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Castle Combe Autumn Classic
Abecassis and Blakeney-Edwards top Autumn Classic winners Marcus Pye Reports Victories for Jonathan Abecassis (Austin-Healey 100/4) and Patrick Blakeney-Edwards (Frazer Nash Super Sports) evoked memories of the past at Castle Combe’s seventh stand-alone Autumn Classic event on Saturday, October 5, by common consent one of the best (maybe the best)…
Historic Tour Charade
The French Historic Tour resumed in the Auvergne at the undulating circuit of Charade on 20-22 September after a long summer break with 300 entries competing in 20 races. Clement weather on Saturday gave way to rain on Sunday afternoon, as the pilots wrangled for the two French Championship titles….
Dijon Motors Cup
The Dutch NKHTGT, the British Classic Sports Car Club, The Triumph Competition and British HTGT series, the Colmore Youngtimers and the new Maxx Formula grids brought an international cast to Dijon Prenois to do battle in some tough weather conditions on the weekend of 5-7 October at the traditional Dijon…
Spa Six Hours
Shedden’s silver bullet hits the target Marcus Pye Reports Sixty years after Belgian hero Jacky Ickx scored the last Le Mans 24 Hours victory for Ford’s GT40, with Jackie Oliver, 14 late-built versions of the icon started odds-on favourites to win the 27th Spa Six Hours, highlight of the Historic…
Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix
Middlehurst and Bradshaw mirror history with victories in the dunes Zndvoort’s eighth Historic Grand Prix event, held on September 6-8, rolled the years back beautifully to what are now considered to be golden eras of motor racing. Hazardous years in which heroic drivers in charismatic and distinctive cars, mainly unencumbered…
Vintage Sports-Car Club 85th Anniversary
Brands Hatch The venerable Vintage Sports-Car Club’s first ever race meeting at Brands Hatch was to form the centrepiece of its 85th anniversary celebrations but thanks partly to the proximity of the M25, which was supposed to make travel so much easier in the south-east of England but is fast…
Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2019
The 2019 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca, the scenic circuit that winds around a mountain top in the highlands just east of Monterey in California, was both a continuation of a great tradition and also a new beginning for the event. Organisers, SCRAMP were under the direction of…
Monterey Car Week
“Our visiting friends from Europe exclaimed, “We have nothing like it!” Two racing weekends, four major concours and a dozen others, six auctions, several rallies, dozens of private parties and all set in one of the most spectacular seaside resorts in the world. It attracts over 250,000 visitors and nearly…
Mantorp Park Celebrating 50 years
Bengt-Åce Gustavsson Reports The Mantorp Park racetrack in Sweden celebrated its 50th anniversary on 24-26 August together with the Racerhistoriska Klubben. Event promoter MK Scandia managed to invite over 600 exhibition cars, and there was plenty to see throughout the weekend. In addition to many fine display cars there were…
HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup
Alan Cox Reports The 18th running of the HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup took place at the Cheshire circuit with 21 races spread over the sweltering Bank Holiday weekend of 24-26 August. Since a Historic Gold Cup was introduced in 2016, it has been awarded to the winner of the…
Goodwood Revival 2019
Wilson scoops Lotterer Jackpot at Glorious Goodwood! Marcus Pye Reports It’s subjective of course, but, if speaking to a cross-section of competitors is any guide, the 22nd Goodwood Revival Meeting, bathed throughout in glorious Indian Summer conditions on 13-15 September, was right up there among the best from their side…
Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix 2019
The annual Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix was organised on its traditional first weekend of August date by CEO Jens Peter Lange and his team with the sporting side of things run under the Automobil Sports Klubben Hedeland for the 19th time. Once run in the Tivoli Gardens in Denmark’s capital,…
AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix – 2019
Size doesn’t matter In our report from last year’s Oldtimer Grand Prix we touched on the fact that the event – downsized from its huge Marathon days – seems blossoming despite the fact that it attracts fewer cars every year. The trend continued in 2019 on the weekend of 9-11…
HSCC Croft – Retro and Classic Weekend 2019
HSCC Club racers in action at Croft The Historic Sports Car Club’s season continued at the Croft circuit in North Yorkshire over the weekend of 3-4 August as nine of the Club’s categories provided some entertaining racing during the annual Retro and Classic Weekend. 2019 champion Andrew Park (Reynard SF81)…
Rallye Weiz Historic 2019
FIA Historic Rally Championship ‘Lucky’ and Fabrizia Pons have continued their winning streak in the European Historic Rally Championship in their Lancia Delta Integrale 16V with a storming drive on the Rally Weiz Historic, winning all but two of the 14 special stages in the Austrian round of the Championship…
Youngtimer Festival Spa 2019
Ardennes Invasion Germans have a passion for touring cars and, with the help of its automotive industry, have been dominating in them for decades. No wonder, therefore, that the German-based Youngtimer Trophy has become so popular in the last 20 years and can boast bumper grids that run into three…
VSCC Formula Vintage – Cadwell Park 2019
In spite of an unfortunate clash with the massive Silverstone Classic meeting on the weekend of July 27, entries for the VSCC’s annual foray into the Lincolnshire Wolds did not seem to suffer unduly, and most of the regular protagonists were present to relish the challenges of the Cadwell Park…
Hungaroring Classic 2019
Jon Bunston Reports from the fourth round of the 2019 Peter Auto Championships Just 20km from Budapest and in the sleepy countryside around Mogyoród, lies the 70,000 capacity Hungaroring, home to the first Formula One Grand Prix to take place behind the Iron Curtain. Construction work on the circuit…
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