July 2020
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July 2020 Issue....
International Historic Hill Climbing
The FIA European Hillclimb Championship has also been reworked to give competitors five events and the points rules revised accordingly: 11-12 July Trento Bondone 1-2 August Ecce Homo Sternberk 28-30 August GHD Petrol Ilirska Bistrica 18-20 September Buzetski Dani 25-27 September Coppa Chianti Classico More generally speaking, the FIA,…
Major US Events Cancelled
Regrettably WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca’s new management team has cancelled the 2020 Monterey Motorsports Reunion, yet another event to fall victim to COVID-19. In a July 12 statement that included all the usual remarks about public and staff safety, President and General Manager of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca’s John Narigi…
GP de Monaco – Past, Future and Present in 2021
Having announced the cancellation of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique for 2020, it was initially envisaged to wait until it’s natural date in 2022 for it to run again. This was largely due to the E-Grand Prix, run in alternate years in the May slot occupied in even numbered…
The Scandinavian Calendar
Bengt-Åce Gustavsson fills us in on how the Scandinavian season is shaping up… Historic Racing in Sweden: All racing in Sweden was banned during April, May and June. Now we are hoping that we can start racing in July, but we don´t know for sure. I´ll give you the calendar…
News from the UK…….
Goodwood Cancelled As we went to press with our July issue, news came from Goodwood that both the Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival meetings have been cancelled for this year. Lord March and his team held out for as long as possible in the hopes of staging both events…
The Portuguese Season
Portugal is one of the least hard hit countries by COVID 19. Authorities there closed borders and locked down early, and now Portugal is enjoying the fruits of such prudent management with a pretty full schedule of racing for the rest of the season. They also have the advantage of…
Making up for Lost (Track) Time
After two months of only being able to report postponements and cancellations, we are very pleased to have received news from the V de V organisation that the Deux Tours d’Horloge, scheduled for 6-8 November at Paul Ricard is very much on! The Deux Tours is the only 24-hour race…
Green Light for French Championships
The French “deconfinement” of the population will allow the 2020 season of the Historic Tour (the French Historic Circuits Championship) to start on 17-19 July on the circuit of Albi, at a race meeting originally scheduled to take place in April. In accordance with other postponed dates already announced, the…
Racing Resuming
We don’t envy the plight of race promoters in various countries in Europe and around the world, with each country mandating different safety measures when racing resumes, and these changing nearly from day to day. There is also the constant threat that the whole thing will go into reverse at…
Rally Monte-Carlo Historique 2021
Dates for the 2021 edition of the popular historic Monte have been set for 27 January-3 February with only one starting point. In the post-pandemic world, organisers of this major endurance regularity rally have decided that all competitors will start and end in Monte Carlo. They have written to authorities…
Historic Portugal Rally Confirmed
The last uncertainties have been resolved and the organisers of the 2020 Rally de Portugal Histórico confirm their event will take place on the originally scheduled dates of 5-10 October. The 15th edition of this rally, considered by many to be “the most beautiful European regularity rally”, offers a route…
RallyLegend Gets Go-Ahead
Despite it usually attracting large international crowds, Vito Piarulli and Paolo Valli, the creators of RallyLegend, have decided to go ahead with the event on 8-11 October. “The support we’ve received both from the Government of the San Marino Republic and our sponsors has been crucial to us deciding to…
British Championship Succumbs to COVID
One of Britain’s most popular historic rally championships, the HRCR Clubmans Championship, is the latest victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although two rounds were run in February and March before the lockdown started, many rounds have now been cancelled and with only two possible events remaining on the calendar, the…
Balkan Classic Moves to Northern Poland for 2020
The revised Balkan Classic rally is set to run in the last half of September, with final dates still to be announced. Due to restrictions in its usual venue in Bulgaria, and in consideration of other pandemic-related difficulties, organiser Alexander Kovatchev has announced that the rally, for cars up to…
Canossa Back in Action
Italy having been the first country to go into lockdown when the coronavirus struck, it is now coming out the other side with an eagerness to get back to normal quickly, none more so than Canossa Events, who are planning a full schedule of rallies for the remainder of the…
The FIA Historic Sporting Rally Championship
The schedule for the FIA European Historic Sporting Rally Championship has been heavily impacted, but the FIA has come up with a plan to salvage the season, starting with the Rally Weiz, which has been confirmed for 5- 6 September. This will be followed by the Elba Storico (17-19 September)…
Restarting Rallying
The global pandemic has had a massive impact on motor sport across the globe and rallying, in all its forms, has been particularly badly hit. Now, as the first shoots of recovery start to emerge, and racing will resume in Europe during July, rallying is set to be left behind…
From Our July 2020 Letters Section, From Louis Quiniou
Dear Carol, Thanks for the link of the May issue of HMRN, very funny article about the Reykjavik GP, a good read. About Peter Collins’ article entitled The Time and Space Continuum, if of any interest to you, I started a lap time analysis back in the days I was…
From Our July 2020 Letters Section From Joel Wykeham
Faster Now Than Then? Not Faster Than an Arrows Dear Carol, Peter Collins’ excellent piece in the April issue about the relative speed differential of some cars now and in period, reminded me of the well documented case of the Arrows A4 F1 car. In 1982 this basically sound but…