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Monterey Car Week
Every year since 1950 a world-famous automobile gathering has taken place in the spectacular setting of the Monterey Peninsula. The Pebble Beach Road Races, originally run through Del Monte Forest and subsequently transferred to the permanent circuit of Laguna Seca, and its accompanying Pebble Beach Concours, have been a mainstay…
Tabac Classic GP Assen
The TT Circuit in Assen hosted the second edition of the TABAC Classic GP at the beginning of September over three sunny days with almost tropical temperatures. Two renowned stars from the world championship for 500cc motorcycles and full starting fields of historic racing cars guaranteed a successful event. Both…
Anderstorp Race Festival It’s Raining Again…
This year’s fourth round of the Swedish Historic Championships was run at a wet Anderstorp, but unlike last year, most of the rain fell during free practice and qualifiers, while most races were run on a dry, or drying track. It was 50 years since the first World Championship race…
Nürburgring 1000km The Long and Winding Road
Nürburgring and Nordschleife. There is no other combination of words in motorsport that evokes the same level of excitement and awe. In order to maximize that excitement, the promotors of the Youngtimer Trophy, arguably the continent’s most successful historic touring car series, decided to add a 1000km race around the…
GOODWOOD REVIVAL Glorious Goodwood at 75
Goodwood’s 75th anniversary and the 25th Revival Meeting since 1998 – pandemic-torn 2020’s was cancelled – cued massive celebrations on September 8-10, with Spitfires reminding onlookers of the fabled motor circuit’s wartime past. The 11th Duke of Richmond & Gordon, whose boyhood dream to reopen the track with the social…
Dix Mille Tours
The 13th edition of Peter Auto’s Dix Mille Tours at the Paul Ricard circuit in southern France saw nearly 25,000 spectators enjoying a profusion of entertainment, activities and exhibitions amongst a gathering of some 460 collector’s cars and 348 racing cars on track, as Peter Auto’s slick and professional organisation…
Silverstone Festival 25-27 August
It started in 1991 as the Christie’s Historic International Festival, then morphed into the Coys Historic Festival, then for many years it was the Silverstone Classic. Now set on a date a month later, it has reverted to the Silverstone Festival title, perhaps to better encompass the many other activities…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 6: Rallye Weiz
Tibor Erdi claimed his third outright victory of the 2023 FIA European Historic Rally Championship season with a dominant performance on Rallye Weiz in Austria on 13-15 July. The Hungarian and his Croatian co-driver Istvan Kerék completed the 500kms of the rally, including 145kms of timed stages, to the acclaim…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 7: Lahti Historic Rally
Finnish World Rally Championship hero and Toyota GR World Rally Team principal Jari-Matti Latvala and his co-driver Enni Mälkönen claimed an emphatic victory in the FIA European Historic Rally Championship round in Finland on 11-12 August. Fresh from making his WRC return on the previous weekend’s Rally Finland at the…
Panda Raid
Regular readers may remember a short news item in our Bits and Pieces section in 2019 when everything was being cancelled due to COVID. We reported that Austin Healey specialist and historic racer Jeremy Welch and his daughter Arabella, got as far as southern Spain in a 4 x 4…
50 Years of the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix
On the weekend of 11-13 August, the Oldtimer Grand Prix celebrated its 50th anniversary edition with an extensive program. The first Oldtimer was held in 1973 and today, after the Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or in France, which was first run in 1964, it is the oldest historic racing event…
HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup
Decades before the current obsession with drifting – undeniably spectacular, yet utterly unfathomable tyre-frying folly to older generations – sliding cars gracefully through corners at the highest possible speed for the prevailing conditions brought success and adulation for racers who best mastered the art of balancing machines with more power…
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Every meeting seems to celebrate an anniversary or two these days, but Goodwood being Goodwood, its events recall more and on a grander scale than others. At this year’s Festival of Speed, held on 13-16 July (minus the loss of Saturday due high wind warnings), the spotlight fell on 100…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – 56th Mecsek Rally
Thomas Erdi Jr storms to victory on home event Playing their home ground advantage to the full and the sort of pace that has seen them challenge on every appearance this year, local hero Tibor Erdi Jnr and his Croatian co-driver Istvan Kerek won the Mecsek Rally outright in their…
30th Classic Marathon
After an epic five-day, 2000km drive on a mixed route of tarmac and gravel, from Slovenia to Croatia and Austria, and back to Bled in Slovenia, Mark and Sue Godfrey piloted their MGB to their third Classic Marathon victory on 18-23 June at the front of a field of 46…
La Centenaire du Mans Historique
Unless you have been living on Mars for the past year, you’ll know that this year is the one hundredth since the first Le Mans 24-hour event took place. Peter Auto decided this was going to be the big one, so, instead skipping an uneven year, the event took place…
Spa 3 Hours
Running without fanfare but with impressive consistency in the top six throughout the three hours, the Lotus Elan, driven by John Tordoff (father of former BTCC driver, Sam Tordoff) and Andrew Jordan, the 2013 BTCC champion, made its presence known in the final ten laps of the feature race at…
Karlskoga Velodromloppet Historic GP and Swedish Sports Car Meeting
The Swedish racing schedule featured two major RHK championship meetings in July before the long August break. The Historic Grand Prix at Gelleråsen Arena in Karlskoga attracted some 200 racers in first, tropical heat, and then typical Swedish midsummer rain, on 16-18 June, exactly 30 years after the first Velodrom…
HSCC Donington – Richards tops Formula Junior tree
Single seaters took centre stage for the HSCC’s fourth rendezvous of the season at Donington Park on 24-25 June, where sensational Historic Formula Junior and Formula Ford races of different flavours on a scorching weekend will long be talked about. Another topic of conversation among marshals, competitors and spectators was…
Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort
Beach Racers A very popular event with teams and competitors, the Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort gained yet more strength in its 2023 edition on 16-18 June as it was blessed by three days of hot summer weather, a capacity crowd of well over 25,000, and heaps of frantic racing…