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Donington Historic Festival 2025

A new dawn for one of the largest historic events in the UK

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2025 saw the return of the Donington Historic Festival in a guise re-imagined, as historic racing in the UK continues to garner wider appeal and support year on year. A familiar fixture on the race calendar, the Donington Historic festival has thirteen successful years under its belt, but a refreshed approach for 2025 aimed to reinvent the spectacle, bringing fans closer to the racing than ever before.

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With the recent acquisition of Motor Racing Legends, the hugely successful Historic Racing series in the UK sits under the stewardship of Aythorpe Promotions, with esteemed historic racer Shawn Lynn at the helm, who sought to breathe new life into the Donington Historic Festival.

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Matty White
Matty is a UK based professional photographer, who has chased beautiful and rare cars around Europe for well over a decade. A lifelong passion for motorsport was borne out of weekends spent spectating at forest rallies as a child in the Group B era. Matty covers some of the largest and highly regarded historic racing and concours events in the UK and Europe.
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