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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…
Star Studded Cast for Tour de Corse
The oversubscribed (a record 380 entries) Tour de Corse Historique 2023 will offer a new route of more than 1000Kms in total, that will include 18 timed special stages, some of which are those used in the WRC event, over five days of competition on 7-14 October. The entry list…
Continued Suspension of Targa Events in Australia
After 15 months of collaboration with Motorsport Australia, Targa Australia, promoter of Targa Tasmania, Targa Great Barrier Reef and others, has today announced that it will suspend all future motorsport-based events until the full ramifications of Motorsport Australia’s review into tarmac rallying can be quantified and assessed. This means that…
Mille Miglia
Andrea Vesco won his fourth consecutive Mille Miglia (his sixth in all) and his co-driver Fabio Salvinelli equalled Giuliano Canè ‘s record with a string of three victories in this year’s Mille Miglia revival, the longest edition in the history of the event. The 2200km route over five days, from…
Gravel Romania Cancelled
After seven successful editions of the competitive special stage Winter Romania Rally, and two summer Gravel Romania events, Paul Lacombe and his team have had to announce the cancellation of this year’s Gravel Romania Rally, which had been scheduled for 20-24 June, due to lack of entries. The whole team…
Rallylegend
One of the original rally festivals, Rallylegend, is back on 12-15 October. This popular event, which attracts large numbers of drivers and spectators to the ‘Rally Village’ in the medieval heart of the tiny Republic of San Marino features many activities besides the rallying itself. Many celebrity drivers take part,…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – 56th Mecsek Rally
Thomas Erdi Jr storms to victory on home event Playing their home ground advantage to the full and the sort of pace that has seen them challenge on every appearance this year, local hero Tibor Erdi Jnr and his Croatian co-driver Istvan Kerek won the Mecsek Rally outright in their…
30th Classic Marathon
After an epic five-day, 2000km drive on a mixed route of tarmac and gravel, from Slovenia to Croatia and Austria, and back to Bled in Slovenia, Mark and Sue Godfrey piloted their MGB to their third Classic Marathon victory on 18-23 June at the front of a field of 46…
Rally for the Ages
Oh, to be young and free…. On June 3 an impressive 90 cars lined up at Bicester Heritage for the start of a 100-mile competitive route of four regularities around Oxfordshire and four tests at Bicester. Eighteen crew members were aged 15 and under, two aged just 11. 41% of…
Safari Classic
The entry list for the 9-18 December East African Classic Safari rally is full, with 58 entries having paid their deposits and been confirmed and another 20 on the waiting list. Amongst these are nearly 20 places that have been reserved by entrants Tuthill Porsche, BMA Vintage and others that…
Zanirollis are back – For Two Years
In our April 2023 issue we reported that Patrick and Viviane Zaniroli had decided to step down from the hands-on organising of the Rally Neige et Glace and the Trophée des Alpes rallies. At that time the couple said, “Buyers have already taken steps and we should be able to…
Aléria Historic Rally Capanaccia And Deveza – Double the Stakes
Frédéric Lombard Reports Dominique Savignoni, Sabrina De Castelli and ASA Restonica have seen their efforts rewarded this year, with their gravel rally in the Aléria region of Corsica becoming part of the French Gravel Rally Championship. With two rallies in the same week of 29 Mai, 3 June, the crews…
Rally de Asturias Histórico – FIA Historic Rally Championship – Round Three
The lush green landscape of Asturias in northern Spain was the setting for the third round of the FIA European and Spanish Historic Rally Championships. The 41 crews, (24 of them entered in the FIA Championship) faced 130kms of tarmac special stages over two days in the Rally de Asturias…
RALLYE DU CHABLAIS – FIA Historic Rally Championship – Round Four – Local Teams Make Good
The 19th Rallye du Chablais, Round 4 of this year’s FIA European Historic Rally Championship on 1-3 June, was memorable for many reasons, reaching its conclusion after a final day of drama and incident. Day 1 overnight leaders Lucky and Fabrizia Pons had swept into the lead in their Lancia…