June 2024
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Historic Indy Car Challenge at Long Beach
Now a yearly fixture, Indy cars from the 1970s and 1980s screamed around the Long Beach street circuit on 19-21 April, marking the 49th edition of the Long Beach Grand Prix, originally for Formula 1, and now for modern Indy cars. Amongst the highlights of the fanfare and razamataz-filled weekend,…
The Mitty
One of the longest-standing ‘vintage’ race meetings in America, the Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Mitty saw one of the biggest editions in the event’s nearly 50-year history come to a competitive conclusion on 28 April with more than a dozen HSR Feature Race winners crowned in the final two days…
30 years of BOSS GP
‘BOSS’ stands for Big Open Single Seater and is for Formula 1, Formula 2, Formula 3000, World Series or IndyCars from the USA and Formula Nippon from Japan. Boss GP remains the platform for single seat racing cars of the last three decades. For 30 years now, the FIA-registered race…
Masters at the US F1 Grand Prix
Though Masters Historic Racing is not running a Historic F1 series in the US this year, it was pleased to announce that it has once again been invited to bring two support races to the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix, on 18-20 October at the Circuit of The Americas…
Equipe 50s Back on the Programme
Equipe Classic Racing first launched the 50s series in 2020 but it lost momentum into covid, and since then, grids have been combined with Pre ‘63 and others. However, entries for these lovely cars have increased to the point where they can now support their own stand-alone races once again,…
APL Acquires Motor Racing Legends and Announces New GT3 Grid
Aythorpe Promotions, the recently formed motorsport events business led by well-known competitor and collector Shaun Lynn, has acquired Duncan Wiltshire’s Motor Racing Legends company. The agreement will also see APL acquire the MRL flagship Donington Historic Festival. Lynn immediately announced that a new MRL series for GT3 cars to be…
Stirling Moss Memorial
A grand British occasion for the driver that was so proud to be British that he sacrificed probable Championship wins in order to drive British cars, the family of Sir Stirling Moss could finally celebrate the great driver’s life. Moss died in the early days of COVID and only shortly…
Hesketh 50th
The VSCC Spring Start meeting at Silverstone on 20-21 April celebrated the 50th anniversary of James Hunt’s debut win for the Hesketh team in the International Trophy on 7 April,1974. This also coincides with the recent publication of the official Hesketh team history, ‘Superbears The Story of Hesketh Racing’ published…
Bugatti to Feature at Angoulême
First run in 1939, the Circuit des Remparts d’Angoulême saw participation of all the great drivers of the day, including Jean-Pierre Wimille, who raced a Bugatti Type 59 in the inaugural event. Since the circuit was re-homologated in 1983, the annual revival event has offered a Bugatti-only race each year,…
Vernasca Silver Flag
From 1953 to 1972, the Piacenza Automobile Club (CPAE) organised the Castell’Arquato – Vernasca hillclimb 17 times. The event was initially created as a minor provincial competition, but soon grew into an international event with many famous drivers and scuderie taking part. The event ran on the 8.9km hill between…
Super Saloon 50th
It’s 50 years since the first Super Saloon Championship was run in Britain, aimed at getting the quickest V8-engined tin tops and best two-litre cars in one place rather than have individuals duffing up small fry all over the country. Two series currently admit the cars, but two of the…
New Lease of Life for Rallye Neige et Glace
Zoulou Racing Heritage, new organiser of the Rallye Neige et Glace and the Trophée des Alpes, will be entrusting JBR Events with the sporting management of both rallies. From next year, the 70th Rallye Neige et Glace and the 7th Trophée des Alpes, relaunched in September 2025 with a new…
2024 Silver Fern
Entries are now open for the 2024 Silver Fern Rally New Zealand. A seven-day epic, starting in Christchurch and finishing on the shores of Lake Wakatipu in a picture postcard summary of New Zealand’s topography and heritage, past International Silver Fern Rally winners include Andrew Cowan, Hannu Mikkola, Jimmy McRae,…
2024 Tour Auto
From the very first Tour Auto revival in 1992, a feature of the event was an exhibition of the cars in central Paris before the ‘official’ start, the first year in the Trocadero overlooking the Tour Eifel. This has become more of a feature than ever, moving indoors to the…
14th Maroc Historic Rally
Memorable Victory for Auriol, ‘Le Lutin De Millau’ For its 14th edition since its revival in 2010 by Corsican driver Yves Loubet and the motorsports club ‘Le Grand Maghreb’, it must be noted that there was no 13th edition as well as no 13th special stage. The number 13 was banned…
Grand Prix de France Historique
Down the Mistral Straight Masters Historic Racing returned to the GP Historique this year, after last year opting to go to Hockenheim instead. It was very much a gamble in a season that includes the Monaco GP Historique just weeks later, but it paid off handsomely as dozens of…
Hockenheim Historic
The Hockenheim Historic Jim Clark Revival signalled the debut of the historic event under the ADAC’s name. The boom in historic motorsport continues, with nearly 400 participants in nine racing series offering plenty of everything to the 33,000 spectators that filled the grandstands, exceeding all expectations, on both Saturday, when…
Spa Summer Classic
The Spa Summer Classic (yes that’s correct!) took place in April this year, and it must be said, the weather was quite mild. By Spa standards, there was very little water and occasionally there was even some sunshine. With a mixture of race series from Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal…
Donington Historic Festival
Damien Smith Reports… The well-supported three-hour Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall Cup took top billing, running on the Saturday afternoon. Modern-day BTCC racer Jake Hill accepted a late call-up by Kyle Tilley and found himself in the thick of it on his first experience of a TVR Griffith. Hill qualified…
14e Grand Prix de Monaco Historique
Four days of cloudless Mediterranean weather – from build-up to race day – greeted the 214 cars that would compete in the Monaco Grand Prix Historique, as the principality geared up for the 14th edition of its blue-riband event on the historic calendar. The sole sportscar race was a sensation…