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Norwegian Summer
2021 was a good year for Norwegian historic racers, with five race meetings instead of the usual four, thanks to the opening of a new circuit. The season started at Vålerbanen in May, where there was great enthusiasm for getting started after a long boring winter. Bengt-Åce Gustavsson reviews the…
Endurance Racing Legends to Support 24 Hours of Spa
After a successful support race for the Le Mans 24 Hours this year, Peter Auto has announced that there will be an Endurance Racing Legends race at next year’s Total Energies 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps organised by SRO. In collaboration with Stéphane Ratel, Patrick Peter’s ex-partner in the famous mid-‘90s…
Goodwood Announces 2022 Dates
Getting back to more normal times, news from Goodwood is that the 79th Members’ Meeting will be held on 9-10 April 2022, the Festival of Speed is scheduled for 23-26 June, and the Revival Meeting will be held on 16-18 September. Photo DominicJames
HSCC Formula Junior Champ
The HSCC Silverline Championship had already had its final rounds at Spa, the Formula Juniors getting some terrible weather there (see report this issue). Last race of the day on Sunday, it was the worst weather of the weekend, and most of the Belgians and Americans (sensibly?) pulled out, but…
HSCC Championships Decided
Close and exciting racing settled the HSCC Championships over the weekend of 16-17 October on the Silverstone National circuit at the Club’s Finals Meeting. Some championships had been decided at Mallory Park in September (see report this issue), while many others were still up for grabs. Jordan Harrison secured the…
Dates for Le Mans Classic
Eagerly awaited for the last four years, it’s official. Le Mans Classic will be held from June 30th to July 3rd, 2022. Created in 2002 by Peter Auto in association with the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, Le Mans Classic offers a formidable retrospective of the 24 Hours of Le Mans….
NKHTGT Celebrates in Spain
The NKHTGT celebrated its 25th anniversary at the Circuito de Catalunya near Barcelona, offering season entrants a free pair of races to celebrate the milestone. Supporting the Hankook 24 Hour Series, the Dutch Championship racers got set up and ready to qualify on Friday, with a 50-minute night race on…
Veteran Car Run
This year’s Royal Automobile Club London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, which celebrates the passing into law of the Locomotive on the Highway Act that raised the speed limit for self-propelled locomotives in England from 4mph to 14mph, will be a very special one, celebrating the 125th anniversary of the…
Motor Racing Legends – Silverstone GP Meeting
First run last year in order to provide some end-of-season racing for its members after the cancellation of the Spa Six Hours, Motor Racing Legends’ Silverstone GP meeting featured a three-hour race for pre-’66 GT cars. Such was its success, that the three-hour format was retained at Donington in the…
Endurance Racing Legends at Le Mans
Peter Auto staged two 45-minute Endurance Racing Legends support races at the Le Mans 24 Hours on 20-21 August and produced an impressive 45-car entry of the most notable endurance racers of the 1990s and 2000s. Shaun Lynn was the winner of the first race in his spectacular Bentley Speed…
Historic Dubai Grand Prix
The Historic Dubai Grand Prix Revival powered by Gulf Historic, to give it its full title, will take place on 2-3 December 2021 at the Dubai Autodrome in the context of the 2020 Dubai UAE Universal Exhibition, celebrating 50 years since the founding of the United Arab Emirates and 40…
SVRA Announces 2022 Calendar
The US-based Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced an ambitious 17-race schedule for next year, culminating in a return of the U.S. Vintage National Championships at the Circuit of the Americas on 3-6 November. The 2022 season marks the tenth anniversary of SVRA’s acquisition by Parella Motorsports Holdings, Inc.,…
New Date for Classic Silverstone
The Classic Silverstone event has grown into a complete festival over the years with equal focus on family activities, such as funfair rides, crazy golf, stunt driving displays and a massive shopping village, in a business model that relies on a large infrastructure and a high number of ticket sales….
Masters GT Challenge
With fewer traditional F1 support races this season, the Masters were invited to stage two 30-minute races for their Gentlemen Drivers ‘60s GT grid at Silverstone to support the Pirelli Formula 1 British Grand Prix. A 33-car, all-British, grid was duly formed, consisting of Cobras, TVR Griffiths and E-type Jaguars…
Donington Festival 2022
Historic Promotions and circuit operator MotorSport Vision (MSV) have signed a new agreement for the Donington Historic Festival, ensuring the future of the event for the next three years. Dates for 2022 have been announced and the Festival will keep its traditional place on the calendar of the early May…
Four Straight Historic Formula One USA wins for Gregory Thornton
Having missed the opening event in California in May, English-resident Irishman Greg Thornton has made it four straight wins in the Masters American Historic Formula 1 series when he took his 1982 Lotus 91 to four race victories on back-to-back weekends, at the historic Watkins Glen circuit on July 11,…
No Nürburgring
Those who expect to see our Oldtimer-Grand-Prix report in this issue will be disappointed. If you hadn’t already heard, the Oldtimer, along with other events to have taken place at the Nürburgring, was cancelled for this year at the last minute. This time it was not due to COVID, but…
RHK 2020 Champions
On the Saturday night of the Velodromloppet (see page 50), RHK held its award ceremony for last season’s winners, with over a hundred prizes awarded for all the classes. Johan Lund, as last year’s RHK Champion received the biggest trophy. RHK also took the opportunity to award its special prizes….
Daytona Classic
Entries are now open for the HSR Classic Daytona event, which takes place on 27-31 October. The event, which features seven different Run Groups competing in succession for a full 24 hours on the iconic Daytona International Speedway 3.56-mile road course. The various period-correct classes within each Run Group combine…
F1 to Feature at Estoril
Race Ready, Promoters of the Estoril Classic race meeting, is calling for all drivers of ‘70s and ‘80s F1 cars to get in touch for a sponsored race at the Estoril Classics event, which takes place in sunny southern Portugal on 8-10 October. This will be the fourth successful year…