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Champions at HSCC Mallory Park
At least two Historic Sports Car Club racing champions for 2021 were crowned when the club returned to Mallory Park for the first time in a decade for a weekend of racing on 18-19 September. Despite the clash with the Goodwood Revival meeting, meaning grids were somewhat down in numbers,…
Norwegian Summer
2021 was a good year for Norwegian historic racers, with five race meetings instead of the usual four, thanks to the opening of a new circuit. The season started at Vålerbanen in May, where there was great enthusiasm for getting started after a long boring winter. Bengt-Åce Gustavsson reviews the…
Endurance Racing Legends to Support 24 Hours of Spa
After a successful support race for the Le Mans 24 Hours this year, Peter Auto has announced that there will be an Endurance Racing Legends race at next year’s Total Energies 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps organised by SRO. In collaboration with Stéphane Ratel, Patrick Peter’s ex-partner in the famous mid-‘90s…
Goodwood Announces 2022 Dates
Getting back to more normal times, news from Goodwood is that the 79th Members’ Meeting will be held on 9-10 April 2022, the Festival of Speed is scheduled for 23-26 June, and the Revival Meeting will be held on 16-18 September. Photo DominicJames
HSCC Formula Junior Champ
The HSCC Silverline Championship had already had its final rounds at Spa, the Formula Juniors getting some terrible weather there (see report this issue). Last race of the day on Sunday, it was the worst weather of the weekend, and most of the Belgians and Americans (sensibly?) pulled out, but…
HSCC Championships Decided
Close and exciting racing settled the HSCC Championships over the weekend of 16-17 October on the Silverstone National circuit at the Club’s Finals Meeting. Some championships had been decided at Mallory Park in September (see report this issue), while many others were still up for grabs. Jordan Harrison secured the…
Dates for Le Mans Classic
Eagerly awaited for the last four years, it’s official. Le Mans Classic will be held from June 30th to July 3rd, 2022. Created in 2002 by Peter Auto in association with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, Le Mans Classic offers a formidable retrospective of the 24 Hours of Le Mans….
International St Moritz Automobile Week
The Bernina Gran Turismo Hillclimb has been running now since 2015 and is increasingly attracting Swiss and foreign competitors, who come to enjoy their cars in the crisp mountain air. New this year, organisers decided to relaunch the Internationalen St. Moritzer Automobilwoche, which first took place in 1929. …
Canossa Racing – A new joint venture between GPS Classic and Canossa Events
Having joined the giant Motorsport Network group of companies in 2020, Canossa Events and Alfa Revival Cup organisers GPS Classic have announced the creation of Canossa Racing, a joint venture focused on organizing circuit activities for drivers and classic car enthusiasts. Canossa Racing will combine the expertise and broad…
Mergers and Acquisitions – Hagerty Goes Public
In our September issue we reported its acquisition of the Amelia Island Concours, and last month classic car insurance and event brand Hagerty, announced it is going public. With more than 2 million vehicles insured globally, Hagerty has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Aldel Financial Inc., a…
Heritage Skills Academy opening of the Brooklands Apprentice Training Centre
September 8th saw the opening of the new Apprentice Training Centre at the famous Brooklands circuit and museum in Surrey, the latest development of the Bicester Heritage Skills Academy. Attracting young and even not so young trainees into the historic car industry will help to replace many craft skills that…
Property Tax on French Circuits
The FFSA has worked hard to obtain a favourable decision from the Ministry in charge of Public Accounts to classify French motorsport circuits in the category of premises and facilities with exceptional characteristics (EXC 1 category). This decision will allow a significant reduction in the imposition of property tax for…
Seen at Spa by Mattijs Diepraam
“When I stepped into the Blakeney awning to have a chat with mechanic Ben Pain – you know, the guy who looks like Obi Wan Kenobi – since I spotted that the Nash’s headlights were both turned inwards. “That’s a useful headlight set-up!”, I quipped, but Ben said, “No no,…
Geneva Motor Show Cancelled for the Third Year Running
Europe’s most significant motor shows, which should have taken place in February 2022, has been cancelled yet again with organisers sighting pandemic travel restrictions and recent exhibitor cancellations due to the continuing shortage of semiconductors. The news came shortly after the announcement of a new partnership with Qatar Tourism that…
Good News for International Rallying
It has been heartening to hear that the modern Rally du Maroc has gone ahead on 7-13 October, and while not many definite dates have been announced, the way should now be open for the many classic and historic rally organisers to plan their events. Yves Loubet and his organisation…
Roger Albert Clark Rally – The Toughest Yet
The 2021 edition of the Roger Albert Clark rally will be the longest, toughest, most competitive and best supported event yet in the 14-year story of the rally that sets out to recreate the RAC Rallies of the 1970s and 1980s. Running from 25 November through to the afternoon of…
Peking to Paris Motor Challenge rescheduled to 2023
New Mongolian Event The continuing impact of the COVID pandemic has triggered a postponement of the 2022 Peking to Paris Motor Challenge until June of 2023. However, the HERO-ERA team have provided some optimism for 2022 in the form a Mongolian event for competitors to experience the sheer joy and…
Neige et Glace 2022
Building on the success of 2020 when the event returned to the Doubs and Jura regions, and its base camp in Malbuisson, the 67th Rallye Neige et Glace returns to the fundamentals that have shaped the history of this sporting winter trial. This year, in order to avoid date clashes…
XXXIII Rallye Elba Storico
With the record number of 215 entrants, exceeding event organiser ACI Livorno’s expectations, the Rallye Elba Storico and the concurrent Elba Graffiti regularity rally, counting both for the Italian and FIA European Championships, attracted competitors from 13 nations to the small Island of Elba in the Tyrrhenian sea. Also…
Tour de Corse Historique 2021
Home run for Casanova Frédéric Lombard Reports For 21 years, the Tour de Corse Historique has become a must-do event in historic rallying, and many drivers, some of whom have a prestigious track record, eagerly return each year to its mythical special stages. This year a record 330 crews, 162…