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BHRC reduced to three rounds
The 2021 British Historic Rally Championship will now run over just three events following the cancellation of what would have been the opening two rounds of a shortened five-round season. The Harry Flatters Rally (25 July) and the Plains Rally (14 August) were both due to run in Wales but…
Mille Miglia 2021
Having previously won with Andrea Guerini (twice) on the notes, then last year with his father Roberto, Andrea Vesco, this time with Fabio Salvinelli, took his fourth Mille Miglia victory, once again driving his 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Super Sport. The time-distance contest ran counter-clockwise this year on 16-19…
FIA Historic Rally Championship – 54th Mecsek Rallye
A heatwave in Hungary saw the preliminaries for the 54th Mecsek Rallye, round three of nine in the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship, take place in 39 degree temperatures. With promises of storms to come, the 24-26 June event started as dark clouds gathered over the first stage. Heavy rain…
Motor Sport Legend Joins Rally the Globe
Rally the Globe has enlisted motor sport legend Ari Vatanen as its first Club President. Now aged 69, the illustrious Finn was rally World Champion in 1981 and amongst other rallying successes won the Paris Dakar Rally no fewer than four times. He was a part of the mythic Group…
Terre di Canossa 2021
The Beauty of Historic Italy Gianmario Fontanella and Anna Maria Covelli won the 11th Terre di Canossa, which took place on 20-23 May, in a 1927 Lancia Lambda Spider. After two and a half days of tough tests alternating with picturesque stops at sites of historical interest, passing through historic…
Summer Trial
The first major classic road rally of the year was the HERO Summer Trial which ran over three days, from 4 to 6 June, from a base in Telford. Nearly 60 crews took part in pre-1986 cars and the winners were BMW crew Angus McQueen and Mike Cochrane who have…
Balade des Legend Boucles Bastogne
When the Boucles a Bastogne rally was cancelled last year, then again this year, the main reason was to avoid the large public gathering that the event attracts – so organisers decided that rather than waste all the effort of creating the route book and organising the marshalling and checkpoints,…
Roger Albert Clark Rally a Sellout
Like their track racing counterparts, historic rally drivers are obviously very keen to get back on the road. The organisers of the 2021 Roger Albert Clark Rally, scheduled for 25-29 November, were completely overwhelmed by the demand for places when the entry list opened. All 150 places were snapped up…
Enlarged Eligibility for Rally Portugal
From this year the Rally de Portugal Historico will expand its eligibility criteria to welcome cars built up to 1986. However, in order not to discourage the earlier cars, always a feature of this event, the Classic Category, for period E and F cars (1946 to 1965) and under 1600cc…
John Naylor on European Historic Rallying
In a recent interview, incoming Historic Motor Sport Commission President John Naylor was asked how the FIA will promote the European Historic Rally Championship to enable it to grow in the next few years? “2021 is not the year to think about growth, although I am all for growth.” said…
Les Princesses Cancelled
France is suffering badly from the effects of the pandemic, and with it the 100 teams that signed up for this year’s Rallye des Princesses. Having had to cancel their event in 2020, for the second year running, Viviane Zaniroli and her team are amongst the many French organisers that…
Rallye de Portugal Historic 2021- Good News
After the cancellation of the event in 2020 due to travel restrictions, the Automobile Club de Portugal confirmed that the Rallye de Portugal Histórico, considered the best European regularity rally, will take place on 4-10 0ctober 2021 as part of the Estoril Classics Week. With its traditional start in the…
ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival – Anniversary Edition
Sadly organisers of the Eifel Rally Festival, scheduled this year for 22-24 July have decided to postpone the tenth running of the event until 2022. “The Eifel Rallye Festival exists principally for its participants and the thousands of fans. Demonstration drives of historic rally cars, the enthusiastic fans out on…
Gravel Romania Historic Rally
Due to run for the second time last year, but like so many other events, cancelled at the last minute, the Gravel Romania Historic Rally promises to be challenging with a five-day route and 24 ES, for a total of 391kms of timed special stages, all on 100% gravel. Open…
Sanremo Rally Storico
The 36th Historic Sanremo Rally opened both the Italian and FIA Historic Rally Championship seasons on 7-8 April. Back on the FIA calendar after a five-year absence, some 75 crews, of which over 20 were contesting the FIA Championship, were at the start line, including three past winners and six…
Star Entries for the 1st Aléria Historic Rally
Two Corsican rally greats, Jean-Pierre Manzagol and Ange-Marie Venturini are working on their plans for the recently-announced, Aléria Historic Rally, which will take place in on 9-12 June on the eastern coast and in the centre of the island (see our March issue). Venturini will be driving his ex- Andruet,…
Ypres Historic to Run Indpendently of WRC Event
While the Ypres Rally Belgium has moved to August to become a round of the World Rally Championship, the Ypres Historic Rally plans to run on the event’s traditional date of June 27. The 28th edition of the Historic Rally, which is a round of the Historic Belgian Championship, will…
New dates for the Tour Auto
Sadly the end of COVID is not yet upon us, and this has led Peter Auto to take the decision, in accordance with all the towns along the way, to postpone the Tour Auto again this year. To have run on 19-24 April, the new date for the 30th running…
Schedule Changes for HERO
Leading classic rally promoter HERO-ERA was forced to substantially re-work its calendar for the spring and early summer in response to on-going COVID restrictions. The Flying Scotsman event for Pre-War cars, planned for April, has been cancelled for this year but will return in 2022. Meanwhile, the ever-popular Scottish Malts…
Stella Alpina
This has had the knock-on effect of causing organisers of the Stella Alpina rally, which was to take place on the new Mille Miglia dates, to move their date to 11-13 June. This year’s event, which is the 36th running, will be based in Madonna di Campiglio and take in…