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Previews of upcoming events, Race & Rally Reports, News, Reviews, Letters and Regulation Information from Historic Motor Racing News.
Estoril Classics
The three-day Estoril Classics race meeting has been steadily gaining momentum over the past four years, with a winning formula involving 20-25 degree weather under a beautiful blue sky, an iconic circuit, built in 1972, that has seen all types of international racing, the beauty of the region, great food…
Castle Combe Autumn Classic
Stormtroopers Haddon and Wolfe win GTSCC classic Castle Combe’s ninth Autumn Classic should have been a special climax to the circuit’s 70th Anniversary celebrations on October 3-4. Coronavirus dictated a late start to the season, with initial events run without spectators, but just when car club members and enthusiasts (in…
The Swedes get Started
Mantorp Classic Festival Bengt-Åce Gustavsson reports on the first two race meetings of the Swedish season This year is like no other, and for the Swedish RHK historic racing cup, this has meant that this year’s first two competitions were postponed from spring to autumn (Kinnekulle and Karlskoga) and one…
French National Championships Rounds Two and Three
Historic Tour – Dijon – Charade What was meant to be a well-spaced calendar of five meetings, leaving a long summer break for “les vacances”, turned into an action-packed month of August when first, Historic Tour Dijon, the second in this year’s series, took place on 15-16 August, and Historic…
Thruxton Historic
Postponed from its original June date, Historic Promotions’ Thruxton Historic event delivered lashings of nostalgia on 15-16 August. An eclectic mix of cars – the oldest dating way back to the 1920s, when the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club, forerunner of the current BARC was in its pomp – entertained spectators…
Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort
Banking on the dunes In any other year, this season’s Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix would have run the risk of being labelled uninspiring, if not bland. But in fact, it was a kind of miracle. Here was a motorsport event that went ahead on its planned date (September 5-6), with…
Masters Historic Festival
Masters Racing made a triumphant return to Brands Hatch in late August with a programme full of drama and spectacle, says Rachel Harris-Gardiner Historic Formula One provided a mix of familiar cars, with some interesting newcomers, including former FIA Formula One World Championship racer, and Sky Sports F1 speaker, Johnny…
VSCC Mallory Park Formula Vintage
It’s been a while, but vintage racing was back, with the VSCC Formula Vintage race meeting at Mallory Park on 23 August. And what a way to start. Mallory Park is one of the UK’s most attractive venues, its twin lakes giving it a unique setting, think Interlagos transplanted to…
French Championships – Season Opener!
Historic Tour Postponed for three months but fortunately saved, the Historic Tour d’Albi (also called “3ème Grand Prix Historique d’Albi” this year) kicked off the French Historic Circuit Championships on 17-19 July with hope and relief for over 200 drivers. With the country still subject to “post-containment” health rules linked…
Master Historic Festival Donington
Paul Lawrence Reports Masters boldly took a date on the third weekend of the UK’s belated racing season and ran most of its key categories including F1, Historic Sports Cars and Endurance Legends. For both F1 and Historic Sports Cars, these were the first qualifying rounds for the 2020 FIA…
Dix Mille Tours
Postponed from its original April date the Dix Mille Tours event finally took place on the weekend 24-26 July under a glorious Provençal sun, launching the start of the 2020 Peter Auto season. The long wait meant that the resumption of racing was all the more appreciated by those…
48th AvD-Oldtimer Grand Prix
The 2020 AvD-Oldtimer-Grand- Prix, which took place in low-key pandemic conditions, was nonetheless a success for organisers and the drivers of some 300 cars. It wasn’t easy for the organisers, without whose hard work the event wouldn’t have happened. They were even given permission to accept 5000 spectators per day,…
Alfa Revival Cup – Imola
As in the UK, the weekend of 11-12 July saw the re-start for historic racing in Italy. Imola was the venue and, along with the first round of the Gruppo Peroni Italian Historic Championships, the Alfa Revival Cup cars were on the programme. Thirty cars for the Championship and 19…
The FIA Historic Sporting Rally Championship
The schedule for the FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship has been heavily impacted, but the FIA has come up with a plan to salvage the season, starting with the Rally Weiz, which has been confirmed for 5- 6 September. This will be followed by the Elba Storico (17-19 September)…
Southern Cross Safari
Bentley on top in Africa A 1927 Bentley emerged victorious after 19 days and 2000 miles of competition on the Southern Cross Safari from the Rally the Globe organisation. Paul Lawrence reports. After nearly three weeks of challenging driving through the mountains, game reserves and private estates of Kenya and…
Romania Gravel Rally
First run in October last year with only 13 entries, this year Paul Lacombe and his equipe, organisers of the successful Romania Winter rally, will run the Romania Historic Gravel Rally on 15-20 June and are expecting a much bigger entry. Run over five days, with a total of…
XVI Rally Clásico Isla Mallorca
Motorsport at the end of the World The 16th edition of the Mallorca Classic Rally took place at its usual time, the second weekend of March. As it did so, the tsunami of the Coronavirus swept across Spain and would overwhelm the event. An absence of common sense or the…
Celebrating Colin McRae – Chester Rally Revival
Paul Lawrence Reports A new event to celebrate rallying heritage ran successfully but in a fairly low-key way at the end of February when the inaugural Chester Rally Revival marked the 25th anniversary of one of the biggest moments in the career of Colin McRae. The idea was to send…
Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motor Sport
Report by Neil Hammond Phillip Island’s annual Motor Sport Festival on 5-8 March again provided the country’s best historic race meet with, as usual, nearly 500 entries. While overseas entries were down compared to recent years, the gathering of cars from all parts of Australia was again the opportunity to…
Retromobile Paris
John Whiteman went to the top exhibition of the classic car world The event that kicks off the European season each year, Salon Retromobile, took place over 5 days, from 5-9 February, in the 75,000 square metres of Paris Expo at Porte de Versailles 44 years after it…