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The Flying Carrot – 700 and Counting!
Mister Formula Junior, Duncan Rabagliati celebrated his 700th race start at the Algarve Classic Festival (see report Page 36) in his trusty Alexis HF1 ‘Flying Carrot’. Having campaigned the bright orange front-engined Formula Junior since 1989, Rabagliati’s record adds up to an average of 20 starts per annum for some…
Transatlantic Racing
Following a successful collaboration at the 2023 Le Mans Classic, UK-based Prill Porsche Classics and Huffaker Motorsports, based in Sonoma California, have announced a “working partnership” that can make it easier for customers to participate in overseas events and save costs on support staff travel as well as shipping tools…
HTP Renewals
As the season comes to an end, it’s a good idea to check on your paperwork validity before you take your cars apart for a winter refresh, to be sure that you are ready to race again when next season starts, with no hold ups! Sarah Mitriké of the Formula…
The Coolest Concours of Them All
More and more new concours are springing up all over Europe, each one vying to be in the most elegant and prestigious location, and each one claiming to be different and less static. One recent addition, The International Concours of Elegance – THE ICE – which first happened in 2019…
Another Step Towards Fossil-Free Fuel
In our July issue we announced that Coryton have put on sale a biofuel, SUSTAIN Classic, designed specifically for classic vehicles that promises a reduction of at least 65% in greenhouse gas emissions when compared to fossil fuels. This is available to the public at Bicester Heritage. Now another step…
Mazda Goes ‘Vintage’ Racing
Mazda Motorsports has unveiled the Heritage Collection, a new program to promote the brand’s long motorsport history and to showcase some of the company’s collection of over 80 cars. In a partnership with Flis Performance, which has produced all of the Mazda MX-5 Cup cars for the American series and…
Star-Studded Tractor Racing
The third day of the Rennsport Reunion saw a hotly anticipated Porsche tractor race, with speeds peaking at 15mph. Over the years, Porsche developed four engines, from one to four cylinders, and four models: the Junior, Master, Standard and Super. The Master is the one you’d want for racing. Despite…
Rétromobile to showcase MG
For the 100th anniversary of the MG marque, Rétromobile has teamed up with the British Motor Museum and MG Club de France to organise an exceptional exhibition tracing the history of the English marque with previously unpublished archives and vehicles never before seen in France. No fewer than a dozen…
Ice Driving
It’s the time of year when everyone starts thinking about ways to enliven the winter months. A popular solution to the off season blues is to go up to Scandinavia and slide around on frozen lakes or blast through snow-packed forests. For those with more limited time, Rallystory offers a…
FIA Job Vacancy
With the resignation of Louis Quiniou the FIA is advertising for a “Historic Technical Matters Specialist” who would be tasked with the “Follow-up of HTP applications from application to publication” and the “Update and publication of the Historic Technical Regulations (Appendix K to the International Sporting Code)”, along with various…
Goodwood Announces Can-Am Theme for Members’ Meeting
Set to be the loudest demonstration ever held at the Goodwood Motor Circuit, the 81st Members Meeting will be hosting a thunderous collection of Can-Am racing cars from 1966 to 1974 as one of the themes for the 2024 event. In the spotlight will be some of Can-Am’s most iconic…
Monterey Auctions
Almost 1,200 cars sold during Monterey Cart Week across the auctions of Bonhams, Broad Arrow, Gooding & Co, Mecum and RM Sotheby’s, with a total sales value of $398,432,960, a big number, but less than $463 million sold last year with an average sales price of $568,000. The 2023 auctions…
McLaren at Velocity Invitational
To help celebrate McLaren’s 60th anniversary, Zak Brown, Pato O’Ward, Alexander Rossi and Tony Kanaan will put in appearances at the Velocity Invitational race meeting on 10-12 November. The three Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team drivers will participate in autograph sessions and interactive activities and tackle Sonoma Raceway’s challenging road course…
GTO Ferrari for Sale
RM Sotheby’s has announced it will be selling the only factory-owned Series I GTO to be raced by the Scuderia Ferrari. The 1962 Ferrari 330 LM / 250 GTO, chassis number 3765, is being offered for sale after nearly four decades in private ownership in New York on 13 November…
The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering
An integral part of Monterey Car Week, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, saw a large number of new car launches, including the Lamborghini Lanzador electric 2+2 concept car, Maserati’s MCXtrema track-only electric race car, Bugatti Chiron Super Sport ‘Golden Era’ and W16 Mistral, the Rolls-Royce Spectre electric super coupé, Acura’s…
90 Years of the VSCC
The Vintage Sportscar-Club is one of the most venerable organisations dedicated to historic motor sport. It has been preserving and promoting the use and the competitive use of historic cars since before the war. Next year the Club will celebrate its 90th anniversary. All members are invited to note…
Old and New – Bentley and Biofuel
A 1200-litre fuel bowser within the Bentley production site at Crewe in Cheshire may appear unremarkable – but its contents have enabled vehicles from the Bentley Heritage Collection and press fleet to reduce their CO2 impact by an estimated 85%, compared with ordinary petrol. Bentley ran its six strong fleet…
Shelsley Walsh Classic Nostalgia
With a class for everything from Edwardians to Youngtimers, single seaters to big banger sportscars, a huge crowd turned out on 22-23 July to the Worcestershire Shelsley Walsh hillclimb, the oldest motor sport venue in continuous use in the world, for the annual Classic Nostalgia meeting. Saturday rain gave way…
Second Veteran Summer Run
Pre-1905 pioneering cars revved up for November’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run with an enhanced day trip through rural Surrey and Sussex. The second-running of the Royal Automobile Club’s Summer Run on 20 July was hailed as an even greater success than last July’s very well-received inaugural event. The…
Gordon Bennett!
In 1903, the prestigious Gordon Bennett Race was held in the Kildare and Athy area of Ireland. Ireland was chosen for the race because racing was illegal on British public roads. A Napier car, now in the UK’s National Motor Museum, was built especially for the Race by D…