A protracted-time champion of motorsports, Rolex celebrates 50 years of excellence on the Monterey Motorsports Reunion. An occasion that’s been drawing enthusiastic crowds to the Monterey Peninsula in California each summer season since 1974, the race continues to encourage a rising technology of followers and drivers alike.
First related to the occasion in 2001 and later turning into title sponsor in 2010, Rolex, together with quite a lot of its Testimonees, has witnessed the occasion’s progress as historical past will get made on the monumental race annually. The spirit of historic racing involves life on the occasion as motorsports icons, together with tons of of the best classic vehicles, get in on the motion.
The race is held on the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca annually, the place racing legends, together with all 5 of Rolex’s motorsport Testimonees, come collectively to check their very own limits in addition to to have fun the highly effective improvements which have pushed the races to new heights. Amongst those that’ve made historical past on the occasion are Sir Jackie Stewart, three-time FIA Method One champion.
Among the many esteemed friends at Laguna Seca to have fun the fiftieth anniversary of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion this summer season, Stewart – whose 55-year relationship with Rolex predates the Reunion – remembers his first time on the race fondly. “I first drove at Laguna Seca within the Sixties and have lots of completely happy reminiscences there, and right this moment, it stays one of many world’s most exceptional racetracks. Since my retirement I’ve visited the Reunion on many events, and it’s an honour to witness the unbelievable racing vehicles compete as they have been constructed to – they really inform the story of our sport’s evolution.”
The legendary racer admires each Rolex and the Reunion for a way they exemplify the very best of their respective realms. “The best requirements of precision and engineering on present all through the four-day occasion hyperlink Rolex and the Reunion, underlining Rolex’s dedication to motorsport globally,” he mentioned.
Different Rolex icons who’ve made their mark on the race embrace runner-up general on the 1998 FIA GT Championship Mark Webber, nine-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen, 2009 FIA Method One world champion Jenson Button and feminine racing driver Jamie Chadwick.
Established initially because the Monterey Historic Vehicle Races in 1974, the Reunion – as followers and the business affectionately name the occasion – celebrates the distinctive racers and machines which have formed the motorsport world. Simply as Rolex is a long-standing supporter of traditional vehicles, the race, renamed The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion in 2010, places the prowess of historic cars on full show.
Rolex Testimonee and Method One world champion Button continues to be impressed and excited by the race, the place classic machines are pitted in opposition to one another on one of the vital thrilling tracks in motorsports.
“The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion showcases a few of the greatest racing and rarest vehicles on the planet, creating an environment of pleasure,” Button says. “Driving at Laguna Seca, even in a machine from the Nineteen Fifties, is an exhilarating expertise.”
