Yahoo News Huge motor vehicle festival with stunts and displays returns to Norfolk seaside town
A huge motor vehicle festival with heart-stopping stunts, superbikes, classic cars, a wall of death and an 8ft robot is coming to a Norfolk seaside town.
A line-up of more than 500 motor vehicles will transform Great Yarmouth seafront for the Wheels Festival on Saturday, June 29 and Sunday, June 30.
The two-day extravaganza will be hosted by an international stunt team and Guinness World Record holders for a free weekend of events to celebrate all things wheels.
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New for 2024 is Britain’s Got Talent 8ft tall semi-finalist, Titan the Robot.
Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist Titan the Robot will bring the comedy when he wheels into next month’s Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival on his cart (Image: Titan the Robot)
Stannage International Stunt Team is one of the headline acts at this year's Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival (Image: Stannage International Stunt Team)
The Guinness world record holders, Stannage International Stunt Team, who have been performing worldwide since 2000 with fire and high fall stunts, will be headlining with two shows a day.
Stannage International Stunt Team will bring a high-octane spectacle to Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival (Image: Stannage International Stunt Team)
A 2.5km-long vehicle display will include emergency vehicles, superbikes, classic cars, and old military vehicles.
State-of-the-art Tesla electric cars will offer drive outs while Roger Blighty, a whacky bike-plane pilot, whizzes along the seafront on his bicycle with bi-plane wings.
Ken Fox Hell Riders who race around the 20ft high vertical wall of death on vintage Indian Scout motorcycles are back at the Wheels Festival (Image: Ken Fox Wall of Death)
The Ken Fox Hell Riders, who race around the 20ft high vertical wall of death on vintage Indian Scout motorcycles, are back by popular demand with a show that has wowed the public for 100 years.
Get up close to a Rolls Royce Merlin engine which fired war time Spitfires, complete with its propellers at next month’s Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival (Image: Historic Aero Engines)
Also on display is a Formula One car simulator and a historic Rolls Royce Merlin engine used in Spitfires, complete with its propellers.
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Organised for the first time by Visit Great Yarmouth, CEO Asa Morrison said: “We have worked to deliver an incredible selection of acts for everyone to enjoy in two days of great family fun and spectacle to remember.
"There’s the wow-factor, the comedy, the nostalgia, the whacky and the unusual vehicles everyone enjoys.”
Lyndon Bevan, chair of Visit Great Yarmouth, said: “We are so excited about this year’s programme and how it will draw people from far and wide to enjoy what Great Yarmouth seafront has to offer."
