Concours of Elegance celebrates 70th year of Formula One

The fastest breed of racing cars is set to join many of the world's rarest and most beautiful classic cars when the Concours of Elegance brings a selection of Formula One cars to Hampton Court Palace this September 2020 in the F1 Championship's 70^th year.

Acclaimed in 2019 as the Motoring Spectacle of the Year, the 2020 Concours of Elegance on 4 to 6 September 2020 will celebrate F1's 70^th birthday in spectacular style, with iconic Grand Prix cars taking part in the concours for the first time.

Although there were Grands Prix prior to 1950, including the first to be run to the new Formula One regulations in 1946, the first F1 World Championship race was the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in 1950.

Honouring that sporting milestone will be a special a lineup of Formula One cars that every enthusiast will recognise - Ferrari, Williams and Lotus machines inextricably linked with racing heroes such as Sir Stirling Moss and Damon Hill.

Presented by A. Lange and Sohne, the Concours of Elegance is one of the global top three concours events and attracts many of the world's most eminent car collectors together with their astonishingly rare, beautiful and valuable machines. This year's event has the added distinction of being among the first major international car concours events to take place since March 2020.

As well as the Formula One display, the 2020 Concours of Elegance will include unique coachbuilt Alfa Romeos, priceless pre-war Rolls-Royces, the McLaren F1 GTRs that finished 1^st, 3^rd, 4^th, 5^th and 13^th at Le Mans 24 Hours in 1995, a display of future classics and a new Junior Concours celebrating the best of half-scale cars.