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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…
Algarve Classic Festival
With the UK quarantine restrictions in place, it is clear that very few UK competitors are willing or able to travel to Portugal and Motor Racing Legends, which was to have four grids there made up mainly of British teams, has decided not to go. Duncan Wiltshire of Motor Racing…
French Champions Crowned
Frédéric Rouvier has won the French Historic Circuits Championship in the Single-seater/Proto category for the third year in a row. Aged 42, Rouvier, a native of Cannes, who is an educational manager at Oreca Events, won this new title at the wheel of a March 783 run by Italian team…
Iberian Historic Endurance – Nicha Cabral Memorial
This year in August the Portuguese nation lost a great character and proponent of the sport, Portugal’s first Formula One driver Mário de Araújo ‘Nicha’ Cabral. As drivers prepared for the last race of the weekend at the Estoricl Classic event, a minute’s silence was observed to honour his memory…
Classic Sports Car Club Thruxton
Hancocks’ 40 minutes of Classic K glory Father and son Anthony and Ollie Hancock’s fine Mintex Classic K race victory at Thruxton on July 26 was the super-fast Hampshire circuit’s season-opener and the historic element of the Classic Sports Car Club’s belated 2020 season start. Lithe Lotus Elans are ideally…
Patrick Quiniou
We have lost another friend this month with the passing of Patrick Quiniou, after a long spell of ill health at the age of only 65. A whole generation of French racers will have great memories of Patrick and the race meetings he organised, most notably the Grand Prix…
Jon Dooley 1946-2020
“A lot of investment of self goes into a winning car at this level. It involves keeping going beyond reason when things do not go so well.” It is with the upmost sadness that I write that Jon Dooley, a friend of 35 years and someone with whom I have…
NK HTGT racing gets underway
The 2020 NK HTGT season finally got underway at Zandvoort on the weekend of 12-13 September with two 45-minute races in the Kronos organised Benelux Open weekend. Despite COVID restrictions in the Netherlands, some 25 teams were raring to go, sharing the track with Triumph Competitions. Qualifying was interrupted by…
Important News Update
Oldtimer GP Classic Cancelled for 2021 28 July, 2021 – After speculation over the last ten days, it was finally announced that the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix, which was to take place on 13-15 August, is cancelled for this year. The German authorities are using the circuit facilities as operations headquarters for emergency…
HSCC Geoff Lees Trophy
The Historic Sports Car Club’s new race category for up to 2-litre single-seater racing cars from the 1980s, the Geoff Lees Trophy, will open with a double-header at the HSCC Wolds Trophy meeting at Cadwell Park on 19-20 September. Competitors will also have the chance to race at the Dijon…
Circuit des Remparts
Jean-Marc Laffont, President of the Association du Circuit des Remparts d’Angoulême issued a statement on 16 august announcing the cancellation of the 2020 event. “Despite all our determination, the sudden spike of COVID-19 cases in the last few days has brought with it an ever-increasing number of measures and restrictions…
Spa Six Hours – Known Unknowns
One of the biggest international race meetings of the year is still on track to take place on 24-27 September, but as we go to press – still some six weeks before the meeting is set to kick off – the requirement for those visiting Belgium to go into quarantine…
Algarve Classic Festival
Fulfilling a long-held ambition, Paulo Pinheiro, founder and CEO of the Autodromo Algarve has succeeded in bringing Formula One to his circuit. This is good news for all of us, as at times in its history the circuit has been barely viable and this will give it the fillip it…
Sideways at Spa Hat Trick Meeting
From the first Spa Six Hours meeting, the late Barry Sidery-Smith organised a race there for British and “interesting” GT, Sports and Touring cars and when the Spa Summer Classic from the same organisers started, Barry was in on the ground floor there too. Sadly Barry is no longer with…
Peter Auto 2021
Peter Auto has announced its 2021 calendar, which includes five race meetings for its regular series, very similar to what it should have been this year, plus the postponed Le Mans Classic, the date for which has been set at 1-4 July. A new feature will be two test days…