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What do we want and when do we want it? What is your opinion?
It seems that everyone now agrees that the level of development in historic cars has reached an unsustainable level, with various – and highly negative – consequences. First and foremost, budgets have skyrocketed in recent years, and many competitors are unable to keep up. Naturally, this is reflected in the…
Good News for Alfa Drivers Andrea de Adamich Trophy
Amongst the grids at the new MRL Brands Hatch race meeting on 19-21 June will be an HRDC-run race for Alfa Romeo GTAs and pre-1966 Alfa Romeo touring cars. The Andrea de Adamich Trophy is a 60-minute pitstop race for one or two drivers, and it will have both qualifying…
Oldtimer-Grand-Prix – Moving with the Times
The Nürburgring circuit is 99 years old this year, and for over half of its existence – this will be its 52nd year – it has played host to the Oldtimer-Grand-Prix, one of the first race meetings for historic cars on the planet. Many of the sports, touring and monoposto…
Touring Car Rewind: North
Building on the successful Super Touring Power events at Brands Hatch, Touring Car Rewind: North made its debut at Oulton Park on Saturday 16 May, bringing a full day of tin-top action to the Cheshire circuit. Jointly promoted by the British Automobile Racing Club, the Classic Touring Car Racing Club…
Alfa revival Cup – Round 1 Mugello
The Mugello Circuit staged the opening round of the 2026 Sprint GTA chased by the Giulietta Ti of Emanuele and Alessandro Alfa Revival Cup on 17-19 April with separate E/F and G/H/I trophies up for grabs. Used to taking all the top spots, this time the dominant GTAm brigade, 13-srong…
Legends of Le Mans
In with the New The first rounds of this year’s World Endurance Championship have seen a further addition to the growing number of historic races accompa- nying top-line modern events. Jurriaan Tas went to investigate… The Legends of Le Mans series run by Peter Auto, a new supporting act to…
When Dunlop is Goodyear
When Goodyear took control of Avon (via buying Cooper), it suddenly owned three historic brands: Goodyear, Dunlop and Avon. Goodyear then sold most Dunlop 4-wheel car consumer tyres in Europe, North America and Oceania to Sumitomo, keeping mainly motorcycle and certain motorsport rights. That pushes them to put their own…
New Director for SVRA
Racing America, who’s portfolio includes the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association, has announced that Jeff Luckritz has been promoted to the role of Director for (SVRA). Over the last eight seasons, Luckritz advanced from Operations Manager for two of Racing America’s series all the way to Race Director. A veteran on…
Miles Collier Named Honoured Guest of Historic Festival 44
An Influential Voice in Automotive History Returns to Lime Rock The belief that great cars are meant to be driven takes centre stage at Lime Rock Park on the Labor Day Weekend of September 3–7, when Miles Collier , founder of the Revs Institute, returns to the Connecticut venue as…
Racing Royalty at the Goodwood Revival
As always, the Goodwood Revival will see a host of champion drivers joining the ranks of the amateurs. Among the names announced for the 18-20 September Revival are Formula 1 drivers Sir Jackie Stewart, Jacques Villeneuve, Jean Alesi, Jenson Button, John Watson, Karun Chandhok and Max Chilton. From the world…
Henry Segrave to take Centre Stage at RAC Concours
The exploits of one of Britain’s pioneering speed record breakers – Sir Henry O’Neal de Hane Segrave – will be celebrated at this summer’s Royal Automobile Club Concours on Wednesday 8 July at the Club’s picturesque Woodcote Park estate. Fighter pilot, Grand Prix-winning racing driver, Land Speed Record holder and…
Around Monaco
Concours with a Difference Cavallino Classic Monaco, organised in collaboration with the Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM), the Yacht Club de Monaco and Ferrari Corse Clienti saw 22 single seaters from the glorious past of the Scuderia Ferrari lined up in the Marina in Monaco during the Grand Pric Historique…
Group C Returns to Brands Hatch
Motor Racing Legends has announced a grid of Group C cars for their new Brands Hatch London Trophy meeting on 19-21 June, promising that 13 of these iconic machines from five different manufacturers will be celebrated when cars from Porsche Nissan, Jaguar, Mercedes and Spice will do demonstration runs on…
Targa Trofeo
Anew initiative from Mark Perry and his team at the Targa Tasmania will see the inclusion of a new three-day event to be held in tandem with this year’s Targa Tasmania. The event will be called Targa Trofeo and run over the first three days of Targa Tasmania for a…
Flying Scotsman
Young Theo Hunt burst into the news pages a few years ago driving his father Martin’s Frazer Nash TT Replica, amongst others, and was quick from the get-go, with multiple wins and placings in VSCC and other races and hillclimbs. He turned his attention to rallying and won the Vintage…
Cancellation of the Kielder Carlisle Stages
Planned for 5-6 June 2026 using the iconic Kielder Forest complex over two days, the Kielder Carlisle Stages rally was scheduled to host the Motorsport UK British Rally Championship, Fuchs British Historic Rally Championship and Motoscope Northern Historic Rally Championship, but with just three weeks remaining before the event, the…
Rallylegend and the Revival of the Memorial Bettega
The Memorial Bettega (Memorial Attilio Bettega) was a stadium-style rally competition on a short, closed circuit in the Bologna Fiera typically mixing asphalt and gravel brought into the fairground to create jumps and spectator-friendly viewing. Traditionally held during the Bologna Motor Show, it was created in 1985 to honour Italian…
Gran Premio Storico d’Italia
As previously reported, this meeting, at Mugello on 2-4 October, will bring together an array of exceptional single seater grids, including Masters Racing Legends (F1 1966-1985), Boss GP (F1 1990s-2000s), HGPCA (GP pre-1966), the F2 and F3 Classic Interseries, Formula Junior, Historic F3b 1000cc & Formula Ford pre-1982. The latter…
Postponed Peter Auto Support Race – New Dates for the Qatar 1812km
Originally scheduled to open the 14th season of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the Qatar 1812Km race will now take place in October at the Lusail International Circuit, thus becoming the penultimate round of the championship. Scheduled to run alongside the main event, the CER support races organised by…
20 Years of GT3 at the 24 Hours of Spa – Motor Racing Legends to Lead the Celebration
Introduced in 2006, GT3 quickly became the most prolific endurance racing category worldwide. Its growth was so spectacular that it became the main class of the 24 Hours of Spa as early as 2011. 20 year after the creation of the series, the early GT3 cars will be returning to…