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Andy Gilmore Appointed CoC for Safari Classic
The East African Classic Safari Rally management has been re-enforcing its team and has recently announced that Andy Gilmore will be joining as Clerk of the Course for the 2025 event. “He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience that will make the 2025 event one of the…
Scotsman Lite
For 15 years, the Flying Scotsman rally has been a staple of the pre-war motoring experience. The next adventure will depart into the North Yorkshire Moors and scenic Yorkshire Dales as the route passes through the Pennines into Northumberland and onto an overnight halt in Newcastle; then heading through some…
Sahara Challenge
Starting in Malaga, Spain on Monday 23 September and finishing in Estepona, Spain, on Saturday 5 October after 4500 difficult kilometres, the HERO/ERA 2024 Sahara Challenge reached its end with Badawi Trail Champions, Jorge Perez Companc and Jose Volta scoring victory in their 1938 Chevrolet Coupe. The Argentine crew finished…
Winter Romania
Entries are now open for the ninth running of the Winter Romania Historic Rally, which runs through the Carpathians in Transylvania, one of the coldest regions of the country. Paul Lacombe and his team are working hard to concoct a new program for three days of racing in three loops…
(Another) New Class for Peking Paris
After the announcement last month of a new class for 4 x4 vehicles in next year’s Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, organisers HERO have extended the eligibility further to include a new, special Invitation Class category for pre-1985 two-wheel drive rally cars. The new category will be limited to five…
East African Safari Rally 2025
The Everest of competitive historic rallying, the East Africa Safari Classic is scheduled to run again for nine days in December 2025. The event has its roots in the original East African Safari Rally, which was first held in 1953 to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In 2003,…
CARRERA BAVARIA
Excellent E-type The fifth in Rally the Globe’s Carrera series produced both familiar and first time winners. Simon and Juanita Brien took top honours in a fiercely contested Classic category in their lovely 1963 Jaguar E-type, while the Pre-War category was dominated by Martin and Olivia Hunt in their 1937…
Rally of The Tests
Known to be one of the toughest events out there, the 22nd running of the RAC rally of the tests will take place this year on 7-10 November starting from Darlington and spending two nights in the Scottish Lowlands before the finish in Cumbria, on the edge of the Pennines….
Gravel Romania Cancelled
Sadly, the Gravel Romania Historic rally, which was to take place on 17-21 June in the beautiful Carpathian region, has been cancelled due to lack of entries. As of mid-May, only 14 entries had been received, and organiser Paul Lacombe and his team deemed it was better to cancel the…
New Lease of Life for Rallye Neige et Glace
Zoulou Racing Heritage, new organiser of the Rallye Neige et Glace and the Trophée des Alpes, will be entrusting JBR Events with the sporting management of both rallies. From next year, the 70th Rallye Neige et Glace and the 7th Trophée des Alpes, relaunched in September 2025 with a new…
2024 Silver Fern
Entries are now open for the 2024 Silver Fern Rally New Zealand. A seven-day epic, starting in Christchurch and finishing on the shores of Lake Wakatipu in a picture postcard summary of New Zealand’s topography and heritage, past International Silver Fern Rally winners include Andrew Cowan, Hannu Mikkola, Jimmy McRae,…
2024 Tour Auto
From the very first Tour Auto revival in 1992, a feature of the event was an exhibition of the cars in central Paris before the ‘official’ start, the first year in the Trocadero overlooking the Tour Eifel. This has become more of a feature than ever, moving indoors to the…
14th Maroc Historic Rally
Memorable Victory for Auriol, ‘Le Lutin De Millau’ For its 14th edition since its revival in 2010 by Corsican driver Yves Loubet and the motorsports club ‘Le Grand Maghreb’, it must be noted that there was no 13th edition as well as no 13th special stage. The number 13 was banned…
History-Making Generation Rally Ladies First
The third running of Rally the Globe’s Generations Rally proved every bit as popular and successful as the two previous editions of an event established specifically to spread the passion for historic motorsport to a younger age group. What’s more, the 23-25 March event made history not only with the…
British Historic Rally Championship Severn Valley Stages
Seb Perez and Gary McElhinney took their Porsche 911 to a convincing Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship victory in the Rallynuts Severn Valley Stages on 13 April. Battling with BHRC newcomer and former British Rally Champion Mark Higgins during the day, Perez scored four fastest times from seven stages,…
Generation Rallying, or Welch’s Panda Adventures
Last September we reported historic racer and preparer Jeremy Welch’s adventures on the Panda Raid, which he did with 20-year-old daughter Arabella. This year it was younger daughter Emily’s turn to head to Morocco with her dad to spend six days travelling over 1200kms of Morocco’s toughest off-road terrain including…
Balade des Legend Boucles Bastogne 2024
The two-day Legend Boucles @ Bastogne 2024 was completed in early February with a third win for Stefan Stouf and Joris Erard (Escort Mk2) after the Escort of first-day leaders, Ghislain de Mévius and Johan Jalet, suffered a broken rear axle on day two’s second stage. Now it is the…
The Pearl of India
Heaving overcrowded metropolises where people live cheek by jowl and space is at a premium, traffic jams that put our European roads to shame, but also incredible architecture, vast open spaces, nature, mysticism and spirituality are all attributes of the seventh largest country in the world. HERO’s upcoming 20-day, long-distance…
Tour de Corse Historique, the Year of the Lancia 037
Star of the film Race for Glory (currently in cinemas), the mythical Lancia 037 Group B car was also one of the great attractions of the last Rétromobile show, as a reminder that 40 years ago, this model won in France what remains the last victory of a rear-wheel-drive car…
Gravel Romania
For those who like a rally based on speed, Gravel Romania Historic Rally offers challenges galore, with varied terrain over long stages in a compact five-day event. On a route of just over 1100kms in total, nearly 400kms are at speed in 27 special stages, all on loose surface. Run…