September 2021
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September 2021 Issue....
Masters GT Challenge
With fewer traditional F1 support races this season, the Masters were invited to stage two 30-minute races for their Gentlemen Drivers ‘60s GT grid at Silverstone to support the Pirelli Formula 1 British Grand Prix. A 33-car, all-British, grid was duly formed, consisting of Cobras, TVR Griffiths and E-type Jaguars…
Donington Festival 2022
Historic Promotions and circuit operator MotorSport Vision (MSV) have signed a new agreement for the Donington Historic Festival, ensuring the future of the event for the next three years. Dates for 2022 have been announced and the Festival will keep its traditional place on the calendar of the early May…
Four Straight Historic Formula One USA wins for Gregory Thornton
Having missed the opening event in California in May, English-resident Irishman Greg Thornton has made it four straight wins in the Masters American Historic Formula 1 series when he took his 1982 Lotus 91 to four race victories on back-to-back weekends, at the historic Watkins Glen circuit on July 11,…
GT & Sports Car Cup Two More Rounds in 2021
With high demand, Automobiles Historiques added an extra GT & Sports Car Cup race to its 2021 calendar and are offering a 90-minute race at the Castle Combe Autumn Classic, before finishing their season, as tradition dictates, with a two-hour enduro at the Algarve Classic Festival on 29-31 October. Eligible…
No Nürburgring
Those who expect to see our Oldtimer-Grand-Prix report in this issue will be disappointed. If you hadn’t already heard, the Oldtimer, along with other events to have taken place at the Nürburgring, was cancelled for this year at the last minute. This time it was not due to COVID, but…
Uno Spettacolo Italiano
Brands Hatch was the location of Festival Italia on August 15, celebrating a wide spectrum of motorsport, people and virtually anything else Italian. Peter Collins Reports… Perhaps one of the most remarkable features was to be found in the static display of Abarths from Tony Castle-Miller’s emporium. On show in…
Skills Shortage an “Existential Threat”
According to FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens) some of the most iconic vehicles in history could be lost to the future unless new blood is introduced to the restoration industry. That is the main conclusion reached at a FIVA-supported international symposium in Bucharest that took place in July, entitled…
Automobile Week in St Moritz
Organisers of Bernina Gran Turismo have expanded their offering to encompass a week of automotive festivities for this year’s event, which will be the seventh edition. Celebrating the Internationale St. Moritzer Automobilwochen that took place in St Moritz in 1920 and ’30, an automotive film festival, a sprint race, and…
Auto e Moto d’Epoca
The huge organisational machine behind the giant Auto e Moto d’Epoca exhibition in Padua is working full steam ahead for the 2021 edition, having reported strong demand for its 115,000 square metres of exhibition space from international vendors. One of the new features of the 21-24 October show, will be…
Happy Few Racing to Become Happy Many – Gran Trofeo – the Biggest Rally in the World
Rally organiser Laurent Blomet, founder of Happy Few Racing – which specialises in family rallies, for father and daughter, father and son, mother and son, etc. – has launched a new app that allows anyone to participate in regularity rallies across Europe and even compete against one another. With…
Monte-Carlo Historique
Details of the route for the 24th edition of Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique have been unveiled and the event will feature the return of concentration legs, with three famous cities on the starting options: Bad Homburg, Milan and Reims. There will be three different routes to Monte-Carlo. This move was directed…
Costa Brava Històric
The other Costa Brava Rally, a regularity event run by the same organisation, will keep to its traditional late September date, this year 30 September-3 October. A qualifying event for the FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies, the route offers a total of 28 Regularity stages over approximately 1,000 kilometres…
Record Entry for the Rally Costa Brava
The 69th Rally Costa Brava will be held on 19-20 November 2021 in Girona. The oldest rally in Spain and one of the most important historic rally events in Europe, the Costa Brava is normally the opening event on the FIA historic rally calendar. However this year it was postponed…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship Rounds Four and Five
Rallye Weiz After making its debut on the calendar in 2019, the Rallye Weiz in Austria returned to host Round 4 of the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship on 15-17 July. Taking place in the town of Weiz, 30km from Graz and 190km southwest of the Austrian capital, the…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship Rounds Four and Five
Rallye Weiz After making its debut on the calendar in 2019, the Rallye Weiz in Austria returned to host Round 4 of the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship on 15-17 July. Taking place in the town of Weiz, 30km from Graz and 190km southwest of the Austrian capital, the…
Classic Marathon
After a hiatus of more than a year, HERO staged its first international rally, the Classic Marathon, a six-day adventure that covered a 2200km route through north-west Spain and Portugal. With changing legislation in various countries right up to the eve of the event, it took no small effort for…
Classic Silverstone – Belated 30th Birthday
From Pre-War Sport Cars to the extraordinary guided missiles of the modern prototype era, squabbling Minis to Supertourers of the 1990s and Grand Prix cars of the 1930s to the Cosworth DFV age, the renamed Classic Silverstone had it all. Fickle weather, which was miserably wet for much of a…
NKHT GT Zolder and Assen – Roland Zoomers is OK
The boys and girls of the Dutch Championship series NKHTGT have been busy, with races at Zolder on 17-18 July and at Assen, on 6-8 August. Sadly, the Zolder meeting was cut short by an incident involving Jaguar driver Roland Zoomers, who hit the tyre wall hard and had to…
Nogaro Classics – Summer Torpor
Only three short weeks after their visit to Le Mans, Peter Auto competitors met at the Nogaro circuit in southwest France on 23-25 July for a meeting arranged to make up for the cancellation of Spa Classic in May. Organising an event like this in the height of summer in…
Zandvoort Race Classics – Sun and sea, and no crowding
A twisted run of events saw the mid-July Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort eventually take place as the Zandvoort Race Classics – with a hastily revamped programme, and without spectators. Full grids from Holland and Germany ensured a busy paddock that worked to deliver a full three-day schedule with no…