If I am just being an old grump about this I will make a new years resolution to behave better in 2017 (!) but..
Looking back at 2016 I see that the Goodwood Revival held a one make A35 race and the Lavant Cup was run for 1930-1950's BMW engined cars to “celebrate the company’s anniversary".
Is it just me or is there as danger of historic racing going down the same ( to my mind) slippery slope as modern racing where one make/spec series now dominate often helped by big manufacturer support. These series now have no car diversity or development and present a grid full of identical cars, watched usually by sparse crowds.
I'm not naive; I know that sports car clubbies once meant just Lotus Eleven's and F3 meant 90% Brabhams at times let alone FoMoCo pushing F Ford. However to me at least the joy of an Historic event is the diversity of cars both in the paddock and on the track. You see all the cars mixed up in the Paddock and often mixed on track.
I have this feeling that one make racing might get pushed into Historic on the grounds of " equal cars so it’s a drivers race", or more commercially a large cheque from one of the deep pockets mfgrs will encourage these races. No offence to Porsche, BMW or MB but you can see at events like Kop Hill how they take a larger and larger space for car displays because the crowds contain their target audience of affluent customers and the organisers can hardly refuse the money when it’s done for charity. Big historic events have the same audiences so I can see that type of mfgr. encouraging one make/tribute series as good logical marketing.
Maybe I’m but old but my impression is that one make series have harmed modern racing both for spectators and for engineering. Having spent many happy hours searching out the odd and unusual cars at Silverstone/Goodwood etc I would be sad if one make races start to push out the diversity we see today.
BTW I understand the " its better for drivers to have a A35 only race" but I can appreciate it when a driver in a mixed race gets a car which underperformed in period onto the podium or does giant killing act on bigger cars.