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Gran Premio Storico d’Italia
As previously reported, this meeting, at Mugello on 2-4 October, will bring together an array of exceptional single seater grids, including Masters Racing Legends (F1 1966-1985), Boss GP (F1 1990s-2000s), HGPCA (GP pre-1966), the F2 and F3 Classic Interseries, Formula Junior, Historic F3b 1000cc & Formula Ford pre-1982. The latter…
Postponed Peter Auto Support Race – New Dates for the Qatar 1812km
Originally scheduled to open the 14th season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the Qatar 1812Km race will now take place in October at the Lusail International Circuit, thus becoming the penultimate round of the championship. Scheduled to run alongside the main event, the CER support races organised by…
20 Years of GT3 at the 24 Hours of Spa – Motor Racing Legends to Lead the Celebration
Introduced in 2006, GT3 quickly became the most prolific endurance racing category worldwide. Its growth was so spectacular that it became the main class of the 24 Hours of Spa as early as 2011. 20 year after the creation of the series, the early GT3 cars will be returning to…
Peter Auto GT3 Revival Series – Opening Round
The Peter Auto series for older GT3 cars held a promising inaugural round at the Paul Ricard circuit on 11-12 April, supporting the first round of the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS 6-hour race. It was a dream opener for the Storic and Race Cars team as Jim…
PMre-‘66 GT Sprint a New Place to Race
the Motor Racing Legends Pall Mall Cup bill, but this time in a shorter race format. While the Pall Mall Cup, with its two-hour races, remains on the calendar to top and tail the MRL season at the Donington Historic Festival on the first weekend of May and the final…
F1 Celebration at Brands Hatch
As part of its 100th Anniversary celebrations, Brands Hatch will be welcoming two very special Williams Formula 1 cars at the Masters Festival on 30-31 May. The cars, raced to victory by Nigel Mansell in Grands Prix at the Kent circuit in 1985 and 1986, include the Williams FW10, as…
BRDC Classic
Inaugurated in July 1990 as the Christie’s BRDC Historic Festival and continuing as the Coys Festival until it became the Silverstone Classic, the main historic race meeting that has taken place at the Northampton circuit every summer for 35 years has this year reverted to the BRDC on its original…
New President for the Vintage Sports-Car Club
With no other nominations were received to replace outgoing The Vintage Sports-Car Club President Simon Blakeney-Edwards, the role will go to Paul Mullins, with John Lomas stepping up into the Vice President’s chair. Originally slated to become Vice President under Jon Giles, who stepped away as President-Elect when it became…
BOSS GP in Action
For more than 30 years, the FIA International BOSS (Big Open Single Seaters) GP Racing Series has delivered has provides a platform for young and ambitious drivers to race large formula cars from the past three decades that are above Formula 3 level. These include Formula 1 cars, US IndyCars,…
Full Throttle Donington Festival
Motor Racing Legends are promising to open their season with a real bang, as they expand the Donington Historic Festival programme with the addition of new race series and demos on the 1-3 May holiday weekend. All the MRL grids will be present, from pre-war cars to GT3, including the…
Nürburgring Classic
Started in 2017 as a one-off to celebrate the circuit’s 90th anniversary, the Nürburgring Classic was such a success that is has become a permanent fixture on the calendar. Growing in stature each year, with a full track schedule of races and demon- strations, some on the GP circuit and…
Swiftune Series – Minis Only
Equipe Classic Racing and top Mini Preparer Nick Swift have got together and created the Swiftune Series of standalone races for pre-1966 FIA Appendix K-compliant Minis and Appendix K derivatives. This new four-round series will provide Pre-’66 Mini competitors with a long-awaited platform to race head-to-head without competing against larger-capacity…
Grand Prix de France Historique
The KENNOL Grand Prix de France Historique was a big hit last year, largely due to the presence of many major motorsport personalities. With its combination of historic singe seater races, including the Masters F1 series, Formula 2, Formula 3 and Formula Renault, interspersed with celebrity appearances and demos of…
Authentic Racing
We have received a press release telling us that a “new major historic race organiser, Authentic Racing” will be up and running starting in 2027. The release goes on to say that only authentic cars with identifiable history will be allowed on the grids. There will be grids, for single…
Angoulême 2026
Announcing the grids that will run at this year’s Circuit des Remparts in Angoulême organisers have included some changes to the programme. Two grids that have not run there before are the Plateau Victor Riley, for pre-war Rileys and their contemporaries – the tight and twisty track particularly suits Rileys,…
Expanded Calendar for ASAVÉ
Starting the season at the V de V 1000km of Navarra in April, ASAVÉ has announced that it will also be present with two racing grids at the Charade Supershow in June and at the SuperSpa meeting in early October. The successful Charade Super Show will run for the fifth…
The Alfa Revival Cup
A new feature of the Alfa Revival cup this year will be the introduction of two distinct Championship categories. At the end of the five-race season, two Champions will be crowned, one for Period E and F cars and one for the later G, H, I cars. When this series…
Qatar Cancellation
Not only has Formula 1 suffered from postponements due to the situation int the Middle East, it has also affected the Qatar 1812KM events, which were due to take place on 22-23 March. These have now been postponed, hopefully just until later in the year. Included in the programme were…
HSCC Twin-Cam Cup
In 2026 the ‘HSCC Twin-Cam Cup’ will be introduced for cars powered by 1600cc Lotus Ford Twin-Cam engines. Car conforming to Guards Trophy Regulations and running on Dunlop Historic L or M section tyres will run as a separate championship within the Guards Trophy races. “The Twin-Cam Cup will provide…
Masters Historic Racing Expands 2026 Formula 1 Support Race Programme
Masters Historic Racing has confirmed a significant expansion of its Formula 1 support race programme for 2026, marking a new chapter for the organisation and its flagship historic single-seater series, Masters Racing Legends. Having previously supported selected Formula 1 events – most recently closing the 2025 season with an appearance…