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Generations Rally
Staged in welcome spring sunshine, the fifth edition of Rally the Globe’s Generations Rally lived up to its billing by introducing a raft of newcomers to the joys of competition in evocative pre-1986 cars, attracting crews of different generations. This year’s March 20-22 weekend event took place on the edge…
Regularity Specialist looking for a fourth Trophée des Alpes Victory
Already a four-time winner of the Rallye Neige et Glace, Yves Deflandre is also aiming for a fourth victory in the other flagship event organised by Zoulou Racing Heritage to add to his impressive regularity CV. The three-time winner and defending champion, two-time European champion and Belgian regularity champion, will…
Get Jerky Rally North Wales – British Historic Rally Championship Round 2
The British Historic Rally Championship took crews to the gravel stages of Aberhirnant and Dyfnant on 28 March for the second round of the British Championship. The Welshpool-based event saw Ben and Steven Smith leaving Wales as leaders, courtesy of their Category 2 victory. Fresh from an impressive performance on…
Beforty Rally
This year’s Beforty rally, the 15th, wove its way through Hampshire and the New Forest, with a stop at Vintage Bentley for some tea, Walter Heale for fish and chips, and Goodwood for some Fiskens fizz on the weekend of 11-12 April. For those under the age of 40 in…
Severn Valley Stages – British Historic Rally Championship Round 3
Just a fortnight after the round in North Wales, the Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship returned, this time to mid- Wales and the Severn Valley Stages on 11 April for the third of three consecutive gravel rallies in the Championship. After a fan-friendly ceremonial start on Friday night, stages…
Rally for the Ages – Kids Go Free
As the only historic rally to offer a ‘For the Young for Free’ concept, HERO-ERA has officially launched the fourth edition of Rally for the Ages, set to take place on 11 July 2026 in Hardwick, near Bicester. The event, focussed on young people, continues to attract a strong youth…
BMW M3 a l’Honneur in Corsica
The BMW M3 E30 may have become a legend as a touring car of the Group A era, but after Lancia in 2024 and Renault in 2025, it is now the turn of a German marque to take centre stage on the model’s 40th birthday, when this year’s Tour de…
Marathon – In the Footsteps of Pheidippides
Forty years after Philip Young came up with the idea of creating a marathon event for classic cars in the mould of the long distance day-and-night rallies of the 1950s, ERA, the organisation that he founded, now associated with HERO to form HEREO-ERA, will be running the 32nd Classic Marathon…
La Balade des Gens Heureux
In a good and immersive way that allows rally fans to see rally stages for themselves from inside the car, whether classic or modern, the Balade des Legend Boucles Bastogne invites the general public to discover the route of the Legend Boucles @ Bastogne rally. There is no notion of…
Eifel Rally Festival
As rally festivals proliferate around Europe, fans of one of the originators of the format will have marked that date of 23-25 July in their calendars for the ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival. This year’s motto, ‘To the 60s and back’, is expected to bring together over one hundred and sixty…
UK Novice Rally Championship
The UK’s Historic Rally Car Register has announced that 2026 will see the inaugural season for the HRCR Clubmans Beginners Championship. The intention is to bring those inexpe- rienced in historic road rallying into a Championship where they can compete in the same event as the Inter-club crews but with…
The Tour Auto Celebrating its 35th Edition
The must-do Tour Auto event runs this year on 3 to 9 May to celebrate its 35th anniversary with eligibility extended to 1984. With an ever-changing route, this year the event will head south-west to Biarritz. After a day of scrutineering and an exhibition of the cars on Sunday 3…
The Return of Targa Tasmania
One of the world’s iconic events is finally back after a three year hiatus following the tragic deaths that led to the suspension of tarmac rallying in Australia. Having undergone a major safety overhaul the Targa ran on 16-21 November, a shift from its traditional southern hemisphere autumn date to…
Tour of Britain Rewound
Motor Racing Legends and the British Automobile Racing Club (BARC) have announced the Rewind Tour Britain, which will take place in May of next year. Modelled on the Tour of Britain of the 1970s, race circuits, special stages, and hill climbs will provide an all-asphalt challenge covering approximately 460 miles….
After Festivity Tragedy in Bastogne
After a shakedown for the 50 crews and the huge street party in the centre of Bastogne that surrounds this popular event, tragedy struck the Boucles a Bastogne on the second day, Sunday, 1 February, when a competitor’s car on one of the regularity tests left the road and struck…
New Competition Director for HERO/ERA
As long-time Competition Director Guy Woodcock steps down from the full-time role to work on selected rallies only in 2026, HERO/ERA has announced the new Head of Competition will be James Phillips. With an involvement in Motorsport going back more than 40 years, as a navigator and as an organiser,…
Rallye des Princesses – Entries are Open
For a quarter of a century, the Rallye des Princesses Richard Mille has celebrated a unique lifestyle, where elegance meets a passion for cars and is combined with femininity. For the 25th edition, which runs from 23 to 28 May, the adventure will begin, as tradition dictates, at the elegant…
Grand Prix of South America
Driving in the wheel tracks of such icons as Fangio and the Galvez brothers, Bespoke Rallies will stage a re-evocation of the legendary 1948 Grand Prix of South America from October 22 to November 25, 2026. Flagged off by Fangio’s son, Oscar Fangio, in a dramatic midnight departure from Buenos…
Tour de Corse
Recently honoured at the Historic Motoring Awards, winning the prestigious “Rally or Tour of the Year” – a fitting tribute to the outstanding success of the event’s 25th edition – Marie-Ange Dini, organiser of the Tour de Corse Historique has announced that the 2026 dates for this long-running rally will…
Sahara Challenge – All the way to Dakar!
HERO/ERA has launched its most ambitious Sahara Challenge yet for September 2027, a 5,250km journey from Lisbon to Dakar, the destination of rally legends from 1978 to today. A variety of terrain, from Europe to Africa will include forests, mountain passes, flowing gravel tracks and then the desert itself, a…