After two years of displacement by the pandemic, the Tour Auto returned this year to its usual April date, from 24 to 30, for an unprecedented route that led 230 competitors (132 in competition and 98 in regularity) from Paris to Andorra via La Baule, Limoges, Bordeaux and Pau.  Among…

Exceptional Duncan Hamilton ROFGO Group C1 and U2TC races highlighted Motor Racing Legends’ 11th Donington Historic Festival on April 30-May 1.  As spectators and car clubs were welcomed back to MotorSport Vision’s east midlands outpost – the event resumed behind closed doors last year – hardcore enthusiasts who arrived in…

John Whiteman visited the biennial event for vintage vehicles of all kinds…

The Vintage Revival was first held at the historic Linas-Montlhéry circuit south of Paris in 1998 organised by the great French Anglophile Jacques Potherat in time to celebrate 75 years since the opening of the circuit.   Sadly, Jacques died in 2001 shortly after the fourth event.  By this time the venue was under threat of closure by owners UTAC, the French motor industries vehicle testing and type approval agency and the outlook for any more events looked bleak. 

Spring-like weather conditions contributed to an epic 17th edition of the Bosch Hockenheim Historic – Jim Clark Revival on the weekend of 6-8 May.  Some 30,000 motorsport fans, finally released from all the COVID restrictions, flocked to the Hockenheimring to enjoy a range of races and demonstrations over the three-day…

Now in its 13th year, the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique is one of the most important and popular events on the international historic racing calendar, and many said that this year’s was better than ever.  It seems a long time ago when, in 1997, the ACM decided to organise…

Smith’s March 782 victorious at ‘Cheeverstone

Silverstone was American Eddie Cheever’s happiest hunting ground before his 1996 Indianapolis 500 victory.  In 1975, at 17, he won two British Formula 3 races there in six days driving a Modus, then in ‘79 he aced the International Trophy – a European F2 championship round – in the factory Osella-BMW on Pirelli wets. 

Botus Fleming reports.

Despite a four-hour hiatus while Terry Crabb’s damaged ERA R12C was extricated from the forested upper reaches of the course under police con-trol, two records fell when the Vintage Sports-Car Club resumed its annual hillclimb – round two of its Speed Championship, which opened at Curborough the previous weekend – at Wiscombe Park on Sunday, May 8.