The Red Arrows stunned onlookers once more – on Saturday against a moody sky.
Unique McLaren M12 GT in Cartier Style et Luxe brought Can Am thunder to the roads. Inconceivably naughty and unutterably desirable.
More cartoon Brabus lunacy.
Famed musician and car nut Jay Kay brought his box-fresh ‘Kermit’ green LaFerrari.
Jann Mardenborough’s talents were thrown open to a whole new audience as he won Saturday’s supercar shoot-out.
GAS Arena grows in popularity and scale year-on-year.
Ferrari 512S Coda Lunga, which was promised at March’s 72MM but never appeared was redolent of the mighty Group 4 era of the 1970-71 seasons.
Pagani brought Modenese bling to proceedings.
Le Mans GTE Pro winning Aston V8 Vantage went shoulder-to-shoulder with GT3 V12 cousin.
Former Targa winner and F1 star Arturio Merzario seemed unfazed by crutches aboard Sharknose evocation.
The mighty Marsh Plant Aston, which so thrilled me as a child, shortly before Anthony Reid catastrophically crashed it at the flint wall.
Michael Bartels ran Seb Loeb close for the weekend’s swiftest ascent aboard special Maserati centenary liveried MC12.
Karl Wendlinger was on Mercedes duties.
All 16 cylinders in the back of Porsche’s experimental Can Am 917. In the end, the marque decided that turbocharging was the route to big horsepower in Group 7. The 917/10 and 917/30 slayed all before them.
George Barber brought over the Ferrari 158 from his remarkable Alabama museum for ‘Ile Grande John’ to pilot over the weekend, 50 years after the great man won the F1 world championship driving the very same car. Late-season NART colours represented by perfect evocation, adjacent.
Alan Wynn of the Brooklands Museum climbed the hill with typical verve in John Cobb’s awesome Napier Railton.
Maserati 8CTF Boyle Valve Special won the Indy 500 in 1939 and 1940.
Rainer Ott’s Maserati 4CLT.
David Leigh forsook VSCC at Pembrey to demonstrate GN Spider. With exposed valves and hand-hammered (mostly fairly roughly) bodywork, it made for a fascinating comparison with the sheen of the modern, professional race teams.
Has any car ever looked more at home in the forests than the Mk1 Escort?
Usual jumping antics.
Bjorn Waldegard provided some brilliant sump-grazing yumping in Tuthill 911.
Seb Loeb was a massive draw all weekend and seemed relaxed, despite driving two very disparate vehicles over two courses.
Usual rally stage informality.
New startline grandstand permitted great views for the casual observer.
Up among the trees, in the mottled light, with a flat-four soundtrack, it’s so easy to lose oneself and forget the rest of the Festival even exists: an oasis of calm in a behemoth of an event.
Andy Newall dipped below 50secs in the JCB McLaren M8F, which he always drives with consummate flair.
John Surtees and Kimi Raikkonen demonstrated their respective Ferrari title winners. It was Raikkonen’s first trip to the Festival of Speed.
Quartet of D-Types.
Patrick Friesacher on typically showboating form.
Mike Whiddett ascended the hill at break-neck speed and on the lock-stops the entire way.
Dani Sordo adopted a neater approach which highlighted, perhaps, that the current generation of WRC car lacks a little visual drama on a sealed surface.
Lewis Hamilton delighted fans just a week before his second British GP win at Silverstone.
Didier Sirgue was among the quickest all weekend in iconic Jordan 191.
Jann Mardenborough was back out in his fierce GT3-specification Nissan GT-R.
935 JLP-4 was perhaps the ultimate 935 – a virtual sports prototype with 800bhp and spaceframe chassis.
The ultimate grand prix car.