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Traversée de Paris – Only the French
In what has now become a solid tradition, French classic car owners turn up in their country’s capital twice a year, winter and summer, for the Traversée de Paris. This is a huge and joyful manifestation, made an even happier occasion this time, because it seemed right up to the…
Prescott Moves to Italy
Replacing the long-standing Vie en Bleu event that ran from 2011 until being cancelled last year due to COVID, and celebrated France and French motoring, Prescott Speed Hill Climb is launching a new all-Italian event as part of its 2021 season, ‘Prescott Italia’. Owned and operated by The Bugatti Owners…
International Concours of Elegance The ICE
Only run for one year in 2019, the concours d’elegance, staged on the frozen lake in St Moritz was one of the first COVID casualties last year when it was cancelled at the last minute in early February. Alas, the 2021 event, scheduled for the end of February, once again…
Mergers and Acquisitions – Cavalliono Classic
Canossa Events, who bring you the Terre de Canossa, Stella Alpina and Modena Cento Ore rallies, has acquired US based concours event and media company Cavallino Inc., organiser of the Cavallino Classic concours at Palm Beach Florida and publisher of the Cavallino Ferrari lifestyle magazine. Founded just ten years ago,…
Motogiro
2021 will be the 110th anniversary of the foundation of the Italian Motorcycle Federation and it will also mark the 30th anniversary of the Motogiro d’Italia, a re-evocation of the oldest and most prestigious Italian motorcycle test, first run in 1914. Organisers of the road rally for historic, and not…
British Historic Vehicle Surveys
The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs has released one of its periodic surveys into the classic car world of the UK. The independent survey was carried out during 2020 and revealed that the market in, and enthusiasm for, classic cars is growing steadily. Amongst the findings are the fact…
What Price Stardom?
At Phillips’ December 12 Racing Pulse auction in New York, Paul Newman’s Rolex “Big Red” Daytona sold for $5.475 million to an anonymous private collector, the third highest price ever paid for a Rolex watch at auction. In the same sale, the Heuer Monaco watch that Steve McQueen wore while…
New HSCC Board Members
Racers Hugh Colman, Kevin Kivlochan, Ted Pearson and Andrew Warner have all been elected to join the Historic Sports Car Club board for 2021.acers Hugh Colman, Kevin Kivlochan, Ted Pearson and Andrew Warner have all been elected to join the Historic Sports Car Club board for 2021.
FIA Medicals in 2021- Relaxation of Regulations
Around Europe ASNs are doing their best to renew competition and officials’ licences under favourable conditions, as many of them went unused last year due to cancellations and travel restrictions. In France, for example competition race licence holders that didn’t race last year will have their licences automatically renewed for…
Who is it?
Our caption competition published in the September issue did not elicit one response, not even a wild guess. Where is your sense of adventure? For those of you who have been trying to figure it out we apologise if it was just a little too obscure. The correct answer is…
Salon Privé Concours d’Élégance
This year’s Salon Privé attracted a record number of entries to the grounds of the elegant Blenheim Palace on 22-26 September for the prestigious Concours d’Élégance. It was the first automotive event in the world to use the Liber app, which has been developed for major event organisers to ensure…
United Autosports Historics
The success of United Autosports on both sides of the Atlantic at Daytona and Sebring, in the British GT Championship, in the European and Asian Le Mans series, running drivers such as Fernando Alonso, Juan Pablo Montoya, Lando Norris and former DTM Champion Paul Di Resta is probably well-known to…
Monterey
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), organisers of Daytona 24 Classic and Sebring Classic 12 Hour, amongst many others, has been named the new sanctioning body of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (WRLS). The previous sanctioning body was the Historic Motor Sports Association. In the new multi-year…
Bentley Recreations
The Blower Continuation Series is a run of 12 newly-built recreations of one of the most famous Bentleys of all time – the supercharged 4½-Litre ‘Blower’ Bentley raced by Sir Tim Birkin in the late 1920s. Forming the world’s first pre-war continuation series, Bentley Motors is creating 12 cars amid…
King of Cool
From our Editor.. We have a pretty active Facebook group, the members of which are historic motor sport enthusiasts from all the corners of the world, and I always look forward to reading their posts. I saw a post by Ian McAlpine that I loved and decided to share it…
Competition
It’s a race meeting. Who is it and where is she? Bonus question: What Year? Hint: If you stood in the same spot today you’d find that not much has changed since this photo was MAGAZINE > BITS & PIECES > Competition
FFSA Announcement on Measures to Help French Motorsport
In order to support the organisations and the involvement of men and women volunteers in the field, the FFSA Steering Committee on July 29, 2020 decided on the following measure: “Volunteers holding a license in 2020 will be offered the same license in 2021, subject to meeting the delivery conditions…
New Chairman for the HSCC
After the resignation of Frank Lyons, following his conviction by the UK’s governing body for cyberbullying, the Historic Sports Car Club members have elected Roger Bevan as their new Chairman. Bevan, who is finally stepping down from racing his ex-Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus 69 F2 car, is already the man behind…
Final Call on 2019/2020 Tasman Series – Michael Collins is Champion
Since he joined the NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series in 2017, dynamic young Christchurch driver Michael Collins (Leda LT27) has been tipped as a likely overall series’ title winner. And that is exactly what the 24-year-old now is, as the New Zealand Formula 5000 Association decided to call the…
Shelsley Re-opens
A second weekend of 2020 track action took place at Shelsley Walsh with two meetings over the weekend of 8-9 August. The annual Vintage VSCC day was held on Saturday and was followed by the Reg Phillips Trophy meeting on Sunday, as drivers got back in the seat and sharpened…