February 2026
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February 2026 Issue....
New Masters Event at Monza
Masters Historic Racing has unveiled an exciting new mid-summer highlight to their 2026 race calendar. A full Masters weekend will see all the Masters grids racing at Monza on 24–26 July, and including the new demo grid for later F1 cars. Replacing the previously scheduled BRDC Classic event at Silverstone…
GTSCC Heads to Anglesey
Founded in 2007, the GT & Sports Car Cup enters its 20th season in 2026 with an exciting new venue on its four-event calendar. The GTSCC will be joining the 750 Motor Club at the Anglesey Circuit as the second rendez-vous of the season on 27 June. The 90-minute GTSCC…
45th Anniversary of the IMSA GTP Class to be Celebrated at Monterey
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion has announced that the 2026 edition of the event, the featured marque of which is a ‘Salute to Japanese Motorsport’, will also pay tribute to the 45th anniversary of the IMSA Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class with a dedicated grid. Over the weekend of 12-15…
Klausenrennen Revival
Determined to bring the Klausenrennen Revival event back after it was run five times from 1993-2006 and last revived in 2013, Swiss historic motor sport enthusiasts, Christian Walti and Alexander Roosdorp, planned to run the Klausenrennen again in September 2026. However, the event has now been postponed until 24-26 September,…
Race Ready Iberian Endurance
Having finished their season on a high note (see page 44) Diogo Ferrão and his team at Race Ready have announced their 2026 calendar with some innovations on the schedule. The biggest news is the 400km of Paul Ricard, which will take place in high summer on 4-5 July, an…
Masters Formula One in Abu Dhabi
The Formula One cars of the Masters Racing Legends made their debut appearance at Yas Marina Circuit as a support race for the 2025 Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on 5-7 December, delivering a season finale that demonstrated the character of historic motorsport to the F1 fans,…
Mille Takes Endurance Crown
After three wins in three long-distance races Armand Mille was crowned V de V Challenge Endurance VHC Champion. The French driver, running his Chevron B21 as a member of Yvan Mahé’s Equipe Europe won the six hours of Magny-Cours with Maxime Guénat, then went on to win the 6 Hours…
ASAVÉ
After a timid re-start last year the Association Sportive Automobiles des Véhicules d’Epoque or ASAVÉ is coming back to life with more events in 2026. Under new management after the loss of their long-time President, the much-missed Alain Goupy, ASAVÉ has a five-event calendar planned for its two racing grids,…
American Gold for Lopez and Fässler
Gérard Lopez and Marcel Fässler won the HSR Classic Endurance Championship presented by Mission Foods with their nearly perfect HSR Classic winning record, taking six wins in just seven race starts. The pair sealed the Vintage Prototype/Sports Racer championship in 2025’s season finale Classic 24 Daytona with the duo’s third-straight…
Espíritu de Montjuïc
One of the first race meetings of the 2026 Season will take place at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya when Peter Auto teams up with Escudería Targa Iberia for the Festival de la Velocidad, Espíritu de Montjuïc on 27-29 March. For the second consecutive year, and four in the history of…
GT & Sports Car Cup Champions
All in the Family The drivers and teams of the GT & Sports Car Cup convened for their annual Awards presentation lunch at The Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall on 6 December where class prizes and numerous special trophies were handed out. The main prize went to Simon King and…
Record Breaking Solo Endurance Drive
HERO/ERA Chairman Tomas de Vargas Machuca was celebrated at the International Historic Motoring Awards in November for his 14,899km, 37-day, solo drive in a 1926 Bentley 3-4 1⁄2 Litre during the 2025 Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. Remarkably, without a navigator or riding mechanic, Tomas also finished the event in…
Super Tourers at the Members’ Meeting
Following on from 2025’s entertaining GT3 Shoot-Out, and the prior Sidecar Shoot-Out, the Goodwood Members’ Meeting’s one-lap competition returns this year with a field of 1990s Super Touring cars. Billed as “the largest collection of Super Touring cars ever assembled,” at least 40 cars for exhibition, 20 of which will…
OBE For Pringle and Silverstone
Silverstone Chief Executive Officer, Stuart Pringle, has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2026 King’s New Year Honours List. The honour is in recognition of Stuart’s services to motorsport. With a background in historic motor sport – Stuart’s was the Competitions Secretary…
Route 66 Centennial
Route 66, the road that linked Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, passing through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona over 2,448 miles, was designated on November 11, 1926 as part of the first numbered US federal highway system. Its creators pushed for a diagonal route that would…
Rallye des Princesses – Entries are Open
For a quarter of a century, the Rallye des Princesses Richard Mille has celebrated a unique lifestyle, where elegance meets a passion for cars and is combined with femininity. For the 25th edition, which runs from 23 to 28 May, the adventure will begin, as tradition dictates, at the elegant…
Grand Prix of South America
Driving in the wheel tracks of such icons as Fangio and the Galvez brothers, Bespoke Rallies will stage a re-evocation of the legendary 1948 Grand Prix of South America from October 22 to November 25, 2026. Flagged off by Fangio’s son, Oscar Fangio, in a dramatic midnight departure from Buenos…
Tour de Corse
Recently honoured at the Historic Motoring Awards, winning the prestigious “Rally or Tour of the Year” – a fitting tribute to the outstanding success of the event’s 25th edition – Marie-Ange Dini, organiser of the Tour de Corse Historique has announced that the 2026 dates for this long-running rally will…
Sahara Challenge – All the way to Dakar!
HERO/ERA has launched its most ambitious Sahara Challenge yet for September 2027, a 5,250km journey from Lisbon to Dakar, the destination of rally legends from 1978 to today. A variety of terrain, from Europe to Africa will include forests, mountain passes, flowing gravel tracks and then the desert itself, a…
New UK Asphalt Rally Championship
Anew all-asphalt historic rally championship is being launched in the UK for the 2026 season when the Roger Albert Clark Motor Club, the team behind the British Historic Rally Championship, adds the Roger Albert Clark Historic Asphalt Rally Championship to its roster. The new championship will include five high-profile UK…