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HSCC Revs Up for 2021
Thundersports Revived by the UK’s Historic Sports Car Club in 2019, the HSCC Thundersports series’ highlights in 2021 will be two events on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit; for the HSCC’s own International Trophy meeting; and for Classic Silverstone, as well as races on the Brands Hatch GP track, at…
The Brexit Factor
Moving Racing Cars Between Europe and the UK We asked expert James Walker, General Manager of CARS (Classic Automotive Relocation Services), to give us an update on the transport of racing cars in and out of Europe after Brexit. Transporting your car around Europe used to be straightforward under…
F2 on the Up
The Historic Sports Car Club has devised an outstanding 12-race (six race weekends) calendar for its 2021 Historic Formula 2 International Series, with highlights to be prime slots at three of Europe’s biggest historic racing festivals: The Historic Grand Prix de France at Paul Ricard, the Zandvoort Historic Grand Prix…
Youngtimer Trophy
Karin Kölzer and Stefan Eckhardt, organisers of the German-based Youngtimer Trophy for cars from homologation years 1966-1991, have presented an eight-event calendar for 2021 that spans three countries for its 29th season. Races include a three-hour support race on the world’s most demanding racetrack, the Nürburgring Nordschleife, where the Youngtimers…
2021 FIA Historic Hill Climb Championship
23-25 April Rechberg, Austria 28-30 May Ecce Homo Sternberk, Czech Republic 18-20 June GHD Gorjanci, Slovenia 02-04 July Trento Bondone, Italy 09-11 July Cesana Sestriere, Italy 27-29 August GHD Petrol Ilirska Bistrica, Slovenia 17-19 September Buzetski dani, Croatia 24-26 September Coppa Chianti Classico, Italy
Paradise for Single Seaters
The Grand Prix De France Historique is, like its modern counterpart, moving from Magny-Cours to the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet, and this year the biennial event will take place on 10-13 June, two weeks before the Formula One GP, when the weather and the joys of Provence should…
NKHTGT Looks Forward in its Anniversary Year
The Dutch Championship for pre- ‘66 Historic Touring and GT cars, NKHTGT, was established in 1996 and will enter its 25th anniversary year with a busier schedule than ever. Instead of the usual six events, drivers will get seven race weekends on some of the best European circuits, including two…
Hockenheim Historic – Group C Supercup
The traditional start to the German Historic Motorsport season is the Bosch Hockenheim Historic event, dedicated to the memory of Jim Clark. This year, on 7-8 May, the feature race at the long-standing event will be a new Group C Super Cup race for Group C, IMSA & GTP cars…
Tony Merrick
Just a few of short months ago, we reviewed Tony Merrick’s outstanding book, ‘A Life Restoring & Racing Historic Cars’ (see our September 2020 issue), and this month we must report the death, on 15 December, of this pillar of the early historic motorsport movement. As Tony set out in…
New FIA Historic Commission Chairman
The last 2020 meeting of the World Motor Sport Council has ratified a change to the Chairmanship of the FIA Historic Motor Sport Commission. By statute incumbent Chairman Paolo Cantarella could no longer hold the position after he had reached the age of 75. Cantarella was appointed in 2014 with…
Jim Pace
In our September issue, we described the frightening accident that occurred at Elkhart Lake circuit when the Shadow Can-Am car driven by Jim Pace went airborne and landed upside down before skidding along the track for hundreds of metres. It could have easily ended in serious injury or even death…
HSCC 2021 Calendar
The Historic Sports Car Club has unveiled its provisional race calendar for 2021 covering nine race meetings on nine different circuits. New for next year is a two-day mid-summer meeting at Donington Park, and a change in the Brands Hatch Indy date, which now moves to the Friday preceding the…
Changes ahead for Motor Racing Legends
Though still provisional the Motor Racing Legends calendar has been released with five major race meetings on the schedule (see our calendar page for these and other 2021 dates). “We are optimistic for next year, but you’ll see that we have taken the precaution of planning a more UK-focussed calendar in 2021 to…
American 2021 Race Schedule Most Ambitious Yet
One of the largest American historic racing organisations, Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced an ambitious 17-event schedule for 2021, the most events in the organisation’s 42-year history. With many new events and circuits in the mix, SVRA will also be visiting the west coast more often, including race…
NZ F5000 Running Close to Home
As the season in Europe comes to a close, it’s springtime in the southern hemisphere and the NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series season is just beginning. With travel for competition outside New Zealand’s borders virtually impossible, the Formula 5000 Association are preparing for a wholly NZ-based 2020/21 series of…
French Championship Season
Originally scheduled to consist of five race meetings, with two races at each meeting for each championship series, the FFSA and HVM Racing pulled off the unique feat of providing all five French Championship events, albeit with the first three rescheduled. Now they are looking forward to a more normal…
HSCC Champions
Though the season was shorter than usual, the HSCC provided enough racing to hold meaningful championships in some of its categories, and after their Finals Meeting on 17-18 October (see page 44) and last Formula Ford races at the Formula Ford Festival Brands Hatch on 24-25 October, all the championships…
E-type Jaguar 60th Race and Tour
The Jaguar E-type will be 60 next year and no doubt the Jaguar Heritage PR team will be cranking up the volume to remind us what an extraordinary car it was, or should we say, is, because they are re-making them. They have for the moment pulled the plug on…
Next Year at Monterey
As organisers need to sort their calendars early, many are setting their dates even now as they rush into the unknown territory of 2021. The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is set to take place on 12-15 August and will feature historic Indy Cars for the very first time. Other races…