April 2024
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April 2024 Issue....
ASAVÉ Racing
Under new management, ASAVÉ is finding its feet in the new season and has recently set two dates for rounds of its GT Tourisme Challenge. The Racing 65 drivers are invited to the Circuit des Remparts at Angoulême on 13-15 September, and both the Racing 65 cars and the GT…
AGS presents the F1 90s Time Attack Competition
AGS Racing, who built and raced the JH 24 and JH 25 Formula 1 cars in the late 1980s, have announced a series of events for F1 and F3000 cars of that period. AGS has been taking part in demonstrations of cars from the ’80 and ‘90s but wanted to…
Historic Festival 42 Lime Rock Park to celebrate 60 years of the Ford Mustang and Ford Motorsports
As traditions dictates Lime Rock Park will host the Historic Festival on the US Labor Day weekend (30 August-2 September), this year, for the 42nd time. The five-day event will not only commemorate the 60th anniversary of one of the most iconic and enduring muscle cars in automotive history, the…
Spa Six Hours
A prestigious line-up of races is planned for the Spa Six Hours race meeting on the last weekend of September. Highlight, as always, will be the Spa Six Hours race itself, which will run for the 31st time this year. A new timetable, debuted last year, has free practice on…
Spa Three Hours at the Spa Summer Classic
First run in 2016 in a collaboration between Iberian Historic Endurance, Classic Sports Car Club, and Roadbook, th e Spa 3 Hours, and the supporting race meeting around it, has developed into a major international event. In a world where series tend to keep themselves to themselves, it is refreshing…
Spa Francochamps 2024 Season
Spa is one of the drivers’ favourite tracks, and in 2024 there are a number of opportunities for almost anyone with a racing car to compete there this (and each) year. Besides the club meetings and National Championships, three very international race meetings stand out….. Created in 2011, Peter Auto’s…
Inaugural HSR Prototype Challenge
Kenton Koch pulled off the winning pass on the penultimate lap of the inaugural HSR Prototype Challenge presented by IMSA two-hour race, and went on to win in the One Motorsports Ligier JS P3 with co-driver Jon Field. In what was an all-Ligier JS P3 podium, the pair took…
Nova Motorsport Takes over Manufacture of Avon Tyres
Nova Motorsport has acquired assets, including the brand license, used in the manufacture and sale of a broad range of motorsport tyres under the names “Avon Motorsport” and “Avon Racing”, assuring a continuity of supply. A Goodyear spokesperson told us, “We are pleased to bring further promise to the motorsport…
New FIA Historic Motorsport Committee
The slimming down of the FIA has proved difficult for Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who promised to streamline the organisation. The forming of the 2024 Commissions and Committees has been a challenge, as wrangling over who should be in and who should be out has meant that, so far, the make-up…
Griffiths Haig Trophy
Open to owner drivers of suitable cars with drum brakes, built and registered between 1947 and 1961, the HSCC’s Griffiths Haig Trophy series has been offered four double header race weekends this year at top-quality venues. These are at the Silverstone GP circuit on 4 May, Donington Park (8-9 June),…
Full Season for Group C
Peter Auto has announced that the legendary Group C cars will be making a comeback in 2024 with a four-event calendar that includes the Mugello Classic, Spa-Classic, the Grand Prix de l’Âge d’Or and the Dix Mille Tours. This series, celebrating the Golden Age of Sports Prototypes, brings together the…
Shadows at Goodwood
Half a century after he won the ninth and last Canadian-American Challenge championship in a Shadow DN4, Jackie Oliver will be reunited with the Chevro-let V8-engined sledgehammer at Goodwood’s 81st Members’ Meeting on 13-14 April. Oliver, now 81, was a Le Mans 24 Hours winner – having partnered Jacky Ickx…
Campbell’s Bluebird Goes Home to Coniston
After much controversy and a legal battle with the person who originally retrieved her from the depths of Coniston Water and carried out much of her restoration, Bluebird K7 was finally returned to the Lake District village to be be conserved and displayed in its forever home – the Bluebird…
RAC Summer Run
The Royal Automobile Club has confirmed that this year’s Summer Veteran Car Run will make a welcome return on Thursday 18 July. The single-day Summer Run was established in 2022 to provide owners of pre-1905 vehicles with an opportunity to enjoy their cars in the more clement summer weather, as…
Silverstone Festival to Honour Ayrton Senna
Organisers of the 23-25 August Silverstone Festival will honour one of motor sport’s most iconic drivers: Ayrton Senna. The timing of the celebration is both significant and poignant. It is 40 years since the young Brazilian burst onto the F1 scene with the Toleman team in 1984 and 30 years…
Attention Historic F1 Drivers
RM Sotheby’s has announced that it will be selling the Jody Scheckter Collection at its Monaco sale, the star of which is the Ferrari 312 T4 with which the South African driver scored his 1979 World Championship title.The collection also includes a 1973 McLaren M23, a 1971 McLaren M19A, and…
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…