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The Alternative to ATA Carnets
You can download Peter’s complete document here. Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Chairman Peter Horsman has used his legal background to study the actual regulations for taking racing cars from the UK into the EU for racing. He has found a solution and created a document that explains how UK…
Iberian Finale
Jerez Historic Festival A weekend of celebrations, hosting the penultimate rounds of the Iberian Historic Endurance and Carrera Los 80s cars of the Race Ready organisation will take place on 21-22 October at the 4.4-kilometre Circuito de Jerez – Ángel Nieto. The two-day event will offer two 50-minute races for…
14th Grand Prix de Monaco Historique – May 10-12, 2024
Following the success of the 2023 edition, the Organising Committee at the Automobile Club de Monaco has announced it will retain the same eight series and classes without change for 2024. The event, which takes place on 10-12 May, will see tributes and anniversary celebrations including for the Bugatti Type…
Changes Within the FIA
Amongst the pledges made by Mohammed Ben Sulayem in his election campaign for the FIA Presidency was a promise to balance the books. It has been said by some that if the spending and income had remained as it was, the FIA would have run out of money in just…
F2 and F3 Classic Launched for 2024
With Historic Formula 2 beset by falling grid numbers in recent years, and after an unsuccessful attempt by Peter Auto to re-vitalise the category, HVM and the Historic Sports Car Club have come to an arrangement to jointly run a series for Formula 2 cars in 2024. At the same…
Motor Racing Legends Season Finale Silverstone GP Meeting
As the racing season gets longer and longer, Motor Racing Legends is offering its competitors one last fling at the Motor Racing Legends Silverstone GP Meeting on 21-22 October. Now firmly established as the MRL season-closer, the two-day programme has something for everyone on the bill including: The Royal Automobile…
Italian Speed Festival
On 21-22 October Canossa Events will stage the second Italian Speed Festival at the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli. Final rounds of the Alfa Revival Cup and Canossa’s Youngtimer Cup, along with track days for the Cavallino Classic Cup are on the programme. Concours, free laps for spectators, hot laps…
2024 Calendar – Save the Date
Organisers are busy planning for next season, with several already having announced their 2024 calendars…. For those who like to plan ahead, we have started listing provisional dates on our calendar page on this Historic Motor Racing News website. We will keep this updated as more organisers announce their dates.
Monterey Auctions
Almost 1,200 cars sold during Monterey Cart Week across the auctions of Bonhams, Broad Arrow, Gooding & Co, Mecum and RM Sotheby’s, with a total sales value of $398,432,960, a big number, but less than $463 million sold last year with an average sales price of $568,000. The 2023 auctions…
McLaren at Velocity Invitational
To help celebrate McLaren’s 60th anniversary, Zak Brown, Pato O’Ward, Alexander Rossi and Tony Kanaan will put in appearances at the Velocity Invitational race meeting on 10-12 November. The three Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team drivers will participate in autograph sessions and interactive activities and tackle Sonoma Raceway’s challenging road course…
GTO Ferrari for Sale
RM Sotheby’s has announced it will be selling the only factory-owned Series I GTO to be raced by the Scuderia Ferrari. The 1962 Ferrari 330 LM / 250 GTO, chassis number 3765, is being offered for sale after nearly four decades in private ownership in New York on 13 November…
The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering
An integral part of Monterey Car Week, The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, saw a large number of new car launches, including the Lamborghini Lanzador electric 2+2 concept car, Maserati’s MCXtrema track-only electric race car, Bugatti Chiron Super Sport ‘Golden Era’ and W16 Mistral, the Rolls-Royce Spectre electric super coupé, Acura’s…
90 Years of the VSCC
The Vintage Sportscar-Club is one of the most venerable organisations dedicated to historic motor sport. It has been preserving and promoting the use and the competitive use of historic cars since before the war. Next year the Club will celebrate its 90th anniversary. All members are invited to note…
Rallye Elba Storico
There was a new success for Luco Da Zanche, paired with Maurizio Barone, in a Porsche 911 RS at the XXXV Rallye Elba Storico-Trofeo Locman in the penultimate round of the Italian Historic Rally Championship, a race which effectively put fifth place finisher Matteo Musti, co-driven by Simone Brachia in…
Winter Romania
For the eighth edition of the Winter Romania Historic Rally, Paul Lacombe, George Grigorescu, Simon Arpad and Regis Dufresne will continue with the well-known formula that has served so well and includes three days of racing in loops around the city of Covasna in Transylvania, one of the coldest regions…
Ulster Historic Rally
Two weeks after their Cork 20 win, Trevor Wilson and Paul Mulholland claimed victory in the Historic Category of the Ulster Rally, by almost four minutes. Ford Escort Mk2 driver Mulholland recorded fastest times on all but one of the ten stages, in a field of just nine historic competitors,…
Les Legend Boucles @ Bastogne 2024 dates announced
After careful consideration, and in order not to clash with any of the other classic winter events, the 2024 edition of the Legend Boucles @ Bastogne has been set to take place on 3-4 February, and in broad outline, will stick to its traditional format. At the end of the…
Young Navigators
The Bob Rutherford Historic Rally Scholarship for Young Navigators was set up by Guy Woodcock and Bob’s son, rally organiser Will Rutherford, in memory of the late, great Bob Rutherford, a man fondly remembered and familiar to many in the historic rallying world, who sadly lost his life in 2021. …
Winter Marathon Madonna di Campiglio
The 36th edition of the longest-running winter regularity rally for classic cars, born in 1989, will take place next year on 18-21 January, as always, in Madonna di Campiglio. The route will be enriched by new stages and new trials and will still be divided into 2 legs: the first…
International St. Moritz Automobile Week
The initiative, that started when a group of local friends decided to revive an event that took place in 1929 and 1930 in Switzerland’s Engadin Valley, initially with a hillclimb on the Bernina Pass, has grown into an international celebration of the motor car comprising a week of rallies, tours,…
Monterey Car Week
Every year since 1950 a world-famous automobile gathering has taken place in the spectacular setting of the Monterey Peninsula. The Pebble Beach Road Races, originally run through Del Monte Forest and subsequently transferred to the permanent circuit of Laguna Seca, and its accompanying Pebble Beach Concours, have been a mainstay…