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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…
Swiss Hillclimbing
For reasons that appear obvious, the Swiss have maintained a lively schedule of hillclimb events nearly from the beginning of the motor car itself, the first was in 1901. These include such giants as the Klausenrennen, first run in 1922 and considered to be the Nordschleife of the hillclimb world,…
Targa Tasmania – Anniversary Edition
Plans are well underway for the 30th edition of what organisers style as ‘the Ultimate Tarmac Rally’, which will take place in 2022, starting from the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Launceston, Tasmania, the same location from which the very first Targa cars departed back in 1992. Started by a…
The 1st Francorchamps Rallye Festival
After all the setbacks of 2020, the Belgian ASBL Spa Historic Racing Team has announced the creation of the Francorchamps Rallye Festival. An event similar to the Eifel Rallye Festival, Alsace Rallye Festival and Rallyspirit in Portugal, it will consist of a vast demonstration of historic rally cars in their…
Asphalt and Gravel – New Rally for Corsica
The new Scuderia Oriente, with the collaboration of Corsica superstars Dominique Savignoni, Yves Loubet and Sabrina de Castelli, has announced a new challenge, the first half asphalt and half gravel rally exclusively for Historic Competition (VHC) and Regularity (VHRS) competitors. The 1st Aleria Historic Rally will take place on 8-12…
Poland to Host the Final of 2021 FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies
The FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies has undergone a change in format in recent years and, instead of a list of point-scoring events, there are 17 qualifying events all around Europe with one final to decide the winner. This year the final will be held in Poland for the…
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…