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04 & 05 September	On Porto�s Street Circuit The city of Porto in Portugal has one of the most exiting street-track in the world. Every year the steadily growing brotherhood of vintage racers bring their car down south. Racing classic racecars on a street circuit is very dangerous. There are no run-off areas, no gravel pit and no room for error �just concrete. Why do people do it � race rare and valuable vintage cars in such hazardous environment? Have they lost their minds? This is the race is only for the brave.
11 & 12 September	Big Speeds at Silverstone Once a year rare classic racecars populate the famous Silverstone Grand Prix circuit in England - one of the fastest tracks in the world. This is the track where you can take your historic racecar to the top speed limit. Meet the men who race works of art at blistering speeds. Get into the driver�s seat of a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, the rare and famous 1963 Aston Martin DP214 Project Car and the single most famous Austin Healey 3000 �DD300� Works Team Car. Follow them as the �red mist� infects them while chancing the speed-high.
18 & 19 September	The N�rburgring Factor Everybody knows the Nordschleife, the longest and most challenging racetrack in the world, part of the famous N�rburgring in the hills of the Eiffel in Germany -a track 22 km long. This is where the Marathon takes place. A four-hour endurance race for classic GT racecars from the late 50s to the mid 60s. But not only the track is challenging - also the weather. There is rain there may be fog, graffiti on the track behind a corner where you may slip. A race at the �Ring� is always unpredictable. E-Typs, Astons and Healeys guaranty excitement.
25 & 26 September	Ferraris at Laguna Seca This is the single most premier historic racing event in the United States. Laguna Seca, Pebble Beach, Monterey. These words are describing the Holy Grail among classic car aficionados. The reason one rarely sees vintage Ferraris driven at classic race events is because they are just too valuable. Depending whether it�s a 250 Short Wheel Bases or a original full race speck GTO the cars can be worth anywhere between 1-15 million dollars. Nevertheless the value; there is one track in world where tons of these multimillion-dollar babies are regularly being raced and hard: Laguna Seca, California, USA. And what are they racing against: Lots of American iron and Aston Martin DB4GT of course.
02 & 03 October	Legends of Lime Rock Lime Rock Park in New England is the American equivalent to Goodwood in the UK. Join us on Labor Day weekend at the most beautiful, time-forgotten track in Connecticut. Over one long weekend at the end of the summer, this place transforms itself into the most picturesque center for historic racing, gathering some of the most beautiful racecars in existence. You will become a race-team member, driving rare 50s and 60s Ferraris, an even rarer Aston Martin DB4GT Works Light- Weight, a super rare Allard or the ultra rare (there is only one) �66 Shelby Group II Mustang. Time Travel made possible.
09 & 10 October	The Spa 6 Hours The mythical track - the absolute number one highlight for historic racing on the planet. The Spa Francorchamps track is wide and long. It can easily accommodate more than a hundred cars in an endurance race and that is exactly why they are all here: The brutal and famous six-hour race that stretches into the dark. Driver-changes, team tactics, refueling, night driving. You will see everything, from behind the wheels of the famous 1963 Shelby Cobra, Low Drag Jaguar E-Type and Aston Martin DP214 Project Car. You will experience the mental dramas and the cool strategies. Cars that are feverishly repaired after break downs in practice to those that run like clockwork. Buckle up for The Spa 6 Hours.
16 & 17 October	The 24 Hours- Le Mans Shot at the 2008 �Le Mans Classic�, we take a look at what it is like to race classic racecars day and night at the single most iconic tracks of all times: LE MANS. It is the longest endurance test for historic cars and crews. 300+ cars come to this event that takes place only bi-annually. Immortalized by no less than Steve McQueen, every racer of historic machinery jumps on the chance to become him for a few hours. There are six starting grids (according to building period of the cars) that cycle through each tree times over the 24 hours. We see this spectacular event from the point of view of the drivers of Ford Cobras, Jaguars and Ferraris. Nobody goes to sleep for 24 hours.
23 & 24 October	Marathon on the Nordschleife GT Racer returns to the now even longer 500 km Marathon on the Germany�s N�rburgring, that takes us onto the Nordschleife - the most complicated track in the world. This time the Grand Prix track and the Nordschleife are combined to on huge track all together 25km (16 miles) in length with some 80 plus turns. It�s a race of 500 treacherous kilometers (311 miles) with fears battles of between the stars of Europe�s historic racing scene. Racing the �Ring� is still one of the greatest adventures in vintage racing.
16 & 17 October	Fast Curves at Magny Cours Magny Cours, France�s grand prix circuit is built for formula-one cars. It is not the track one hase in mind if one goes vintage racing. The Masters Series decided to celebrate their yearly Historic Racing Festival at Magny Cours it was a bit of an experiment. This documentary is a showdown in spectacular sideways drifts with its three-hour endurance race as the main highlight. Top contenders are two low-drag Jaguar E-types from the fasts drivers in the scene. Also featured the super rare Morgan Streamliner, one of three in existence. Rounding up our group is a Ford Cobra with endless amounts of horsepower.
23 & 24 October	La Carrera Panamericana The legendary Carrera Panamericana, the toughest classic race in the world, spanning seven days and 2,000 miles through Mexico. Special speed sections feature 300 miles of closed public roads for full speed racing. It cannot be explained. It must be shown. There is just no place in the world where such a true adventure can be experienced. Over hundred cars, each with a pilot and a navigator, support crews and trucks, organizers, media and dozen of cops in Hemi-engined Challenger cop-cars that look like racecars as well, rush through the nation in a wiled rollercoaster. The roll-cages in those cars are thicker than required for normal race regulations as one sometimes races along the edge of 500-foot cliffs. You cannot fall off a cliff on a racetrack!


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