F1, WRC and BTCC cars headline St James’s Motoring Spectacle
Formula 1, World Rally Championship and MotoGP machinery will feature alongside more than 80 veteran cars at the St James’s Motoring Spectacle in London on October 31.
Organised by the Royal Automobile Club, the free event will close Pall Mall to traffic from 10am to 3pm, showcasing 140 years of motoring history across six dedicated zones.
The Motorsport Milestones display will mark 100 years since Britain’s first Grand Prix at Brooklands, with a Delage of the type that won the 1926 race displayed alongside a Williams FW48.
The club’s British Grand Prix trophy will also be on show, alongside the Tourist Trophy ahead of its return to competition when the World Endurance Championship visits Silverstone in 2027.
Rally cars representing Britain’s three WRC champions: Elfyn Evans, Colin McRae and Richard Burns, will feature, alongside Ash Sutton’s NAPA Racing UK Ford Focus, following his record-breaking fifth British Touring Car Championship title.
MotoGP and Isle of Man TT machines will complete the motorsport line-up.
The veteran concours will bring together more than 80 pre-1905 cars ahead of the following day’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.
Three major anniversaries will also be celebrated: 50 years of the Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Golf GTI, and 60 years of the Lamborghini Miura. All seven Fiesta generations will be shown together, while the Golf display will pair the earliest surviving GTI with the latest hybrid generation.
Modern attractions will include the Aston Martin Valhalla, Ferrari SF90 XX, Maserati MCPura Cielo, Porsche Carrera GT and a Koenigsegg.
The event will also explore urban transport, from early bicycles and successive generations of Vespa scooters, to electric microcars, alongside an educational zone featuring organisations including Imperial College London and Oxford Brookes University.
The Spectacle is in its third year and forms part of a wider celebration of motoring past, present and future. Admission is free, with no tickets required.
