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Castle Combe record-breaker a Classic!
Bathed in sunshine, Castle Combe’s 12th Autumn Classic on 23 September was the best yet. A paddock jam packed with superb competition cars from 1951 to 1977 was a promising start, but a new Ferrari double-header, spirited racing across the card, a 75 years of Lotus celebration, an 18-piece big…
Dijon Motors Cup
A cocktail of historic and modern racing, this year’s Dijon Motors Cup, run in sunny October weather, was classed as a success by organiser Laurent Vallery-Masson. Amongst the seven invited foreign grids HSCC F2 was the top series, with SuperSixties and YTCC visiting from the Netherlands, while the Protos pre-90…
National Swedish Historic Racing Championship Finale Falkenberg Classic
For almost 20 years, Racerhistoriska Cupen (RHK National Historic Championship) and Sportvagnsmästerskapet (Sportscar Championship) have run a joint final race meeting at Falkenberg, and this year’s edition gathered over 200 starters in lovely late summer weather for some great racing. Bengt-Åce Gustavsson sent us this report… As usual Formula Vee…
SuperSpa
The second edition of Super Spa, (motto ‘not all heroes wear capes’) on 6-7 October was the third event organised this year by Roadbook at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Drivers were to get plenty of track time with Friday given over to testing, and on Saturday free practice sessions and qualifying…
International St. Moritz Automobile Week
The initiative, that started when a group of local friends decided to revive an event that took place in 1929 and 1930 in Switzerland’s Engadin Valley, initially with a hillclimb on the Bernina Pass, has grown into an international celebration of the motor car comprising a week of rallies, tours,…
Monterey Car Week
Every year since 1950 a world-famous automobile gathering has taken place in the spectacular setting of the Monterey Peninsula. The Pebble Beach Road Races, originally run through Del Monte Forest and subsequently transferred to the permanent circuit of Laguna Seca, and its accompanying Pebble Beach Concours, have been a mainstay…
Tabac Classic GP Assen
The TT Circuit in Assen hosted the second edition of the TABAC Classic GP at the beginning of September over three sunny days with almost tropical temperatures. Two renowned stars from the world championship for 500cc motorcycles and full starting fields of historic racing cars guaranteed a successful event. Both…
Anderstorp Race Festival It’s Raining Again…
This year’s fourth round of the Swedish Historic Championships was run at a wet Anderstorp, but unlike last year, most of the rain fell during free practice and qualifiers, while most races were run on a dry, or drying track. It was 50 years since the first World Championship race…
Nürburgring 1000km The Long and Winding Road
Nürburgring and Nordschleife. There is no other combination of words in motorsport that evokes the same level of excitement and awe. In order to maximize that excitement, the promotors of the Youngtimer Trophy, arguably the continent’s most successful historic touring car series, decided to add a 1000km race around the…
GOODWOOD REVIVAL Glorious Goodwood at 75
Goodwood’s 75th anniversary and the 25th Revival Meeting since 1998 – pandemic-torn 2020’s was cancelled – cued massive celebrations on September 8-10, with Spitfires reminding onlookers of the fabled motor circuit’s wartime past. The 11th Duke of Richmond & Gordon, whose boyhood dream to reopen the track with the social…
Dix Mille Tours
The 13th edition of Peter Auto’s Dix Mille Tours at the Paul Ricard circuit in southern France saw nearly 25,000 spectators enjoying a profusion of entertainment, activities and exhibitions amongst a gathering of some 460 collector’s cars and 348 racing cars on track, as Peter Auto’s slick and professional organisation…
Silverstone Festival 25-27 August
It started in 1991 as the Christie’s Historic International Festival, then morphed into the Coys Historic Festival, then for many years it was the Silverstone Classic. Now set on a date a month later, it has reverted to the Silverstone Festival title, perhaps to better encompass the many other activities…
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…