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European Historic Rally Championship Sanremo Rally Storico
A regular on the FIA EHRC calendar over the years, the 2024 Sanremo Rally Storico route consisted of 11 tight, twisty and undulating Tarmac stages over a competitive distance of 133.99 kilometres, starting on 19 October. A round of the Italian modern and historic championships, this celebration of rallying’s glorious…
Masters on Tour
Masters Historic Racing was thrilled to be invited back to the Circuit of the Americas in Texas to supply two support races to the United States Grand Prix, followed by a trip to Mexico to support the Mexican Formula One Grand Prix with their historic F1 cars. Cantillon and Wiltshire…
The Portimão Pre-war Bentley 24 Hours 2024
Benjafield scores a memorable Century On the 10th anniversary of their previous event, and the 100th anniversary of the first Bentley victory at Le Mans, the Benjafield Club staged the Bentley 24 Hours at Portimão on 5-6 October. Race director, and Bentley specialist, William Medcalf declared, “We are the only…
LES 2 TOURS D’HORLOGE 2024
On the weekend of 1-3 November, 32 teams took a Le Mans style start under radiant provincial sun and embarked upon the 2 Tours d’Horloge on the Paul Ricard circuit, the only competition in the world for historic cars that runs for 24 hours without interruption. At the end of…
Tour De Corse Historique
A Perfect Rally for Julien Saunier For 24 years the Tour de Corse Historique has been one of the unmissable events in historic rallying. Many drivers, some with illustrious track records, like to come and drive on the mythical Corsican stages. As proof, this year the organisers received more than…
Velocity Invitational Sonoma, California
Velocity: The rate at which an object moves For some, the word conjures a bullet speeding toward a target. For the more motor-minded, perhaps it’s a Top Fuel dragster rocketing from a standing start to over 330 miles an hour in 1,000 feet (about 304.8 m). The Velocity Invitational at…
Tabac Classic Grand Prix
Assen, located in a sparsely populated area halfway between Amsterdam and Bremen, is best known for the Dutch TT Motorcycle Grand Prix. On 13-15 September, it hosted the 3rd Tabac Classic Grand Prix. Jurriaan Tas and Marcel Hundscheid report….. Making Some Noise First run in 1925, the Dutch TT has…
Historic Motor Racing News 30th Anniversary Celebration
On August 23rd at the Silverstone Festival, Historic Motor Racing News in collaboration with Motor Racing Legends threw a paddock party and hog roast to celebrate 30 years of Historic Motor Racing News. Given the difficulties of getting from one paddock to another and the fact that qualifying went on…
30 Years and Counting
It’s hard to imagine now, even for us who lived it, but when Historic Motor Racing News was founded, there was no internet, no email, no online banking. Everything moved more slowly and with more effort (see Jason Wright’s piece on page 56 of our October issue). How did racers…
Lahti Historic Rally
Ernie Graham banks FIA gold in dramatic conclusion The 2024 edition of the Lahti Historic Rally was packed with twists and turns, but the final twist came after the driving had ended. Frenchman Florent Todeschini, who delivered an astonishingly fast performance in his first race in a rear-wheel-drive car, celebrated…
26th GOODWOOD REVIVAL
For half its three-day run on 6-8 September, the high-theatre of the 2024 Goodwood Revival Meeting – the 26th dating back to 1998 – could have been sub-titled ‘Rainvival.’ Nonetheless, despite autumn’s initial bite after a mediocre British summer, the star performances were sensational, thrilling packed houses as ever. As…
Silverstone Festival
The Silverstone Festival upheld its tradition with a dry-wet-dry weather pattern that particularly afflicted Saturday’s programme, but on both race days most of the action was nothing short of sensational, as we witnessed some of the best quality racing that historic motorsport has on offer. Following a pretty seamless…
Les Dix Mille Tours
The 14th edition of the Dix Mille Tours attracted some 400 cars on ten packed grids for Peter Auto’s penultimate race meeting of the season on the sunny last weekend of August. The Paul Ricard circuit with its spacious facilities, attracts more clubs and vendors, exhibits and celebrities each year…
Anderstorp Race Festival
The National Historic Racing Cup in Sweden (RHK) ran this year’s fourth round of the National Championships for historic cars at the Scandinavian Raceway in Anderstorp on 23-25 August. Fifty years after the first F1 race was run at Anderstorp, in the week before the competition a documentary was released…
Monterey Motorsports Reunion
History Meets the Future at Monterey Bill Sessa Reports on the 50th Anniversary Year The Rolex Motorsports Reunion in Monterey may be one of the oldest and well-known celebrations of historic racing on the planet. In fact, the 2024 event reached a historic milestone of its own at the drop…
2024 Tour Auto
From the very first Tour Auto revival in 1992, a feature of the event was an exhibition of the cars in central Paris before the ‘official’ start, the first year in the Trocadero overlooking the Tour Eifel. This has become more of a feature than ever, moving indoors to the…
14th Maroc Historic Rally
Memorable Victory for Auriol, ‘Le Lutin De Millau’ For its 14th edition since its revival in 2010 by Corsican driver Yves Loubet and the motorsports club ‘Le Grand Maghreb’, it must be noted that there was no 13th edition as well as no 13th special stage. The number 13 was banned…
Grand Prix de France Historique
Down the Mistral Straight Masters Historic Racing returned to the GP Historique this year, after last year opting to go to Hockenheim instead. It was very much a gamble in a season that includes the Monaco GP Historique just weeks later, but it paid off handsomely as dozens of…
Hockenheim Historic
The Hockenheim Historic Jim Clark Revival signalled the debut of the historic event under the ADAC’s name. The boom in historic motorsport continues, with nearly 400 participants in nine racing series offering plenty of everything to the 33,000 spectators that filled the grandstands, exceeding all expectations, on both Saturday, when…
Spa Summer Classic
The Spa Summer Classic (yes that’s correct!) took place in April this year, and it must be said, the weather was quite mild. By Spa standards, there was very little water and occasionally there was even some sunshine. With a mixture of race series from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal…