Vintage race cars and bikes compete on banked Swiss track

ZURICH, July 26 (Reuters) – Classic racing vehicles and bikes of yesteryear left their house owners’ garages and raced in Zurich on Tuesday at an occasion to recreate the banked oval monitor of the well-known American Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Greater than 60 two-, three- and four-wheeled autos took half within the occasion on the Oerlikon race monitor, together with a Riley Sport from 1934 and a Bugatti 37A from 1926.

Single-seater race vehicles just like the 1971 Brabham F2 and American Indy vehicles from the Thirties additionally had their very own races within the occasion, which had been cancelled within the final two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reporting by Arnd Wiegmann; Writing by John Revill; Modifying by Jan Harvey

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