February 2025
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February 2025 Issue....
Monterey Motorsports Reunion
Applications have now opened for Monterey’s annual Motorsports Reunion, which will run this year on 13-16 August at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Organisers have promised ‘exciting new experiences’ amongst the 13 race groups, ranging from 1922-1955 Grand Prix legends to more modern machines like 1991-2011 IMSA prototypes, ensuring that…
MRL 2025
Big changes are afoot in the Motor Racing Legends organisation with the new owner, Shaun Lynn (see page 30 this issue to read our interview with him) and CEO Pierre-Antoine Lecoutour convinced that they can increase the enjoyment for owner-drivers and amateurs by tightening up the regulations and enforcement of…
New Grids for the Silverstone Festival
Back in 1950, when Silverstone hosted the first-ever points scoring F1 Grand Prix, only one support race was on the programme. It was for 500cc Formula 3 cars. Adding to the previously announced 75th anniversary celebrations of F1 at the Silverstone Festival this summer, a colourful field of these diminutive…
HGPCA Awards
More than 160 members, guests and friends attended the Annual HGPCA Lunch at the Royal Automobile Club in early December to celebrate a successful race season and applaud those chosen to receive awards for their achievements both on and off the track. Chairman Peter Horsman welcomed everyone and started the…
SuperSixties – Rhea Sautter and Andy Newall Crowned Overall Champions
The Metropole classic car museum in Druten, Netherlands was the appropriate setting for the 2024 SuperSixties awards ceremony. After 12 races on six different circuits, no fewer than 85 crews were classified for the Dutch racing series for pre-’66 historic touring and GT cars. The huge challenge trophy was awarded…
Formula Junior Historic North America 2025: Four Feature Race Schedule
The FJHNA have announced four feature races for 2025, starting on 25-27 April at Mid-Ohio during the all-Formula FRP weekend racing event. FJ is invited to the acclaimed Velocity Invitational event at Sonoma Raceway on the new date of 6-8 June. However, with 13 groups invited, only the 9 with…
F2/ F3 Interseries
Acommon set of F3 regulations has been agreed by HVM, the HSCC and the German HRA (Historic Racecar Association) for the F3 Classic InterSeries organised by HVM. With two classes – 1600 1971 to 1973 and 2000 1974 to 1984 – a minimum weight including driver has been introduced (1600…
Priceless Cars Up for Grabs
Some rare competition cars that have been salted away for decades are coming to market in the near future. A huge stir was created when Tom Hartley Jr announced last month that he had been tasked to sell Bernie Ecclestone’s collection of 69 competition cars. Acquired at various times in…
Cars from the Indianapolis Museum
Another deeply significant collection of cars has also come up for sale, this time at auction by RM Sotheby’s, who refer to it as a “A Once in a Lifetime Deal”. Though only 11 cars will be leaving the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, they rank among the most sought-after automobiles…
Broad Arrow Auctions heads for Europe
Broad Arrow Auctions has announced its partnership with BMW AG to become the official auction partner of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, starting in May 2025. As part of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este event, Broad Arrow Auctions is expected to offer up to 70 high quality collector cars for…
Andrew Hibberd, Triple Crown
Andrew Hibberd added to his tally of 2024 titles by winning the European Historic Formula 3 Championship. He had already won the HSCC Formula 3 and UK Formula Junior championships driving a Brabham BT18 in Formula 3 and alternating between a Lotus 20 and Lotus 22 in Formula Junior.
Motor Racing Legends to Partner with Supercar Driver
Motor Racing Legends has announced a partnership with Supercar Driver. A member’s club exclusively for supercars and their owners, Supercar Driver is known in particular for its Secret Meets, and organises scenic drives, track days and breakfast meets, for supercar owners. Now those members will get access to race meetings,…
IBnterclassics and Autoworld, Brussels
Brussels was the place to be in mid-November for a wide variety of classic cars with the Interclassics show celebrating ‘110 years of Maserati’ at the Expo site on the weekend of the 15th-17th, while across town at Autoworld, within the Parc du Cinquantenaire, a special exhibition entitled ‘When Automotive…
Paulo Pinheiro Gains Posthumous Awards
Amongst the Portuguese National Tourism Awards (PNT) this year, the Award for the Personality of the Year was awarded posthu- mously for the first time. It went to the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve founder, the late Paulo Pinheiro, who died in August of this year. The Award by the jury…
50 years of Formula Ford 2000
The 50th anniversary of the Formula Ford 2000 category will be celebrated this year in the Historic Sports Car Club’s Historic Formula Ford 2000 Championship. The HSCC confirmed that Historic Formula Ford 2000 will continue to be one of the club’s core championships in 2025, building on 18 successful years…
nternational Entries for Phillip Island
The largest historic motorsport event in the Southern Hemisphere with close to 400 cars competing in ten categories from the late 1920s to the late 80s including some spectacular race cars never seen before in Australia. Along with racers from all over the vast country of Australia, and over 1000…
Magic Merlyn’ Returns to the Tracks
One of the most famous Formula Fords of all time, the ‘Magic Merlyn’ will be back racing in the HSCC Historic Formula Ford 1600 Championship in 2025 in the hands of newcomer Greville Ball. The Merlyn MK11a from 1969 was raced to great success by Emerson Fittipaldi, Colin Vandervell and…
Spirit of Montjuïc 2025
After a year’s hiatus, Escudería Targa Iberia will organise on 21-22 March what will be the 10th edition of Espíritu de Montjuïc at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Aimed at families, the race festival offers a large range of different activities for adults and children. The core of the track action…
Lifetime Achievement
It seems as if November is awards season in London and two Lifetime Achievement Awards stood out amongst many worthy winners in numerous categories at various awards ceremonies. Royal Automobile Club Historic Awards At the Royal Automobile Club Motoring Awards dinner, which took place in the Pall Mall Clubhouse on…
International Historic Motoring Awards
Meanwhile, on the following evening, Hothouse Media, publishers of Octane and Magneto magazines, were celebrating their annual awards just up the road at London’s Peninsula Hotel. This time it was Patrick and Sylviane Peter who were the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement accolade. after decades of serving up the best…