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TopGear.com at the Silverstone Classic

World record number of F40s on track, plus loads of utterly smashing historic racers on show…

Posted: 25 Jul 2012

Fittingly, in the year of the Diamond Jubilee celebrating 60 years of Her Majesty's reign over these, erm, rain-swept isles, no less than 60 Ferrari F40s descended onto Silverstone's hallowed turf to make a new world record. That's right, sixty Ferrari F40s. Drooling, much?

The world record parade of sixty F40s took place last weekend at the ‘Silverstone Classic' which, as the name suggests, is a motorsport-infused celebration of all things old and magnificent. Think TVRs and Jaguar D-Types and BMW 1800Tis and 1980s Formula One racers.

We were present to witness some of this machinery being hustled around quite liberally. It's time to take it back to the old school...

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