March 2024
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March 2024 Issue....
HGPCA on Tour in South Africa
South Africa’s racing tradition is as strong as it gets anywhere in the world. During the ‘60s the best drivers from across the planet would descend to the southern hemisphere, avoiding the European winter months, to test themselves in unique conditions. Go forward 60 years and you wouldn’t be out…
Silverstone Festival
It seems that the big summer Silverstone race meeting, now known as the Silverstone Festival, the name with which it began life as long ago as 1990 (Christies Historic Festival, then Coys Historic Festival), gets busier and busier, and this year there are 20 separate races on the programme, showcasing…
Equipe Classic Racing 2024 New F2 Series
One of the UK’s premier racing clubs, Equipe Classic Racing, is launching a new F2 Atlantic series in 2024. Featuring cars built between January 1967 and December 1978, this new combined grid will have overall winners and separate podiums for each category. The full season will include Silverstone GP, Brands…
On the subject of HTPs
They promised us better communication and they have delivered In early January an online seminar demonstrated to the representatives of the ASNs how to use the new portal that tracks the HTP. This will help not only competitors, but also inspectors and ASNs to track the progress and status of…
2024 V De V Regs Out Now
The sporting and technical regulations for the V de V season of four endurance races are out now, and in a clear attempt to level the playing field further and restrict the cars to a more historic specification, there are many clarifications as to what is, and is not, allowed. …
International Historic Racing Returns to Pergusa
The Historic Grand Prix Cars Association, the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association and the GT and Sports Car Cup are setting out on a Sicilian adventure in May when they constitute the main attraction at the new Settimana Motoristica Ennese event on the 4.9km Autodromo di Pergusa on 17-19 May. …
Michael Printup Named COO of Parella Motorsports Holdings
NASCAR and Watkins Glen International veteran Michael Printup is assuming the role of chief operating officer of Parella Motorsports Holdings (PMH), overseeing the operations of the Trans Am Series and the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA). Printup joined PMH last year and has been serving as president of SVRA since…
Honouring the 26R
The Historic Sports Car Club hopes to have at least 10 Lotus Elan 26Rs on the grid for its Guards Trophy race at Snetterton on April 20-21. The season opening Guards Trophy race at the Norfolk track has been earmarked for a special celebration of the 60th anniversary season of…
Hinton Steps Down as HSR President
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) opens its 2024 season with the traditional Spring Fling meeting at Sebring International Raceway on 8-10 March under new leadership after long-time President David Hinton stepped down. Hinton, who served as HSR President for the last 11 years after acquiring majority ownership of the organisation in…
Ford Theme at InterClassics Maastricht
As per tradition, the Dutch InterClassics show in the Dutch town of Maastricht was the event that opened the 2024 show season across Europe, and this time the organisers chose to rally around the theme of ‘Ford Performance’. Its centrepiece exhibition was created with the help of Dutch, Belgian and…
A Guide to the 2024 Monterey Motorsport Reunion Grids
It has become a thing to name races and classes after famous names of the past, or in some cases, famous corners on tracks. Though the connection is mostly pretty obvious, it is sometimes difficult to remember all the precise cut-off dates and eligibility criteria behind the famous names. This…
New Trailer Design by Brian James
Renowned trailer manufacturer Brian James launched its new lightweight enclosed trailer at the Autosport International exhibition in January. Having shaved 200kgs off the previous RT6 model, the newly designed RT7 boasts an industry-first electric actuator with a wireless remote that operates the rear door and tilt bed and a new…
Auctions at Retromobile
An integral part of Retromobile week has for some time included associated auctions and this year RM Sotheby’s started the ball rolling in a massive facility beneath the Rue de Rivoli called Les Salles du Carrousel. For once the big-ticket seller was not a modern supercar but a 1960 Ferrari…
Laguna Seca – Latest Circuit to be Hit by Lawsuit Over Noise
Sixty-seven years after it was founded, the Laguna Seca circuit is being sued by a group calling itself the Highway 68 Coalition over noise and traffic generated by the track. The lawsuit, against the track’s owner, Monterey County, as well as the Monterey County Board of Supervisors and Friends of…
British Historic Rally Championship Round One Riponian Stages Rally
George Lepley took his Mitsubishi Galant VR4 to victory in the first rally of the 2024 British Historic Rally Championship season on 11 February when he won the Riponian Stages Rally. Lepley and co-driver Dale Bowen used their four-wheel-drive machine to great effect in treacherous, rain-soaked conditions, to secure the…
Winter Romania Rally Victory for Paul Chabloz
The 8th edition of the Winter Romania Rally on 19-21 January was perfect, both in terms of the weather conditions and the intensity of the competition in the different categories. A fierce duel pitted last year’s winners, Paul Chabloz and Philippe Escobar in a BMW 325 IX against the winner…
ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival Rally Cars from A – Z
Plans for the 2024 Eifel Rally Festival are already well advanced, and entries have been open since 1 February. Within a couple of days more that 100 applications were received. Cars from almost fifty different manufacturers, from Alfa Romeo to Wartburg have participated in the past 11 editions and almost…
New Six-day event from Croatia to Bavaria
Taking in closed-road special stages and circuits along the way, Target Bavaria Rally (TBR) promises six exciting days with a start at Rijeka (in Croatia), to Postojna in Slovenia and the Karawank mountains to Austria, paving its way through Zeltweg and Salzburg before coming to an end in Munich Germany. …
Rallye des Princesses
The Rallye des Princesses Richard Mille will celebrate its 23rd edition on 25-30 May and with a varied route each year so that the Princesses can experience different regions and different cultural traditions, this year they will head West. After the traditional start from the Place Vendôme in Paris, this…
2 Generations Rally
The first to come up with a formula to encourage families and younger people to engage in some mild competition while enjoying classic cars, the 2 Generations Classic was first run in 2016 and proved to be an immediate success. Run by the Belgian SeaSunRally Organisation, who have been organising…