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NKHTGT Celebrates in Spain
The NKHTGT celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Circuito de Catalunya near Barcelona, offering season entrants a free pair of races to celebrate the milestone. Supporting the Hankook 24 Hour Series, the Dutch Championship racers got set up and ready to qualify on Friday, with a 50-minute night race on…
Veteran Car Run
This year’s Royal Automobile Club London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, which celebrates the passing into law of the Locomotive on the Highway Act that raised the speed limit for self-propelled locomotives in England from 4mph to 14mph, will be a very special one, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the…
Motor Racing Legends – Silverstone GP Meeting
First run last year in order to provide some end-of-season racing for its members after the cancellation of the Spa Six Hours, Motor Racing Legends’ Silverstone GP meeting featured a three-hour race for pre-’66 GT cars. Such was its success, that the three-hour format was retained at Donington in the…
Endurance Racing Legends at Le Mans
Peter Auto staged two 45-minute Endurance Racing Legends support races at the Le Mans 24 Hours on 20-21 August and produced an impressive 45-car entry of the most notable endurance racers of the 1990s and 2000s. Shaun Lynn was the winner of the first race in his spectacular Bentley Speed…
Historic Dubai Grand Prix
The Historic Dubai Grand Prix Revival powered by Gulf Historic, to give it its full title, will take place on 2-3 December 2021 at the Dubai Autodrome in the context of the 2020 Dubai UAE Universal Exhibition, celebrating 50 years since the founding of the United Arab Emirates and 40…
SVRA Announces 2022 Calendar
The US-based Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced an ambitious 17-race schedule for next year, culminating in a return of the U.S. Vintage National Championships at the Circuit of the Americas on 3-6 November. The 2022 season marks the tenth anniversary of SVRA’s acquisition by Parella Motorsports Holdings, Inc.,…
New Date for Classic Silverstone
The Classic Silverstone event has grown into a complete festival over the years with equal focus on family activities, such as funfair rides, crazy golf, stunt driving displays and a massive shopping village, in a business model that relies on a large infrastructure and a high number of ticket sales….
Classic Sports Car Club – Special Saloons/Modsports – Brands Hatch
Over the years, starting back in the ‘70s, there have been many “almost anything goes” categories for saloon and sports cars – Super Saloons, Thunder Saloons and Modsports etc., groups that led to the creation of such cars as Gerry Marshall’s Chevy V-8 “Big Bertha” and Mick Hill’s VW Beetle…
Spa Circuit is 100
Major Exhibition at Autoworld Brussels Inaugurated on 12th August 1921, the first event at the Spa Francorchamps race circuit was somewhat of a disappointment, with only one car turning up. Only a few motorcycle races were held that year, and a year later, the first race for cars took place…
British Championship Makes a Belated Start
The shortened 2021 British Historic Rally Championship got underway in early September with the Three Shires Stages on the closed roads of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. The first of just three rounds for 2021 got the BHRC back on track, 23 months after the last event, following the huge impact…
Legend Boucles @ Bastogne
Cancelled this year and replaced by a ‘balade’ of classic cars from the general public running over the stages without timing, the Boucles @ Bastogne has set the date of 5-6 February for the 2022 edition, avoiding a clash with the Monte Carlo Historique, which takes place the week before…
Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique – Back to the roots
The 24th edition of the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique will mark the return of concentration legs on 27 January-2 February, with three cities on the starting list: Bad Homburg, Milano and Reims. After a COVID hiatus, this move was made by the Organising Committee of the ACM, who want to once…
Winter Marathon
With winter fast approaching its time to think about which winter event you will be entering for early next year. The 34th Winter Marathon has just opened its entry list for the three-day event based in the ski resort of Madonna di Campiglio in the Italian Dolomites. This event is…
FIA European Rally Championship
Rally de Asturias Histórico ‘Zippo’ and Piceno take Spain by storm The Rally de Asturias Histórico was the first of two 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship rounds to be held on the Iberian Peninsula, with the Rally Costa Brava scheduled for November. A small contingent of FIA drivers made…
30th Tour Auto Historique
The return of the Cobras For the second year running, the Tour Auto Optic 2000 was postponed to September, which ultimately aligns more closely with its history, as in times past it took place in late summer/early autumn. In addition, to celebrate its 30th anniversary, the event finished in Nice,…
Monterey 2021
After the events of 2020 brought racing and many historic car events to a standstill, Car Week in Monterey was officially back for 2021 and with it, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Car Week’s two cornerstones. Many of the usual small and large shows…
Vallelunga Classic
La Dolce Vita by Peter Auto Report by Jean Marie Biadatti The fourth meeting of the season after Dijon, Le Mans-Bugatti and Nogaro, the Italian track of Vallelunga near Rome welcomed the Peter Auto grids just a few days after the arrival of the Tour Auto in Nice. It should…
HSCC: Watts takes gold as F2 returns to Oulton Park
Marcus Pye Reports The wail of two-litre engines reverberated through the trees, traversed the tranquil lake and rent the air above rural Cheshire as the first standalone Formula 2 races at Oulton Park since 1972 highlighted the annual Gold Cup event, entertaining a large audience over the 28-29 August Bank…
French Historic Circuits Championship
Historic Tour Val de Vienne The French Historic Circuits Championships (Historic Tour) reached its halfway point at the 3.7km Val de Vienne circuit in western France on 3-5 September, with 250 drivers in 19 races. After two races each at Albi and Dijon, contenders for the two 2021 French…
Hockenheim Historic
After last year’s cancellation of the Bosch Hockenheim Historic, the organisers did everything they could to make sure it would happen in 2021. As a tribute event to Jim Clark, it usually takes place in April, the month Jim Clark suffered his fatal crash at Hockenheim, but the dreaded COVID…