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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 final races in the Peter Auto season were completed at Estoril on the weekend of 8-10 October, giving drivers the opportunity to end the season in this beautiful part of the world under balmy 20-degree skies. They appreciated it, judging by the number of social media posts of beautiful…
Circuit des Remparts
After last year’s cancellation the 49th edition of one of the oldest race meetings in Europe – it was first run in 1939 – took place on 13-15 September still under some special COVID restrictions, with smaller numbers participating in some of the activities. The Remparts, encircling the charming Charentais…
French Championships
Historic Tour Charade In its beautiful setting amongst the volcanic landscapes of the Auvergne in southwest France, the undulating Charade circuit was the battlefield for the penultimate round of the French Historic Championships. An old-fashioned track that commands respect, Charade’s 3.9kms hug the terrain and preserve sections of the old…
2021 Spa Six Hours
Bryant’s cloud nine Olly Bryant must be living on cloud nine these days, having completed what must be regarded as one of the grand slams of historic motorsport – first a win in the RAC TT at the Goodwood Revival, followed up two weeks later by a triumphant run in…
Dijon Motors Cup
For over two decades the October race meeting at Dijon has been geared to the international grids, most notably, the FIA Championships. Now run by Laurent Vallery-Masson and his equipe at HVM under the Dijon Motors Cup title, it was cancelled last year due to COVID, but made its comeback…
FIA European Rally Championship
Rally de Asturias Histórico ‘Zippo’ and Piceno take Spain by storm The Rally de Asturias Histórico was the first of two 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship rounds to be held on the Iberian Peninsula, with the Rally Costa Brava scheduled for November. A small contingent of FIA drivers made…
30th Tour Auto Historique
The return of the Cobras For the second year running, the Tour Auto Optic 2000 was postponed to September, which ultimately aligns more closely with its history, as in times past it took place in late summer/early autumn. In addition, to celebrate its 30th anniversary, the event finished in Nice,…
Monterey 2021
After the events of 2020 brought racing and many historic car events to a standstill, Car Week in Monterey was officially back for 2021 and with it, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Car Week’s two cornerstones. Many of the usual small and large shows…
Vallelunga Classic
La Dolce Vita by Peter Auto Report by Jean Marie Biadatti The fourth meeting of the season after Dijon, Le Mans-Bugatti and Nogaro, the Italian track of Vallelunga near Rome welcomed the Peter Auto grids just a few days after the arrival of the Tour Auto in Nice. It should…
HSCC: Watts takes gold as F2 returns to Oulton Park
Marcus Pye Reports The wail of two-litre engines reverberated through the trees, traversed the tranquil lake and rent the air above rural Cheshire as the first standalone Formula 2 races at Oulton Park since 1972 highlighted the annual Gold Cup event, entertaining a large audience over the 28-29 August Bank…
French Historic Circuits Championship
Historic Tour Val de Vienne The French Historic Circuits Championships (Historic Tour) reached its halfway point at the 3.7km Val de Vienne circuit in western France on 3-5 September, with 250 drivers in 19 races. After two races each at Albi and Dijon, contenders for the two 2021 French…
Hockenheim Historic
After last year’s cancellation of the Bosch Hockenheim Historic, the organisers did everything they could to make sure it would happen in 2021. As a tribute event to Jim Clark, it usually takes place in April, the month Jim Clark suffered his fatal crash at Hockenheim, but the dreaded COVID…
Goodwood Revival
It’s Yesterday Once More… Goodwood fans and many among the historic motorsport fraternity had been counting the days down to the September 17-19, 2021 Revival Meeting since COVID torpedoed last year’s event. Two years on from the last edition what they found was a different looking venue, with new elements…
Classic Marathon
After a hiatus of more than a year, HERO staged its first international rally, the Classic Marathon, a six-day adventure that covered a 2200km route through north-west Spain and Portugal. With changing legislation in various countries right up to the eve of the event, it took no small effort for…
Classic Silverstone – Belated 30th Birthday
From Pre-War Sport Cars to the extraordinary guided missiles of the modern prototype era, squabbling Minis to Supertourers of the 1990s and Grand Prix cars of the 1930s to the Cosworth DFV age, the renamed Classic Silverstone had it all. Fickle weather, which was miserably wet for much of a…
NKHT GT Zolder and Assen – Roland Zoomers is OK
The boys and girls of the Dutch Championship series NKHTGT have been busy, with races at Zolder on 17-18 July and at Assen, on 6-8 August. Sadly, the Zolder meeting was cut short by an incident involving Jaguar driver Roland Zoomers, who hit the tyre wall hard and had to…
Nogaro Classics – Summer Torpor
Only three short weeks after their visit to Le Mans, Peter Auto competitors met at the Nogaro circuit in southwest France on 23-25 July for a meeting arranged to make up for the cancellation of Spa Classic in May. Organising an event like this in the height of summer in…
Zandvoort Race Classics – Sun and sea, and no crowding
A twisted run of events saw the mid-July Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort eventually take place as the Zandvoort Race Classics – with a hastily revamped programme, and without spectators. Full grids from Holland and Germany ensured a busy paddock that worked to deliver a full three-day schedule with no…
American Speedfest
After an enforced absence in 2020 due to COVID, the popular American Speedfest returned to Brands Hatch, appropriately over the 4th of July weekend. This was the eighth running of the event which centres around the NASCAR sanctioned Whelan Euro Series (NWES). While most of the race programme is for…
London Classic Car Show
The London Classic Car Show has led a nomadic existence for a year or two since leaving its long term home at ExCel in Docklands. Having moved to the more central location of Olympia in early 2020, this year the organisers made the wise decision to move outdoors to Syon…