Historic Motorsport International (HMI) has signed up Nigel Mansell CBE, the 1992 FIA Formula One World Champion and renowned motoring TV personalities Vicki Butler-Henderson and Quentin Willson to speak at this year’s event.
HMI, now in its second year, the show will now be in the same hall within the exhibition centre to join its sister event The London Classic Car Show and take place at London’s ExCel between 15-18 February.
This paddock will be home to six unique racing cars. These icons will be on permanent public display when not being fired up for eye-catching and thunderous parades on central The Grand Avenue, the show’s revolutionary in-door automotive catwalk.
Other innovations planned for HMI in 2018 include a special hospitality hub open exclusively to exhibitors and their guests, as well as a special display area dedicated to The International Guild of Specialist Engineers.
Companies including TIGOSE Pavilion include Crosthwaite and Gardner, Haynes Motor Museum, Renaissance Classics, Tandler Precision and Classic Performance Engineering will exhibit at the show, alongside Cosworth, the company that created the most victorious engine in F1 history, as well as Dunlop Motorsport, JE Pistons and The Crosslé Car Company, the world’s longest-established constructor of racing cars and the company that provided a young Nigel Mansell with his early wins in Formula Ford. Coys will also be returning with an important auction of sports, sports racing and competition cars.
“This year’s HMI is clearly building on the huge success of last February’s launch show,” reported event director Alexia Antikides.
“Its expansion – together with so many exciting new innovations – further reflects HMI’s position in showcasing the UK’s leading role in the world of classic motor racing and rallying. HMI has already become the leading platform for engineering and preparation experts, event organisers and promoters and participants. With so much great content now confirmed – topped by the appearance of Nigel Mansell, one of this country’s best-ever F1 champions – next month’s show is going to be a fantastic start to what promises to be another blockbuster season of historic motorsport.”
God strip Himself naked when He gave us His Spirit. The Bible explains that, "For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." (1Cor 2:11).
Everybody has something to hide and no one can know what is in the heart of another. No one would fill comfortable when others have access into their mind, we would feel naked and expose when people can hear our every thought. But yet God brought Himself into that position, He stripped Himself naked when He gave us His Spirit.
God expose Himself when He gave us His mind, "For who has known or understood the mind (the counsels and purposes) of the Lord so as to guide and instruct Him and give Him knowledge? But we have the mind of Christ (the Messiah) and do hold the thoughts (feelings and purposes) of His heart." (1Cor 2:16).
We have the mind of God, we hold the thought and the feelings of His heart. Indeed God has taken us into his inner chamber and has expose His heart to us. He had laid Himself in nakedness and have called us to come have intercourse with Him. How then do we respond to the call for intimacy? How do we respond to God's lowly and shameless act of totally exposing Himself by stripping Himself naked and making Himself vulnerable? We respond by acting in the same manner, we strip ourselves naked before the Lord.
Man have always been in the hiding, always have something to cover and always putting on a mask. It started when Adam sinned against God. The Bible recorded that, "they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." (Gen 3:8-10).
Sin made man dirty and ugly as a result man wants to hid his nakedness. For his nakedness is no longer glorious but dirty, shameful, ugly and filled with things that man would rather hide. Man dread exposure, exposure of his evil thought, his diabolic desire, his sinful act and all his evil ways. Yes, there are so much ugliness in that nakedness, hence man remain in the hide. But Jesus said, "And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil. All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near it for fear their sins will be exposed." (John 3:19-20).
God has called us out of our hiding, out of our sin and this darkness that we now find comfort. He has called us to exposure, having make us glorious through his sacrifice. We are now pure, all our filthiness had been washed away and we can now come to God in exposure, in the nakedness of truth. Paul put it this way, "Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault." (Col 1.22). Our nakedness is no longer ugly, for it is now beautiful and glorious as it has been made blameless, holy and faultless. Yes, we can be proud of our nakedness. It is glorious, so take off that garment that is hiding the glory of your nakedness.
Yes, take off that mask that is hiding your beauty, for the Lord desire your beauty, he desire to see you in nakedness of truth and sincerity. So strip... strip of that disguise, that mask, all the pretence and high service. Do it for the Lord, worship him in the nakedness of sincerity and truth, and in the power of the spirit (John 4:24). This is the kind of worship that God desire, for he has called us into intimacy -yes, into a divine romance.