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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…
Malta Classic
In the wake of the dreaded COVID pandemic, the Valletta Grand Prix Foundation announced that the Malta Classic, which was to take place on 8-11 October, has been cancelled. 2020 will be the first year since 2008, that the annual street racing event, along with all its peripheral activities, will…
Cup and Touring Car Trophy
The German Cup and Touring Car Trophy started its 11th season in full summer sunshine around three months later than usual on the weekend of 4-5 July at Hockenheim, with a 30-car grid. In the first race, Harald Tänzler (BMW E46 WTC) celebrated a safe start-to-finish victory, his second overall…
New Event – Goodwood Speedweek
Members’ Meeting: Cancelled, Festival of Speed: Cancelled, Goodwood Revival: Cancelled, but the Duke of Richmond is not to be downcast. Instead he has announced a new, online event to take place on 16-18 October, that will be, in the Duke’s words, “The fastest, most exciting and spectacular event we have…
Jaguar race at Oulton Park
As reported in our July issue, the Historic Sports Car Club still wants to offer the Jaguar drivers at least one event in 2020, and have announced their own race for pre-‘66 Jaguars at the Oulton Park Gold Cup on 29-31 August. The Dunlop Historic Trophy will be a one-hour…
Motor Racing Legends Revised Schedule
Sadly, after searching for a date on which to run the postponed Donington Historic Festival, organisers have been forced to hold it over until next year. The 2021 date will be announced soon. In the meantime, though, there is excitement in the ranks as the Legends’ season will be…
International Historic Hill Climbing
The FIA European Hillclimb Championship has also been reworked to give competitors five events and the points rules revised accordingly: 11-12 July Trento Bondone 1-2 August Ecce Homo Sternberk 28-30 August GHD Petrol Ilirska Bistrica 18-20 September Buzetski Dani 25-27 September Coppa Chianti Classico More generally speaking, the FIA,…
Major US Events Cancelled
Regrettably WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca’s new management team has cancelled the 2020 Monterey Motorsports Reunion, yet another event to fall victim to COVID-19. In a July 12 statement that included all the usual remarks about public and staff safety, President and General Manager of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca’s John Narigi…
GP de Monaco – Past, Future and Present in 2021
Having announced the cancellation of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique for 2020, it was initially envisaged to wait until it’s natural date in 2022 for it to run again. This was largely due to the E-Grand Prix, run in alternate years in the May slot occupied in even numbered…
The Scandinavian Calendar
Bengt-Åce Gustavsson fills us in on how the Scandinavian season is shaping up… Historic Racing in Sweden: All racing in Sweden was banned during April, May and June. Now we are hoping that we can start racing in July, but we don´t know for sure. I´ll give you the calendar…
News from the UK…….
Goodwood Cancelled As we went to press with our July issue, news came from Goodwood that both the Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival meetings have been cancelled for this year. Lord March and his team held out for as long as possible in the hopes of staging both events…
The Portuguese Season
Portugal is one of the least hard hit countries by COVID 19. Authorities there closed borders and locked down early, and now Portugal is enjoying the fruits of such prudent management with a pretty full schedule of racing for the rest of the season. They also have the advantage of…
Making up for Lost (Track) Time
After two months of only being able to report postponements and cancellations, we are very pleased to have received news from the V de V organisation that the Deux Tours d’Horloge, scheduled for 6-8 November at Paul Ricard is very much on! The Deux Tours is the only 24-hour race…
Green Light for French Championships
The French “deconfinement” of the population will allow the 2020 season of the Historic Tour (the French Historic Circuits Championship) to start on 17-19 July on the circuit of Albi, at a race meeting originally scheduled to take place in April. In accordance with other postponed dates already announced, the…
Racing Resuming
We don’t envy the plight of race promoters in various countries in Europe and around the world, with each country mandating different safety measures when racing resumes, and these changing nearly from day to day. There is also the constant threat that the whole thing will go into reverse at…