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FIA Medicals in 2021- Relaxation of Regulations
Around Europe ASNs are doing their best to renew competition and officials’ licences under favourable conditions, as many of them went unused last year due to cancellations and travel restrictions. In France, for example competition race licence holders that didn’t race last year will have their licences automatically renewed for…
Who is it?
Our caption competition published in the September issue did not elicit one response, not even a wild guess. Where is your sense of adventure? For those of you who have been trying to figure it out we apologise if it was just a little too obscure. The correct answer is…
Salon Privé Concours d’Élégance
This year’s Salon Privé attracted a record number of entries to the grounds of the elegant Blenheim Palace on 22-26 September for the prestigious Concours d’Élégance. It was the first automotive event in the world to use the Liber app, which has been developed for major event organisers to ensure…
United Autosports Historics
The success of United Autosports on both sides of the Atlantic at Daytona and Sebring, in the British GT Championship, in the European and Asian Le Mans series, running drivers such as Fernando Alonso, Juan Pablo Montoya, Lando Norris and former DTM Champion Paul Di Resta is probably well-known to…
Monterey
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), organisers of Daytona 24 Classic and Sebring Classic 12 Hour, amongst many others, has been named the new sanctioning body of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (WRLS). The previous sanctioning body was the Historic Motor Sports Association. In the new multi-year…
Bentley Recreations
The Blower Continuation Series is a run of 12 newly-built recreations of one of the most famous Bentleys of all time – the supercharged 4½-Litre ‘Blower’ Bentley raced by Sir Tim Birkin in the late 1920s. Forming the world’s first pre-war continuation series, Bentley Motors is creating 12 cars amid…
King of Cool
From our Editor.. We have a pretty active Facebook group, the members of which are historic motor sport enthusiasts from all the corners of the world, and I always look forward to reading their posts. I saw a post by Ian McAlpine that I loved and decided to share it…
Competition
It’s a race meeting. Who is it and where is she? Bonus question: What Year? Hint: If you stood in the same spot today you’d find that not much has changed since this photo was MAGAZINE > BITS & PIECES > Competition
FFSA Announcement on Measures to Help French Motorsport
In order to support the organisations and the involvement of men and women volunteers in the field, the FFSA Steering Committee on July 29, 2020 decided on the following measure: “Volunteers holding a license in 2020 will be offered the same license in 2021, subject to meeting the delivery conditions…
New Chairman for the HSCC
After the resignation of Frank Lyons, following his conviction by the UK’s governing body for cyberbullying, the Historic Sports Car Club members have elected Roger Bevan as their new Chairman. Bevan, who is finally stepping down from racing his ex-Emerson Fittipaldi Lotus 69 F2 car, is already the man behind…
Final Call on 2019/2020 Tasman Series – Michael Collins is Champion
Since he joined the NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series in 2017, dynamic young Christchurch driver Michael Collins (Leda LT27) has been tipped as a likely overall series’ title winner. And that is exactly what the 24-year-old now is, as the New Zealand Formula 5000 Association decided to call the…
Shelsley Re-opens
A second weekend of 2020 track action took place at Shelsley Walsh with two meetings over the weekend of 8-9 August. The annual Vintage VSCC day was held on Saturday and was followed by the Reg Phillips Trophy meeting on Sunday, as drivers got back in the seat and sharpened…
Organisers Fall on Hard Times
While Club racing is restarting all over Europe and the US, those events that rely on large club and spectator participation have virtually all been cancelled for 2020. From Monterey to Goodwood, from Silverstone Classic to le Mans Classic, all have fallen victim to COVID. These are the very events…
From our June 2020 Letters Section, From Simon Hadfield
Dear Carol, Strange days these, I trust all is well with you. Just to pick up on an article in the May HMRN about lap times, your correspondent interestingly takes my time from the last time I raced a T70 at Goodwood to make his comparison. The point is that…
From our June 2020 Letters Section, From Nick Atkins
Dear Carol Thank you for producing a very enjoyable magazine at a time when there is nothing substantial to report. John Hopwood’s article in the May issue on technical developments in historic motorsport is very well balanced and in my opinion the directions that he proposes and the questions that…
From Our July 2020 Letters Section, From Louis Quiniou
Dear Carol, Thanks for the link of the May issue of HMRN, very funny article about the Reykjavik GP, a good read. About Peter Collins’ article entitled The Time and Space Continuum, if of any interest to you, I started a lap time analysis back in the days I was…
From Our July 2020 Letters Section From Joel Wykeham
Faster Now Than Then? Not Faster Than an Arrows Dear Carol, Peter Collins’ excellent piece in the April issue about the relative speed differential of some cars now and in period, reminded me of the well documented case of the Arrows A4 F1 car. In 1982 this basically sound but…
Coyote and Peter Auto
Historic motor racing, even if it could be described as a leisure activity, is a branch of motor sport that has to comply with regulations ensuring the safety of all those involved. In particular, the regs impose the deployment of a safety car in the case of an accident or…
Silver Fern set for NZ North Island
The promoters of the Silver Fern Rally in New Zealand have confirmed more details of the November 2020 marathon rally. The rally will be based in Rotorua and will start on Sunday November 22 before finishing back there on Saturday 28. Overnight halts will be in Gisborne, Napier, Palmerston North…