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HRDC Top Hat Tourers
Julius Thurgood and his HRDC have always held a special place at Goodwood and, as 2027’s Goodwood Revival will feature pre-1960 Touring Cars racing in the St. Mary’s Trophy, he says now would be a good time to get your car seen out and about. Julius has decided give these…
Iberian Historic Endurance – 3-Hours of Paul Ricard
After participating in seven editions of the Grand Prix de Pau Historique, which sadly now no longer takes place, Diogo Ferrão and his team at Race Ready have added another 3-hour race to their calendar this year with the 3 Hours of Paul Ricard supporting the Kumho TCR Wolrd Tour….
Masters Formula One Support Races in the US and Mexico
Master Historic Racing is now inviting competitors to register for its two most popular races when Masters Racing Legends for historic Formula One cars will be supporting the US Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas in Austin Texas on 23-25 October, and the Mexican Grand Prix a week later…
MGCC Triple-M Register Castle Combe
The MG Car Club’s Triple-M Register members made a triumphant Castle Combe debut Spring Speedsters event on Monday 4 May, when a superb field of 21 competitors in charismatic cars built from 1930 to 1936 finished both races. Winners were Charles Goddard (PA-PB) and Swiss visitor Roland Wettstein (K3 Parnell)….
ASAVÉ Returns to Magny-Cours
The ASAVÉ Challenge 65 and 76 made a return to Magny-Cours on 14-16 May for their second rounds of the season. The racing was enlivened by on-again-off-again rain from which the Minis in the 65 race were hoping to profit. Alas it was the bigger guns and the protypes that…
Alfa Revival Cup – Round 2 Varano
The second round of the Alfa Revival Cup at Varano de’ Melegari on 6-7 June saw overall and G/H/I category victory for Massimo and Marco Guerra aboard the Carrera Team’s Giulia Sprint GTA. Davide Bertinelli finished second in his 1750 GTAm, while Mathias and Fabian Körber completed the podium in…
American Speedfest
Strains of the “Star-Spangled Banner” rang around Brands Hatch again on the weekend of 6-7 June when the Nascar boys returned for the 13th running of American Speedfest, one of the most popular events at the venue. A race each day for the “Pro” and “Am” groups, amongst this year’s…
Good News for Alfa Drivers Andrea de Adamich Trophy
Amongst the grids at the new MRL Brands Hatch race meeting on 19-21 June will be an HRDC-run race for Alfa Romeo GTAs and pre-1966 Alfa Romeo touring cars. The Andrea de Adamich Trophy is a 60-minute pitstop race for one or two drivers, and it will have both qualifying…
Oldtimer-Grand-Prix – Moving with the Times
The Nürburgring circuit is 99 years old this year, and for over half of its existence – this will be its 52nd year – it has played host to the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix, one of the first race meetings for historic cars on the planet. Many of the sports, touring and monoposto…
Touring Car Rewind: North
Building on the successful Super Touring Power events at Brands Hatch, Touring Car Rewind: North made its debut at Oulton Park on Saturday 16 May, bringing a full day of tin-top action to the Cheshire circuit. Jointly promoted by the British Automobile Racing Club, the Classic Touring Car Racing Club…
Alfa revival Cup – Round 1 Mugello
The Mugello Circuit staged the opening round of the 2026 Sprint GTA chased by the Giulietta Ti of Emanuele and Alessandro Alfa Revival Cup on 17-19 April with separate E/F and G/H/I trophies up for grabs. Used to taking all the top spots, this time the dominant GTAm brigade, 13-srong…
Legends of Le Mans
In with the New The first rounds of this year’s World Endurance Championship have seen a further addition to the growing number of historic races accompa- nying top-line modern events. Jurriaan Tas went to investigate… The Legends of Le Mans series run by Peter Auto, a new supporting act to…
When Dunlop is Goodyear
When Goodyear took control of Avon (via buying Cooper), it suddenly owned three historic brands: Goodyear, Dunlop and Avon. Goodyear then sold most Dunlop 4-wheel car consumer tyres in Europe, North America and Oceania to Sumitomo, keeping mainly motorcycle and certain motorsport rights. That pushes them to put their own…
Gran Premio Storico d’Italia
As previously reported, this meeting, at Mugello on 2-4 October, will bring together an array of exceptional single seater grids, including Masters Racing Legends (F1 1966-1985), Boss GP (F1 1990s-2000s), HGPCA (GP pre-1966), the F2 and F3 Classic Interseries, Formula Junior, Historic F3b 1000cc & Formula Ford pre-1982. The latter…
Postponed Peter Auto Support Race – New Dates for the Qatar 1812km
Originally scheduled to open the 14th season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the Qatar 1812Km race will now take place in October at the Lusail International Circuit, thus becoming the penultimate round of the championship. Scheduled to run alongside the main event, the CER support races organised by…
20 Years of GT3 at the 24 Hours of Spa – Motor Racing Legends to Lead the Celebration
Introduced in 2006, GT3 quickly became the most prolific endurance racing category worldwide. Its growth was so spectacular that it became the main class of the 24 Hours of Spa as early as 2011. 20 year after the creation of the series, the early GT3 cars will be returning to…
Peter Auto GT3 Revival Series – Opening Round
The Peter Auto series for older GT3 cars held a promising inaugural round at the Paul Ricard circuit on 11-12 April, supporting the first round of the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS 6-hour race. It was a dream opener for the Storic and Race Cars team as Jim…
PMre-‘66 GT Sprint a New Place to Race
the Motor Racing Legends Pall Mall Cup bill, but this time in a shorter race format. While the Pall Mall Cup, with its two-hour races, remains on the calendar to top and tail the MRL season at the Donington Historic Festival on the first weekend of May and the final…
F1 Celebration at Brands Hatch
As part of its 100th Anniversary celebrations, Brands Hatch will be welcoming two very special Williams Formula 1 cars at the Masters Festival on 30-31 May. The cars, raced to victory by Nigel Mansell in Grands Prix at the Kent circuit in 1985 and 1986, include the Williams FW10, as…
BRDC Classic
Inaugurated in July 1990 as the Christie’s BRDC Historic Festival and continuing as the Coys Festival until it became the Silverstone Classic, the main historic race meeting that has taken place at the Northampton circuit every summer for 35 years has this year reverted to the BRDC on its original…