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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…
Hat-Trick at Spa
Roadbook organisation, which each year brings you the Spa Summer Classic and the Spa Six Hours meeting, is making it a hat-trick with a new, third meeting at the Francorchamps circuit, on 10-11 October this year. For many years now, the other two meetings have been full to capacity,…
NKHTGT Goes International
The hitherto Dutch Championship series for Pre-‘66 touring and GT cars, NKHTGT, has this year taken the step to register as an FIA International Series to better reflect the international nature of the series, both in terms of circuits visited (this year in Holland, France, Germany and Belgium) and also…
New Series for Group A
One of the most memorable eras of motor racing was the first five years of Group A. The European Championship was healthy and the national series were rising. In the big class Rover, Holden, Jaguar, BMW, Ford and the old Volvos battled it out, and there was close racing in…
Historic Formula 1 at the French Grand Prix
Belgian suppliers and dealers of Formula One cars, Officina Caira, has organised for historic F1s to run demos at Paul Ricard on the weekend of the French Grand Prix on 26-28 June. For €1500 drivers will get a space for their car in the historic paddock, four driving sessions, One…
Calling all Alfisti – Alfas Only at the Classic
Since its inaugural race at Donington late in 2018, the HRDC has successfully built up its Classic Alfa Challenge series in 2019 and will continue it into 2020 with a flagship race at the Silverstone Classic for the marque in its 110th anniversary year. Alfa races always attract good grids,…
Les Deux Tours
Scheduled for 6-8 November on the F1 track at the Paul Ricard circuit, this 24-hour event, unique in the world of historic competition, is decidedly back in favour after some lean times. With a maximum of 60 grid spaces available, the list of confirmed entries has already exceeded 40 with…