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XXXI Tour Auto: Belgium 3 – France 1
After two years of displacement by the pandemic, the Tour Auto returned this year to its usual April date, from 24 to 30, for an unprecedented route that led 230 competitors (132 in competition and 98 in regularity) from Paris to Andorra via La Baule, Limoges, Bordeaux and Pau. Among…
Donington Historic Festival
Exceptional Duncan Hamilton ROFGO Group C1 and U2TC races highlighted Motor Racing Legends’ 11th Donington Historic Festival on April 30-May 1. As spectators and car clubs were welcomed back to MotorSport Vision’s east midlands outpost – the event resumed behind closed doors last year – hardcore enthusiasts who arrived in…
Vintage Montlhéry
John Whiteman visited the biennial event for vintage vehicles of all kinds…
The Vintage Revival was first held at the historic Linas-Montlhéry circuit south of Paris in 1998 organised by the great French Anglophile Jacques Potherat in time to celebrate 75 years since the opening of the circuit. Sadly, Jacques died in 2001 shortly after the fourth event. By this time the venue was under threat of closure by owners UTAC, the French motor industries vehicle testing and type approval agency and the outlook for any more events looked bleak.
Bosch Hockenheim Historic
Spring-like weather conditions contributed to an epic 17th edition of the Bosch Hockenheim Historic – Jim Clark Revival on the weekend of 6-8 May. Some 30,000 motorsport fans, finally released from all the COVID restrictions, flocked to the Hockenheimring to enjoy a range of races and demonstrations over the three-day…
Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2022
Now in its 13th year, the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique is one of the most important and popular events on the international historic racing calendar, and many said that this year’s was better than ever. It seems a long time ago when, in 1997, the ACM decided to organise…
HSCC International Trophy – Silverstone GP
Smith’s March 782 victorious at ‘Cheeverstone
Silverstone was American Eddie Cheever’s happiest hunting ground before his 1996 Indianapolis 500 victory. In 1975, at 17, he won two British Formula 3 races there in six days driving a Modus, then in ‘79 he aced the International Trophy – a European F2 championship round – in the factory Osella-BMW on Pirelli wets.
Records fall at VSCC Wiscombe Hillclimb
Botus Fleming reports.
Despite a four-hour hiatus while Terry Crabb’s damaged ERA R12C was extricated from the forested upper reaches of the course under police con-trol, two records fell when the Vintage Sports-Car Club resumed its annual hillclimb – round two of its Speed Championship, which opened at Curborough the previous weekend – at Wiscombe Park on Sunday, May 8.
Formula 2 Series Withdraws from the Oldtimer
Roger Bevan, Chairman of the HSCC, and of its Historic Formula 2 Championship, has recently had to write to his competitors to inform them that the series is withdrawing from its scheduled race at the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix due to low entries. This is not due to a lack of enthusiasm from…
Devenport and Baker Come out Tops at Laguna Seca
The First Orion Monterey Motorsport Celebration is a new race event, organised and promoted by GT Celebration. Along with the GTC grids, the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America West and Ultimate Track Days participants, the event included the Masters USA Formula Atlantic Plus and Masters Endurance Legends USA grids in…
Equipe Classic Racing Brands Hatch
Spanner-man Causer’s Debut Double O’C Racing mechanic Alex Causer swapped his spanners for a steering wheel at Brands Hatch on March 19 and surprised himself by convincingly winning Equipe Classic Racing’s Libre and Pre-‘63/50s races in stalwart team supporter Sandy Watson’s latest Lotus Eleven Le Mans, managed by team chief…
Grand Prix de France Historique Focus on Formula Cars
One of the most highly anticipated race meetings of the season takes place in high summer in southern France. Set in a bowl in the hills above Bandol, the Paul Ricard circuit is now once again host to the French Grand Prix and also to the Historic Grand Prix, this…
FIA Historic Championships
After the upsets of COVID made it difficult for them to run International Championships for the last couple of years, Masters Historic Racing decided at the end of last year that it would continue to run its Formula 1 and Sports Cars as Internationaol Series again this season and they…
Velocity Invitational
Entries are now open for the second Velocity Invitational event at Laguna Seca, which will take place on 14-16 October, and organisers say they will close on 15 May. Last year competitors and press praised event founder Jeff O’Neill for his vision of selecting only the most original cars, adding…
Comas at Goodwood
The team presided over by Nick Sleep hosted Erik Comas for the Goodwood weekend, as the ex-F1 driver and historic rally enthusiast shared Sleep’s SDI Rover. “He was great company,” said one team member, “he drove Nick’s 1982 French production championship winning Marlboro Rover in the Gerry Marshall Trophy. Remarkably…
Johnny Herbert returns to the Australian Grand Prix
At the Australian Grand Prix Johnny Herbert returned to Formula 1, albeit driving a Williams FW07/04 in the Shannons Historic Demonstration. Now owned by Paul Faulkner, the Williams was listed as Jones’ world championship winning car. Duncan Mackellar follows in his Porsche 962C then Russ Kempnich’s Porsche 956 and Wayne…
Oil on the Track
At the recent Espíritu de Montjuïc race meeting at the Barcelona circuit, the end of the second rainy Copa Racer heat, saw one of the Minis blow its engine to leave a trail of oil that ran from turn 5 to turn 10 – so effectively the entire second section…
Bonhams Members’ Meeting Auction
Including post- sale arrangements, just five of the 76 cars offered at the Bonham’s auction at the Goodwood Members’ Meeting failed to sell, with nearly a quarter selling for over top estimate, some by a significant margin: a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 that had been off the road since 2018…
Formula One at FOS
Goodwood has confirmed that at least five current Formula 1 teams are already signed up to attend the Festival of Speed on 23-26 June. The teams will travel to Goodwood to run and display some of their most iconic race cars, giving Goodwood spectators a rare opportunity to see cars…
Biofuel
By adopting from 2022 a 100% renewable fuel for its F4 Championship, the FFSA, has made a commitment to the ecological transition. The French Championship thus becomes the very first single-seater competition in the world to use biofuel, starting from this season.
New Sponsor for Tony Dron Trophy
Lifeline, the industry-leading manufacturers of motorsport safety products, are the new headline sponsor for the Tony Dron Trophy, the popular and well-established series catering for Group 1 and 1½ Historic Touring Cars of the 1970s and early ‘80s run by Motor Racing Legends. Jim Morris, CEO of Lifeline, is a…
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