MOTORSPORT
Damien Smith
RACING LINES
Oulton Park felt like a time machine as lithe little F1 cars diced among trees
Formula 1 at Spa, the British Touring Car Championship at Croft and Formula E capping its first season of Gen3 cars by crowning a new British world champion in Britain. Yes, there was plenty happening in the motorsport world over the final weekend of July – yet still I found myself drawn to a gem of a circuit for one of the best low-key highlights of the UK season.
Oulton Park in Cheshire is surely among the most beautiful circuits in the world, never mind Britain, and its traditional Gold Cup meeting is cherished among historic racers. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the Gold Cup ranked high among the best non-points F1 races, when the world’s best drivers and teams regularly turned out for events that didn’t count towards the world championship.