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French National Championships Rounds Four and Five
Historic Tour – Nogaro – Val de Vienne The whole of the French historic racing season has been condensed into three exciting months with round four taking place at Nogaro on 11-12 September and the fifth and final round running at Val de Vienne only two weeks later. With the…
Falkenberg Classic
The Falkenberg Classic, organised by Sweden’s Racerhistoriska Klubben together with the Sports Car Championship, welcomed 160 drivers at the Falkenberg circuit near Sweden’s south-east coast on 19-20 September for a further two rounds for each grid of the Swedish Championships. Bengt-Åce Gustavsson reports. Dead Heat in Falkenberg Talk of the…
Estoril Classics
The three-day Estoril Classics race meeting has been steadily gaining momentum over the past four years, with a winning formula involving 20-25 degree weather under a beautiful blue sky, an iconic circuit, built in 1972, that has seen all types of international racing, the beauty of the region, great food…
Castle Combe Autumn Classic
Stormtroopers Haddon and Wolfe win GTSCC classic Castle Combe’s ninth Autumn Classic should have been a special climax to the circuit’s 70th Anniversary celebrations on October 3-4. Coronavirus dictated a late start to the season, with initial events run without spectators, but just when car club members and enthusiasts (in…
The Swedes get Started
Mantorp Classic Festival Bengt-Åce Gustavsson reports on the first two race meetings of the Swedish season This year is like no other, and for the Swedish RHK historic racing cup, this has meant that this year’s first two competitions were postponed from spring to autumn (Kinnekulle and Karlskoga) and one…
French National Championships Rounds Two and Three
Historic Tour – Dijon – Charade What was meant to be a well-spaced calendar of five meetings, leaving a long summer break for “les vacances”, turned into an action-packed month of August when first, Historic Tour Dijon, the second in this year’s series, took place on 15-16 August, and Historic…
Thruxton Historic
Postponed from its original June date, Historic Promotions’ Thruxton Historic event delivered lashings of nostalgia on 15-16 August. An eclectic mix of cars – the oldest dating way back to the 1920s, when the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club, forerunner of the current BARC was in its pomp – entertained spectators…
Historic Grand Prix Zandvoort
Banking on the dunes In any other year, this season’s Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix would have run the risk of being labelled uninspiring, if not bland. But in fact, it was a kind of miracle. Here was a motorsport event that went ahead on its planned date (September 5-6), with…
Masters Historic Festival
Masters Racing made a triumphant return to Brands Hatch in late August with a programme full of drama and spectacle, says Rachel Harris-Gardiner Historic Formula One provided a mix of familiar cars, with some interesting newcomers, including former FIA Formula One World Championship racer, and Sky Sports F1 speaker, Johnny…
VSCC Mallory Park Formula Vintage
It’s been a while, but vintage racing was back, with the VSCC Formula Vintage race meeting at Mallory Park on 23 August. And what a way to start. Mallory Park is one of the UK’s most attractive venues, its twin lakes giving it a unique setting, think Interlagos transplanted to…
French Championships – Season Opener!
Historic Tour Postponed for three months but fortunately saved, the Historic Tour d’Albi (also called “3ème Grand Prix Historique d’Albi” this year) kicked off the French Historic Circuit Championships on 17-19 July with hope and relief for over 200 drivers. With the country still subject to “post-containment” health rules linked…
Master Historic Festival Donington
Paul Lawrence Reports Masters boldly took a date on the third weekend of the UK’s belated racing season and ran most of its key categories including F1, Historic Sports Cars and Endurance Legends. For both F1 and Historic Sports Cars, these were the first qualifying rounds for the 2020 FIA…
Dix Mille Tours
Postponed from its original April date the Dix Mille Tours event finally took place on the weekend 24-26 July under a glorious Provençal sun, launching the start of the 2020 Peter Auto season. The long wait meant that the resumption of racing was all the more appreciated by those…
48th AvD-Oldtimer Grand Prix
The 2020 AvD-Oldtimer-Grand- Prix, which took place in low-key pandemic conditions, was nonetheless a success for organisers and the drivers of some 300 cars. It wasn’t easy for the organisers, without whose hard work the event wouldn’t have happened. They were even given permission to accept 5000 spectators per day,…
Alfa Revival Cup – Imola
As in the UK, the weekend of 11-12 July saw the re-start for historic racing in Italy. Imola was the venue and, along with the first round of the Gruppo Peroni Italian Historic Championships, the Alfa Revival Cup cars were on the programme. Thirty cars for the Championship and 19…
Celebrating Colin McRae – Chester Rally Revival
Paul Lawrence Reports A new event to celebrate rallying heritage ran successfully but in a fairly low-key way at the end of February when the inaugural Chester Rally Revival marked the 25th anniversary of one of the biggest moments in the career of Colin McRae. The idea was to send…
Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motor Sport
Report by Neil Hammond Phillip Island’s annual Motor Sport Festival on 5-8 March again provided the country’s best historic race meet with, as usual, nearly 500 entries. While overseas entries were down compared to recent years, the gathering of cars from all parts of Australia was again the opportunity to…
Retromobile Paris
John Whiteman went to the top exhibition of the classic car world The event that kicks off the European season each year, Salon Retromobile, took place over 5 days, from 5-9 February, in the 75,000 square metres of Paris Expo at Porte de Versailles 44 years after it…
Taupo Historic Grand Prix
New Zealand Clean Sweep and Lap Record for Michael Lyons Visiting UK driver Michael Lyons (Lola T400) roared to an SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series clean sweep at the annual Taupo Historic GP on the weekend of 18-19 January, the series’ second meeting of the 2019-2020…
19th Passion For Speed – Zwartkops & Killarney, South Africa
South Africa’s historic racing scene is vibrant, colourful, relaxed and proudly independent of institutional red tape. The focus and cars are, in the main, very different from those in other theatres of warfare. They, not to mention the promise of winter sunshine, attract British, European and American competitors year after…