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London to Brighton Veteran Car Run
As an unseasonably mild London was still shrouded in darkness on the morning of Sunday 5 November when nearly 350 pioneering veteran cars and their crews, along with a large crowd of well-wishers and spectators, gathered in Hyde Park for the annual ‘Brighton Run’. It’s now 127 years since the…
Modena Cento Ore
Limited to one hundred teams in order to be able to use the best and most interesting venues and hotels and to keep the event cosy, the Modena Cento Ore changed departure point this year and began on 10 October from Orbetello in the Monte Argentario and visited Lazio, Umbria,…
The Badawi Trail to the Last Oasis
In the heart of the desert, where echoes softly wail, Vintage cars roar, on the Badawï Trail, In twenty twenty-three, under the sun’s fierce light, They race through time, in the golden night Keith ‘Mutchie’ Mutch Aqaba to Dubai The Badawi Trail (Badawi is Arabic for desert weller) wound its…
British Historic Rally Championship Carlisle Stages Rally – Chilman and Walsh Take British Title on Final Round
Hereford driver Roger Chilman and co-driver Patrick Walsh were crowned 2023 Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Champions after taking their Ford Escort MKII to third on the Carlisle Stages Rally on 20-21 October. Chilman headed into the final round of the seven-round season with a slight advantage after three wins…
Carrera Panamericana – Tinged with Tragedy
The Carrera Panamericana has always been a challenging event requiring commitment and concentration to win. The 36th edition, illustrated that well, as it covered nearly 4,000kms, including 720kms of special stages distributed in 60 timed sections over seven days, with several changes of lead and nearly half of the field…
Tour de Corse Historique – Dumas Scores a Double but Celebrations are Subdued
For the past 23 years the Tour de Corse Historique has become an unmissable event for many historic drivers, some of whom have prestigious rally credentials and like to come and drive the mythical Corsican special stages. This year, the organisers received more than 500 applications and, in the end,…
FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies – XX Rally Costa Brava Històric
Belgians Yves Deflandre and Patrick Lienne (Porsche 911) have once again demonstrated their abilities and taken victory in the Rally Costa Brava Històric, their second consecutive triumph in the event, which in the case of Deflandre is also his fourth victory in the 20-year history of the rally. With their…
Rallye Elba Storico
There was a new success for Luco Da Zanche, paired with Maurizio Barone, in a Porsche 911 RS at the XXXV Rallye Elba Storico-Trofeo Locman in the penultimate round of the Italian Historic Rally Championship, a race which effectively put fifth place finisher Matteo Musti, co-driven by Simone Brachia in…
Winter Romania
For the eighth edition of the Winter Romania Historic Rally, Paul Lacombe, George Grigorescu, Simon Arpad and Regis Dufresne will continue with the well-known formula that has served so well and includes three days of racing in loops around the city of Covasna in Transylvania, one of the coldest regions…
Ulster Historic Rally
Two weeks after their Cork 20 win, Trevor Wilson and Paul Mulholland claimed victory in the Historic Category of the Ulster Rally, by almost four minutes. Ford Escort Mk2 driver Mulholland recorded fastest times on all but one of the ten stages, in a field of just nine historic competitors,…
Les Legend Boucles @ Bastogne 2024 dates announced
After careful consideration, and in order not to clash with any of the other classic winter events, the 2024 edition of the Legend Boucles @ Bastogne has been set to take place on 3-4 February, and in broad outline, will stick to its traditional format. At the end of the…
Young Navigators
The Bob Rutherford Historic Rally Scholarship for Young Navigators was set up by Guy Woodcock and Bob’s son, rally organiser Will Rutherford, in memory of the late, great Bob Rutherford, a man fondly remembered and familiar to many in the historic rallying world, who sadly lost his life in 2021. …
Winter Marathon Madonna di Campiglio
The 36th edition of the longest-running winter regularity rally for classic cars, born in 1989, will take place next year on 18-21 January, as always, in Madonna di Campiglio. The route will be enriched by new stages and new trials and will still be divided into 2 legs: the first…
British Historic Rally Championship
Jason Pritchard produced a masterclass of wet weather driving to secure his first Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship victory in five years after storming to victory at the Nigel Ferguson Fabricators Tour of Epynt on 30 July. After a slow start, Pritchard and co-driver Phil Clarke overhauled current championship…
Rally Greats at Eifel Rallye Festival
Stig Blomqvist, Rauno Aaltonen, Bruno Thiry, Kalle Grundel, Nicky Grist, Harald Demuth, Rui Madeira, Rudi Stohl and Niki Schelle were just some of the rally stars that attended the Eifel Rallye Festival in Germany’s Daum region on 27-29 July, where over 160 historic rally cars entertained tens of thousands of…
HERO Rally of the Tests and Other Upcoming Events
The 21st edition of the Rally of the Tests sees some changes, as after 10 years Clerk of the Course Guy Woodcock is passing the mantle to a new team of George Mullins, Andy Pullan and Seren Whyte to continue to deliver this classic endurance event – the one everyone …
Subaru to Star at Rallylegend
It has been 30 years since the Subaru Impreza 555 made its debut in the World Rally Championship, at Mille Laghi in 1993, and the 21st edition of Rallylegend intends to mark the occasion by bringing about the reunion of the iconic and unforgettable ex-works Subaru Impreza 555s produced by…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 6: Rallye Weiz
Tibor Erdi claimed his third outright victory of the 2023 FIA European Historic Rally Championship season with a dominant performance on Rallye Weiz in Austria on 13-15 July. The Hungarian and his Croatian co-driver Istvan Kerék completed the 500kms of the rally, including 145kms of timed stages, to the acclaim…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 7: Lahti Historic Rally
Finnish World Rally Championship hero and Toyota GR World Rally Team principal Jari-Matti Latvala and his co-driver Enni Mälkönen claimed an emphatic victory in the FIA European Historic Rally Championship round in Finland on 11-12 August. Fresh from making his WRC return on the previous weekend’s Rally Finland at the…
Panda Raid
Regular readers may remember a short news item in our Bits and Pieces section in 2019 when everything was being cancelled due to COVID. We reported that Austin Healey specialist and historic racer Jeremy Welch and his daughter Arabella, got as far as southern Spain in a 4 x 4…