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Why the recent past represents historic racing's fast-growing future

Racing for sports-prototypes and GT cars from up to five years ago is not historic in the true sense, yet it is the fastest growing element of the overall historic racing industry.

It was Masters Historic Racing founder Ron Maydon who pioneered racing for this generation of cars as a way of widening the appeal of his offering. In the space of three or four seasons, it has grown impressively and more than 80 cars, dating from 2000 to as recent as 2018, ran across two grids at the Silverstone Festival last month. Even Maydon was surprised by the response to the twin Masters Endurance Legends and Masters GT Trophy grids.

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