Media coverage of this event should surpass last year's incredible effort, with the event covered by most of the car magazines and two television programmes featuring it.

This year's event will include a celebration of the Monzanapolis races which took place at Monza in 1957 and 1958, in which the Europeans took on the Americans.

In the 1957 event the works Jaguars were taken from Le Mans (which had been held a week before) to the event where they finished 4th, 5th and 6th. Unfortunately, their gearing was not suitable for a high speed banked track event having been set up for the Le Mans circuit.

The following year the Europeans were far better represented, with D-type Jaguars, A single seater Jaguar with a Lister chassis, Stirling Moss' Maserati, a Ferrari 4.2 litre V12 and a 3 litre V6. The 500 mile race was broken into three heats. The top qualifyer was Luigi Musso. The overall winner was Jim Rathman, followed by Jim Bryan in second. Third place was a joint effort between Luigi Musso, Mike Hawthorne and Phil Hill, who each drove a heat in the Ferrari.

A seperate rail race from the main competition is being organised for cars that qualify for this event. At this year's event a routed wooden slot car track will be used for the slot car races, provided by Sean Fothersgill. An HO track will be present, courtesy of Nick Sismey of DHORC.