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75 Years of Grand Prix to be Celebrated at the Silverstone Festival 2025
After an impressive and hugely popular tribute to Ayrton Senna at the 2024 Silverstone Festival, organisers will turn their attention to celebrating 75 years of Grand Prix racing at the Northamptonshire track. Three quarters of a century ago in 1950 Silverstone hosted the very first official points-scoring F1 Grand Prix…
Welch Motorsport Doubles up on Pandas
In 2023 we reported Jeremy Welch’s adventures with daughter Arabella in the mad event known as the Panda Raid (see our September 2023 issue), which travels across the Moroccan deserts in classic Fiat Pandas. Jeremy was so enamoured with the event that he took his younger daughter Emily this year,…
HYTracks Acquires Andalucia Circuit
Three years ago, Frenchman Brice Pineau and Belgian Olivier Muytjens created HYRacing, a racing team preparing both historic and modern cars such as Ford GT40, Shelby Cobra Daytona, Ford Mustang, De Tomaso Pantera, Porsche 911 RS, and the team has quickly become regulars in the historic paddocks. At the same…
Ford Sierra RS500 Group A Continuation Race Cars
Created in partnership with four-time touring car champion Andy Rouse, CNC Motorsport has delivered the first continuation Ford Sierra RS500 Group A race car from a series of three. Alan Strachan, an employee of Andy Rouse Engineering during the period of 1989-96 and mechanic on the Team Labatts Sierra RS500…
GT One by Tuthill Porsche
Everyone knows, or at the very least has heard of, Porsche specialist Richard Tuthill. Amongst his many activities involving Porsche cars, he has raced, rallied, bought, sold, prepared and customised many, many historic Porsches. He recently got the opportunity to design and build a Porsche-inspired car from scratch. The GT…
Rétromobile Goes to the USA
Comexposium has announced that duPont REGISTRY Group (DRG) will become its exclusive partner to create an American edition of the Rétromobile Show. With diversified portfolio brands, that include Cavallino, Canossa Events, Petrolicious and Sotheby’s Motorsport, DuPont Registry Group is part of the bigger Miami-based Motorsport Network conglomerate. It also runs…
Mergers and Acquisitions Christie’s and Gooding
Christie’s has announced that it is to acquire leading international collectors’ car auction house, Gooding & Company. Founded in 2003 by the husband-and-wife team of David Gooding and Dawn Ahrens, Gooding & Company has earned recognition for its high-quality consignments and exceptional transparency in the auction world, offering vehicles…
Tour de Corse and the Corsican Economy
Each year, Corsica can count on the island’s most important annual event, the Tour de Corse Historique (see report page 28). Considered a real economic lever at the start of the autumn season, for one week, restaurateurs, hoteliers, caterers, transport companies and other local infrastructures benefit from the excitement of…
St James’s Motoring Spectacle
Building on the successes of the Regent Street Motor Show and St James’s International Concours, the Royal Automobile Club has announced the St James’s Motoring Spectacle for Saturday, 2 November. Like its predecessors, this new free-to-attend event will take place on the eve of the London to Brighton Veteran Car…
Bonhams’ Goodwood Auction
Bonhams annual Revival sale was held on the Saturday afternoon of the meeting with the cars remaining on display for the whole event and produced mixed results. Of the competition cars a previously Belgian owned 1932 Type Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Corto Spider made in the workshops of Jim Stokes…
Meaner than a Junkyard Dog
Gregor Fisken and Chris Ward won the Royal Automobile Club Historic Tourist Trophy race at Silverstone in one of their first outings in AC Cobra CSX 2021, known as the ‘Junkyard Dog’. Bought new from Shelby American on October 1, 1962 by AC Cars, and retailed by Shelby to its…
Fireworks at the Charade Super Show
The national holiday was transformed into a celebration of motor sports on the heights of Clermont-Ferrand, where the third edition of the Charade Super Show kept all its promises by attracting a large number of spectators, a dozen famous drivers, 200 racing vehicles… and even the sun! When it launched…
50 Years of Historic Racing at Monterey
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year on 14-17 August and has recently revealed it limited edition programme for 2024 depicting 50 years of memories. “We wanted to showcase the diversity of the many motorsport legends and personalities that annually enjoy the gathering,” commented Barry…
A Famous SuperSixties Ferrari
Dries van der Lof was not only a Grand Prix driver, he raced in the 1952 Dutch GP, but he is also one of the founding fathers of historic racing in the Netherlands. By the mid-1970s he owned a stable of now priceless race cars. In order to have fun…
Rétromobile Poster 2025
Each year Rétromobile introduces a main them or feature, and the chosen theme for 2025 is a masterpiece of French innovation, the Citroën DS 19. As is customary, the event poster, which has become a collectors’ item for many enthusiasts, also features what will be the main exhibit, and this…
Ayrton Senna Honoured at Silverstone
In the 30th anniversary year of his fatal accident at Imola, there have been numerous tributes to the talented Brazilian driver, throughout the world, and these are still ongoing with organisers of the Silverstone Festival announcing their own tribute on 23-25 August, with a promise to showcase the greatest collection…
Jenson Button to compete at Monterey
Having visited the Monterey Motor Sports Reunion last year, 2009 Formula One World Champion Jenson Button will return this year on 14-17 August to race his 1952 Jaguar C-Type that was originally owned by Juan Manuel Fangio. “I love racing, it doesn’t matter in what form,” said Button. “I’ve raced…
Hawker Racing
Hawker Racing Ltd, a spin off from Hawker Restorations, a company renown for the restoration of second world war fighter aircraft, and well-known race preparation company, Hoole Racing and Restoration are merging under new ownership. From 17th July 2024, well known racers and stalwart VSCC members, Justin and Ben Maeers…
Arts et Elegance
Two years after its last edition, Chantilly Arts & Elegance Richard Mille returns to its elegant home just outside of Paris, on 14-15 September. Loyalty to tradition marks out the identity of Chantilly Arts & Elegance among concours, in particular the Concours d’Etat and its famous classes. By creating this…
McLaren M19A at Silverstone GP
n a wet and wild weekend of F1 at Silverstone for the British GP, whilst the obvious news was Sir Lewis picking up his 104th win and a record-breaking 9th at a single venue (not to mention his home GP too) there was another very special car out on track…