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14th Maroc Historic Rally
Memorable Victory for Auriol, ‘Le Lutin De Millau’ For its 14th edition since its revival in 2010 by Corsican driver Yves Loubet and the motorsports club ‘Le Grand Maghreb’, it must be noted that there was no 13th edition as well as no 13th special stage. The number 13 was banned…
History-Making Generation Rally Ladies First
The third running of Rally the Globe’s Generations Rally proved every bit as popular and successful as the two previous editions of an event established specifically to spread the passion for historic motorsport to a younger age group. What’s more, the 23-25 March event made history not only with the…
British Historic Rally Championship Severn Valley Stages
Seb Perez and Gary McElhinney took their Porsche 911 to a convincing Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship victory in the Rallynuts Severn Valley Stages on 13 April. Battling with BHRC newcomer and former British Rally Champion Mark Higgins during the day, Perez scored four fastest times from seven stages,…
Generation Rallying, or Welch’s Panda Adventures
Last September we reported historic racer and preparer Jeremy Welch’s adventures on the Panda Raid, which he did with 20-year-old daughter Arabella. This year it was younger daughter Emily’s turn to head to Morocco with her dad to spend six days travelling over 1200kms of Morocco’s toughest off-road terrain including…
Balade des Legend Boucles Bastogne 2024
The two-day Legend Boucles @ Bastogne 2024 was completed in early February with a third win for Stefan Stouf and Joris Erard (Escort Mk2) after the Escort of first-day leaders, Ghislain de Mévius and Johan Jalet, suffered a broken rear axle on day two’s second stage. Now it is the…
The Pearl of India
Heaving overcrowded metropolises where people live cheek by jowl and space is at a premium, traffic jams that put our European roads to shame, but also incredible architecture, vast open spaces, nature, mysticism and spirituality are all attributes of the seventh largest country in the world. HERO’s upcoming 20-day, long-distance…
Tour de Corse Historique, the Year of the Lancia 037
Star of the film Race for Glory (currently in cinemas), the mythical Lancia 037 Group B car was also one of the great attractions of the last Rétromobile show, as a reminder that 40 years ago, this model won in France what remains the last victory of a rear-wheel-drive car…
Gravel Romania
For those who like a rally based on speed, Gravel Romania Historic Rally offers challenges galore, with varied terrain over long stages in a compact five-day event. On a route of just over 1100kms in total, nearly 400kms are at speed in 27 special stages, all on loose surface. Run…
Gravel Romania
For those who like a rally based on speed, Gravel Romania Historic Rally offers challenges galore, with varied terrain over long stages in a compact five-day event. On a route of just over 1100kms in total, nearly 400kms are at speed in 27 special stages, all on loose surface. Run…
Rally the Globe – Road to Hanoi
In a spectacular start to 2024, Rally the Globe’s first driving adventure in the Far East – the Road to Hanoi Marathon (27 January to 23 February) – was a real journey of discovery through Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos. It was also the club’s second consecutive ‘Marathon’ category event…
XX Rally Clásico Isla Mallorca
The 18th Edition of the Mallorca Classic Rally was held on 7-9 March. The growth and success of this event is a tribute to the indefatigable enthusiasm of organiser Tony Descallar, who in another age picked up the remains of the Tour of Mallorca that had ended up with a…
British Historic Rally Championship Round One Riponian Stages Rally
George Lepley took his Mitsubishi Galant VR4 to victory in the first rally of the 2024 British Historic Rally Championship season on 11 February when he won the Riponian Stages Rally. Lepley and co-driver Dale Bowen used their four-wheel-drive machine to great effect in treacherous, rain-soaked conditions, to secure the…
Winter Romania Rally Victory for Paul Chabloz
The 8th edition of the Winter Romania Rally on 19-21 January was perfect, both in terms of the weather conditions and the intensity of the competition in the different categories. A fierce duel pitted last year’s winners, Paul Chabloz and Philippe Escobar in a BMW 325 IX against the winner…
ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival Rally Cars from A – Z
Plans for the 2024 Eifel Rally Festival are already well advanced, and entries have been open since 1 February. Within a couple of days more that 100 applications were received. Cars from almost fifty different manufacturers, from Alfa Romeo to Wartburg have participated in the past 11 editions and almost…
New Six-day event from Croatia to Bavaria
Taking in closed-road special stages and circuits along the way, Target Bavaria Rally (TBR) promises six exciting days with a start at Rijeka (in Croatia), to Postojna in Slovenia and the Karawank mountains to Austria, paving its way through Zeltweg and Salzburg before coming to an end in Munich Germany. …
Rallye des Princesses
The Rallye des Princesses Richard Mille will celebrate its 23rd edition on 25-30 May and with a varied route each year so that the Princesses can experience different regions and different cultural traditions, this year they will head West. After the traditional start from the Place Vendôme in Paris, this…
2 Generations Rally
The first to come up with a formula to encourage families and younger people to engage in some mild competition while enjoying classic cars, the 2 Generations Classic was first run in 2016 and proved to be an immediate success. Run by the Belgian SeaSunRally Organisation, who have been organising…
Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique
As every year now, there are about ten days between the two Monte-Carlo rallies, the modern WRC and the historic, the latter not attracting the same clientele at all, and especially not the same spectators. After a flawless run, Belgian Michel Decremer won the 26th edition of the Rallye Monte-Carlo…
Winter Marathon, Madonna di Campiglio 2024
The young Franciacorta Motori crew of Edoardo Bellini and Roberto Tiberti took their third victory in the Winter Marathon on 19 January in extreme cold conditions in the same 1937 Fiat 508 C with which they won in 2021 and 2022. Having led from just after the first stage in…
Dakar Classic Saudi Arabia
Nearly 500 teams of bikes, trucks, buggies and cars, including 78 Classic entries, converged on a super-sized bivouac near the ancient Arabic oasis city of Al-’Ula (also known as AlUla) situated in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia on the historic incense route that once linked India and the Persian…