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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…
A BOSS Weekend in Rio
The fourth race weekend of the 2023 BOSS GP Racing Series in Misano Adriatico felt like the carnival in Rio. The Italian race promoter PNK Motorsport invited colourfully dressed samba dancers into the paddock that proved to be a lucky charm for two Brazilians that were right at the front…
Historic F3 plans 60th celebrations in 2024
The 60th anniversary of the introduction of the 1-litre Formula 3 category will be celebrated during the Historic Sports Car Club’s Historic Formula 3 Championship next season. The HSCC is devising a 2024 calendar with some high profile race meetings along with a big push to encourage more of the…
HSCC Chairman Roger Bevan Stands Down
The Historic Sports Car Club has announced the resignation of its Chairman Roger Bevan with immediate effect. Roger made the decision to stand down from the role for personal reasons after serving for three years in the role. Also Chairman of the Historic Formula 2 series, he and his wife…
Italian Speed Festival
Since it took over the running of the Alfa Revival Cup series at the end of 2021 and the formation of Canossa Racing, the Canossa Events team have been developing the concept of the Italian Speed Festival, run for the first time last year and scheduled to run again at…
GT & Sportscar Cup
With the summer break over, the last two rounds of the GT & Sportscar Cup will be rounding off its season at two of the series’ regular venues. The Castle Combe Autumn Classic is a one-day event, which takes place on 23 September and is always a favourite with the…
Goodwood 2024 Dates Announced
No sooner had the sound faded on this year’s Festival of Speed than Goodwood made the announcement that the 2024 event will take place on 11-14 July. It has also been announced that the Members’ Meeting will take place next year on 13-15 April.
Old and New – Bentley and Biofuel
A 1200-litre fuel bowser within the Bentley production site at Crewe in Cheshire may appear unremarkable – but its contents have enabled vehicles from the Bentley Heritage Collection and press fleet to reduce their CO2 impact by an estimated 85%, compared with ordinary petrol. Bentley ran its six strong fleet…
Shelsley Walsh Classic Nostalgia
With a class for everything from Edwardians to Youngtimers, single seaters to big banger sportscars, a huge crowd turned out on 22-23 July to the Worcestershire Shelsley Walsh hillclimb, the oldest motor sport venue in continuous use in the world, for the annual Classic Nostalgia meeting. Saturday rain gave way…
Second Veteran Summer Run
Pre-1905 pioneering cars revved up for November’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run with an enhanced day trip through rural Surrey and Sussex. The second-running of the Royal Automobile Club’s Summer Run on 20 July was hailed as an even greater success than last July’s very well-received inaugural event. The…
British Historic Rally Championship
Jason Pritchard produced a masterclass of wet weather driving to secure his first Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship victory in five years after storming to victory at the Nigel Ferguson Fabricators Tour of Epynt on 30 July. After a slow start, Pritchard and co-driver Phil Clarke overhauled current championship…
Rally Greats at Eifel Rallye Festival
Stig Blomqvist, Rauno Aaltonen, Bruno Thiry, Kalle Grundel, Nicky Grist, Harald Demuth, Rui Madeira, Rudi Stohl and Niki Schelle were just some of the rally stars that attended the Eifel Rallye Festival in Germany’s Daum region on 27-29 July, where over 160 historic rally cars entertained tens of thousands of…
HERO Rally of the Tests and Other Upcoming Events
The 21st edition of the Rally of the Tests sees some changes, as after 10 years Clerk of the Course Guy Woodcock is passing the mantle to a new team of George Mullins, Andy Pullan and Seren Whyte to continue to deliver this classic endurance event – the one everyone …
Subaru to Star at Rallylegend
It has been 30 years since the Subaru Impreza 555 made its debut in the World Rally Championship, at Mille Laghi in 1993, and the 21st edition of Rallylegend intends to mark the occasion by bringing about the reunion of the iconic and unforgettable ex-works Subaru Impreza 555s produced by…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 6: Rallye Weiz
Tibor Erdi claimed his third outright victory of the 2023 FIA European Historic Rally Championship season with a dominant performance on Rallye Weiz in Austria on 13-15 July. The Hungarian and his Croatian co-driver Istvan Kerék completed the 500kms of the rally, including 145kms of timed stages, to the acclaim…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 7: Lahti Historic Rally
Finnish World Rally Championship hero and Toyota GR World Rally Team principal Jari-Matti Latvala and his co-driver Enni Mälkönen claimed an emphatic victory in the FIA European Historic Rally Championship round in Finland on 11-12 August. Fresh from making his WRC return on the previous weekend’s Rally Finland at the…
Panda Raid
Regular readers may remember a short news item in our Bits and Pieces section in 2019 when everything was being cancelled due to COVID. We reported that Austin Healey specialist and historic racer Jeremy Welch and his daughter Arabella, got as far as southern Spain in a 4 x 4…
50 Years of the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix
On the weekend of 11-13 August, the Oldtimer Grand Prix celebrated its 50th anniversary edition with an extensive program. The first Oldtimer was held in 1973 and today, after the Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or in France, which was first run in 1964, it is the oldest historic racing event…
HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup
Decades before the current obsession with drifting – undeniably spectacular, yet utterly unfathomable tyre-frying folly to older generations – sliding cars gracefully through corners at the highest possible speed for the prevailing conditions brought success and adulation for racers who best mastered the art of balancing machines with more power…
Goodwood Festival of Speed
Every meeting seems to celebrate an anniversary or two these days, but Goodwood being Goodwood, its events recall more and on a grander scale than others. At this year’s Festival of Speed, held on 13-16 July (minus the loss of Saturday due high wind warnings), the spotlight fell on 100…
French Historic Circuit Championships
In its ninth season, the 2023 French Historic Championship continued its tour of France on 16-18 June for the third of five events on the calendar. After stopping at Dijon and Albi, the drivers headed for an equally traditional and popular destination, the 3.15km circuit of Lédenon with its many…