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XVII Rally Clásico Isla de Mallorca
The 17th edition of the Mallorcan Rally Classic took place on 11-13 March. Having been perhaps the last competitive event to take place just before the 2020 lockdown began – indeed it was actually cut short when the lockdown went into place – this year it was one of the…
Heroes of Historic Motorsport
One of the recurring themes encountered in this magazine, be it from the contributors or from the readers, is the “win at all costs” debate. Most of us say that historic racing shouldn’t be about winning, then we prepare our cars to within an inch of their legality and go…
Phillip Island Festival of Classic Motorsport
Though restrictions on numbers were in place Peter R. Hill was one of the lucky few to attend the March 5-7 Phillip Island Classic and bring back this report. A year ago, the Victorian Historic Racing Register (VHRR) held its annual Festival of Classic Motorsport at Phillip Island, south-east of…
Iberian Endurance – Estoril – Jerez
Not only fast on the track, historic racer and organiser, Diogo Ferrao, is also fast on his feet when it comes to adapting to ever-changing circumstances. Without his efforts the Iberian Endurance 250km race at Estoril would not have taken place on Friday 20 November. With tighter curfew restrictions announced…
HSR Sebring 12 Hour
Repeat Race Winners Crowned at Sebring International Raceway The fifth annual Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Classic Sebring 12 Hour presented by the Alan Jay Automotive Network brought a compact but competitive 2020 HSR race season to a conclusion on 2-6 December at Sebring International Raceway, where a pair of competitors…
Tasman Revival
Collins and Windelburn Share Spoils at Manfeild Defending MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series champion Michael Collins (Leda LT27/GM1) got his 2020/21 campaign off to a winning start in the series’ opening rounds at the 35th annual MG Classic race meeting at Feilding’s Circuit Manfeild Chris Amon over the…
The Norwegian Season 2020
Bengt-Åce Gustavsson Reports Racing in Norway was affected just like everywhere else when COVID-19 arrived this spring, with the first race meeting, at Rudskogen, postponed until late June. With restrictions in place, including a rule that said anyone who had been outside Norway’s borders in the two weeks before the…
Modena Cento Ore
Anniversary Edition Way back in April, when the Modena Cento Ore was postponed to 11-15 October, it seemed like an impossible dream, but the persistence of Luigi Orlandini and his team paid off when a reduced grid of 24 cars in the competition section and nine regularity competitors, as compared…
Carrera Panamericana
70th Anniversary Only 28 cars took the green flag at the start of the Carrera Panamericana on October 15 this year, among them were French, American and Canadian crews, who had managed to get to Mexico despite all the restrictions. Starting this year in Oaxaca, Studebakers, as usual, were favoured,…
Classic Daytona 2020
a little smaller, just as loud Patrick Tremblay Reports The Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Classic Daytona presented by IMSA shook the coast of Florida for its fifth running on 4-8 November with a colourful spectrum of historic race cars. More than 60 years of speed were represented, from late-‘50s American…
Wet RHK Final in Karlskoga
The final of this year’s Swedish Racinghistoriska Cup was run during the Velodromloppet Historic GP in Karlskoga. Postponed to 16-18 October from its usual June date, the meeting was run in very rainy autumn conditions, with everyone thankful that at least it didn’t snow! For this and other reasons, the…
GOODWOOD SPEED WEEK
Edgy Edwardians star in SpeedWeek potpourri Marcus Pye Reports Curated to showcase the best aspects of the Goodwood Members’ Meeting, Festival of Speed and Revival – all lost to the COVID-19 pandemic this year – SpeedWeek was a colourful mix of motor sport genre performed behind closed doors at the…
HSCC SILVERSTONE FINALS
The curtain comes down on an intense season Seemingly within only a matter of weeks from the delayed start of the season, the Historic Sports Car Club was on home ground at Silverstone for the annual Finals Meeting on the National circuit. Good grids, some typical end of season excitement…
Motors Cup – Le Mans
Bugatti Bonus Though the French Championships were decided at Val de Vienne in late September (see our November issue), there was still some fun to be had and some points to score for a few of the individual French series at the October 16-17 Motors Cup meeting at the Le…
Motor Racing Legends Silverstone
Marcus Pye reports on an event, conceived and executed within only a few weeks, that proved to be like food to drivers starved of racing this season Historic Tourist Trophy brings Silverstone lining to MRL’s year Organised in the wake of the Spa Six Hours event’s late but inevitable cancellation,…
NK HTGT
Gamma Racing Day – TT Circuit Assen Eager to Get Started A somewhat chaotic start for the NK HTGT race at the Gamma Racing Day meeting on 26-27 September got the red flags flying. The second attempt was slightly less messy, with only Martin Bijleveld and Egbert Kolvoort getting penalties…
Monza Historic
At the heart of the temple of speed Jean-Marie Biadatti reports Though there were fears for the worst, in the lead-up to the event due to the pandemic, Monza Historic went ahead as planned on the weekend of 18-20 September. Even though many regulars from the Peter Auto grids were…
HSCC Historic Wolds Trophy – Cadwell Park
Formula Ford 2000 in the War of the Wolds Marcus Pye Reports HG Wells’ science fiction novel The War of the Worlds has gripped readers for more than 120 years. Historic Formula Ford 2000 has only been around for 13, but back in Lincolnshire’s Wolds where the series’ first battle…
French National Championships Rounds Four and Five
Historic Tour – Nogaro – Val de Vienne The whole of the French historic racing season has been condensed into three exciting months with round four taking place at Nogaro on 11-12 September and the fifth and final round running at Val de Vienne only two weeks later. With the…
Falkenberg Classic
The Falkenberg Classic, organised by Sweden’s Racerhistoriska Klubben together with the Sports Car Championship, welcomed 160 drivers at the Falkenberg circuit near Sweden’s south-east coast on 19-20 September for a further two rounds for each grid of the Swedish Championships. Bengt-Åce Gustavsson reports. Dead Heat in Falkenberg Talk of the…