By alley - Sep 6, 2017, 5:52 PM ET

Lime Rock Park Historic Festival 35 showcases speed and elegance

Lime Rock Park Historic Festival 35

Presented by the Prestige Family of Fine Cars remains a perennial mainstay on the calendars of all motoring enthusiasts who pilgrimage to the 1.5-mile circuit for five glorious days of celebration with a parade, racing, concours, marque gatherings and auction.

The Park roared at this year's Festival with three days of spirited historic car racing, taking Formula Juniors, Tin Tops, grand tourers, road-going sporting and sports racing cars and not-quite-street-legal racers around the track on September 1, 2 and 4.

Special Guest Ray Mallock set a quick and winning pace in Duncan's Dilemma group of front-engined and drum-braked Formula Juniors in his 1960 Mallock U2 Mk2 chassis 2 that was designed by his father and built by John Harwood. Ray oversaw its restoration to original 1960 specification, and steered it to third in the 2016 Monaco Historic Grand Prix. Mallock and Duncan Rabagliati, chairman of the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association, joined the Lime Rock Park venue of the FJ Diamond Jubilee World Tour at the mid-point of their North American outings for the Bob Woodward Trophy.

"Kent's [Bain] Domain: "Not Quite Street Legal" group was closely contested between Richard Attwood and David Gussack. Attwood, 24 Hours of Le Mans and Monte Carlo Formula Junior race victor, charged to two first place wins and one second in a Holman Ford GT40 brought by Lee Holman, Holman & Moody of Charlotte, North Carolina. Gussack's 1963 Triumph Spitfire earned him one first and two second place wins; another first was secured against Simon Kirkby, Lime Rock Park's director and head driver coach of the private Lime Rock Drivers Club, who dogged the pair in his 1973 Alfa Romeo GTV.

Full qualifying and racing results are available here.

Lime Rock Park looks forward to Historic Festival 36 over Labor Day weekend Thursday, August 30 through Monday, September 3, 2018.