{"id":13234,"date":"2019-05-09T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=13234"},"modified":"2019-05-09T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T09:13:40","slug":"historic-cars-in-their-glory-at-donington-historic-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2019\/05\/historic-cars-in-their-glory-at-donington-historic-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Cars in Their Glory at Donington Historic Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Donnington-Historic-Festival-1024x444.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Donnington-Historic-Festival-1024x444.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Donnington-Historic-Festival-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Donnington-Historic-Festival-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Donnington-Historic-Festival-1200x520.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Donnington-Historic-Festival.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Donnington Historic Festival &#8211; SpeedyReg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Donington Historic Festival has been running for a few years\nnow and it\u2019s definitely earned a place as one of the biggest and best events on\nthe historic racing calendar. There\u2019s something very special about seeing\nhistoric racing cars actually racing, rather than standing in a museum. The\nsounds, the smells, the excitement, it all takes you back in time to when these\nvehicles were the height of modern technology. And what better setting than the\niconic Donington Park, England\u2019s first permanent park circuit that played host\nto many of these vehicles when they were new. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is held over the weekend from Friday May 3<sup>rd<\/sup>\nto Sunday May 5<sup>th<\/sup>. The races are really thrilling of course, but\nthere is so much more happening over the festival too. You can spend time\nstrolling around the paddocks, getting up close to all the cars which is a\nfantastic opportunity. There\u2019s also plenty more action going on. Several F1\ncars will be there including a 1977 Hesketh and a rare Honda R8 1082. You can\ntake a look at them, then watch them take to the track for a demonstration.\nThere will be historic kart displays and if you\u2019ve ever fancied riding in a\nFerrari 360 Spider or a Maserati GranCabrio Sport, Dream Rides will be here to\noffer you the chance of a 10 mile ride in any of their selection of\nawe-inspiring sports cars. All proceeds raised from this experience will go to\nthe Rainbow Hospice for Children and Young People in Loughborough, so your ride\nof a lifetime also helps this great cause. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not all about cars at the Donington Historic Festival,\nlook to the skies for flypasts on Saturday and Sunday. At 13:00 on Saturday a\nHawker Hurricane, and on Sunday at 14:15, a BBMF Douglas C-47 Dakota. There\nwill be club displays too, and you can even book in your own classic car, a\ngreat opportunity to talk to other classic car owners and enthusiasts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tickets can be bought in advance at a discounted price of\n\u00a340 or at the gate for \u00a350 and that covers you for the entire weekend. Teens\nbetween 13 and 15 have a reduced ticket price of \u00a324 in advance or \u00a327 on the\ndoor, and under 12s get free entry so it\u2019s a fantastic weekend for all the\nfamily. Daily tickets are also available if you don\u2019t wish to attend for the\nentire weekend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information check out the official Donington\nHistoric Festival website www.doningtonhistoric.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donington Historic Festival has been running for a few years now and it\u2019s definitely earned a place as one of the biggest and best events on the historic racing calendar. There\u2019s something very special about seeing historic racing cars actually racing, rather than standing in a museum. The sounds, the smells, the excitement, it all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[1627,1626,7],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13236,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13234\/revisions\/13236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}