2 weeks Ago By Nicholas Maronese
Article content The third annual Heritage Invitational concours and motorsports event returns April 4 and 5, and will this year coincide with the opening of the new Ten Tenths Motor Club at Charlotte Motor Speedway , in North Carolina. The event – co-founded by Marcus Smith and Rick Hendrick (NASCAR team owner and VIN #001 aficionado ) – wants to become the Goodwood Festival of Speed of North America, combining a static display of priceless exotics and classic race cars with some on-track action involving some of those same vehicles. Hendrick and Smith’s Ten Tenths Motor Club combines a 20,000-square-foot clubhouse and a multi-circuit road course, spread across a 100-acre complex in Concord, North Carolina.
The venue’s 1.7-mile (2.7-km) 19-turn track will be broken in April 4 when the Heritage Invitational hosts its Historic Trans Am Series event there, pitting authentic 1960s and ’70s American race cars against each other.
Later that evening, a Celebrity Pro-Am Race will allow 10 amateurs to race in conjunction with pros like Jeff Gordon and Kyle Petty. The Heritage Invitational concours on April 5, meanwhile, will be headlined by a Porsche class, including a Le Mans-winning 917 and 1979 Kremer 935 K3 ; a Lamborghini collection “hand-picked by Cannonball Run record-holder Ed Bolian”; as well as Hendrick’s own Mercedes-AMG One, Ferrari Daytona SP3, and Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution. A wide variety of incredible post- and pre-war automobiles should also be on hand, if past Heritage events are anything to go by.
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