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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…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship
Rallye International du Valais – Stajf and Zelinka fly high in Switzerland Round eight of the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship was run in a Switzerland wearing its finest autumnal colours. The Rallye International du Valais on 21-23 October also counted towards the Swiss championship and the historic Swiss…
London to Brighton 125th Anniversary
As an unseasonably mild London was still shrouded in darkness, nearly 300 veteran cars, their drivers, passengers and hordes of enthusiastic well-wishers gathered in Hyde Park on Sunday 7 November for the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Celebrating 125 years since the original Emancipation Run, which was held…
Good News for International Rallying
It has been heartening to hear that the modern Rally du Maroc has gone ahead on 7-13 October, and while not many definite dates have been announced, the way should now be open for the many classic and historic rally organisers to plan their events. Yves Loubet and his organisation…
Roger Albert Clark Rally – The Toughest Yet
The 2021 edition of the Roger Albert Clark rally will be the longest, toughest, most competitive and best supported event yet in the 14-year story of the rally that sets out to recreate the RAC Rallies of the 1970s and 1980s. Running from 25 November through to the afternoon of…
Peking to Paris Motor Challenge rescheduled to 2023
New Mongolian Event The continuing impact of the COVID pandemic has triggered a postponement of the 2022 Peking to Paris Motor Challenge until June of 2023. However, the HERO-ERA team have provided some optimism for 2022 in the form a Mongolian event for competitors to experience the sheer joy and…
Neige et Glace 2022
Building on the success of 2020 when the event returned to the Doubs and Jura regions, and its base camp in Malbuisson, the 67th Rallye Neige et Glace returns to the fundamentals that have shaped the history of this sporting winter trial. This year, in order to avoid date clashes…
British Championship Makes a Belated Start
The shortened 2021 British Historic Rally Championship got underway in early September with the Three Shires Stages on the closed roads of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire. The first of just three rounds for 2021 got the BHRC back on track, 23 months after the last event, following the huge impact…
Legend Boucles @ Bastogne
Cancelled this year and replaced by a ‘balade’ of classic cars from the general public running over the stages without timing, the Boucles @ Bastogne has set the date of 5-6 February for the 2022 edition, avoiding a clash with the Monte Carlo Historique, which takes place the week before…
Winter Marathon
With winter fast approaching its time to think about which winter event you will be entering for early next year. The 34th Winter Marathon has just opened its entry list for the three-day event based in the ski resort of Madonna di Campiglio in the Italian Dolomites. This event is…
FIA European Rally Championship
Rally de Asturias Histórico ‘Zippo’ and Piceno take Spain by storm The Rally de Asturias Histórico was the first of two 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship rounds to be held on the Iberian Peninsula, with the Rally Costa Brava scheduled for November. A small contingent of FIA drivers made…
Happy Few Racing to Become Happy Many – Gran Trofeo – the Biggest Rally in the World
Rally organiser Laurent Blomet, founder of Happy Few Racing – which specialises in family rallies, for father and daughter, father and son, mother and son, etc. – has launched a new app that allows anyone to participate in regularity rallies across Europe and even compete against one another. With…
Monte-Carlo Historique
Details of the route for the 24th edition of Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique have been unveiled and the event will feature the return of concentration legs, with three famous cities on the starting options: Bad Homburg, Milan and Reims. There will be three different routes to Monte-Carlo. This move was directed…
Costa Brava Històric
The other Costa Brava Rally, a regularity event run by the same organisation, will keep to its traditional late September date, this year 30 September-3 October. A qualifying event for the FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies, the route offers a total of 28 Regularity stages over approximately 1,000 kilometres…
Record Entry for the Rally Costa Brava
The 69th Rally Costa Brava will be held on 19-20 November 2021 in Girona. The oldest rally in Spain and one of the most important historic rally events in Europe, the Costa Brava is normally the opening event on the FIA historic rally calendar. However this year it was postponed…