December 2024
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December 2024 Issue....
Alfa Revival Cup Final Round Misano Win Gives Davide Bertinelli the 2024 Title
The 2024 Alfa Revival Cup season concluded at Misano World Circuit under sunny skies on 5 November with one of the most highly contested races of the season. Davide Bertinelli of Team Gatti won the race to score his first Alfa Revival Cup championship title after pole man and points…
V de V Endurance Champions
At the end of the three V de V Sports endurance events of the season, namely the 6 Hours of Navarra, the 6 Hours of Paul Ricard and the Deux Tours d’Horloge, Damien Kohler and José Da Rocha emerged as the victorious crew in the 2024 VHC V de V…
Ingram Clinches Opening Round of the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series
Local driver Kevin Ingram won all three F5000 races at Manfeild’s Circuit Chris Amon, the opening round of the NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series on 8-10 November. Although the entry was below expectations due to shipping delays affecting the return of several vehicles from overseas – the planned 60-day…
2L Cup Champions
The highly competitive 2L Cup series, for early two-litre SWB Porsches runs to a handicap system that penalises professional or ‘Elite’ drivers with longer pitstop times. The races are 90 minutes with mandatory pit stop and most teams consist of two drivers. This year two Elite drivers, Kyle Tilley and…
HGPCA Inaugurates Historic Racing at the Transformed Circuit de Navarra
Tim Child became the first winner of a historic motor race on the updated Circuito de Navarra layout after claiming a double victory in his Brabham BT3/4 in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association races at the Navarra Historic Festival on 20 October. Following him home in race 1 was…
New Association to Champion Historic Circuit Racing
A new organisation dedicated to promoting the interests of organisers and drivers involved in historic circuit racing has been launched. The Historic Motorsport Association (HMA) aims to preserve the rich legacy of motorsport while fostering the sense of community that is one of the unique features of the sport in…
75 Years of Grand Prix to be Celebrated at the Silverstone Festival 2025
After an impressive and hugely popular tribute to Ayrton Senna at the 2024 Silverstone Festival, organisers will turn their attention to celebrating 75 years of Grand Prix racing at the Northamptonshire track. Three quarters of a century ago in 1950 Silverstone hosted the very first official points-scoring F1 Grand Prix…
Welch Motorsport Doubles up on Pandas
In 2023 we reported Jeremy Welch’s adventures with daughter Arabella in the mad event known as the Panda Raid (see our September 2023 issue), which travels across the Moroccan deserts in classic Fiat Pandas. Jeremy was so enamoured with the event that he took his younger daughter Emily this year,…
HYTracks Acquires Andalucia Circuit
Three years ago, Frenchman Brice Pineau and Belgian Olivier Muytjens created HYRacing, a racing team preparing both historic and modern cars such as Ford GT40, Shelby Cobra Daytona, Ford Mustang, De Tomaso Pantera, Porsche 911 RS, and the team has quickly become regulars in the historic paddocks. At the same…
Targa Florio Classica Fantasy Island
As noted by Peter Collins in our anniversary issue, many attempts to revive the Targa Florio for historic racing have been short-lived. Today, however, its heritage is very much alive and kicking. Not only does the modern Targa Florio Rally, a round of the Italian Rally Championship, take in parts…
XXI Rally Costa Brava Històric
Catalans David Garrigolas and Jordi Boix (VW Golf GTI) won the October 24-27 XXI Rally Costa Brava Històric, a particularly challenging edition due to unpredictable weather and intense competition amongst the more than 100 teams. In fact, until the very last of the 26 regularity stages and nearly 1,000 kilometres,…
Prodrive Honoured at RAC Gathering of Rally Greats
An incredible line-up of motorsport heroes gathered in London as the Royal Automobile Club presented Prodrive with its Diamond Jubilee Trophy on 31 October, reflecting the great esteem in which the British company is held, as everyone reminisced about 40 years of Prodrive success in rallying, sports-car racing, touring cars…
Carrera Panamericana
The 37th revival of the famous Carrera Panamericana took place on 11-17 October, following a 3,352-kilometre route that included 540kms of timed stages, from Oaxaca, the cultural heart of Mexico, to San Luis Potosi via Veracruz, Mexico City, Querétaro, Michoacán, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes. After the shakedown stage, where first-day running…
Land’s End to John O’Groats Returns in 2025
In late 2023 competitors in the gruelling Le Jog event covered1500 miles (2400kms) from the southernmost tip of the UK to its most northern in 75 hours in some of the most difficult weather conditions ever experienced on the event. The 44-car field was decimated, with just 27 making it…
European Historic Rally Championship Sanremo Rally Storico
A regular on the FIA EHRC calendar over the years, the 2024 Sanremo Rally Storico route consisted of 11 tight, twisty and undulating Tarmac stages over a competitive distance of 133.99 kilometres, starting on 19 October. A round of the Italian modern and historic championships, this celebration of rallying’s glorious…
Masters on Tour
Masters Historic Racing was thrilled to be invited back to the Circuit of the Americas in Texas to supply two support races to the United States Grand Prix, followed by a trip to Mexico to support the Mexican Formula One Grand Prix with their historic F1 cars. Cantillon and Wiltshire…
The Portimão Pre-war Bentley 24 Hours 2024
Benjafield scores a memorable Century On the 10th anniversary of their previous event, and the 100th anniversary of the first Bentley victory at Le Mans, the Benjafield Club staged the Bentley 24 Hours at Portimão on 5-6 October. Race director, and Bentley specialist, William Medcalf declared, “We are the only…
LES 2 TOURS D’HORLOGE 2024
On the weekend of 1-3 November, 32 teams took a Le Mans style start under radiant provincial sun and embarked upon the 2 Tours d’Horloge on the Paul Ricard circuit, the only competition in the world for historic cars that runs for 24 hours without interruption. At the end of…