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The Motoring Spectacle Returns to the Mall
The RAC has announced the return of the Motoring Spectacle. Last year the Royal Automobile Club launched the St James’s Motoring Spectacle, a free-to-attend event staged in London’s Pall Mall outside the RAC’s historic Clubhouse, closed to traffic for the occasion. Hailed as a great success by organisers, exhibitors and,…
Alfa Anniversary
Alfa Romeo is 115 years old this year. 2025 also marks significant brand moments, including the centenary of the GP Tipo P2’s victory in the first World Motor Championship; the 75th anniversaries of the Alfa Romeo 1900 and the brand’s first world title in Formula 1; the 50th anniversary of…
British Historic Rally Championship – Plains Rally
David Crossen and Ben Teggart took a thrilling victory at the Plains Rally on 17 May, storming to their second BHRC win of the season in hot and dusty conditions in a rally that marked the BHRC’s long-awaited return to Welsh gravel. The Escort MkII crew came out on top…
European Historic Rally Championship Round 3 – Antibes Historic Rally
Down to the wire for Pieri For the third round of the European Historic Rally Championship, most of the regulars gathered in France for the Rallye d’Antibes. With Finnish rally champion Jari-Matti Latvala in his Toyota Celica, already winner of the first two rounds, along with 37 other registered competitors,…
European Historic Rally Championship Round 2 – Historic Vltava Rallye
Rallye Šumava Klatovy has run 59 times, and the cars of the Historic Vltava Rallye have participated in 33 of those editions, most recently on 25-27 April as part of the Czech and FIA European Historic Rally Championships. Based in Klatovy in the southwest of the Czech Republic, the popular…
Montjuïc Manifesto
In memory of an Important Chapter in Motor Sport History Sunday, April 27, marked the 50th anniversary of the last Formula 1 Grand Prix at the Montjuïc track, a race that, due to its tragic outcome, meant the last car competition to be held on Barcelona’s famous urban racetrack. A…
Le Mans Winner and Spanish Prince Team up for Peking to Paris
Amongst the adventurers that will be undertaking this year’s Peking to Paris Motor Challenge are two extraordinary motor sport characters in a famous historic rally car. Six-time 24hr champion of Le Mans, Spa x2, Daytona, Dubai, and the Nürburgring, Frenchman Christophe Bouchut and Spanish Prince, Alfonso de Orléans-Borbón, a former…
Monterey Motorsports Reunion
Applications have now opened for Monterey’s annual Motorsports Reunion, which will run this year on 13-16 August at the WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Organisers have promised ‘exciting new experiences’ amongst the 13 race groups, ranging from 1922-1955 Grand Prix legends to more modern machines like 1991-2011 IMSA prototypes, ensuring that…
MRL 2025
Big changes are afoot in the Motor Racing Legends organisation with the new owner, Shaun Lynn (see page 30 this issue to read our interview with him) and CEO Pierre-Antoine Lecoutour convinced that they can increase the enjoyment for owner-drivers and amateurs by tightening up the regulations and enforcement of…
New Grids for the Silverstone Festival
Back in 1950, when Silverstone hosted the first-ever points scoring F1 Grand Prix, only one support race was on the programme. It was for 500cc Formula 3 cars. Adding to the previously announced 75th anniversary celebrations of F1 at the Silverstone Festival this summer, a colourful field of these diminutive…
HGPCA Awards
More than 160 members, guests and friends attended the Annual HGPCA Lunch at the Royal Automobile Club in early December to celebrate a successful race season and applaud those chosen to receive awards for their achievements both on and off the track. Chairman Peter Horsman welcomed everyone and started the…
SuperSixties – Rhea Sautter and Andy Newall Crowned Overall Champions
The Metropole classic car museum in Druten, Netherlands was the appropriate setting for the 2024 SuperSixties awards ceremony. After 12 races on six different circuits, no fewer than 85 crews were classified for the Dutch racing series for pre-’66 historic touring and GT cars. The huge challenge trophy was awarded…
Formula Junior Historic North America 2025: Four Feature Race Schedule
The FJHNA have announced four feature races for 2025, starting on 25-27 April at Mid-Ohio during the all-Formula FRP weekend racing event. FJ is invited to the acclaimed Velocity Invitational event at Sonoma Raceway on the new date of 6-8 June. However, with 13 groups invited, only the 9 with…
F2/ F3 Interseries
Acommon set of F3 regulations has been agreed by HVM, the HSCC and the German HRA (Historic Racecar Association) for the F3 Classic InterSeries organised by HVM. With two classes – 1600 1971 to 1973 and 2000 1974 to 1984 – a minimum weight including driver has been introduced (1600…
Priceless Cars Up for Grabs
Some rare competition cars that have been salted away for decades are coming to market in the near future. A huge stir was created when Tom Hartley Jr announced last month that he had been tasked to sell Bernie Ecclestone’s collection of 69 competition cars. Acquired at various times in…
Cars from the Indianapolis Museum
Another deeply significant collection of cars has also come up for sale, this time at auction by RM Sotheby’s, who refer to it as a “A Once in a Lifetime Deal”. Though only 11 cars will be leaving the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum, they rank among the most sought-after automobiles…
Broad Arrow Auctions heads for Europe
Broad Arrow Auctions has announced its partnership with BMW AG to become the official auction partner of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, starting in May 2025. As part of the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este event, Broad Arrow Auctions is expected to offer up to 70 high quality collector cars for…
Andrew Hibberd, Triple Crown
Andrew Hibberd added to his tally of 2024 titles by winning the European Historic Formula 3 Championship. He had already won the HSCC Formula 3 and UK Formula Junior championships driving a Brabham BT18 in Formula 3 and alternating between a Lotus 20 and Lotus 22 in Formula Junior.
Motor Racing Legends to Partner with Supercar Driver
Motor Racing Legends has announced a partnership with Supercar Driver. A member’s club exclusively for supercars and their owners, Supercar Driver is known in particular for its Secret Meets, and organises scenic drives, track days and breakfast meets, for supercar owners. Now those members will get access to race meetings,…
IBnterclassics and Autoworld, Brussels
Brussels was the place to be in mid-November for a wide variety of classic cars with the Interclassics show celebrating ‘110 years of Maserati’ at the Expo site on the weekend of the 15th-17th, while across town at Autoworld, within the Parc du Cinquantenaire, a special exhibition entitled ‘When Automotive…