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French Championships – Round One
The Dijon-Prenois track hosted the first round of the French Historic Circuit Championships (Historic Tour) under bright sunshine on the weekend of 5-7 May, with 19 races on the programme. By the end of a busy weekend, Frédéric Lajoux (March 793), Antoine Robert (Martini MK48) and Matthieu Midy (Van Diemen)…
Pau Classic Grand Prix
In an evocation of the “3 Heures internationales de Pau”, contested on the street circuit at the foot of the Pyrenees on Easter weekend in 1958, Diogo Ferrão has invited his Iberian Endurance drivers to enter four races over the weekend of 20-21 May, with the driver who completes the…
Monaco 2024
The ACM has announced the grids for the 2024 Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, which will take place on the weekend of 10-12 May. There are no Formula Junior or F3 cars on the timetable. Time to start preparing/buying your F1 cars! Race A1 – Louis Chiron – Pre-war Grand…
Tin Tops at Monterey
Last year, members of the American racing fraternity, and the public at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion discovered what fun touring cars can be after a raucous group of Tin Tops of the 1955-1969 era entertained crowds in a one-hour mini-endurance race. Such was their popularity organisers have made sure…
Three Decades of the Spa Six Hours
Revised Programme The 30th Spa Six hours will be marked by changes to the usual programme. The meeting will start on Wednesday, 26 September with the free practices, usually scheduled on Thursday, and qualifying will commence on Thursday with all the support races on the timetable for Friday and Saturday. …
Red Bull Ring Classic
Austria’s Red Bull Ring in Spielberg will be the host of a historic motor sport festival on 9-11 June. Feature races will be for Group C cars, organised by Gephardt Marketing, BOSS GP for recent Formula cars, and the FHR grids, such as the Youngtimer Cup, Gentle Drivers Trophy and …
The Alternative to ATA Carnets
You can download Peter’s complete document here. Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Chairman Peter Horsman has used his legal background to study the actual regulations for taking racing cars from the UK into the EU for racing. He has found a solution and created a document that explains how UK…
Good News From Goodyear and Dunlop
Having just missed last month’s issue, Dunlop’s HP Tyres made an important announcement from their sumptuous stand at Race Retro that has put a welcome end to all the suspense about the supply of authentic, period spec tyres from 2024 when Avons will no longer be produced. Not only did…
NASCAR marks its 75th Anniversary in 2023
While NASCAR ran its first race more than a year before, on February 15, 1948, on the beach road course in Daytona, the year 1949 is significant for the first race run under the NASCAR “Strictly Stock” banner. This was the predecessor to the NASCAR Cup Series. The inaugural track…
Sally Mason-Styrron
We are very sorry to learn of the recent passing of Sally Mason-Styrron at the age of 70, a real enthusiast who, along with husband Dudley, owned and exercised a truly splendid collection of sports and racing cars over a lifetime’s involvement in historic motor sport. Among the many cars…
Long Distance Classic
From 1953 until the early 2000s, the ADAC 1000km Race on the daunting Nürburgring Nordschleife was a must-do event for GT and sports car drivers. For the third time, the revival of this unique and legendary endurance classic, will see over 100 cars take to the track for nearly seven…
Canossa Race Season
Usually associated in Europe with rally events, most notably the Cento Ore and the Terre de Canossa, and in the US and Middle East with tours and Concours events, Canossa continues to expand its activities and last year ventured into organising circuit racing after purchasing the Alfa Revival Cup, which had been started and run for many years by Tommaso Gelmini.
Boss GP
With the Masters’ new series for “modern historics,” or what Jon Dooley used to disparagingly call “used car racing,” we thought BOSS GP should also get a mention. The Big Open Single Seater Series was founded in 1995, initially racing with “used” Formula 1 cars in Great Britain, and later on other racetracks in continental Europe.
Peter Auto
The first of two demonstration races for Formula Legends 3.5 (F1 cars of the 1987-1994 era) will be at Peter Auto’s Spa Classic event on 12-14 May with a further appearance for the cars of the Prost-Senna-Schumacher era due to run at Paul Ricard at the Dix Mille Tours meeting…
Celebrating 55 Years of F5000 in the USA
Announcing the 2023 calendar, Seb Coppola, President of the U.S. Formula 5000 Drivers Association said this season will mark the 55th Anniversary of the beginning of Formula A/F5000 in 1968. “We expect a large contingent of cars that originally raced from 1968 to 1976 and are particularly thrilled that more…
Editorial February 2023
Who is the governing body governing? When he took office as FIA President at the beginning of last year, one of the pledges that Mohammed Ben Sulayem made was to get the FIA’s financial affairs in order, something many who elected him thought was long overdue. This is inevitably leading…
New Masters Series for ‘Modern Historics’
The idea for an additional, series for later GT cars was spawned by the one-off Masters GT4 Trophy at the 2022 Silverstone Classic. Run in association with SRO Motorsports to celebrate the latter’s anniversary, the two races at Silverstone led to an influx of interest from existing competitors as well…
News from the Nürburgring
Racing Heroes – Pre-‘65 at the Nürburgring In 2017, the Nürburgring celebrated its 90th birthday. On the exact day of the first race there, the “Nürburgring Classic” was inaugurated as an international motorsport meeting for historic cars on the Grand Prix circuit and the Nordschleife, organised by the DAMC 05…
Velocity Invitational Moves Back to Sonoma
After a successful year at Sonoma Raceway in 2019, before the COVID pandemic put a stop to just about everything, Jeff O’Neill’s Sonoma Speed Festival was renamed Velocity Invitational and moved to Laguna Seca, home of the long-running Monterey Motorsports Reunion, which takes place in August. Velocity Invitational met with…
24 Hours of Anglesey
The enterprising Classic Sports Car Club has announced its 2023 calendar, (see www.historicmotorracingnews.com for the full 2023 calendar of all the series) and it will be running separate 40-minute races for its Classic K and Swinging 60s series on the Silverstone GP circuit at the HSCC meeting on 28th May. …