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HSCC Donington
The normally popular HSCC Donington weekend on 18-19 June offered 22 races over two days and if the grids were not as full as some previous years, then they were still holding up well. With a largely wet Saturday and dry Sunday, those with a race on each day could test their driving in both conditions. For four laps one time Euro Series champion Adrian Reynard led the Historic FF2000 race driving one of his very own cars and looking very impressive, but it was regulars Ben Simms and Graham Fennymore who eventually took victory in both races in that order.
Le Mans Classic
Four years since the last time, including a nearly-moment in 2020, Peter Auto’s Classic Le Mans, now legendary in its own right, exploded into action with over 600 cars entered in a plethora of races to compete on the hallowed, mostly public roads, of La Sarthe. Back in the sixteenth century Christopher Marlowe must have been prescient, when in Dr Faustus he writes, ‘Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it….the stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, the devil come….’ There is much to Le Mans that is unique, but time is almost bent during this event.
Snetterton Historic 200
Entries may have been small across promoter Motor Racing Legends core grids for the first Snetterton Historic 200 event on 16-17 July, but quality action embroiling wonderful cars, with strong HRDC supports, entertained an unusually large spectator turnout. With focus, Duncan Wiltshire’s organisation and MotorSport Vision, owner of the venue which hosted non-championship F1 races in the early 1960s, could be grown into something really special. Marcus Pye Reports..
Spa Summer Classic
The annual Spa Summer Classic own the weekend of 24-26 June was a major event for fans of historic motorsport, perfectly organised by the Roadbook team led by Vincent Collard. It wouldn’t be Spa-Francorchamps if the drivers weren’t treated to rain over the weekend and as expected, it was prominent on Friday and Sunday with heavy showers, while Saturday stayed dry. Once again, it managed to attract a wide variety of historic racing cars. Big starting grids provided the necessary spectacle, culminating in the main three-hour race on Saturday evening.
Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix
In 2020, the Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort proved to be the only international historic event that went on like nothing had happened, but a year later Covid forced it to run the event behind closed doors. This year, Masters and the Historic Grand Prix Car Association were back and found themselves pleasantly surprised by a 25,000-strong attendance delivering a cool paddock vibe. Three days of bright sunshine helped as well.
Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix
In 2020, the Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort proved to be the only international historic event that went on like nothing had happened, but a year later Covid forced it to run the event behind closed doors. This year, Masters and the Historic Grand Prix Car Association were back and found themselves pleasantly surprised by a 25,000-strong attendance delivering a cool paddock vibe. Three days of bright sunshine helped as well.
Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix
In 2020, the Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort proved to be the only international historic event that went on like nothing had happened, but a year later Covid forced it to run the event behind closed doors. This year, Masters and the Historic Grand Prix Car Association were back and found themselves pleasantly surprised by a 25,000-strong attendance delivering a cool paddock vibe. Three days of bright sunshine helped as well.
XXXI Tour Auto: Belgium 3 – France 1
After two years of displacement by the pandemic, the Tour Auto returned this year to its usual April date, from 24 to 30, for an unprecedented route that led 230 competitors (132 in competition and 98 in regularity) from Paris to Andorra via La Baule, Limoges, Bordeaux and Pau. Among…
Donington Historic Festival
Exceptional Duncan Hamilton ROFGO Group C1 and U2TC races highlighted Motor Racing Legends’ 11th Donington Historic Festival on April 30-May 1. As spectators and car clubs were welcomed back to MotorSport Vision’s east midlands outpost – the event resumed behind closed doors last year – hardcore enthusiasts who arrived in…
Vintage Montlhéry
John Whiteman visited the biennial event for vintage vehicles of all kinds…
The Vintage Revival was first held at the historic Linas-Montlhéry circuit south of Paris in 1998 organised by the great French Anglophile Jacques Potherat in time to celebrate 75 years since the opening of the circuit. Sadly, Jacques died in 2001 shortly after the fourth event. By this time the venue was under threat of closure by owners UTAC, the French motor industries vehicle testing and type approval agency and the outlook for any more events looked bleak.
Bosch Hockenheim Historic
Spring-like weather conditions contributed to an epic 17th edition of the Bosch Hockenheim Historic – Jim Clark Revival on the weekend of 6-8 May. Some 30,000 motorsport fans, finally released from all the COVID restrictions, flocked to the Hockenheimring to enjoy a range of races and demonstrations over the three-day…
Grand Prix de Monaco Historique 2022
Now in its 13th year, the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique is one of the most important and popular events on the international historic racing calendar, and many said that this year’s was better than ever. It seems a long time ago when, in 1997, the ACM decided to organise…
HSCC International Trophy – Silverstone GP
Smith’s March 782 victorious at ‘Cheeverstone
Silverstone was American Eddie Cheever’s happiest hunting ground before his 1996 Indianapolis 500 victory. In 1975, at 17, he won two British Formula 3 races there in six days driving a Modus, then in ‘79 he aced the International Trophy – a European F2 championship round – in the factory Osella-BMW on Pirelli wets.
Records fall at VSCC Wiscombe Hillclimb
Botus Fleming reports.
Despite a four-hour hiatus while Terry Crabb’s damaged ERA R12C was extricated from the forested upper reaches of the course under police con-trol, two records fell when the Vintage Sports-Car Club resumed its annual hillclimb – round two of its Speed Championship, which opened at Curborough the previous weekend – at Wiscombe Park on Sunday, May 8.
Three out of Three for Collins at Skope Classic
50 Years after McRae and Hawthorne A little over 50 years ago, in 1972, the late, great Graham McRae drove his then new Leda ‘GM1 001’ Formula 5000 single-seater to a dominant victory in the Lady Wigram Trophy race on a temporary circuit at Christchurch’s Wigram Air Force Base in…
2022 FIA Historic Rally Championship Round 1 70th Rally Motul Costa Brava
With past postponements and other restrictions well and truly behind us, more than 170 cars from across Europe started the Rally Costa Brava on 17-20 March, celebrating the 70th edition of the event. There were victories for Pascal Perroud and Denis Giraudet, who topped the results sheets of this first…
ESPÍRITU DE MONTJUÏC
A mixed bag Drivers flying out to Barcelona in the hope of a season-opener under the Spanish sun were slightly disappointed as the Iberian peninsula proved unable to escape the cold spell that froze the entire continent on the first weekend of April. The end result was a bit of…
French Championships Round 1 Historic Tour Magny-Cours
The eighth edition of the French Historic Circuit Championships (Historic Tour) opened the season at Nevers Magny-Cours on March 25-27, with an encouraging number of entries that included some 15% foreign drivers. The 10 championship grids, bringing together 14 separate Challenges, Championships or Trophies, with guest grids from Colmore YTCC…
French Championships Round 2 Historic Tour Lédenon
Three weeks after the season opener at Magny-Cours, Easter weekend saw the second round of the FFSA French Historic Championships take place on the undulating Lédenon circuit in high summer conditions, with temperatures approaching 30 degrees. This represented a return to this southern circuit, as the final round of…
HSCC Season Opener Brands Hatch
Smith Leads Formula Atlantic Comeback Fifty-one years after Australian Vern Schuppan – the future Formula 1 racer and Porsche Le Mans winner – won the inaugural British Formula Atlantic race at Brands Hatch in a Palliser chassis, a Historic iteration brought a new flavour to the HSCC’s season-opener on the…