March 2026
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March 2026 Issue....
Masters Historic Racing Expands 2026 Formula 1 Support Race Programme
Masters Historic Racing has confirmed a significant expansion of its Formula 1 support race programme for 2026, marking a new chapter for the organisation and its flagship historic single-seater series, Masters Racing Legends. Having previously supported selected Formula 1 events – most recently closing the 2025 season with an appearance…
HSR and VSCDA Announce North-South GT Challenge
Officials from Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) and the Vintage Sports Car Drivers Association (VSCDA) have announced the HSR and VSCDA North-South GT Challenge, a championship that will feature the popular era of GT-3, GT-4 and GT Lite (GTL) race-prepared, small-bore GT cars. The championship will run throughout the North and…
Bernina Gran Turismo
Entries for the Bernina Gran Turismo hillclimb are now open and limited to 70 cars. The 5.7-kilometre hillclimb, which links La Rösa in Val Poschiavo to the Ospizio Bernina at the summit of the Bernina pass near the resorts of Pontresina and St Moritz in the Engadine Valley, will take…
The 2026 Equipe 6-Hour Race
After a successful debut at Donington in 2025 overwhelming demand has dictated that Equipe Classic Racing move its Six Hour race to the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit for 2026. The date has been set for 2-3 May. Open to teams of two to four drivers the 6 Hours will have…
Martin Grant-Peterkin
The historic paddock suffered a huge loss on 20 January, when Martin Grant-Peterkin died at home at the age of 83. Knowledgeable, kind, helpful and generous to all, Martin was a true gentleman in every sense of the word. Nineteen years in a British Army Cavalry Regiment, by then equipped…
Peter Auto – New Events New Series
In 2025 Le Mans Classic attracted some 238,000 spectators, 800 cars on the track, 220 international clubs and their 9,200 vehicles. The increasingly rich content of the event could no longer be limited to a single edition every two years, so at the end of last year, Peter Auto announced…
Spa 3 Hours – Entries Now Open
Open to Touring and GT cars built between 1947 and 1976, and GTP cars under 2000cc up to 1965, entries are now open for the Spa Three Hours which takes place at the Spa Summer Classic on 24-26 April. A single 45-minute qualifying session on Saturday will be followed by…
The Launch of the 105 Cup
It started in October when a group of Alfa 105 drivers who wanted to race against other 105s rather than MGBs or Elans got together and formed the 105 Drivers Club. Suddenly there were 26 drivers committed to racing in a 105 series this year. Now, together with the HSCC…
Classic Racing School Championship
Ten years after its founding, Magny-Cours based Classic Racing School, the world’s first school dedicated to historic single-seaters is launching a new one-make championship in a time-honoured tradition of providing races for its successful students. School founder Julien Chaffard explained, “After years of training and coaching, it felt natural to…
IMSA Classic
The Second Annual Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) IMSA Classic attracted a capacity field of cars from IMSA’s past on the weekend of 24-25 January, setting the stage for Sunday afternoon’s start of the 64th running of the IMSA Rolex 24 At Daytona. After a floddlit qualifying race on Friday night,…
Spa Six Hours Back to its Old Format
The Spa Six Hours and the race meeting surrounding it have been one of the most popular and prestigious events for historic racers for about as long as anyone can remember. First run in 1993, the meeting schedule changed a couple of years ago so that the Six Hour Race,…
Historic Driver to Tackle ‘Race to the Clouds’
Jim Morris has announced his intention to break the current front-wheel-drive record on Pikes Peak. The 57-year-old is the founder and Managing Director of Coventry-based Lifeline Fire & Safety Systems Ltd, as well as being behind several motorsport businesses, including Old Hall Performance, Trident Racing Supplies and GTS Motorsport. Born…
Generational Shift at V de V Sports
Vde V has announced that Laure Van de Vyver, an important part of the team since 2001, has taken over the direction of V de V Sports the organisers behind so much historic endurance racing, Her father Eric Van de Vyver was one of the pioneers of historic motor sport…
GT40s Celebrate Legendary le Mans Victory
Each year brings its raft of anniversaries, and this year we will be up to our necks in Ford GT40s as the famous MKII cars celebrate their legendary 1-2-3 finish at Le Mans in 1966. It will start at Race Retro where three exact replicas of the winning cars will…
Monterey Gears up for Multiple Celebrations
Registration for the 2026 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, which takes place on 12-15 August, opened in December and entry lists are filling up fast. Registration is also open for the Monterey Pre-Reunion and the Corkscrew Hillclimb, scheduled for August 8-9, marking what promises to be one of the most celebratory…
Pebble Beach – Change at the Top
This year, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will celebrate its 75th anniversary. For 40 of those years, its Chairman Sandra Button has been the force behind the event. That will change in October when she hands over to ex-Marine and then ex-California trial attorney, Vince W Finaldi. Though stepping back…
Restored Sunbeam to Debut at Pebble Beach
On 29 March 1927, Henry Segrave drove the 1000hp Sunbeam land speed record car to 203.79 miles per hour (327.97 km/h), the first car to reach a speed over 200 mph (320 km/h). Now in the UK’s National Motor Museum, the car has been the subject of a fund- raising…
The 2026 Royal Automobile Club Concours
After a better than hoped for inaugural event last year, the Royal Automobile Club’s Concours is back on the calendar on 8 July at the Club’s Woodcote Park country estate in Surrey, some 20 miles away from central London where the Royal Automobile Club was founded 129 years ago. Categories…
Royal Automobile Club Historic TT Lunch
In winning the HMRN Pre-’63 GT race at Silverstone last year, John and Gary Pearson, also won the prestigious Royal Automobile Club Historic Tourist Trophy. The RAC not only celebrates this on the podium on the day, but also at an annual lunch where the TT winners are guests of…
UK Novice Rally Championship
The UK’s Historic Rally Car Register has announced that 2026 will see the inaugural season for the HRCR Clubmans Beginners Championship. The intention is to bring those inexpe- rienced in historic road rallying into a Championship where they can compete in the same event as the Inter-club crews but with…