May 2022
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FIA European Regularity Trophy
The qualifying events for the 2022 FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies (THRR) have been announced and will include 15 rallies in 11 different European nations. Two of the qualifying events have already been run, the Ypres Historic Regularity Rally (26-28 November 2021) and the Ostbelgien Classic (3-5 December 2021),…
GT Anniversary at the 24 Hours of Spa
SRO Motorsports Group will celebrate its 30th anniversary in style at this year’s TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa on 28-31 July with a historic GT event organised by Peter Auto as a curtain-raiser ahead of the main race. Two one-hour races called GT Anniversary 2022 and a parade in the…
Three out of Three for Collins at Skope Classic
50 Years after McRae and Hawthorne A little over 50 years ago, in 1972, the late, great Graham McRae drove his then new Leda ‘GM1 001’ Formula 5000 single-seater to a dominant victory in the Lady Wigram Trophy race on a temporary circuit at Christchurch’s Wigram Air Force Base in…
2022 FIA Historic Rally Championship Round 1 70th Rally Motul Costa Brava
With past postponements and other restrictions well and truly behind us, more than 170 cars from across Europe started the Rally Costa Brava on 17-20 March, celebrating the 70th edition of the event. There were victories for Pascal Perroud and Denis Giraudet, who topped the results sheets of this first…
ESPÍRITU DE MONTJUÏC
A mixed bag Drivers flying out to Barcelona in the hope of a season-opener under the Spanish sun were slightly disappointed as the Iberian peninsula proved unable to escape the cold spell that froze the entire continent on the first weekend of April. The end result was a bit of…
Early Days at Watkins Glen
Home of the Formula One United States Grand Prix for 20 years (1961–1980), “The Glen,” as the Watkins Glen International Circuit is known, was built in record time back in 1956 to host motor races previously held on public roads in and around the village. Jenny Ambrose from the International…
French Championships Round 1 Historic Tour Magny-Cours
The eighth edition of the French Historic Circuit Championships (Historic Tour) opened the season at Nevers Magny-Cours on March 25-27, with an encouraging number of entries that included some 15% foreign drivers. The 10 championship grids, bringing together 14 separate Challenges, Championships or Trophies, with guest grids from Colmore YTCC…
French Championships Round 2 Historic Tour Lédenon
Three weeks after the season opener at Magny-Cours, Easter weekend saw the second round of the FFSA French Historic Championships take place on the undulating Lédenon circuit in high summer conditions, with temperatures approaching 30 degrees. This represented a return to this southern circuit, as the final round of…
HSCC Season Opener Brands Hatch
Smith Leads Formula Atlantic Comeback Fifty-one years after Australian Vern Schuppan – the future Formula 1 racer and Porsche Le Mans winner – won the inaugural British Formula Atlantic race at Brands Hatch in a Palliser chassis, a Historic iteration brought a new flavour to the HSCC’s season-opener on the…
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