December 2020
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December 2020 Issue....
HSCC 2021 Calendar
The Historic Sports Car Club has unveiled its provisional race calendar for 2021 covering nine race meetings on nine different circuits. New for next year is a two-day mid-summer meeting at Donington Park, and a change in the Brands Hatch Indy date, which now moves to the Friday preceding the…
Changes ahead for Motor Racing Legends
Though still provisional the Motor Racing Legends calendar has been released with five major race meetings on the schedule (see our calendar page for these and other 2021 dates). “We are optimistic for next year, but you’ll see that we have taken the precaution of planning a more UK-focussed calendar in 2021 to…
American 2021 Race Schedule Most Ambitious Yet
One of the largest American historic racing organisations, Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced an ambitious 17-event schedule for 2021, the most events in the organisation’s 42-year history. With many new events and circuits in the mix, SVRA will also be visiting the west coast more often, including race…
The Norwegian Season 2020
Bengt-Åce Gustavsson Reports Racing in Norway was affected just like everywhere else when COVID-19 arrived this spring, with the first race meeting, at Rudskogen, postponed until late June. With restrictions in place, including a rule that said anyone who had been outside Norway’s borders in the two weeks before the…
NZ F5000 Running Close to Home
As the season in Europe comes to a close, it’s springtime in the southern hemisphere and the NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series season is just beginning. With travel for competition outside New Zealand’s borders virtually impossible, the Formula 5000 Association are preparing for a wholly NZ-based 2020/21 series of…
Modena Cento Ore
Anniversary Edition Way back in April, when the Modena Cento Ore was postponed to 11-15 October, it seemed like an impossible dream, but the persistence of Luigi Orlandini and his team paid off when a reduced grid of 24 cars in the competition section and nine regularity competitors, as compared…
Carrera Panamericana
70th Anniversary Only 28 cars took the green flag at the start of the Carrera Panamericana on October 15 this year, among them were French, American and Canadian crews, who had managed to get to Mexico despite all the restrictions. Starting this year in Oaxaca, Studebakers, as usual, were favoured,…
Classic Daytona 2020
a little smaller, just as loud Patrick Tremblay Reports The Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Classic Daytona presented by IMSA shook the coast of Florida for its fifth running on 4-8 November with a colourful spectrum of historic race cars. More than 60 years of speed were represented, from late-‘50s American…
Wet RHK Final in Karlskoga
The final of this year’s Swedish Racinghistoriska Cup was run during the Velodromloppet Historic GP in Karlskoga. Postponed to 16-18 October from its usual June date, the meeting was run in very rainy autumn conditions, with everyone thankful that at least it didn’t snow! For this and other reasons, the…
GOODWOOD SPEED WEEK
Edgy Edwardians star in SpeedWeek potpourri Marcus Pye Reports Curated to showcase the best aspects of the Goodwood Members’ Meeting, Festival of Speed and Revival – all lost to the COVID-19 pandemic this year – SpeedWeek was a colourful mix of motor sport genre performed behind closed doors at the…
HSCC SILVERSTONE FINALS
The curtain comes down on an intense season Seemingly within only a matter of weeks from the delayed start of the season, the Historic Sports Car Club was on home ground at Silverstone for the annual Finals Meeting on the National circuit. Good grids, some typical end of season excitement…
French Championship Season
Originally scheduled to consist of five race meetings, with two races at each meeting for each championship series, the FFSA and HVM Racing pulled off the unique feat of providing all five French Championship events, albeit with the first three rescheduled. Now they are looking forward to a more normal…
Motors Cup – Le Mans
Bugatti Bonus Though the French Championships were decided at Val de Vienne in late September (see our November issue), there was still some fun to be had and some points to score for a few of the individual French series at the October 16-17 Motors Cup meeting at the Le…
Motor Racing Legends Silverstone
Marcus Pye reports on an event, conceived and executed within only a few weeks, that proved to be like food to drivers starved of racing this season Historic Tourist Trophy brings Silverstone lining to MRL’s year Organised in the wake of the Spa Six Hours event’s late but inevitable cancellation,…