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Paulo Pinheiro Gains Posthumous Awards
Amongst the Portuguese National Tourism Awards (PNT) this year, the Award for the Personality of the Year was awarded posthu- mously for the first time. It went to the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve founder, the late Paulo Pinheiro, who died in August of this year. The Award by the jury…
50 years of Formula Ford 2000
The 50th anniversary of the Formula Ford 2000 category will be celebrated this year in the Historic Sports Car Club’s Historic Formula Ford 2000 Championship. The HSCC confirmed that Historic Formula Ford 2000 will continue to be one of the club’s core championships in 2025, building on 18 successful years…
nternational Entries for Phillip Island
The largest historic motorsport event in the Southern Hemisphere with close to 400 cars competing in ten categories from the late 1920s to the late 80s including some spectacular race cars never seen before in Australia. Along with racers from all over the vast country of Australia, and over 1000…
Magic Merlyn’ Returns to the Tracks
One of the most famous Formula Fords of all time, the ‘Magic Merlyn’ will be back racing in the HSCC Historic Formula Ford 1600 Championship in 2025 in the hands of newcomer Greville Ball. The Merlyn MK11a from 1969 was raced to great success by Emerson Fittipaldi, Colin Vandervell and…
Spirit of Montjuïc 2025
After a year’s hiatus, Escudería Targa Iberia will organise on 21-22 March what will be the 10th edition of Espíritu de Montjuïc at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Aimed at families, the race festival offers a large range of different activities for adults and children. The core of the track action…
Lifetime Achievement
It seems as if November is awards season in London and two Lifetime Achievement Awards stood out amongst many worthy winners in numerous categories at various awards ceremonies. Royal Automobile Club Historic Awards At the Royal Automobile Club Motoring Awards dinner, which took place in the Pall Mall Clubhouse on…
International Historic Motoring Awards
Meanwhile, on the following evening, Hothouse Media, publishers of Octane and Magneto magazines, were celebrating their annual awards just up the road at London’s Peninsula Hotel. This time it was Patrick and Sylviane Peter who were the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement accolade. after decades of serving up the best…
Hat Trick on the Rally of the Tests
After three days and one night, 800 miles from Darlington to Windermere, to compete in 34 tests and 24 regularities, Dan Willan and Niall Frost scored an incredible third consecutive RAC Rally of the Tests overall victory, the first crew to achieve that since the inaugural RAC Rally of 1932….
XXI Rally Clásico Isla de Mallorca
Organisers of the annual event on the sunny (usually) Mediterranean island of Mallorca have reported strong entries from teams of eight different nationalities in the first weeks since entries opened. Although the registra- tion period for the event is open until February 23, organisers say there are very few places…
Tour de Corse
The 25th edition of the Tour de Corse Historique, which will run on 4-11 October will be an exceptional event, with a celebration of the Renault 5 Turbo and a new start from Calvi. For the first time since 2013, the rally will not start from Porto-Vecchio, as work to…
Formula Junior NZ Tour – January/February 2026
The Formula Junior Historic Racing Association has announced that it has finalised the first leg of next year’s FJ Platinum Jubilee World Tour, which will consist of four back-to-back weekend events in New Zealand, entitled “Four Stars of the Southern Cross, Classic Speedfest.” In a major departure, instead of the…
Velocity Invitational
Velocity Invitational returns to Sonoma Raceway in the heart of the northern Californian wine country with a new summer date of 6-8 June. “It was my childhood dream to bring together amazing automobiles, and that grew into my desire to create the most incredible automotive event in the world,” said…
Row Over Confidentiality Within the FIA
A row has broken out within the highest levels of the FIA, with the FIA facing significant controversy and potential legal action over a new confidentiality agreement introduced by FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem. The FIA insisted at short notice that World Council members sign the new, stricter non-disclosure agreement…
JD Classics Goes into Liquidation for a Second Time
Once bestowing largesse as sponsors of racing series, rallies such as the Mille Miglia and hillclimb events like the Grand Turismo, JD Classics has faced multiple financial troubles and bankruptcies in recent years. It initially went bankrupt 2018 when founder Derek Hood was sued by a customer and received a…
SVRA Driver of the Year
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) came together in late February to celebrate its 2024 champions while kicking off a new race season at Sebring International Raceway during the Sebring SpeedTour. The event honoured all of SVRA’s 2024 Sprint and Endurance champions, while also recognising a series of drivers and…
Motor Racing Legends Acquires HRDC
Aythorpe Promotions Limited, the company that only recently acquired Motor Racing Legends, has announced the acquisition of the HRDC. The move sees the MRL leadership team, led by chairman Shaun Lynn and CEO Pierre-Antoine Lecoutour, take the helm alongside HRDC founder Julius Thurgood. “HRDC has been an ally of Motor…
Royal Automobile Club Concours
It seems as if Concours events have crossed the Atlantic and become a real thing in Europe, with new ones popping up everywhere. The latest one to be announced, and it should be a good one if the quality of their other events is anything to go by, is…
Expect the Unexceptional
Last year was the 10th Anniversary of the UK’s Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional celebrating long-forgotten everyday family cars. With each year, the event has become bigger as its reputation has spread around the world, attracting many entries from overseas. 2024 saw a record attendance with over 2000 cars and…
Hunts’ Role Reversal in India
After 20 days and 6000 miles, Richard Clark and Jonathan Round grabbed the win of the Pearl of India rally on the final day in a 1938 Ford V8 Coupe. Going into the last two regularities of the event, the Bentley 4½ L Open Tourer of Martin and Olivia Hunt…
Rally Stages Without the Rally
After the Legend Boucles @ Bastogne 2025 pitted highly competitive rally aces over the forest stages (see our rally report in the March 2025 issue), it is now the turn of the general public, who are invited to bring their classic and modern cars and get a taste of what…