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Algarve Classic Festival – A soggy season finish
They came for a relaxed meeting in the sun but instead their season-closer proved challenging in many respects – and not just meteorologically. The Algarve Classic Festival turned into a soggy affair that became a struggle with the timetable and a handful for the drivers, although many enjoyed the slippery…
Deux Tours d’Horloge 2021
Joel Wykeham joined the Sleep Shelby Racing Team for an attempt on the first Historic 24 Hours race in nearly 10 years. L’Automne en Provence Competitors were greeted with all the beautiful autumn colours in the vineyards around Le Castellet as the Circuit Paul Ricard was bathed in low November…
MRL Silverstone GP Meeting
Cottingham/Girardo win at Snakes and Listers The second Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall Cup race for Pre-‘61 sports racers and Pre-‘66 GT and Touring cars, over three hours on Silverstone’s Historic Grand Prix circuit, ended Motor Racing Legends’ season in style on October 31. After a spin at Luffield on…
Jerez Historic Festival Andalusian Summer
For decades, it was usual that the international historic motor racing circus would annually retreat to the Iberian Peninsula for a sunny holiday bookended by a couple of race meetings. COVID-19 put an end to that relaxing tradition, but in 2021 it made a glorious comeback. With some having already…
Goodwood Members’ Meeting
Members and Maestros make Magic at Goodwood Marcus Pye Reports Not in the history of the second-tier events at Goodwood – under the British Automobile Racing Club’s banner from August 1949 to July 1966, and GRRC-badged from the spring of 2014 – had a Members’ Meeting been staged as late…
Alfa Revival Cup – Fifth and Final Round – Mugello
For Alfa Romeo cars built from 1947 to 1981, the final race of the Alfa Revival Cup season took place on the weekend of 15-17 October at the beautiful flowing circuit of Mugello with 29 cars on the grid. It was a weekend in which not only were the overall…
Classic 24 Daytona
The Classic 24, which ran for the seventh time this year on 28-31 October, is the brainchild of Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) based in Clearwater Florida. Such is the 59-year lore of the official 24 hours of Daytona (now The Rolex 24 at Daytona), it is easy to see the…
French Championships – Historic Tour Lédenon
Two New French Champions Crowned The French Championships reached their conclusion after a full season, at the undulating Lédenon circuit near Nîmes in the Gard on the weekend of 22-24 October. Running to its usual rhythm of 10 grids, each getting two heats, over 300 drivers were entered for 20…
XXXIII Rallye Elba Storico
With the record number of 215 entrants, exceeding event organiser ACI Livorno’s expectations, the Rallye Elba Storico and the concurrent Elba Graffiti regularity rally, counting both for the Italian and FIA European Championships, attracted competitors from 13 nations to the small Island of Elba in the Tyrrhenian sea. Also…
Tour de Corse Historique 2021
Home run for Casanova Frédéric Lombard Reports For 21 years, the Tour de Corse Historique has become a must-do event in historic rallying, and many drivers, some of whom have a prestigious track record, eagerly return each year to its mythical special stages. This year a record 330 crews, 162…
Castle Combe Autumn Classic
With all the precision of a synchronised swimming squad the Denis Welch Motorsport-run Austin Healey 3000s of Mark Holme and Doug Muirhead – both aided by Jeremy Welch – splashed to a resounding one-two finish in the GTSCC enduro that closed another soggy Castle Combe Autumn Classic on October 2….
Thrilling Swedish Finals in Falkenberg
The national championship final for this year’s Racing Historic Cup was run, as tradition dictates, at Falkenberg, with some 140 historic cars on the starting line on a cold and slightly windy autumn day, watched by a few hundred brave spectators on 18-19 September. Bengt-Åce Gustavsson reports… Formula Vee…
Estoril Classics
The final races in the Peter Auto season were completed at Estoril on the weekend of 8-10 October, giving drivers the opportunity to end the season in this beautiful part of the world under balmy 20-degree skies. They appreciated it, judging by the number of social media posts of beautiful…
Circuit des Remparts
After last year’s cancellation the 49th edition of one of the oldest race meetings in Europe – it was first run in 1939 – took place on 13-15 September still under some special COVID restrictions, with smaller numbers participating in some of the activities. The Remparts, encircling the charming Charentais…
French Championships
Historic Tour Charade In its beautiful setting amongst the volcanic landscapes of the Auvergne in southwest France, the undulating Charade circuit was the battlefield for the penultimate round of the French Historic Championships. An old-fashioned track that commands respect, Charade’s 3.9kms hug the terrain and preserve sections of the old…
2021 Spa Six Hours
Bryant’s cloud nine Olly Bryant must be living on cloud nine these days, having completed what must be regarded as one of the grand slams of historic motorsport – first a win in the RAC TT at the Goodwood Revival, followed up two weeks later by a triumphant run in…
Dijon Motors Cup
For over two decades the October race meeting at Dijon has been geared to the international grids, most notably, the FIA Championships. Now run by Laurent Vallery-Masson and his equipe at HVM under the Dijon Motors Cup title, it was cancelled last year due to COVID, but made its comeback…
Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique – Back to the roots
The 24th edition of the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique will mark the return of concentration legs on 27 January-2 February, with three cities on the starting list: Bad Homburg, Milano and Reims. After a COVID hiatus, this move was made by the Organising Committee of the ACM, who want to once…
30th Tour Auto Historique
The return of the Cobras For the second year running, the Tour Auto Optic 2000 was postponed to September, which ultimately aligns more closely with its history, as in times past it took place in late summer/early autumn. In addition, to celebrate its 30th anniversary, the event finished in Nice,…
Monterey 2021
After the events of 2020 brought racing and many historic car events to a standstill, Car Week in Monterey was officially back for 2021 and with it, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Car Week’s two cornerstones. Many of the usual small and large shows…