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FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 6: Rallye Weiz
Tibor Erdi claimed his third outright victory of the 2023 FIA European Historic Rally Championship season with a dominant performance on Rallye Weiz in Austria on 13-15 July. The Hungarian and his Croatian co-driver Istvan Kerék completed the 500kms of the rally, including 145kms of timed stages, to the acclaim…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 7: Lahti Historic Rally
Finnish World Rally Championship hero and Toyota GR World Rally Team principal Jari-Matti Latvala and his co-driver Enni Mälkönen claimed an emphatic victory in the FIA European Historic Rally Championship round in Finland on 11-12 August. Fresh from making his WRC return on the previous weekend’s Rally Finland at the…
Panda Raid
Regular readers may remember a short news item in our Bits and Pieces section in 2019 when everything was being cancelled due to COVID. We reported that Austin Healey specialist and historic racer Jeremy Welch and his daughter Arabella, got as far as southern Spain in a 4 x 4…
50 Years of the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix
On the weekend of 11-13 August, the Oldtimer Grand Prix celebrated its 50th anniversary edition with an extensive program. The first Oldtimer was held in 1973 and today, after the Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or in France, which was first run in 1964, it is the oldest historic racing event…
HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup
Decades before the current obsession with drifting – undeniably spectacular, yet utterly unfathomable tyre-frying folly to older generations – sliding cars gracefully through corners at the highest possible speed for the prevailing conditions brought success and adulation for racers who best mastered the art of balancing machines with more power…
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Every meeting seems to celebrate an anniversary or two these days, but Goodwood being Goodwood, its events recall more and on a grander scale than others. At this year’s Festival of Speed, held on 13-16 July (minus the loss of Saturday due high wind warnings), the spotlight fell on 100…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – 56th Mecsek Rally
Thomas Erdi Jr storms to victory on home event Playing their home ground advantage to the full and the sort of pace that has seen them challenge on every appearance this year, local hero Tibor Erdi Jnr and his Croatian co-driver Istvan Kerek won the Mecsek Rally outright in their…
30th Classic Marathon
After an epic five-day, 2000km drive on a mixed route of tarmac and gravel, from Slovenia to Croatia and Austria, and back to Bled in Slovenia, Mark and Sue Godfrey piloted their MGB to their third Classic Marathon victory on 18-23 June at the front of a field of 46…
La Centenaire du Mans Historique
Unless you have been living on Mars for the past year, you’ll know that this year is the one hundredth since the first Le Mans 24-hour event took place. Peter Auto decided this was going to be the big one, so, instead skipping an uneven year, the event took place…
Spa 3 Hours
Running without fanfare but with impressive consistency in the top six throughout the three hours, the Lotus Elan, driven by John Tordoff (father of former BTCC driver, Sam Tordoff) and Andrew Jordan, the 2013 BTCC champion, made its presence known in the final ten laps of the feature race at…
Karlskoga Velodromloppet Historic GP and Swedish Sports Car Meeting
The Swedish racing schedule featured two major RHK championship meetings in July before the long August break. The Historic Grand Prix at Gelleråsen Arena in Karlskoga attracted some 200 racers in first, tropical heat, and then typical Swedish midsummer rain, on 16-18 June, exactly 30 years after the first Velodrom…
HSCC Donington – Richards tops Formula Junior tree
Single seaters took centre stage for the HSCC’s fourth rendezvous of the season at Donington Park on 24-25 June, where sensational Historic Formula Junior and Formula Ford races of different flavours on a scorching weekend will long be talked about. Another topic of conversation among marshals, competitors and spectators was…
Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort
Beach Racers A very popular event with teams and competitors, the Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort gained yet more strength in its 2023 edition on 16-18 June as it was blessed by three days of hot summer weather, a capacity crowd of well over 25,000, and heaps of frantic racing…
From our July 2023 Issue Letter From the FIA
Dear Carol, I read Andy Prill’s letter in the May issue of Historic Motor Racing News and wish to comment. This is an answer from the FIA Head of Administration and Sporting Coordinator for circuit matters. Knowing where the FIA is headed will come down the line, but at the…
GRAND PRIX de L’AGE D’OR
There were bright summer conditions in Burgundy as the Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or, held at the old-school circuit of Dijon-Prenois, kicked off on the weekend of 3-4 June. France’s oldest historic race meeting attracted some 320 cars and over 16,000 spectators. For the drivers the 3.8km track presents a…
GTSCC at MGLive Silverstone
Dodds and Pearsons in thunderous GTSCC opener The MG Car Club brought a wide variety of racing – from the Pre-War Triple M Midgets to the spectacular Porsche 911 RSRs of Equipe 70s – to the Silverstone Historic Grand Prix circuit on June 11-12 for the MGLive event, with MG…
HSCC Silverstone International Trophy
Smith Marches to F2 double in Cheever’s 782 Marcus Pye reports on the HSCC Silverstone showpiece from the Woodcote commentary box, now consigned to history…. Formula 2 cars of the 1970s headlined the HSCC’s annual Silverstone International Trophy homage on May 27-28, on the 3.63-mile Historic Grand Prix circuit with…
RHK Premiere at Kinnekulle Ring
The Swedish National Historic Championship season kicked off at a sunny and dry Kinnekulle Ring on 27-28 May. Located in a fairly remote part of southern Sweden, the short, swooping 2km circuit is formed round a natural bowl that places a premium on handling and traction, rather than engine power. …
Aléria Historic Rally Capanaccia And Deveza – Double the Stakes
Frédéric Lombard Reports Dominique Savignoni, Sabrina De Castelli and ASA Restonica have seen their efforts rewarded this year, with their gravel rally in the Aléria region of Corsica becoming part of the French Gravel Rally Championship. With two rallies in the same week of 29 Mai, 3 June, the crews…
Rally de Asturias Histórico – FIA Historic Rally Championship – Round Three
The lush green landscape of Asturias in northern Spain was the setting for the third round of the FIA European and Spanish Historic Rally Championships. The 41 crews, (24 of them entered in the FIA Championship) faced 130kms of tarmac special stages over two days in the Rally de Asturias…