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Madness in the Desert Dakar Classic
A new challenge for historic rally drivers was the Dakar Classic, a regularity event in the Saudi desert for cars up to the year 2000. Run in parallel with the madness that is the modern Dakar, which took place from 3-16 January, a reconnaissance team led by historic rally specialist…
39th Mille Miglia Storico
The 2021 Mille Miglia, the 39th revival event, will return to its traditional date, this year 12-15 May. Owners must register their cars at registro1000miglia.it. Only cars built before December 31, 1957, in original condition, restored in accordance to the original configuration, or with documented changes added during use, can…
Winter Event Falling by the Wayside
After the cancellation of the Dutch-organised Winter Trial, The Historic Endurance Rally Organisation was forced to abandon its planned Winter Challenge to Monte Carlo scheduled for February in light of on-going cross-border travel restrictions due to the Corona Virus. The Winter Challenge has been postponed for 12 months until February…
30 Years of the Tour Auto Revival
This year the Tour Auto, one of the earliest motoring events, which first ran in 1899, will mark its 30th anniversary as a revival event. Each year a special marque or model is selected to receive priority and special recognition during the five-day rally, and this year Peter Auto has…
Tour de Corse Historique
Pre-entries are now open for this five-day special stage rally on the roads of Corsica. With a unique atmosphere between competitors and spectators, the 2021 edition will follow a new 900km route, over 220kms of which are on 18 special stages. Entries are limited to 250, and include competition and…
FIA Rallies
On page 49 of our January/February issue, and on this website, you will find the 2021 historic rally calendar, including the FIA Championship dates for the Sporting Rally Championship, which undergoes a name change this year, and is to be officially known as the FIA European Historic Rally Championship. The…
The Norwegian Season 2020
Bengt-Åce Gustavsson Reports Racing in Norway was affected just like everywhere else when COVID-19 arrived this spring, with the first race meeting, at Rudskogen, postponed until late June. With restrictions in place, including a rule that said anyone who had been outside Norway’s borders in the two weeks before the…
Carrera Panamericana
70th Anniversary Only 28 cars took the green flag at the start of the Carrera Panamericana on October 15 this year, among them were French, American and Canadian crews, who had managed to get to Mexico despite all the restrictions. Starting this year in Oaxaca, Studebakers, as usual, were favoured,…
Madonna di Campiglio
Entries are now open for the annual Winter Marathon regularity rally based in the resort of Madonna di Campiglio in the Italian Dolomites. It is due to run next year on 14-17 January. One of the unique features of this event is the race on the frozen lake on the…
Terre di Canossa
The 10th edition of the Gran Premio Terre di Canossa exploring the roads of Emilia and Tuscany came to a close on October 4 with a win for Alberto Aliverti and Stefano Valente driving an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS Zagato in less than ideal weather conditions for such an…
The HERO Summer Trial
One of the few significant UK classic rallies to go ahead since the COVID lockdown was the HERO Summer Trial, which moved to the late summer date of 25-27 September on a heavily revised route. After two and a half days of competition, largely in Shropshire, over special tests and…
Rallye Elba Storico
Alberto Salvini and Davide Tagliaferri took their Group 4 Porsche Carrera RS to victory in the XXXII Rallye Elba Storico-Trofeo Locman, run on its originally scheduled date of 17-19 September with a full entry list of over 130 cars. The second round of the Italian Championship was this year, for…
Tour de Corse Historique – 20th Edition
In these difficult times the Tour de Corse Historique was a kind of beacon of normalcy, when a full complement of 210 cars, over 130 in competition (VHC) and the others split into regularity categories (VHRS) of high, medium and low average speed, took the start in Porto-Vecchio on 6…
The New Zealand Silver Fern Rally
In another blow to historic rallying the planned Silver Fern Rally has been cancelled due to the on-going COVID-19 travel restrictions. The marathon biennial event relies on entries from Europe to make it viable and with those now not possible the organisers had no option but to cancel the 2020…
Rallye des Princesses
Since 1999 Viviane Zaniroli has been encouraging women to get behind the wheel of old sports and GT cars and compete in their own right. The resulting Rallye des Princesses regularity rally, inspired on the old Paris – Saint-Raphaël Féminin, has been a great success over the ensuing 20 years,…
Rallye Monte-Carlo
Though some things have changed much will be the same on next year’s Historic Monte, which takes place on 30 January – 3 February. Though organisers have foregone the multi-national starting points in 2021 after the trauma of this year’s COVID epidemic, the challenge will be as tough as ever…
Championnat de France des Rallyes VHC
Bumper entries mark the resumption of the French rally season Rallye de la Châtaigne After the long break between the Touquet Pas-de-Calais rally in March, and the second round of the French Historic Rally Championship, the Rallye de la Châtaigne finally got under way on 19-21 August. The 2020 edition…
Tour Auto
Three Cheers for Favaro Jean-Marie Biadatti reports The 29th edition of the Tour Auto Optic 2000 had to be postponed to September because of the pandemic and the continuing health situation led some competitors to withdraw at the last minute. There were nevertheless 195 competitors still at the start, with…
Truck Champion Aims for Peking-Paris
Former British Truck Racing champion Richard Walker is starting preparations for his biggest motor sport challenge to date, as he embarks on a project to contest the Peking-Paris Rally in 2022. Walker, a multiple truck racing champion, has most recently contested a few races in a Lotus Cortina with his…
BHRC schedule changes for 2021
The organisers of the Motorsport UK British Historic Rally Championship have come up with a significantly altered calendar for 2021 after losing this year’s championship to the COVID-19 pandemic. Championship manager Colin Heppenstall, from the Roger Albert Clark Rally Motor Club, says he has deliberately opted for events that are…