Record Breaking Trade Attendance at Autosport International 2006

16 January 2006

The two dedicated trade days at the world’s biggest motorsport show, Autosport International, attracted more trade visitors than ever before in its 16-year history. Over 27,000 buyers from around the globe flocked to the NEC, Birmingham, where over £400 million of business was influenced.

Managing Director of Haymarket Exhibitions Limited, Gavin Brown, commented: “The Autosport International show has grown beyond everyone’s expectations. Not only in actual size, with now more than 860 exhibitors including 124 from overseas, but also in its importance as a serious motorsport trade show which genuinely helps our industry world-wide. Trade visitors from 56 countries have chosen Autosport International as their preferred venue to come to see the latest that the world of motorsport has on offer.”

Autosport Engineering continues to break all records and the two dedicated trade days of the show continue to provide key buyers, from home and overseas, with the opportunity of seeing the very best of British and world-wide engineering under one roof.

Early indications are that the show has been as equally successful on the two consumer days, on Saturday and Sunday, where huge crowds gathered to meet Allan McNish, David Coulthard and the entire Red Bull Racing Formula One team. A further reflection of the spending power of visitors at the show was highlighted on Saturday when a 1990 Jaguar XJ220 prototype went under the Coys' auctioneer’s hammer for £98,000.

The Live Action Arena, sponsored by Fulda Tyres, reached its 5,000 capacity in each of the 13 shows with stunt legend Terry Grant thrilling the crowds with two world records officially certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. Grant successfully set four cars to spin simultaneously and completed 10 donuts in under 15 seconds.

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