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American Speedfest
After an enforced absence in 2020 due to COVID, the popular American Speedfest returned to Brands Hatch, appropriately over the 4th of July weekend. This was the eighth running of the event which centres around the NASCAR sanctioned Whelan Euro Series (NWES). While most of the race programme is for…
Milestone for John Delane
Historic Formula One and Formula Junior competitor, John Delane, who you may have seen feature recently in our Heroes of Historic Motor Sport section, recently celebrated a milestone in his 34-year historic racing career, when he raced on his 100th different track. Delane has competed in over 412 events in…
THE MITTY
The Mitty? Wait, is it a person or a thing or more? Peter Falkner explains In 1977 the Atlanta Jaguar Society and its members wanted to “exercise” their cars at a track and did so for a couple of low key days at Road Atlanta. The next year the Ferrari…
1971 – BSH
The BSH is a Berlinetta designed by François Benais and Max Saint Hilaire who combined their initials to name it. Offered for sale as a kit or built-up car in 1970, this sports car, on a tubular frame, weighed in at just 600kg, and with running gear from the Renault…
Bentley Drivers Club Silverstone Silver Jubilee Times Trophy
The 50th anniversary of the Times Trophy race will be the centrepiece at the Bentley Drivers Club’s 73rd annual race meeting at Silverstone, on Saturday 7 August. The Times Trophy encounter, a Bentley scratch race incorporating a contest for pre-war cars, is the meeting’s blue riband event and will undoubtedly…
Two Laps of Le Mans
Rally organisers Rallystory have announced a unique opportunity for participants to drive two laps of the full Le Mans circuit. A tour with no competitive element on August 15th, the official test day for the 24 hours, entrants are offered breakfast and lunch at the Panoramic restaurant in a VIP…
Time to Pony Up for Monterey
The distinct unsilenced rumble of brute American muscle cars will be celebrated at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion on August 12-15 as Ford Motor Company presents ‘Ford in Trans Am – a 55th Anniversary’. Created by the Sports Car Club of America in 1966, the Trans Am series initially spotlighted…
Automobilia Monterey Cancelled for 2021
The international vintage automotive collectibles show, held each August as part of ‘Automobile Week’ in Monterey, California has been cancelled for what would have been its 18th year this summer, due to continuing Covid-19 governmental regulations, particularly restricting large indoor events. What does this mean for the many other festivities…
‘The Captain’ Roger Penske to be Celebrated at Goodwood
Former American driver and current championship team owner Roger Penske will be a focal point as he attends the 2021 Goodwood Festival of Speed on 8-11 July. Penske’s attendance comes as the event celebrates “The Maestros – Motorsport’s Great All-Rounders”, a theme consistently exemplified by Penske and his race teams. …
The World has Gone Austin 7 Mad!
The UK Pre-war trials season was able to make a delayed start in April with a rescheduled Exmoor Trial and Herefordshire Trial organised by the Vintage Sports-Car Club. Some serious racers took the opportunity to get some action on the muddy hills, trading the driving seat of some fearsome historic…
MSV Acquires Donington Hall Estate
MotorSport Vision (MSV) has purchased the freehold of the Donington Hall Estate comprising Donington Hall itself, former office building Hastings House and the Lansdowne workshops building. The estate is set in 28 acres of grounds next to the MSV operated Donington Park race circuit in the East Midlands. A magnificent…
Only for the Mundane
We have long admired the French for their unpretentious attitude to their cars and to our sport. They are not worried at all about turning up in a modest car and joining in, whether it be a rally, tour or concours, or even a race on a circuit. Indeed many…
Traversée de Paris – Only the French
In what has now become a solid tradition, French classic car owners turn up in their country’s capital twice a year, winter and summer, for the Traversée de Paris. This is a huge and joyful manifestation, made an even happier occasion this time, because it seemed right up to the…
Prescott Moves to Italy
Replacing the long-standing Vie en Bleu event that ran from 2011 until being cancelled last year due to COVID, and celebrated France and French motoring, Prescott Speed Hill Climb is launching a new all-Italian event as part of its 2021 season, ‘Prescott Italia’. Owned and operated by The Bugatti Owners…
International Concours of Elegance The ICE
Only run for one year in 2019, the concours d’elegance, staged on the frozen lake in St Moritz was one of the first COVID casualties last year when it was cancelled at the last minute in early February. Alas, the 2021 event, scheduled for the end of February, once again…
Mergers and Acquisitions – Cavalliono Classic
Canossa Events, who bring you the Terre de Canossa, Stella Alpina and Modena Cento Ore rallies, has acquired US based concours event and media company Cavallino Inc., organiser of the Cavallino Classic concours at Palm Beach Florida and publisher of the Cavallino Ferrari lifestyle magazine. Founded just ten years ago,…
Motogiro
2021 will be the 110th anniversary of the foundation of the Italian Motorcycle Federation and it will also mark the 30th anniversary of the Motogiro d’Italia, a re-evocation of the oldest and most prestigious Italian motorcycle test, first run in 1914. Organisers of the road rally for historic, and not…
British Historic Vehicle Surveys
The Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs has released one of its periodic surveys into the classic car world of the UK. The independent survey was carried out during 2020 and revealed that the market in, and enthusiasm for, classic cars is growing steadily. Amongst the findings are the fact…
What Price Stardom?
At Phillips’ December 12 Racing Pulse auction in New York, Paul Newman’s Rolex “Big Red” Daytona sold for $5.475 million to an anonymous private collector, the third highest price ever paid for a Rolex watch at auction. In the same sale, the Heuer Monaco watch that Steve McQueen wore while…
New HSCC Board Members
Racers Hugh Colman, Kevin Kivlochan, Ted Pearson and Andrew Warner have all been elected to join the Historic Sports Car Club board for 2021.acers Hugh Colman, Kevin Kivlochan, Ted Pearson and Andrew Warner have all been elected to join the Historic Sports Car Club board for 2021.