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Pre-63 GT Historic Racing in Historic Cars
After a season’s absence the return of Pre-‘63 GT has, as organisers hoped, attracted strong interest from owners of historic cars, such as Doug Muirhead’s Austin Healey 100/6 that appeared at Le Mans with Jim Clark and has also participated in three RAC Rallies, or Gregory Heacock’s Austin Healey Sebring…
ASAVÉ Racing
Under new management, ASAVÉ is finding its feet in the new season and has recently set two dates for rounds of its GT Tourisme Challenge. The Racing 65 drivers are invited to the Circuit des Remparts at Angoulême on 13-15 September, and both the Racing 65 cars and the GT…
AGS presents the F1 90s Time Attack Competition
AGS Racing, who built and raced the JH 24 and JH 25 Formula 1 cars in the late 1980s, have announced a series of events for F1 and F3000 cars of that period. AGS has been taking part in demonstrations of cars from the ’80 and ‘90s but wanted to…
Historic Festival 42 Lime Rock Park to celebrate 60 years of the Ford Mustang and Ford Motorsports
As traditions dictates Lime Rock Park will host the Historic Festival on the US Labor Day weekend (30 August-2 September), this year, for the 42nd time. The five-day event will not only commemorate the 60th anniversary of one of the most iconic and enduring muscle cars in automotive history, the…
Spa Six Hours
A prestigious line-up of races is planned for the Spa Six Hours race meeting on the last weekend of September. Highlight, as always, will be the Spa Six Hours race itself, which will run for the 31st time this year. A new timetable, debuted last year, has free practice on…
Spa Three Hours at the Spa Summer Classic
First run in 2016 in a collaboration between Iberian Historic Endurance, Classic Sports Car Club, and Roadbook, th e Spa 3 Hours, and the supporting race meeting around it, has developed into a major international event. In a world where series tend to keep themselves to themselves, it is refreshing…
Spa Francochamps 2024 Season
Spa is one of the drivers’ favourite tracks, and in 2024 there are a number of opportunities for almost anyone with a racing car to compete there this (and each) year. Besides the club meetings and National Championships, three very international race meetings stand out….. Created in 2011, Peter Auto’s…
Inaugural HSR Prototype Challenge
Kenton Koch pulled off the winning pass on the penultimate lap of the inaugural HSR Prototype Challenge presented by IMSA two-hour race, and went on to win in the One Motorsports Ligier JS P3 with co-driver Jon Field. In what was an all-Ligier JS P3 podium, the pair took…
Nova Motorsport Takes over Manufacture of Avon Tyres
Nova Motorsport has acquired assets, including the brand license, used in the manufacture and sale of a broad range of motorsport tyres under the names “Avon Motorsport” and “Avon Racing”, assuring a continuity of supply. A Goodyear spokesperson told us, “We are pleased to bring further promise to the motorsport…
New FIA Historic Motorsport Committee
The slimming down of the FIA has proved difficult for Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who promised to streamline the organisation. The forming of the 2024 Commissions and Committees has been a challenge, as wrangling over who should be in and who should be out has meant that, so far, the make-up…
Griffiths Haig Trophy
Open to owner drivers of suitable cars with drum brakes, built and registered between 1947 and 1961, the HSCC’s Griffiths Haig Trophy series has been offered four double header race weekends this year at top-quality venues. These are at the Silverstone GP circuit on 4 May, Donington Park (8-9 June),…
Full Season for Group C
Peter Auto has announced that the legendary Group C cars will be making a comeback in 2024 with a four-event calendar that includes the Mugello Classic, Spa-Classic, the Grand Prix de l’Âge d’Or and the Dix Mille Tours. This series, celebrating the Golden Age of Sports Prototypes, brings together the…
HGPCA on Tour in South Africa
South Africa’s racing tradition is as strong as it gets anywhere in the world. During the ‘60s the best drivers from across the planet would descend to the southern hemisphere, avoiding the European winter months, to test themselves in unique conditions. Go forward 60 years and you wouldn’t be out…
Silverstone Festival
It seems that the big summer Silverstone race meeting, now known as the Silverstone Festival, the name with which it began life as long ago as 1990 (Christies Historic Festival, then Coys Historic Festival), gets busier and busier, and this year there are 20 separate races on the programme, showcasing…
Equipe Classic Racing 2024 New F2 Series
One of the UK’s premier racing clubs, Equipe Classic Racing, is launching a new F2 Atlantic series in 2024. Featuring cars built between January 1967 and December 1978, this new combined grid will have overall winners and separate podiums for each category. The full season will include Silverstone GP, Brands…
On the subject of HTPs
They promised us better communication and they have delivered In early January an online seminar demonstrated to the representatives of the ASNs how to use the new portal that tracks the HTP. This will help not only competitors, but also inspectors and ASNs to track the progress and status of…
2024 V De V Regs Out Now
The sporting and technical regulations for the V de V season of four endurance races are out now, and in a clear attempt to level the playing field further and restrict the cars to a more historic specification, there are many clarifications as to what is, and is not, allowed. …
International Historic Racing Returns to Pergusa
The Historic Grand Prix Cars Association, the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association and the GT and Sports Car Cup are setting out on a Sicilian adventure in May when they constitute the main attraction at the new Settimana Motoristica Ennese event on the 4.9km Autodromo di Pergusa on 17-19 May. …
ASAVÉ – Return to Fundamentals
After the sad passing of ASAVÉ stalwart Alain Goupy last year, a new team has taken over the reins of the oldest organisation in Europe dedicated solely to historic motorsport. ASAVÉ, or the Association Sportive Automobile des Véhicules d’Époque, was founded in 1972 and has been organising races for historic…
Goodwood Revival Programme Announced
Goodwood has announced its full list of races for the Revival, which will be held on 6-8 September this year. As each year, there have been a few tweaks to the programme and cut-off dates. The small bore sportscars are back in the Madgwick Cup and the Fordwater has reverted…