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Priceless Cars Up for Grabs
Some rare competition cars that have been salted away for decades are coming to market in the near future. A huge stir was created when Tom Hartley Jr announced last month that he had been tasked to sell Bernie Ecclestone’s collection of 69 competition cars. Acquired at various times in…
Cars from the Indianapolis Museum
Another deeply significant collection of cars has also come up for sale, this time at auction by RM Sotheby’s, who refer to it as a “A Once in a Lifetime Deal”. Though only 11 cars will be leaving the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, they rank among the most sought-after automobiles…
Broad Arrow Auctions heads for Europe
Broad Arrow Auctions has announced its partnership with BMW AG to become the official auction partner of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, starting in May 2025. As part of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este event, Broad Arrow Auctions is expected to offer up to 70 high quality collector cars for…
Andrew Hibberd, Triple Crown
Andrew Hibberd added to his tally of 2024 titles by winning the European Historic Formula 3 Championship. He had already won the HSCC Formula 3 and UK Formula Junior championships driving a Brabham BT18 in Formula 3 and alternating between a Lotus 20 and Lotus 22 in Formula Junior.
Motor Racing Legends to Partner with Supercar Driver
Motor Racing Legends has announced a partnership with Supercar Driver. A member’s club exclusively for supercars and their owners, Supercar Driver is known in particular for its Secret Meets, and organises scenic drives, track days and breakfast meets, for supercar owners. Now those members will get access to race meetings,…
IBnterclassics and Autoworld, Brussels
Brussels was the place to be in mid-November for a wide variety of classic cars with the Interclassics show celebrating ‘110 years of Maserati’ at the Expo site on the weekend of the 15th-17th, while across town at Autoworld, within the Parc du Cinquantenaire, a special exhibition entitled ‘When Automotive…
Paulo Pinheiro Gains Posthumous Awards
Amongst the Portuguese National Tourism Awards (PNT) this year, the Award for the Personality of the Year was awarded posthu- mously for the first time. It went to the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve founder, the late Paulo Pinheiro, who died in August of this year. The Award by the jury…
50 years of Formula Ford 2000
The 50th anniversary of the Formula Ford 2000 category will be celebrated this year in the Historic Sports Car Club’s Historic Formula Ford 2000 Championship. The HSCC confirmed that Historic Formula Ford 2000 will continue to be one of the club’s core championships in 2025, building on 18 successful years…
nternational Entries for Phillip Island
The largest historic motorsport event in the Southern Hemisphere with close to 400 cars competing in ten categories from the late 1920s to the late 80s including some spectacular race cars never seen before in Australia. Along with racers from all over the vast country of Australia, and over 1000…
Magic Merlyn’ Returns to the Tracks
One of the most famous Formula Fords of all time, the ‘Magic Merlyn’ will be back racing in the HSCC Historic Formula Ford 1600 Championship in 2025 in the hands of newcomer Greville Ball. The Merlyn MK11a from 1969 was raced to great success by Emerson Fittipaldi, Colin Vandervell and…
Spirit of Montjuïc 2025
After a year’s hiatus, Escudería Targa Iberia will organise on 21-22 March what will be the 10th edition of Espíritu de Montjuïc at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Aimed at families, the race festival offers a large range of different activities for adults and children. The core of the track action…
Lifetime Achievement
It seems as if November is awards season in London and two Lifetime Achievement Awards stood out amongst many worthy winners in numerous categories at various awards ceremonies. Royal Automobile Club Historic Awards At the Royal Automobile Club Motoring Awards dinner, which took place in the Pall Mall Clubhouse on…
International Historic Motoring Awards
Meanwhile, on the following evening, Hothouse Media, publishers of Octane and Magneto magazines, were celebrating their annual awards just up the road at London’s Peninsula Hotel. This time it was Patrick and Sylviane Peter who were the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement accolade. after decades of serving up the best…
JD Classics Goes into Liquidation for a Second Time
Once bestowing largesse as sponsors of racing series, rallies such as the Mille Miglia and hillclimb events like the Grand Turismo, JD Classics has faced multiple financial troubles and bankruptcies in recent years. It initially went bankrupt 2018 when founder Derek Hood was sued by a customer and received a…
SVRA Driver of the Year
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) came together in late February to celebrate its 2024 champions while kicking off a new race season at Sebring International Raceway during the Sebring SpeedTour. The event honoured all of SVRA’s 2024 Sprint and Endurance champions, while also recognising a series of drivers and…
Motor Racing Legends Acquires HRDC
Aythorpe Promotions Limited, the company that only recently acquired Motor Racing Legends, has announced the acquisition of the HRDC. The move sees the MRL leadership team, led by chairman Shaun Lynn and CEO Pierre-Antoine Lecoutour, take the helm alongside HRDC founder Julius Thurgood. “HRDC has been an ally of Motor…
Royal Automobile Club Concours
It seems as if Concours events have crossed the Atlantic and become a real thing in Europe, with new ones popping up everywhere. The latest one to be announced, and it should be a good one if the quality of their other events is anything to go by, is…
Expect the Unexceptional
Last year was the 10th Anniversary of the UK’s Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional celebrating long-forgotten everyday family cars. With each year, the event has become bigger as its reputation has spread around the world, attracting many entries from overseas. 2024 saw a record attendance with over 2000 cars and…
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,…