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Ypres Historic to Run Indpendently of WRC Event
While the Ypres Rally Belgium has moved to August to become a round of the World Rally Championship, the Ypres Historic Rally plans to run on the event’s traditional date of June 27. The 28th edition of the Historic Rally, which is a round of the Historic Belgian Championship, will…
New dates for the Tour Auto
Sadly the end of COVID is not yet upon us, and this has led Peter Auto to take the decision, in accordance with all the towns along the way, to postpone the Tour Auto again this year. To have run on 19-24 April, the new date for the 30th running…
Schedule Changes for HERO
Leading classic rally promoter HERO-ERA was forced to substantially re-work its calendar for the spring and early summer in response to on-going COVID restrictions. The Flying Scotsman event for Pre-War cars, planned for April, has been cancelled for this year but will return in 2022. Meanwhile, the ever-popular Scottish Malts…
Stella Alpina
This has had the knock-on effect of causing organisers of the Stella Alpina rally, which was to take place on the new Mille Miglia dates, to move their date to 11-13 June. This year’s event, which is the 36th running, will be based in Madonna di Campiglio and take in…
Swiss Hillclimbing
For reasons that appear obvious, the Swiss have maintained a lively schedule of hillclimb events nearly from the beginning of the motor car itself, the first was in 1901. These include such giants as the Klausenrennen, first run in 1922 and considered to be the Nordschleife of the hillclimb world,…
XVII Rally Clásico Isla de Mallorca
The 17th edition of the Mallorcan Rally Classic took place on 11-13 March. Having been perhaps the last competitive event to take place just before the 2020 lockdown began – indeed it was actually cut short when the lockdown went into place – this year it was one of the…
Targa Tasmania – Anniversary Edition
Plans are well underway for the 30th edition of what organisers style as ‘the Ultimate Tarmac Rally’, which will take place in 2022, starting from the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Launceston, Tasmania, the same location from which the very first Targa cars departed back in 1992. Started by a…
The 1st Francorchamps Rallye Festival
After all the setbacks of 2020, the Belgian ASBL Spa Historic Racing Team has announced the creation of the Francorchamps Rallye Festival. An event similar to the Eifel Rallye Festival, Alsace Rallye Festival and Rallyspirit in Portugal, it will consist of a vast demonstration of historic rally cars in their…
Asphalt and Gravel – New Rally for Corsica
The new Scuderia Oriente, with the collaboration of Corsica superstars Dominique Savignoni, Yves Loubet and Sabrina de Castelli, has announced a new challenge, the first half asphalt and half gravel rally exclusively for Historic Competition (VHC) and Regularity (VHRS) competitors. The 1st Aleria Historic Rally will take place on 8-12…
Poland to Host the Final of 2021 FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies
The FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies has undergone a change in format in recent years and, instead of a list of point-scoring events, there are 17 qualifying events all around Europe with one final to decide the winner. This year the final will be held in Poland for the…
Madness in the Desert Dakar Classic
A new challenge for historic rally drivers was the Dakar Classic, a regularity event in the Saudi desert for cars up to the year 2000. Run in parallel with the madness that is the modern Dakar, which took place from 3-16 January, a reconnaissance team led by historic rally specialist…
39th Mille Miglia Storico
The 2021 Mille Miglia, the 39th revival event, will return to its traditional date, this year 12-15 May. Owners must register their cars at registro1000miglia.it. Only cars built before December 31, 1957, in original condition, restored in accordance to the original configuration, or with documented changes added during use, can…
Winter Event Falling by the Wayside
After the cancellation of the Dutch-organised Winter Trial, The Historic Endurance Rally Organisation was forced to abandon its planned Winter Challenge to Monte Carlo scheduled for February in light of on-going cross-border travel restrictions due to the Corona Virus. The Winter Challenge has been postponed for 12 months until February…
30 Years of the Tour Auto Revival
This year the Tour Auto, one of the earliest motoring events, which first ran in 1899, will mark its 30th anniversary as a revival event. Each year a special marque or model is selected to receive priority and special recognition during the five-day rally, and this year Peter Auto has…
Tour de Corse Historique
Pre-entries are now open for this five-day special stage rally on the roads of Corsica. With a unique atmosphere between competitors and spectators, the 2021 edition will follow a new 900km route, over 220kms of which are on 18 special stages. Entries are limited to 250, and include competition and…
FIA Rallies
On page 49 of our January/February issue, and on this website, you will find the 2021 historic rally calendar, including the FIA Championship dates for the Sporting Rally Championship, which undergoes a name change this year, and is to be officially known as the FIA European Historic Rally Championship. The…
Modena Cento Ore
Anniversary Edition Way back in April, when the Modena Cento Ore was postponed to 11-15 October, it seemed like an impossible dream, but the persistence of Luigi Orlandini and his team paid off when a reduced grid of 24 cars in the competition section and nine regularity competitors, as compared…
Carrera Panamericana
70th Anniversary Only 28 cars took the green flag at the start of the Carrera Panamericana on October 15 this year, among them were French, American and Canadian crews, who had managed to get to Mexico despite all the restrictions. Starting this year in Oaxaca, Studebakers, as usual, were favoured,…
Madonna di Campiglio
Entries are now open for the annual Winter Marathon regularity rally based in the resort of Madonna di Campiglio in the Italian Dolomites. It is due to run next year on 14-17 January. One of the unique features of this event is the race on the frozen lake on the…
Terre di Canossa
The 10th edition of the Gran Premio Terre di Canossa exploring the roads of Emilia and Tuscany came to a close on October 4 with a win for Alberto Aliverti and Stefano Valente driving an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS Zagato in less than ideal weather conditions for such an…