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HERO/ERA London to Lisbon
Dick and Harry Baines went into the final day of the 10-day 3500km London Lisbon rally just eight seconds ahead of the Datsun 240Z of Nick Maris and Henry Carr, with the full expectation that the more powerful Datsun would overtake the little Mini, the smallest car on the rally,…
Athens to Rome – via 500 BC
HERO/ERA has planned a stunning event for September that will take crews through some of Europe’s most beautiful and historic scenery and reads like a bucket list of must-see attractions of the ancient world. The Temple rally will leave Athens on 1 September and head through Greece via Central Arcadia…
Manx Rally 2022 – Shields enjoys island life
For 60 years rally crews have been pitting themselves against the closed public roads of the Isle of Man and after a two-year sabbatical the Manx Rally returned on 13-14 May. Paul Lawrence reports… This year’s edition suffered for entries, as it lacked a headline championship, but as a round…
Victory for ‘Zippo’ and Piceno in the FIA Historic Vltava Rallye
Even with this year’s much tougher competition, Italian duo Andrea ‘Zippo’ Zivian and Denis Piceno managed to reassert themselves and repeat their victory of last year at the 30th Vltava Rallye, second round in the 2022 FIA Historic Rally Championship. ‘Zippo’ (Audi Quattro) and Hungarian Tibor Érdi (Ford Sierra Cosworth,…
Rally the Globe launches Alaska to Mexico Marathon for 2023
With the ongoing global pandemic, and political unrest in Myanmar hampering the advanced planning of events in South East Asia, the timetabled Road to Hanoi Marathon has been deferred until 2024 and replaced on 2023’s calendar with a journey through some of the most spectacular scenery in North America. Crossing…
Flying Scotsman
Bentley specialist William Medcalf has won the challenging Flying Scotsman rally after leading the three-day (1-3 April) event for pre-war cars from day one in his Bentley SuperSports. Rain, snow and a hailstorm that blew across Scotland on day two assaulted the drivers, most in open cockpits, leaving just 79…
Circuit of Ireland
Preston’s James Ford won the two-day Circuit of Ireland Historic category on his trip across the Irish Sea. The Ford Escort, navigated by Neil Shanks, led from start to finish over the mixed conditions. Far from the Circuit of old when teams travelled across the island, a simple format of…
Rallying for the Next Generation
Staged in brilliant early spring sunshine on 25-27 March, Rally the Globe’s first-ever Generations Rally, centred in the poetic English Lake District National Park, was a great success on many counts. Created specifically to introduce potential future endurance rally competitors – notably those of a younger age – to historic…
Gravel Romania Historic Rally
The 3rd Gravel Romania Historic Rally, which will take place on 5-9 July, will consist of a route spread over five days with 25 special stages totalling 380km of timed stages, held on 100% Gravel. HTPs not required. Contact Paul Lacombe and his team via the website at www.romania-historic-rally.com.
Stella Alpina 2022
Entries are now open for the 37th edition of the Stella Alpina, the event organised jointly by Scuderia Trentina and Canossa Events that will take place on 3-5 June. After the great success of the 2021 edition, the Stella Alpina is once again taking to the spectacular roads of…
FIA European Regularity Trophy
The qualifying events for the 2022 FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies (THRR) have been announced and will include 15 rallies in 11 different European nations. Two of the qualifying events have already been run, the Ypres Historic Regularity Rally (26-28 November 2021) and the Ostbelgien Classic (3-5 December 2021),…
2022 FIA Historic Rally Championship Round 1 70th Rally Motul Costa Brava
With past postponements and other restrictions well and truly behind us, more than 170 cars from across Europe started the Rally Costa Brava on 17-20 March, celebrating the 70th edition of the event. There were victories for Pascal Perroud and Denis Giraudet, who topped the results sheets of this first…
ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival 2022
After two years of cancellations, the tenth anniversary of the Eifel Rallye Festival will finally be celebrated in 2022. Some 160 rally cars, spanning 50 years of rally history will come next year for a special celebration of 50 years of the World Rally Championship. “During the forced break, we…
Winter Romania Historic Rally
In one of the coldest regions of Romania, guaranteeing snowy conditions, the sixth edition of the Winter Romania Historic Rally, will take place on 20-23 January on the forest paths of Comandaü in Transylvania, where Paul Lacombe, George Grigorescu and their team have designed a route to include three days…
Sahara Challenge
Such was the demand for places for HERO-ERA’s rally starting in Spain and crossing to Morocco, it nearly took place this year, not once, but twice due to the number of entries. Both got shelved at the last minute due to COVID, but now the event, that takes competitors into…
Strong Entry for the Chihuahua Express
Thirty entries for the open-road race (stage rally) are listed on the official Chihuahua Express website, including the winner of this year’s Pan-Am, Carlos Cordero, plus another ten entries in the ChiX Tour. These entries do not include a dozen competitors from the US who paid their entry fee for…
Mille Miglia 2022
Next year’s event will take place on 15-18 June. Entries opened on 4 November and will close on 14 January. There is an eligibility registration scheme (at a cost of €500), which must be completed before an entry application can be made. See https://1000miglia.it.
New Dates Confirmed for East African Safari
The East African Safari Classic Rally that was to take place on 1-9 November 2021 has been rescheduled for early next year organisers have confirmed. “Despite the regrettable news of the postponement of the 2021 event, the management can now confirm that it will take place on 10th – 18th…
Carrera Italia
The newest long-distance rally organisation, the not-for-profit Rally the Globe, got back to business on 2-12 October with its first long distance adventure since it had to cancel its ambitious plans to, literally, Rally the Globe. Inspired by Italian rally history, Carrera Italia started and finished in Sanremo on the…
Carrera Panamericana The Champion takes Command
This 34th edition of the revival Carrar Panamericana, which took place on 15-21 October, was won by Ricardo Cordero and Marco Hernández in their Studebaker Champion after a comeback that seemed all but impossible. After a blown tyre set them back over four and a half minutes on the first…