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Rallye Monte-Carlo
Though some things have changed much will be the same on next year’s Historic Monte, which takes place on 30 January – 3 February. Though organisers have foregone the multi-national starting points in 2021 after the trauma of this year’s COVID epidemic, the challenge will be as tough as ever…
Championnat de France des Rallyes VHC
Bumper entries mark the resumption of the French rally season Rallye de la Châtaigne After the long break between the Touquet Pas-de-Calais rally in March, and the second round of the French Historic Rally Championship, the Rallye de la Châtaigne finally got under way on 19-21 August. The 2020 edition…
Tour Auto
Three Cheers for Favaro Jean-Marie Biadatti reports The 29th edition of the Tour Auto Optic 2000 had to be postponed to September because of the pandemic and the continuing health situation led some competitors to withdraw at the last minute. There were nevertheless 195 competitors still at the start, with…
Truck Champion Aims for Peking-Paris
Former British Truck Racing champion Richard Walker is starting preparations for his biggest motor sport challenge to date, as he embarks on a project to contest the Peking-Paris Rally in 2022. Walker, a multiple truck racing champion, has most recently contested a few races in a Lotus Cortina with his…
BHRC schedule changes for 2021
The organisers of the Motorsport UK British Historic Rally Championship have come up with a significantly altered calendar for 2021 after losing this year’s championship to the COVID-19 pandemic. Championship manager Colin Heppenstall, from the Roger Albert Clark Rally Motor Club, says he has deliberately opted for events that are…
Rally Round
We were surprised to find the following message in our inbox from Liz Wenman in mid-July. Rally Round is no longer running international car rallies or driving adventures, a decision has been prompted mainly by the situation of the global pandemic but also it is time to enjoy my fabulous…
Canossa Events North America
Well known Italian events Company, Canossa, organisers of regularity rallies such as the Stella Alpina and Terre di Canossa, and competitive rallies, such as the Modena Cento Ore, have announced a series of North American, small-group road-trip excursions, starting with the Fall Rallye New England in October. In 2019 US-based…
Rally Weiz Cancelled
After all the work put in by everyone to salvage the FIA Championship, the Rally Weiz, originally postponed, has had to be cancelled for 2020 after all. “The sports scene in Austria still has the annoying Corona virus in its power. So much so that the organisers of the Rally…
French Historic Rally Championship
The FFSA has done a great job of saving the 2020 French National Historic Rally Championship, which, despite the long interruption will still consist of seven rounds. With the Touquet rally already run in March before lockdown, the rest of the season is scheduled to run as follows: Championnat de…
British Historic Rally Championship Cancelled
In another blow for beleaguered British rallying, this year’s Motorsport UK British Historic Rally Championship has been cancelled. Championship promoter Colin Heppenstall had been hoping to run a shortened three-round championship in the later part of the year but the announcement that the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire, scheduled for 25-16 September,…
The Winter Challenge is Launched
HERO-ERA has launched the 2021 Winter Challenge to Monte Carlo, scheduled to run from 7 to 11 February from a start in Reims. The organisers expect that COVID-19 restrictions will not impact the five-day event, which promises a top quality route and winter rallying at its best, as crews tackle…
La Carrera
On July 29, 1937, in the latter years of the Great Depression, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Canada, and the United States signed the Convention on the Pan-American Highway, whereby they agreed to achieve speedy construction, by all adequate means, of…
UK Finally gets Rally Go-Ahead
It may have taken a little bit longer compared to other disciplines, but 115 days since the COVID-enforced sabbatical, rallying was given the go-ahead in the UK starting on 11 July. As it stands, single and multi-venue, closed road, navigational and road rallies will now begin to resume under the…
Tour de Corse Historique
Plans are pushing ahead for the 20th edition of the Tour de Corse Historique, which will run from 5-10 October on the Mediterranean island. With an expected entry of 200 cars, the event will take in 20 closed-road special stages covering 350km of competitive rallying over five days. The…
Gravel Romania Historic Rally
Postponed from its original date of 15-20 June, Paul Lacombe and his team have set the new date of 27-31 October for the 2nd Gravel Romania Rally. For cars up to 1990, the event offers a five day route that includes 24 gravel stages in the forests of Transylvania, for…
Rally Monte-Carlo Historique 2021
Dates for the 2021 edition of the popular historic Monte have been set for 27 January-3 February with only one starting point. In the post-pandemic world, organisers of this major endurance regularity rally have decided that all competitors will start and end in Monte Carlo. They have written to authorities…
Historic Portugal Rally Confirmed
The last uncertainties have been resolved and the organisers of the 2020 Rally de Portugal Histórico confirm their event will take place on the originally scheduled dates of 5-10 October. The 15th edition of this rally, considered by many to be “the most beautiful European regularity rally”, offers a route…
RallyLegend Gets Go-Ahead
Despite it usually attracting large international crowds, Vito Piarulli and Paolo Valli, the creators of RallyLegend, have decided to go ahead with the event on 8-11 October. “The support we’ve received both from the Government of the San Marino Republic and our sponsors has been crucial to us deciding to…
British Championship Succumbs to COVID
One of Britain’s most popular historic rally championships, the HRCR Clubmans Championship, is the latest victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although two rounds were run in February and March before the lockdown started, many rounds have now been cancelled and with only two possible events remaining on the calendar, the…
Balkan Classic Moves to Northern Poland for 2020
The revised Balkan Classic rally is set to run in the last half of September, with final dates still to be announced. Due to restrictions in its usual venue in Bulgaria, and in consideration of other pandemic-related difficulties, organiser Alexander Kovatchev has announced that the rally, for cars up to…