August 2021
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August 2021 Issue....
RHK 2020 Champions
On the Saturday night of the Velodromloppet (see page 50), RHK held its award ceremony for last season’s winners, with over a hundred prizes awarded for all the classes. Johan Lund, as last year’s RHK Champion received the biggest trophy. RHK also took the opportunity to award its special prizes….
Daytona Classic
Entries are now open for the HSR Classic Daytona event, which takes place on 27-31 October. The event, which features seven different Run Groups competing in succession for a full 24 hours on the iconic Daytona International Speedway 3.56-mile road course. The various period-correct classes within each Run Group combine…
F1 to Feature at Estoril
Race Ready, Promoters of the Estoril Classic race meeting, is calling for all drivers of ‘70s and ‘80s F1 cars to get in touch for a sponsored race at the Estoril Classics event, which takes place in sunny southern Portugal on 8-10 October. This will be the fourth successful year…
Green Credentials at Paul Ricard
The Circuit Paul Ricard is continuing its commitment to sustainable development initiated more than ten years ago by adding a new action to its environmental approach: the switch of its entire diesel fleet to biodiesel. In 2019, Circuit Paul Ricard became the first circuit in France and the second Formula…
Mergers and Acquisitions Hagerty Acquires Amelia Island Classic
Concours d’Elegances seem to be proliferating in today’s world, with new ones popping up regularly, while the old established ones seem to be changing hands. After the acquisition earlier in the year of the Cavallino Classic by Canossa Events, Michigan-based Hagerty has announced it has acquired the Amelia Island Concours,…
Good golly Miss Molly is on the way up
Marcus Pye Writes….. The Historic Formula Ford 2000 championship had its first female race winner – on track at least – when Molly Dodd took the chequered flag in the second heat on Brands Hatch Indy Circuit on Friday, July 9. The 18-year-old was unsurprisingly deflated, however, when a 30…
American Speedfest
After an enforced absence in 2020 due to COVID, the popular American Speedfest returned to Brands Hatch, appropriately over the 4th of July weekend. This was the eighth running of the event which centres around the NASCAR sanctioned Whelan Euro Series (NWES). While most of the race programme is for…
Full House for the Tour de Corse
Such is the fame of the Historic Tour de Corse, the organisers took just a few weeks to fill the entry list in the three eligible categories: VHC (historic racing cars), VHRS (sporting regularity) and Legend (on show no timing), for the 2021 event. More than 300 cars and their…
Stella Alpina
The 36th Stella Alpina tribute rally was held on June 11-13 on a route crossing 10 spectacular mountain passes and driving past six picturesque Alpine lakes. With the majestic beauty of the Dolomites providing the backdrop for 65 time trials and six average speed stages, 12 time checks, and a…
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…
London Classic Car Show
The London Classic Car Show has led a nomadic existence for a year or two since leaving its long term home at ExCel in Docklands. Having moved to the more central location of Olympia in early 2020, this year the organisers made the wise decision to move outdoors to Syon…
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…
HRDC Lydden Hill
Code-switcher Heathcote beats Jordan “Never heard of Nathan Heathcote? You have now,” said Historic Racing Drivers’ Club founder Julius Thurgood after the 2017 British Rallycross champion beat fellow Mini Cooper S driver Andrew Jordan, the 2013 British Touring Car champion, in both Liqui Moly Jack Sears Trophy races at the…
Goodwood Festival of Speed, 2021
John Whiteman went to one of the first events in the UK to be completely open to the public. Given the go-ahead as a pilot event by the UK Government’s Event Research Programme prior to opening all public events to normal capacity, the Goodwood Festival of Speed drew eager crowds…
Spa Summer Classic
It’s been a long while since we’ve seen historic racing at Spa and, while the Spa Summer Classic went ahead on schedule on the weekend of 26-27 June, it did so without an audience, and without the participation of the usual Brits. Absent was the Historic Sports Car Club, usually…