The Masters Series, organizers of the Grand Prix Masters Historic Formula One races, and of the World Sportscar Masters events for 1960s and 1970s Le Mans-type cars, has recently announced that it has acquired the two major historic race series presently managed by Carol Spagg’s Gentleman Drivers’ organization, with immediate effect.
The Gentleman Drivers’ group has grown, over the past decade, to become the most successful group managing historic races across Europe, in terms of depth and breadth of race entry numbers in its GT fields, and its presence at all the major international festivals—and in having built fresh demand for correct cars in period specification. Over the past two seasons, Gentleman Drivers met a new demand by adding a second series, one for early 1960s Sports Racers. Both of these groups will now become part of the management group set up in late 2003 by Ron Maydon, and branded as “The Masters Series”.
“In making this acquisition, The Masters Series now has an excellent spread of historic racing to offer to drivers, owners, and racecar preparers. We are also now able to make a much wider ‘offer’ to our business partners, sponsors, and all those festival organizers, circuits, and spectators who want to see, hear, and enjoy the very best in historic motorsport,” said Ron Maydon, Masters Series founder. “With Formula One cars from their most evocative decade, plus Le Mans-type sports cars from that matching mid-sixties to mid-seventies period, and from now on, with the addition of GT’s and sports racers from the 1950s and early 1960s, Masters is in a very strong position in the fastest growing form of motorsport in Europe—historic racing.”
