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Equipe Launches UK 6 Hour race
Equipe Classic Racing is launching a UK race in the spirit of the Spa 6 Hours, running at Donington on Saturday 5 July. The Equipe 6 Hour will be run in the same format as the legendary Spa race with single-car, multi- driver teams for pre ‘66 GT, GTS and…
HSR 2025 Calendar
Under the guidance of President Chris Ward, who took over the post from David Hinton in January, Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) has announced one of the most ambitious schedules in its nearly 50-year history for 2025. The calendar for HSR sprint and endurance race series and championships has been expanded…
Pierre-Antoine Lecoutour Joins MRL
Motor Racing Legends has announced that Pierre-Antoine Lecoutour has been appointed as MRL’s new Chief Executive Officer. Pierre-Antoine is well-known in historic motorsport circles having worked in the field for the last decade. Pierre-Antoine leaves his post as Head of Competition at Peter Auto, bringing significant experience of historic…
2024 Masters Racing Legends Champion
After the final Masters round at Mugello, Matthew Wrigley was crowned the new champion in the Masters Racing Legends series for 3-litre Formula One cars. The Derbyshire driver is the successor to American Ken Tyrrell who also took the title in a Tyrrell 011. Last season, Wrigley pushed Nick Padmore…
New Zealand F5000
Running from November 2024 to April 2025, the New Zealand F5000 Association has announced its 24/25 calendar for the summer season, which includes the return of an overall driver’s title. “There are also points for starting each race,” explained Glenn Richards, President of the F5000 Association for cars that captivated…
Get Ready for Le Mans Classic
Running every other year, Le Mans Classic is next scheduled for 3-6 July 2025 after a record edition in 2023 that celebrated the Centenary of the 24-hour race in front of a crowd of almost 235,000 visitors. Created in 2002 by Peter Auto in association with the Automobile Club de…
Ford Sierra RS500 Group A Continuation Race Cars
Created in partnership with four-time touring car champion Andy Rouse, CNC Motorsport has delivered the first continuation Ford Sierra RS500 Group A race car from a series of three. Alan Strachan, an employee of Andy Rouse Engineering during the period of 1989-96 and mechanic on the Team Labatts Sierra RS500…
GT One by Tuthill Porsche
Everyone knows, or at the very least has heard of, Porsche specialist Richard Tuthill. Amongst his many activities involving Porsche cars, he has raced, rallied, bought, sold, prepared and customised many, many historic Porsches. He recently got the opportunity to design and build a Porsche-inspired car from scratch. The GT…
Rétromobile Goes to the USA
Comexposium has announced that duPont REGISTRY Group (DRG) will become its exclusive partner to create an American edition of the Rétromobile Show. With diversified portfolio brands, that include Cavallino, Canossa Events, Petrolicious and Sotheby’s Motorsport, DuPont Registry Group is part of the bigger Miami-based Motorsport Network conglomerate. It also runs…
Mergers and Acquisitions Christie’s and Gooding
Christie’s has announced that it is to acquire leading international collectors’ car auction house, Gooding & Company. Founded in 2003 by the husband-and-wife team of David Gooding and Dawn Ahrens, Gooding & Company has earned recognition for its high-quality consignments and exceptional transparency in the auction world, offering vehicles…
Tour de Corse and the Corsican Economy
Each year, Corsica can count on the island’s most important annual event, the Tour de Corse Historique (see report page 28). Considered a real economic lever at the start of the autumn season, for one week, restaurateurs, hoteliers, caterers, transport companies and other local infrastructures benefit from the excitement of…
Tour Auto 2025
The 34th edition of the Tour Auto will run next year on 7-12 April, and though the route has not yet been announced, entries opened on 30 September. As each year, there is a featured car that takes pride of place and receives special priority for entries. For 2025…
RallyLegend
Each year, the tiny Republic of San Marino becomes the focus of rally drivers and their fans from around the world in a three- day extravaganza known as RallyLegend. Rally cars of all shapes, sizes and ages are put through their paces for the huge crowds that gather to see…
Andy Gilmore Appointed CoC for Safari Classic
The East African Classic Safari Rally management has been re-enforcing its team and has recently announced that Andy Gilmore will be joining as Clerk of the Course for the 2025 event. “He brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience that will make the 2025 event one of the…
Scotsman Lite
For 15 years, the Flying Scotsman rally has been a staple of the pre-war motoring experience. The next adventure will depart into the North Yorkshire Moors and scenic Yorkshire Dales as the route passes through the Pennines into Northumberland and onto an overnight halt in Newcastle; then heading through some…
Sahara Challenge
Starting in Malaga, Spain on Monday 23 September and finishing in Estepona, Spain, on Saturday 5 October after 4500 difficult kilometres, the HERO/ERA 2024 Sahara Challenge reached its end with Badawi Trail Champions, Jorge Perez Companc and Jose Volta scoring victory in their 1938 Chevrolet Coupe. The Argentine crew finished…
Tour De Corse Historique
A Perfect Rally for Julien Saunier For 24 years the Tour de Corse Historique has been one of the unmissable events in historic rallying. Many drivers, some with illustrious track records, like to come and drive on the mythical Corsican stages. As proof, this year the organisers received more than…
Velocity Invitational Sonoma, California
Velocity: The rate at which an object moves For some, the word conjures a bullet speeding toward a target. For the more motor-minded, perhaps it’s a Top Fuel dragster rocketing from a standing start to over 330 miles an hour in 1,000 feet (about 304.8 m). The Velocity Invitational at…
Tabac Classic Grand Prix
Assen, located in a sparsely populated area halfway between Amsterdam and Bremen, is best known for the Dutch TT Motorcycle Grand Prix. On 13-15 September, it hosted the 3rd Tabac Classic Grand Prix. Jurriaan Tas and Marcel Hundscheid report….. Making Some Noise First run in 1925, the Dutch TT has…
Tragedy at Nogaro’s 64th GP Jean-Pierre Gaillard
For its back-to-school meeting after the summer break, the fourth of five French Championship events took place at Nogaro on 6-8 September, the Historic Tour’s first visit there since 2020. It marked the 64th Grand Prix de Nogaro. The meeting unfortunately came to a tragic end with the…