June 2023
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June 2023 Issue....
Bentley Victory Powered by Synthetic Fuel
On Monday 1 May, 21 Vintage Bentleys lined up at the Castle Combe Circuit for The Benjafields Bentley Challenge running over two 20-minute races. Both race victories were taken by William Medcalf, founder of specialists Vintage Bentley, in a 3 4 ½ Litre car. After setting the fastest time in…
Brooklands Relived & Brooklands Double Twelve
Brooklands’ rich motorsport history is celebrated each year on the weekend closest to the anniversary of the original opening of the racetrack on 17th June 1907. This year on 17-18 June the two-day event, which includes the famous Double 12 competition, will once again see pre- and post-war cars tackle…
Professional Drivers
As more and more professional drivers are becoming involved in historic motor sport, it becomes more and more of a talking point amongst normal amateur historic racers. Clearly it is something that irritates them when a pro is brought in simply to gain an advantage over the amateurs. Diogo Ferrão…
Spa Summer Classic
The traditional high summer Roadbook race meeting, the Spa Summer Classic, will welcome fans of cars from the past, and this year also more recent cars, on 7-8 July at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The 15th edition of the event will once again be eclectic with a race programme featuring…
Race Line-up for the Gold Cup Confirmed
The outline details of this year’s Oulton Park Gold Cup, which takes place on 28-30 July, have been confirmed by organising club the HSCC, with four significant HSCC categories at the heart of the race programme. This year will see the Oulton Park debut of the spectacular Thundersports category for…
French Championships – Round One
The Dijon-Prenois track hosted the first round of the French Historic Circuit Championships (Historic Tour) under bright sunshine on the weekend of 5-7 May, with 19 races on the programme. By the end of a busy weekend, Frédéric Lajoux (March 793), Antoine Robert (Martini MK48) and Matthieu Midy (Van Diemen)…
Gulf GP Shipping Offer
The Gulf Historic Dubai GP Revival is ramping up its appeal to car owners to come and enjoy a sun-filled weekend of motorsport in the dark, off-season days of December and has most recently announced a partnership with CARS for a heavily discounted turnkey operation that will deliver your car…
F5000’s 55th
Before New Zealand’s F5000 drivers start to think about their 2023/24 Tasman Cup Revival Series, five members of the New Zealand Formula 5000 Association will travel to the US in August this year to help their fellow category drivers from the US and around the world celebrate the 55th anniversary…
Calling all Cisitalias
All Cisitalia owners are invited to register for this year’s Motorsport Rendezvous, held on 14-15 September during the St. Moritz Automobile Week, to celebrate this wonderful marque. For two days you can enjoy the scenery and classy atmosphere of St. Moritz while joining the festivities of what organisers have dubbed…
The Return of the Corkscrew Hillclimb
It was perhaps the spectacle of the year at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion last year when, for the first time instead of the race meeting continuing on Sunday, the organisers staged the Corkscrew Hillclimb & Community Day at Laguna Seca, allowing cars of all types to rocket up the course…
Silver Fern
Following a successful running in 2022 after the world hiatus, the Silver Fern Rally New Zealand will return on 23-30 November 2024 over the remote, fast and flowing classic rally stages of the beautiful South Island of New Zealand. With snow-capped mountain backdrops and glaciers in the west, mountain passes…
Tuthill in Rally North Wales
As reported in our April issue, Richard Tuthill returned to the rally driver’s seat, announcing that he will be participating in this year’s British Historic Rally Championship, beginning with the Rally North Wales on 25 March. Though he has had outings with his own Below Zero Ice Driving team across…
Historic Support Races at Long Beach
First run in 1975 as a Formula 5000 race, then as the U.S. Grand Prix West with Formula One from 1976 to 1983, and CART from 1984 to 2008, and IndyCar starting in 2009, the now titled Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is the second oldest race on the…
NASCAR 75th at Road Atlanta
The 45th Historic Sportscar Racing Mitty at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta went into the record books as one of the biggest-ever editions of HSR’s oldest and first blockbuster race meetings after an exciting and competitive weekend of racing on 27-30 April. Founded in 1948, NASCAR marks its 75th Anniversary in…
Spa Classic 2023
Spa-Francorchamps circuit was the setting for the second event on the 2023 Peter Auto calendar, the epic Spa-Classic. Once again it turned out that this great event attracted big crowds – more than 22,000 visitors admired the over 800 historic cars in the paddock in addition to a wide range…
Bosch Hockenheim Historic Das Jim Clark Revival
Over 35,000 enthusiastic German spectators flocked to the Hockenheimring for their annual springfest known as the Bosch Hockenheim Historic. More famous for its subtitle of ‘Jim Clark Revival’, the event managed to attract the proper seventies and eighties Formula One cars for the first time, with Masters Historic Racing bringing…
Donington Historic Festival – Evening primrose smells sweetest
Marcus Pye reports on the 12th Donington Historic Festival, topped by an RAC Pall Mall Cup enduro dominated by Lotus Elans.. Resurfaced at a cost of £2.5m over the winter, Motor Sport Vision’s 1.979-mile Donington Park switchback circuit looked pristine for the 12th Historic Festival on the last weekend of…
Scottish Malts Rally
The HERO-ERA Scottish Malts rally returned on 24-28 April with its usual theme of visits to whiskey distilleries and golf courses along the route, plus a new start and finish at the glitzy Gleneagles resort. This time only pre-1975 cars were eligible for an overall victory, whilst the entry fee…
Maroc Historic Rally Two Wins For Deveza
Revived as a historic event in 2010 by the Corsican driver Yves Loubet and “Le Grand Maghreb” motor sports club, the 12th edition of this rally, once a round of the World Rally Championship, in 1973 when Alpine was crowned World Champion of manufacturers, then in 1975 and 1976 with…
FIA European Rally Championship Round Two
The 57th Šumava Klatovy Rallye, a round of the Czech Republic Rally Championship was also the 31st running of the Historic Vltava Rallye counting towards the FIA European and Czech Historic Rally Championships. With nearly an equal number of competitors in each group, (69 historic cars and 78 modern), the…