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F5000’s 55th
Before New Zealand’s F5000 drivers start to think about their 2023/24 Tasman Cup Revival Series, five members of the New Zealand Formula 5000 Association will travel to the US in August this year to help their fellow category drivers from the US and around the world celebrate the 55th anniversary…
Calling all Cisitalias
All Cisitalia owners are invited to register for this year’s Motorsport Rendezvous, held on 14-15 September during the St. Moritz Automobile Week, to celebrate this wonderful marque. For two days you can enjoy the scenery and classy atmosphere of St. Moritz while joining the festivities of what organisers have dubbed…
The Return of the Corkscrew Hillclimb
It was perhaps the spectacle of the year at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion last year when, for the first time instead of the race meeting continuing on Sunday, the organisers staged the Corkscrew Hillclimb & Community Day at Laguna Seca, allowing cars of all types to rocket up the course…
European E-fuel Policy Could Save Historic Vehicles
FIVA (the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens) is welcoming news that the use of carbon-neutral e-fuels is now officially recognised in Europe as an important factor in tackling climate change. In recent years, FIVA member organisations have been actively studying the use of e-fuels and the results to date suggest…
Lotus Celebrations at the Revival
Goodwood has announced that this year’s Goodwood Revival will celebrate Lotus’ 75th anniversary, welcoming a fleet of up to 75 cars from Lotus’ 75 years of history and heritage. The milestone will be marked with special on-track activities paying homage to “The Chapman years” (1948-1982) with a number of notable…
Bentley Continuation Goes to Le Mans
The first car in Bentley’s controversial Blower Continuation series, known in-house as Car Zero, will be seen out racing in 2023. Following a piece-by-piece disassembly of the 1930, #2 Team Car, part of the Bentley Heritage Collection, a precise laser scanning of the frame and its components led to the…
Swedish C-Type Replica – The Story Continues
You may have read in these pages in our June and July 2021 issues (or in Paul Griffin’s excellent book ‘The Fast and the Spurious’), the story of the decision by a Swedish court to back Jaguar Land Rover’s copyright claim against a replica C-type builder in Sweden. Karl…
Historic Motor Racing News and the Planet
Here at Historic Motor Racing News we do our best to contribute to the world’s efforts to cut emissions and the waste of resources. With our digital edition we offer subscribers an option that does not involve the use paper or transport. However, we understand that many readers enjoy the…
New Vintage Sports-Car Club President Simon Blakeney-Edwards
Outgoing VSCC President Paul Tunnicliffe has announced his replacement will be Simon Blakeney-Edwards. From a dyed-in-the-wool VSCC family, Simon grew up around vintage cars and has held positions on the VSCC board and Eligibility Committee. After 20 years as a professional musician he founded Edwards Motorsport in 2000, specialising in…
Royal Automobile Club Summer Run
Last year the Royal Automobile Club decided to give the owners of cars usually seen in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run in November an excuse to exercise their cars in high summer. The Summer Veteran Car Run was such a huge success, the Royal Automobile Club has confirmed that the event for pre-1905 cars will make a welcome return in July and become an annual fixture on the Club’s calendar.
Code of Ethics
After an unprecedented number of incidents last year, most notably at the Silverstone Classic when several cars in the Stirling Moss and Woodcote Trophies race were damaged in a multi-car incident under a pace car, Motor Racing Legends has published a Code of Racing Ethics (‘CORE’), spelling out the standards…
Goodwood 75
Announced at the Goodwood press day, Goodwood 75 will be a year of celebrations across the Goodwood campus and its motorsport events in the year that the Motor Circuit reaches its 75th anniversary.
Goodwood Revival to Celebrate Carroll Shelby
The Goodwood Revival has a long tradition of celebrating the greatest names in motorsport, and in 2023 the honour will go to the legend behind the AC Cobra and the GT40: Le Mans winning driver Carroll Shelby in the year in which he would have been 100 years old. Shelby…
Automobile Week St Moritz
Kilomètre Lancé Amongst the activities comprising St Moritz Speed Week, or to give it its proper name the Internationale St. Moritzer Automobilwoche, is the much touted Kilomètre Lancé, which last year attracted record-breaking cars and motorbikes from owners and museums out onto the Samedan airfield to test their powers of…
Testing in Andalucia
VdeV Racing is also joining in two open pitlane test days for historic cars only. Organised by HYRacing on 10-11 February on the 5.02km Andalucia circuit in Spain near Tabernas, 40km from Almeria between spectacular mountains and olive groves, it is the place in Europe with the highest rate of…
Spa Open Pitlane
Each year Vincent Collard from Roadbook runs an early season track day for anyone who wants to run or test their cars on the great Spa Francorchamps circuit. It is for all closed-wheel cars, modern and historic, road and race. No vans. Motorhomes, SUVs or vehicles with fewer than…
The I.C.E.
The lake at St. Moritz is freezing over slowly this year and the mountains are not yet totally enrobed in snow. However, at this altitude (1,800 metres), by 24-25 February, they no doubt will be and the organisers of the International Concours d’Elegance (The I.C.E) will be assembling some 50…
Race Retro
The world is indeed returning to normal and as we go to press Autosport International is underway and we have both Race Retro and Retromobile to look forward to, as well as the relative newcomer, the London Classic Car Show, which takes place at the end of February. Amongst…
The FIA Historic Motor Sport Commission 2022-2023
Under new rules, the FIA Historic Motor Sport Commission is appointed for two years (it was previously one year), so this year’s Commission remains the same as last year with only one exception. Roger Wills becomes the delegate from the UK in place of David Clark. President John Naylor (IRL) …
Retromobile is Back!
With new director Romain Grabowski, whose motorsport credentials include following his father on the Paris-Dakar and the French Super Touring Car Championship in the 1980s, and then being in the driver’s seat in cars competing in the Tour Auto (2020), Dakar Classic (2022) and Le Mans Classic (2022), while doing a 12-year stint at Motul as Group Communications Manager and Brand Manager during which time he concluded partnership agreements with the 24 Hours of Le Mans, IMSA, the Dakar, Le Mans Classic, Goodwood Revival, la Carrera Panamericana, and MotoGP, Retromobile will enter a new phase of its long and illustrious life.