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Full Throttle Donington Festival
Motor Racing Legends are promising to open their season with a real bang, as they expand the Donington Historic Festival programme with the addition of new race series and demos on the 1-3 May holiday weekend. All the MRL grids will be present, from pre-war cars to GT3, including the…
Nürburgring Classic
Started in 2017 as a one-off to celebrate the circuit’s 90th anniversary, the Nürburgring Classic was such a success that is has become a permanent fixture on the calendar. Growing in stature each year, with a full track schedule of races and demon- strations, some on the GP circuit and…
Swiftune Series – Minis Only
Equipe Classic Racing and top Mini Preparer Nick Swift have got together and created the Swiftune Series of standalone races for pre-1966 FIA Appendix K-compliant Minis and Appendix K derivatives. This new four-round series will provide Pre-’66 Mini competitors with a long-awaited platform to race head-to-head without competing against larger-capacity…
Grand Prix de France Historique
The KENNOL Grand Prix de France Historique was a big hit last year, largely due to the presence of many major motorsport personalities. With its combination of historic singe seater races, including the Masters F1 series, Formula 2, Formula 3 and Formula Renault, interspersed with celebrity appearances and demos of…
Authentic Racing
We have received a press release telling us that a “new major historic race organiser, Authentic Racing” will be up and running starting in 2027. The release goes on to say that only authentic cars with identifiable history will be allowed on the grids. There will be grids, for single…
Angoulême 2026
Announcing the grids that will run at this year’s Circuit des Remparts in Angoulême organisers have included some changes to the programme. Two grids that have not run there before are the Plateau Victor Riley, for pre-war Rileys and their contemporaries – the tight and twisty track particularly suits Rileys,…
Expanded Calendar for ASAVÉ
Starting the season at the V de V 1000km of Navarra in April, ASAVÉ has announced that it will also be present with two racing grids at the Charade Supershow in June and at the SuperSpa meeting in early October. The successful Charade Super Show will run for the fifth…
The Alfa Revival Cup
A new feature of the Alfa Revival cup this year will be the introduction of two distinct Championship categories. At the end of the five-race season, two Champions will be crowned, one for Period E and F cars and one for the later G, H, I cars. When this series…
Qatar Cancellation
Not only has Formula 1 suffered from postponements due to the situation int the Middle East, it has also affected the Qatar 1812KM events, which were due to take place on 22-23 March. These have now been postponed, hopefully just until later in the year. Included in the programme were…
HSCC Twin-Cam Cup
In 2026 the ‘HSCC Twin-Cam Cup’ will be introduced for cars powered by 1600cc Lotus Ford Twin-Cam engines. Car conforming to Guards Trophy Regulations and running on Dunlop Historic L or M section tyres will run as a separate championship within the Guards Trophy races. “The Twin-Cam Cup will provide…
Masters Historic Racing Expands 2026 Formula 1 Support Race Programme
Masters Historic Racing has confirmed a significant expansion of its Formula 1 support race programme for 2026, marking a new chapter for the organisation and its flagship historic single-seater series, Masters Racing Legends. Having previously supported selected Formula 1 events – most recently closing the 2025 season with an appearance…
HSR and VSCDA Announce North-South GT Challenge
Officials from Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and the Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association (VSCDA) have announced the HSR and VSCDA North-South GT Challenge, a championship that will feature the popular era of GT-3, GT-4 and GT Lite (GTL) race-prepared, small-bore GT cars. The championship will run throughout the North and…
Bernina Gran Turismo
Entries for the Bernina Gran Turismo hillclimb are now open and limited to 70 cars. The 5.7-kilometre hillclimb, which links La Rösa in Val Poschiavo to the Ospizio Bernina at the summit of the Bernina pass near the resorts of Pontresina and St Moritz in the Engadine Valley, will take…
The 2026 Equipe 6-Hour Race
After a successful debut at Donington in 2025 overwhelming demand has dictated that Equipe Classic Racing move its Six Hour race to the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit for 2026. The date has been set for 2-3 May. Open to teams of two to four drivers the 6 Hours will have…
Martin Grant-Peterkin
The historic paddock suffered a huge loss on 20 January, when Martin Grant-Peterkin died at home at the age of 83. Knowledgeable, kind, helpful and generous to all, Martin was a true gentleman in every sense of the word. Nineteen years in a British Army Cavalry Regiment, by then equipped…
Peter Auto – New Events New Series
In 2025 Le Mans Classic attracted some 238,000 spectators, 800 cars on the track, 220 international clubs and their 9,200 vehicles. The increasingly rich content of the event could no longer be limited to a single edition every two years, so at the end of last year, Peter Auto announced…
Spa 3 Hours – Entries Now Open
Open to Touring and GT cars built between 1947 and 1976, and GTP cars under 2000cc up to 1965, entries are now open for the Spa Three Hours which takes place at the Spa Summer Classic on 24-26 April. A single 45-minute qualifying session on Saturday will be followed by…
The Launch of the 105 Cup
It started in October when a group of Alfa 105 drivers who wanted to race against other 105s rather than MGBs or Elans got together and formed the 105 Drivers Club. Suddenly there were 26 drivers committed to racing in a 105 series this year. Now, together with the HSCC…
Classic Racing School Championship
Ten years after its founding, Magny-Cours based Classic Racing School, the world’s first school dedicated to historic single-seaters is launching a new one-make championship in a time-honoured tradition of providing races for its successful students. School founder Julien Chaffard explained, “After years of training and coaching, it felt natural to…
IMSA Classic
The Second Annual Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) IMSA Classic attracted a capacity field of cars from IMSA’s past on the weekend of 24-25 January, setting the stage for Sunday afternoon’s start of the 64th running of the IMSA Rolex 24 At Daytona. After a floddlit qualifying race on Friday night,…