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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…
F5000
NZ Tasman Revival Cup – Round 1 Local fans of New Zealand’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series had two of their own to cheer on at the opening round of the 2019/20 series at Feilding’s Circuit Chris Amon Manfeild. One – Tim Rush – is a…
Classic 24 Hours of Daytona
The 2019 Classic 24 Hours at Daytona presented by IMSA was held on 13-17 November on the 3.56-mile road course at the famous Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Peter Falkner Reports from the North American ‘Temple of Speed’ Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) conceived the idea back in 2014…
Historic Tour du Val de Vienne
The final round of the French Historic Championships took place at the 3.7km circuit at Le Vigeant in western France. There were still five candidates for the two French titles, so the weekend of 26-27 October was to be decisive. In the ‘Monoplaces/Protos’ contest, Arnaud Dousse (Van Diemen in Formula…
Estoril Classics
The revived Estoril event, first started by Francisco Santos of GP do Porto fame, and now run by Diogo Ferrao’s Race Ready organisation, proved itself again a great success as part of what the local Municipality is billing “Estoril Classics Week”. Classics Week kicked off with the Rally Portugal Historica,…
Dix Mille Tours Circuit Paul Ricard
Marco Zanello Reports Not everyone remembers it, but it is at the Paul Ricard Circuit that several years ago the format that the French organiser has so successfully brought to the some of the world’s most important circuits was first tested. This year was the 10th running of the Dix…
Algarve Classic Festival
The Algarve Classic Festival is a most agreeable finale to the European historic racing season. Rain or shine, sometimes both, southern Portugal is warm in late autumn and the sensational Autodromo Internacional, opened in 2008, is a favourite among drivers and teams. This year’s event – promoted by Diogo Ferrao’s…
Monza Historic
Act Six Monza Historic, sixth and penultimate act of the 2019 Peter Auto opera, performed on some of the most famous European stages, brought many expectations for the weekend of 20-22 September. The Autodromo Nazionale di Monza is one of the stages on which every motorsport actor likes to shine,…