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HSCC International Trophy – Silverstone GP
Smith’s March 782 victorious at ‘Cheeverstone
Silverstone was American Eddie Cheever’s happiest hunting ground before his 1996 Indianapolis 500 victory. In 1975, at 17, he won two British Formula 3 races there in six days driving a Modus, then in ‘79 he aced the International Trophy – a European F2 championship round – in the factory Osella-BMW on Pirelli wets.
Records fall at VSCC Wiscombe Hillclimb
Botus Fleming reports.
Despite a four-hour hiatus while Terry Crabb’s damaged ERA R12C was extricated from the forested upper reaches of the course under police con-trol, two records fell when the Vintage Sports-Car Club resumed its annual hillclimb – round two of its Speed Championship, which opened at Curborough the previous weekend – at Wiscombe Park on Sunday, May 8.
Three out of Three for Collins at Skope Classic
50 Years after McRae and Hawthorne A little over 50 years ago, in 1972, the late, great Graham McRae drove his then new Leda ‘GM1 001’ Formula 5000 single-seater to a dominant victory in the Lady Wigram Trophy race on a temporary circuit at Christchurch’s Wigram Air Force Base in…
2022 FIA Historic Rally Championship Round 1 70th Rally Motul Costa Brava
With past postponements and other restrictions well and truly behind us, more than 170 cars from across Europe started the Rally Costa Brava on 17-20 March, celebrating the 70th edition of the event. There were victories for Pascal Perroud and Denis Giraudet, who topped the results sheets of this first…
ESPÍRITU DE MONTJUÏC
A mixed bag Drivers flying out to Barcelona in the hope of a season-opener under the Spanish sun were slightly disappointed as the Iberian peninsula proved unable to escape the cold spell that froze the entire continent on the first weekend of April. The end result was a bit of…
French Championships Round 1 Historic Tour Magny-Cours
The eighth edition of the French Historic Circuit Championships (Historic Tour) opened the season at Nevers Magny-Cours on March 25-27, with an encouraging number of entries that included some 15% foreign drivers. The 10 championship grids, bringing together 14 separate Challenges, Championships or Trophies, with guest grids from Colmore YTCC…
French Championships Round 2 Historic Tour Lédenon
Three weeks after the season opener at Magny-Cours, Easter weekend saw the second round of the FFSA French Historic Championships take place on the undulating Lédenon circuit in high summer conditions, with temperatures approaching 30 degrees. This represented a return to this southern circuit, as the final round of…
HSCC Season Opener Brands Hatch
Smith Leads Formula Atlantic Comeback Fifty-one years after Australian Vern Schuppan – the future Formula 1 racer and Porsche Le Mans winner – won the inaugural British Formula Atlantic race at Brands Hatch in a Palliser chassis, a Historic iteration brought a new flavour to the HSCC’s season-opener on the…
Algarve Classic Festival – A soggy season finish
They came for a relaxed meeting in the sun but instead their season-closer proved challenging in many respects – and not just meteorologically. The Algarve Classic Festival turned into a soggy affair that became a struggle with the timetable and a handful for the drivers, although many enjoyed the slippery…
Deux Tours d’Horloge 2021
Joel Wykeham joined the Sleep Shelby Racing Team for an attempt on the first Historic 24 Hours race in nearly 10 years. L’Automne en Provence Competitors were greeted with all the beautiful autumn colours in the vineyards around Le Castellet as the Circuit Paul Ricard was bathed in low November…
MRL Silverstone GP Meeting
Cottingham/Girardo win at Snakes and Listers The second Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall Cup race for Pre-‘61 sports racers and Pre-‘66 GT and Touring cars, over three hours on Silverstone’s Historic Grand Prix circuit, ended Motor Racing Legends’ season in style on October 31. After a spin at Luffield on…
Jerez Historic Festival Andalusian Summer
For decades, it was usual that the international historic motor racing circus would annually retreat to the Iberian Peninsula for a sunny holiday bookended by a couple of race meetings. COVID-19 put an end to that relaxing tradition, but in 2021 it made a glorious comeback. With some having already…
Goodwood Members’ Meeting
Members and Maestros make Magic at Goodwood Marcus Pye Reports Not in the history of the second-tier events at Goodwood – under the British Automobile Racing Club’s banner from August 1949 to July 1966, and GRRC-badged from the spring of 2014 – had a Members’ Meeting been staged as late…
Alfa Revival Cup – Fifth and Final Round – Mugello
For Alfa Romeo cars built from 1947 to 1981, the final race of the Alfa Revival Cup season took place on the weekend of 15-17 October at the beautiful flowing circuit of Mugello with 29 cars on the grid. It was a weekend in which not only were the overall…
Classic 24 Daytona
The Classic 24, which ran for the seventh time this year on 28-31 October, is the brainchild of Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) based in Clearwater Florida. Such is the 59-year lore of the official 24 hours of Daytona (now The Rolex 24 at Daytona), it is easy to see the…
French Championships – Historic Tour Lédenon
Two New French Champions Crowned The French Championships reached their conclusion after a full season, at the undulating Lédenon circuit near Nîmes in the Gard on the weekend of 22-24 October. Running to its usual rhythm of 10 grids, each getting two heats, over 300 drivers were entered for 20…
XXXIII Rallye Elba Storico
With the record number of 215 entrants, exceeding event organiser ACI Livorno’s expectations, the Rallye Elba Storico and the concurrent Elba Graffiti regularity rally, counting both for the Italian and FIA European Championships, attracted competitors from 13 nations to the small Island of Elba in the Tyrrhenian sea. Also…
Tour de Corse Historique 2021
Home run for Casanova Frédéric Lombard Reports For 21 years, the Tour de Corse Historique has become a must-do event in historic rallying, and many drivers, some of whom have a prestigious track record, eagerly return each year to its mythical special stages. This year a record 330 crews, 162…
Castle Combe Autumn Classic
With all the precision of a synchronised swimming squad the Denis Welch Motorsport-run Austin Healey 3000s of Mark Holme and Doug Muirhead – both aided by Jeremy Welch – splashed to a resounding one-two finish in the GTSCC enduro that closed another soggy Castle Combe Autumn Classic on October 2….
Thrilling Swedish Finals in Falkenberg
The national championship final for this year’s Racing Historic Cup was run, as tradition dictates, at Falkenberg, with some 140 historic cars on the starting line on a cold and slightly windy autumn day, watched by a few hundred brave spectators on 18-19 September. Bengt-Åce Gustavsson reports… Formula Vee…