March 2023
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March 2023 Issue....
Peter Auto
The first of two demonstration races for Formula Legends 3.5 (F1 cars of the 1987-1994 era) will be at Peter Auto’s Spa Classic event on 12-14 May with a further appearance for the cars of the Prost-Senna-Schumacher era due to run at Paul Ricard at the Dix Mille Tours meeting…
Goodwood Revival to Celebrate Carroll Shelby
The Goodwood Revival has a long tradition of celebrating the greatest names in motorsport, and in 2023 the honour will go to the legend behind the AC Cobra and the GT40: Le Mans winning driver Carroll Shelby in the year in which he would have been 100 years old. Shelby…
Celebrating 55 Years of F5000 in the USA
Announcing the 2023 calendar, Seb Coppola, President of the U.S. Formula 5000 Drivers Association said this season will mark the 55th Anniversary of the beginning of Formula A/F5000 in 1968. “We expect a large contingent of cars that originally raced from 1968 to 1976 and are particularly thrilled that more…
Automobile Week St Moritz
Kilomètre Lancé Amongst the activities comprising St Moritz Speed Week, or to give it its proper name the Internationale St. Moritzer Automobilwoche, is the much touted Kilomètre Lancé, which last year attracted record-breaking cars and motorbikes from owners and museums out onto the Samedan airfield to test their powers of…
Balade de Bastogne
While the Royal Automobile Club de Spa was busily finalising the preparations for the early February Legend Boucles @ Bastogne, the next edition of the very popular Balade des Legend Boucles Bastogne has been set for Saturday 6 May. Created by ‘accident’ when the competitive Boucles had to be postponed…
EASCR 2023
From a maximum of 60, over 50 entries have already been confirmed for the December 2023 East African Safari Classic Rally, which will mark the Platinum Jubilee of the Safari Rally in Kenya, and the 11th Edition of the Classic! With a mission statement “To become the most exciting, challenging,…
Maroc Historic Rally
Though very little information has been released about the itinerary or other details, it has been confirmed that the 12th Maroc Historic Rally will run this year on 8-14 May. Entries are open and forms can be found at www.yl-historicrallyevents.com.
Tour de Corse Entries Open….. …and Close
The 2022 edition of the Tour de Corse Historique confirmed its reputation as one of the most popular events on the historic calendar, hosting for the first time in its history a record number of 380 entries. These were in three categories: VHC (Historic Competition Vehicles), VHRS (Historic Sports Regularity…
Guido Barcella and Ombretta Ghidotti Win the Winter Marathon
The 35th running of the Winter Marathon was strongly characterised by the snow that fell over two days on 19-22 January, copiously on Thursday evening and persistent in the main leg on Friday on all the traditional Dolomite passes (Gardena and Pordoi in particular), and the extreme cold that reached -12°C on the top of Passo Pordoi.
F5000 New Zealand
Taupō International Motorsport Park was the venue for the second round of the SAS Autoparts MSC, NZ F5000 championship on the weekend of 20-22 January. In perfect weather, five cars put in impressive sub 1:30 qualifying times on the full 3.4km International circuit, the quickest of which was Grant Martin (Talon MR1/A) at 1.27.295, (circuit record for the category is held by Michael Lyons at 1:25.301), while favourite Kevin Ingram (Lola T332) failed to qualify, and withdrew on the first lap. Tony Roberts, in the ‘high wing’ McLaren M10A, was the fastest of the older Class A cars, achieving a personal best of 1.32.952.
Rétromobile
Vengeance and Compensation Ater two years of postponement and rescheduling, Rétromobile was finally back on its spot on the winter calendar where it belongs – early February. And with a vengeance, as it proved hard to find anyone disagreeing with the observation that the French car show was bigger and…
Dakar Classic
From 29 December to 15 January the Amaury Sport Organisation and the French ASN, (the FFSA) ran the third Dakar Classic alongside the 45th Dakar cross-country rally, in Saudi Arabia for the fourth time. Eighty-eight classics from the bygone days of the event took the start in an overall field of 355 vehicles, which included bikes, quads, cars, trucks and buggies, starting from a new bivouac on the Red Sea coast and heading deep into the Arabian Desert.
Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique
The first edition of the of the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique was run in 1998, and it took place at the same time as the modern WRC rally. Such a huge undertaking caused all sorts of logistical problems for the organisers, so after that the ACM took the decision to separate the two events, and ever since they have run ten days apart.