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Tour de Corse Historique 2021
Home run for Casanova Frédéric Lombard Reports For 21 years, the Tour de Corse Historique has become a must-do event in historic rallying, and many drivers, some of whom have a prestigious track record, eagerly return each year to its mythical special stages. This year a record 330 crews, 162…
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…
Happy Few Racing to Become Happy Many – Gran Trofeo – the Biggest Rally in the World
Rally organiser Laurent Blomet, founder of Happy Few Racing – which specialises in family rallies, for father and daughter, father and son, mother and son, etc. – has launched a new app that allows anyone to participate in regularity rallies across Europe and even compete against one another. With…
Monte-Carlo Historique
Details of the route for the 24th edition of Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique have been unveiled and the event will feature the return of concentration legs, with three famous cities on the starting options: Bad Homburg, Milan and Reims. There will be three different routes to Monte-Carlo. This move was directed…
Costa Brava Històric
The other Costa Brava Rally, a regularity event run by the same organisation, will keep to its traditional late September date, this year 30 September-3 October. A qualifying event for the FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies, the route offers a total of 28 Regularity stages over approximately 1,000 kilometres…
Record Entry for the Rally Costa Brava
The 69th Rally Costa Brava will be held on 19-20 November 2021 in Girona. The oldest rally in Spain and one of the most important historic rally events in Europe, the Costa Brava is normally the opening event on the FIA historic rally calendar. However this year it was postponed…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship Rounds Four and Five
Rallye Weiz After making its debut on the calendar in 2019, the Rallye Weiz in Austria returned to host Round 4 of the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship on 15-17 July. Taking place in the town of Weiz, 30km from Graz and 190km southwest of the Austrian capital, the…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship Rounds Four and Five
Rallye Weiz After making its debut on the calendar in 2019, the Rallye Weiz in Austria returned to host Round 4 of the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship on 15-17 July. Taking place in the town of Weiz, 30km from Graz and 190km southwest of the Austrian capital, the…
Classic Marathon
After a hiatus of more than a year, HERO staged its first international rally, the Classic Marathon, a six-day adventure that covered a 2200km route through north-west Spain and Portugal. With changing legislation in various countries right up to the eve of the event, it took no small effort for…
Full House for the Tour de Corse
Such is the fame of the Historic Tour de Corse, the organisers took just a few weeks to fill the entry list in the three eligible categories: VHC (historic racing cars), VHRS (sporting regularity) and Legend (on show no timing), for the 2021 event. More than 300 cars and their…
Stella Alpina
The 36th Stella Alpina tribute rally was held on June 11-13 on a route crossing 10 spectacular mountain passes and driving past six picturesque Alpine lakes. With the majestic beauty of the Dolomites providing the backdrop for 65 time trials and six average speed stages, 12 time checks, and a…
BHRC reduced to three rounds
The 2021 British Historic Rally Championship will now run over just three events following the cancellation of what would have been the opening two rounds of a shortened five-round season. The Harry Flatters Rally (25 July) and the Plains Rally (14 August) were both due to run in Wales but…
Mille Miglia 2021
Having previously won with Andrea Guerini (twice) on the notes, then last year with his father Roberto, Andrea Vesco, this time with Fabio Salvinelli, took his fourth Mille Miglia victory, once again driving his 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Super Sport. The time-distance contest ran counter-clockwise this year on 16-19…
FIA Historic Rally Championship – 54th Mecsek Rallye
A heatwave in Hungary saw the preliminaries for the 54th Mecsek Rallye, round three of nine in the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship, take place in 39 degree temperatures. With promises of storms to come, the 24-26 June event started as dark clouds gathered over the first stage. Heavy rain…
Motor Sport Legend Joins Rally the Globe
Rally the Globe has enlisted motor sport legend Ari Vatanen as its first Club President. Now aged 69, the illustrious Finn was rally World Champion in 1981 and amongst other rallying successes won the Paris Dakar Rally no fewer than four times. He was a part of the mythic Group…
Terre di Canossa 2021
The Beauty of Historic Italy Gianmario Fontanella and Anna Maria Covelli won the 11th Terre di Canossa, which took place on 20-23 May, in a 1927 Lancia Lambda Spider. After two and a half days of tough tests alternating with picturesque stops at sites of historical interest, passing through historic…