second weekend of August
The event date of August 7-9, 2020, has also been set, but is expected to be confirmed by motorsport's governing body, the FIA, in early December.
Information, news and impressions of the past editions of the AvD-Oldtimer-Grand-Prix are available on the official homepage.
