AC/DC rocker and Sarasota Café Racer Brian Johnson will team up with former Formula 1 and Indycar driver, Roberto Moreno at this weekend’s Silverstone Classic.
Johnson and Moreno will be racing a two-liter GRD in Sunday’s World Sports Cars Masters 50-minute event. Johnson has been the lead singer of AC/DC, one of the world’s best-selling rock bands of all time, for more than 30 years. Brazilian Moreno raced in F1 for a variety of teams in the Eighties and Nineties. The Benetton team dropped him in 1991, to make way for then rising star, Michael Schumacher!
Johnson and Moreno aren’t the only other famous rockers and racers competing at the Classic. Chris Rea and Jamiroquai’s Jay Kay are also on the grid while famous faces from the motor racing world include other ex-F1 drivers, Ian Ashley and Arturio Mezario as well as Le Mans 24 Hours winners Jackie Oliver and Jan Lammers. Nigel Mansell CBE, the 1992 FIA Formula 1 World Champion, is today launching the exciting new AA World. Also in attendance tomorrow will be five times Le Mans winner Derek Bell MBE.
The Classic is the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival, with more than 1,000 entries contesting 24 races featuring saloon, GT, single-seater and sports cars. A further 7,000 classic cars from more than 100 motor clubs will be on display.
For more information about the Classic, please visit
http://www.silverstoneclassic.com/
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