The Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 was held September 4-7 at the 7-turn, 1.5 mile Lime Rock Park road course in Connecticut. Lime Rock Park’s 33rd annual Labor Day weekend event featured a strong field of more than 260 vintage race cars grouped in nine racing classes.
Historic Festival 33 celebrated a selection of Mercedes-Benz racing automobiles and the collection of Honored Collector Jim Taylor. In addition, Sir Stirling Moss and wife Lady Susie were featured guests at this year’s Historics, with Sir Stirling signing autographs and driving demonstration laps in the 1914 Mercedes Grand Prix and 1939 Mercedes W154 Silver Arrow Grand Prix.
Notable and interesting entrants at the Lime Rock Fall Festival 2015 included the 1964 Porsche 904 GTS of Sandra McNeil; 1929 Bentley 4.5-Litre of George Holman; 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C-35 of Peter Greenfield; 1961 Porsche RS-61 driven by Roger Mandeville; 1957 Maserati 300S of Camilo Steuer; 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa of Tony Wang; 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Berlinetta ‘Interim’ of Lulu Wang and 1958 Devin SS of James Freeman; among others.
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Similar to the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Historics, Sports Car Digest also documented the Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015, with photographer Michael DiPleco offering the following images showing the vintage race cars at the Lime Rock road course. We split up Michael’s pictures into two galleries. The first gallery starting below features our favorite images, all displayed in the full-width view, while the second gallery can be found on the last page of the article and gives a comprehensive view of all the photographs.
Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Featured Photo Gallery
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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Featured Photo Gallery Page Two
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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Featured Photo Gallery Page Three
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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Featured Photo Gallery Page Four
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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Featured Photo Gallery Page Five
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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Featured Photo Gallery Page Six
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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Featured Photo Gallery Page Seven
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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Featured Photo Gallery Page Eight
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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Featured Photo Gallery Page Nine
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Lime Rock Historic Festival 2015 – Main Photo Gallery (click image for larger picture and description)
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[Source: Lime Rock Park; photos: Michael DiPleco]
As someone who has shot at Lime Rock before, I can see a great deal of thinking and effort has gone into providing photos from locations that are not accessible to spectators and views of Lime Rock action that are not seen every day. The scope of the photos showing the cars from various angles, front, side, rear combined with the coverage of the body roll when cornering, lightness when topping the hill, dropped nose under heavy braking and the blurred action to illustrate the speed make a very nice portfolio of what it is like to view an event at this gem or a circuit.
I’m quite surprised Michael was misinformed/uninformed about the historical significance of the headlining picture of the 1970 Chevron B16S and it subsequently referred to as a Chevron B23…..arguably more significant a car at LRP than any others featured in the story! Nice pictures though Michael….thanks.
Thanks Michael! I look forward to these pictures every year!
WOW, very Nice. Mr Dipleco, may I save a few above and have pictures printed for memorabilia of the event for “Personal Use” only? I drove the 59 Devin Healey and raced with the Fer TR, Mas 300 and D type (and others). Was a wonderful event and I cherish the memory. My son got a few shots but they are phone camera quality. Or, can I purchase some photos ? If you have any with mine and other cars…. PS I’m a fan of your work. Thanks