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Historic Indy Car Challenge at Long Beach
Now a yearly fixture, Indy cars from the 1970s and 1980s screamed around the Long Beach street circuit on 19-21 April, marking the 49th edition of the Long Beach Grand Prix, originally for Formula 1, and now for modern Indy cars. Amongst the highlights of the fanfare and razamataz-filled weekend,…
The Mitty
One of the longest-standing ‘vintage’ race meetings in America, the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Mitty saw one of the biggest editions in the event’s nearly 50-year history come to a competitive conclusion on 28 April with more than a dozen HSR Feature Race winners crowned in the final two days…
30 years of BOSS GP
‘BOSS’ stands for Big Open Single Seater and is for Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 3000, World Series or IndyCars from the USA and Formula Nippon from Japan. Boss GP remains the platform for single seat racing cars of the last three decades. For 30 years now, the FIA-registered race…
Masters at the US F1 Grand Prix
Though Masters Historic Racing is not running a Historic F1 series in the US this year, it was pleased to announce that it has once again been invited to bring two support races to the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix, on 18-20 October at the Circuit of The Americas…
Equipe 50s Back on the Programme
Equipe Classic Racing first launched the 50s series in 2020 but it lost momentum into covid, and since then, grids have been combined with Pre ‘63 and others. However, entries for these lovely cars have increased to the point where they can now support their own stand-alone races once again,…
APL Acquires Motor Racing Legends and Announces New GT3 Grid
Aythorpe Promotions, the recently formed motorsport events business led by well-known competitor and collector Shaun Lynn, has acquired Duncan Wiltshire’s Motor Racing Legends company. The agreement will also see APL acquire the MRL flagship Donington Historic Festival. Lynn immediately announced that a new MRL series for GT3 cars to be…
Grand Prix du Maroc Historique
Only recently announced, the Morocco Historic Grand Prix is scheduled to take place on 8-10 November at the new, 4.4km Sidi Daoui circuit near Casablanca. A collaboration between the Moroccan Federation (FRMSA) and AGS Racing & Events, the grade 2 homologated circuit hopes to host races for Formula 1 from…
Turn of the Century Challenge
In its 42nd edition, Historic Festival Lime Rock will expand include a new class, the Turn of the Century World Challenge. At a time when an increasing number of organisers are accommodating later and later cars, the Challenge will include production-based race cars from the 1995-2005 era prepared for SCCA…
New Chair for HSCC
Kevin Kivlochan has been elected as the new Chairman of the Historic Sports Car Club. ‘Keke’ has been an active member of the club for many years, winning races, most notably in Morgan Plus 8s and Shelby Cobra,= and is a three-time champion in the HSCC Historic Road Sports Championship. …
FIA Historic Committee
As reported in our April issue, the restructuring of some FIA departments has meant that the ratification of the 2024-2025 FIA Commissions and Committees has been delayed. They have finally been announced and this is the makeup of our own Historic Committee, which replaces the old Historic Commission and represents…
Nova Motorsport Continues to Grow
Only formed last August, Nova Motorsport, which has acquired the Avon branding and sales licences, and ensured the future of Avon Historic tyres, has continued its trajectory to becoming the leading independent tyre manufacturer for the motorsport and specialist tyre industries (see our April issue), with the acquisition of Portugal’s…
Pre-63 GT Historic Racing in Historic Cars
After a season’s absence the return of Pre-‘63 GT has, as organisers hoped, attracted strong interest from owners of historic cars, such as Doug Muirhead’s Austin Healey 100/6 that appeared at Le Mans with Jim Clark and has also participated in three RAC Rallies, or Gregory Heacock’s Austin Healey Sebring…
ASAVÉ Racing
Under new management, ASAVÉ is finding its feet in the new season and has recently set two dates for rounds of its GT Tourisme Challenge. The Racing 65 drivers are invited to the Circuit des Remparts at Angoulême on 13-15 September, and both the Racing 65 cars and the GT…
AGS presents the F1 90s Time Attack Competition
AGS Racing, who built and raced the JH 24 and JH 25 Formula 1 cars in the late 1980s, have announced a series of events for F1 and F3000 cars of that period. AGS has been taking part in demonstrations of cars from the ’80 and ‘90s but wanted to…
Historic Festival 42 Lime Rock Park to celebrate 60 years of the Ford Mustang and Ford Motorsports
As traditions dictates Lime Rock Park will host the Historic Festival on the US Labor Day weekend (30 August-2 September), this year, for the 42nd time. The five-day event will not only commemorate the 60th anniversary of one of the most iconic and enduring muscle cars in automotive history, the…
Spa Six Hours
A prestigious line-up of races is planned for the Spa Six Hours race meeting on the last weekend of September. Highlight, as always, will be the Spa Six Hours race itself, which will run for the 31st time this year. A new timetable, debuted last year, has free practice on…
Spa Three Hours at the Spa Summer Classic
First run in 2016 in a collaboration between Iberian Historic Endurance, Classic Sports Car Club, and Roadbook, th e Spa 3 Hours, and the supporting race meeting around it, has developed into a major international event. In a world where series tend to keep themselves to themselves, it is refreshing…
Spa Francochamps 2024 Season
Spa is one of the drivers’ favourite tracks, and in 2024 there are a number of opportunities for almost anyone with a racing car to compete there this (and each) year. Besides the club meetings and National Championships, three very international race meetings stand out….. Created in 2011, Peter Auto’s…
Inaugural HSR Prototype Challenge
Kenton Koch pulled off the winning pass on the penultimate lap of the inaugural HSR Prototype Challenge presented by IMSA two-hour race, and went on to win in the One Motorsports Ligier JS P3 with co-driver Jon Field. In what was an all-Ligier JS P3 podium, the pair took…
Nova Motorsport Takes over Manufacture of Avon Tyres
Nova Motorsport has acquired assets, including the brand license, used in the manufacture and sale of a broad range of motorsport tyres under the names “Avon Motorsport” and “Avon Racing”, assuring a continuity of supply. A Goodyear spokesperson told us, “We are pleased to bring further promise to the motorsport…