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HOW COVENTRY AIMS TO BRING TOP-LINE RACING TO THE MASSES

There was already a special buzz about the 10th anniversary Coventry MotoFest at the start of this month as organisers could reflect on a decade of the unique event.

The MotoFest features a plethora of demonstrations and displays of all things related to transport in the famous city. And, at the centre of it all is motorsport, with a competitive autotest and British Automobile Racing Club-organised sprint taking place over the course of the weekend on a specially closed-off section of the ring road.

Now the buzz is even greater as the event chiefs have taken the wraps off an impressively ambitious plan to bring a World championship to the event too. On the Friday before this year’s showpiece in early June, it was confirmed that MotoFest is ramping

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