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Taupo Classic – Rain Stops Play
Having taken a cautious approach at the beginning of the season, with just three home rounds scheduled for the 2021-22 season, the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ Tasman Cup Revival Series saw all three of its proposed rounds cancelled due to the ongoing COVID restrictions prevailing in New Zealand.
Simon Diffey
The whole historic racing world is reeling under the shock of losing Simon Diffey in the prime of his life to a car crash on May 14. That someone so full of the passion for life, could suddenly no longer be amongst us seems unbelievable to those who know him….
“Fabulous 208” Marcos Team Wins at Thruxton
It was sixth time lucky for Marcos 1800GT stalwarts Allen Tice and Chris Conoley, who finally landed gold in the Classic Sports Car Club’s Thruxton Mintex Classic K race on April 24. With a fourth place, two thirds and two seconds already on their log at the annual event, this…
French Championships
After rounds at Magny-Cours and Lédenon, the French Historic Championship drivers met in great numbers (over 350) at Dijon Prenois on 6-8 May, with 21 races on the timetable in the circuit’s 50th anniversary year.
New-Look Gold Cup
Following the BRDC’s change of date for Classic Silverstone to the end-of-August Bank holiday weekend, a date usually occupied by the HSCC’s Oulton Park Gold Cup meeting, the HSCC, organising club of both events, found it necessary to change the Oulton Park date. The last weekend of July was…
Mark Lyon
It is with much regret that we heard of the sudden passing from a heart attack, of Mark Lyon, founder and CEO of GTO Engineering. Started in the early 1980s as a one-man band, in a partnership with his wife Rosie, Mark set up a small workshop. After several years,…
HSCC Snetterton
The second event on the Historic Sports Car Club’s 2022 calendar was a race meeting on the 300 circuit at Snetterton in East Anglia on 23-24 April. Paul Lawrence was there… Bright but cold conditions greeted around 200 competitors who made the trip east and it was an event with…
Preis der Stadt Stuttgart
Fourteen grids from a combination of three major organisations, The FHR, the Youngtimer Trophy and their Dutch neighbours, the NK HARC and NK HTGT kicked off their season at the Hockenheimring on 21-24 April, with each grid getting two races over the weekend. The Youngtimer Trophy had the biggest fields…
Porsche Announces Rennsport Reunion VII
Porsche Cars North America has confirmed the next Porsche Rennsport Reunion will take place next year. Conceived by Brian Redman and Porsche Cars North America’s longstanding press spokesperson Bob Carlson in 2001, Rennsport was created to celebrate the racing heritage of Porsche. They envisioned an event at which drivers and…
Spa Summer Classic
Drivers are gearing up for the June 24-26 Summer Classic at Spa, which features a three-hour race in the image of the famous Spa Six Hours. Though there is a class for pre-‘66 cars, the summer version allows cars up to 1976, and it is becoming almost as popular as…
Spirit of Jarama Returns
Four years after the last edition, and six months after the successful Espíritu de Montjüic event in Catalonia, Espíritu del Jarama returns to the Madrid circuit on 22-23 October. Essentially a big party for families who like cars, organisers Escudería Targa Iberia stages music, dancing, children’s games, rides, exhibitions and…
325th Vernasca Silver Flag – “Museums in Motion”
This year the CPAE (Club Piacentino Automotoveicoli d’Epoca) is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Vernasca Silver Flag, retracing the steps of the Castell’Arquato-Vernasca hillclimb. The Silver Flag is a re-enactment of the 8.5km hill climb that was held there from 1953 to 1972 and in which many great names…
Classic Team Lotus Acquires Paul Matty ‘Lotus Treasure’
For many years, Paul Matty has been a leading light in Lotus classic cars, servicing restoring and supplying parts for them to owners and to other classic car specialists. In fact, he became the principal supplier for many road car parts. Recently, Paul made it known that he had decided…
Dijon Anniversary
Originally projected by François Chambelland and inaugurated in 1972, the much-loved Dijon Prenois circuit is 50 years old this year. The first race held on the ‘Stade Automobile de Dijon-Prenois’, on 4th June of that year, was for two-litre prototypes. The Parabolic loop was added three years later, taking the…
Music at The Classic
With the Classic Silverstone dates changed from the end of July to the three-day Bank Holiday weekend at the end of August, the concert programme has also been expanded to three evenings to include Sunday night, with top billing going to Rick Astley, whose successful career has spanned three decades. …
Paul Waine on the Mend
We have had a message from a friend of Paul Waine, who says, “I am delighted to be able to report that Paul Waine is due to be discharged home from Southampton General on Wednesday 27th April. He will begin the long journey to repair – or in Paul’s mind…
HERO/ERA London to Lisbon
Dick and Harry Baines went into the final day of the 10-day 3500km London Lisbon rally just eight seconds ahead of the Datsun 240Z of Nick Maris and Henry Carr, with the full expectation that the more powerful Datsun would overtake the little Mini, the smallest car on the rally,…
Athens to Rome – via 500 BC
HERO/ERA has planned a stunning event for September that will take crews through some of Europe’s most beautiful and historic scenery and reads like a bucket list of must-see attractions of the ancient world. The Temple rally will leave Athens on 1 September and head through Greece via Central Arcadia…
Manx Rally 2022 – Shields enjoys island life
For 60 years rally crews have been pitting themselves against the closed public roads of the Isle of Man and after a two-year sabbatical the Manx Rally returned on 13-14 May. Paul Lawrence reports… This year’s edition suffered for entries, as it lacked a headline championship, but as a round…
Victory for ‘Zippo’ and Piceno in the FIA Historic Vltava Rallye
Even with this year’s much tougher competition, Italian duo Andrea ‘Zippo’ Zivian and Denis Piceno managed to reassert themselves and repeat their victory of last year at the 30th Vltava Rallye, second round in the 2022 FIA Historic Rally Championship. ‘Zippo’ (Audi Quattro) and Hungarian Tibor Érdi (Ford Sierra Cosworth,…