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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…
Formula 2 Series Withdraws from the Oldtimer
Roger Bevan, Chairman of the HSCC, and of its Historic Formula 2 Championship, has recently had to write to his competitors to inform them that the series is withdrawing from its scheduled race at the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix due to low entries. This is not due to a lack of enthusiasm from…
Devenport and Baker Come out Tops at Laguna Seca
The First Orion Monterey Motorsport Celebration is a new race event, organised and promoted by GT Celebration. Along with the GTC grids, the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America West and Ultimate Track Days participants, the event included the Masters USA Formula Atlantic Plus and Masters Endurance Legends USA grids in…
Equipe Classic Racing Brands Hatch
Spanner-man Causer’s Debut Double O’C Racing mechanic Alex Causer swapped his spanners for a steering wheel at Brands Hatch on March 19 and surprised himself by convincingly winning Equipe Classic Racing’s Libre and Pre-‘63/50s races in stalwart team supporter Sandy Watson’s latest Lotus Eleven Le Mans, managed by team chief…
Grand Prix de France Historique Focus on Formula Cars
One of the most highly anticipated race meetings of the season takes place in high summer in southern France. Set in a bowl in the hills above Bandol, the Paul Ricard circuit is now once again host to the French Grand Prix and also to the Historic Grand Prix, this…
FIA Historic Championships
After the upsets of COVID made it difficult for them to run International Championships for the last couple of years, Masters Historic Racing decided at the end of last year that it would continue to run its Formula 1 and Sports Cars as Internationaol Series again this season and they…
Velocity Invitational
Entries are now open for the second Velocity Invitational event at Laguna Seca, which will take place on 14-16 October, and organisers say they will close on 15 May. Last year competitors and press praised event founder Jeff O’Neill for his vision of selecting only the most original cars, adding…
GT Anniversary at the 24 Hours of Spa
SRO Motorsports Group will celebrate its 30th anniversary in style at this year’s TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa on 28-31 July with a historic GT event organised by Peter Auto as a curtain-raiser ahead of the main race. Two one-hour races called GT Anniversary 2022 and a parade in the…
Historic F2 Champions
While the HSCC’s championships were decided either at Mallory Park in September or at the Silverstone Finals meeting in October (see our November issue), the International Formula 2 Series was only able to name its 2021 Champions after the Dijon Motors Cup meeting in October. From 10 races at…