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Masters Champions
Amongst the various championship announcements that come at this time of year, the Masters have declared their winners. These include Mike Cantillon, who took the FIA Historic Formula One title for post-‘78 cars with his Williams FW07C, and Lukas Halusa, who scored six wins from 12 starts to take pre-‘78…
Tour Auto goes to Andorra
The 2022 Tour Auto will start with its traditional exhibition day in Paris on Monday, April 25, after which the 230 crews will set off on a route to discover the hidden charms and culture of the French countryside. Next Year’s programme will include some 2,000kms over five legs with…
Gordini at Retromobile
With Retromobile back on the calendar for 2022 (2-6 February), the much-missed exhibition is pulling out all the stops to make this a memorable edition. Amongst other special features, “The fabulous GORDINI saga,” in partnership with the National Automobile Museum, Schlumpf Collection and the historian Christian Huet, will present…
BRM and Richard Mille
British Racing Motors has confirmed that one of its run of three BRM P15 V16 cars, which are being manufactured by Hall and Hall using original blueprints and drawings from the BRM archive, is to be purchased by Richard Mille. Historic racing fan, sponsor, and collector, Richard Mille, has…
Net Zero….
NET-HERO is an innovative platform to help motorists around the world to offset their carbon footprint. A simple to use web-based app available in five languages, it allows drivers to accurately calculate the greenhouse gas emissions for new and classic cars. First, motorists enter their vehicle’s details to calculate its…
ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival 2022
After two years of cancellations, the tenth anniversary of the Eifel Rallye Festival will finally be celebrated in 2022. Some 160 rally cars, spanning 50 years of rally history will come next year for a special celebration of 50 years of the World Rally Championship. “During the forced break, we…
Winter Romania Historic Rally
In one of the coldest regions of Romania, guaranteeing snowy conditions, the sixth edition of the Winter Romania Historic Rally, will take place on 20-23 January on the forest paths of Comandaü in Transylvania, where Paul Lacombe, George Grigorescu and their team have designed a route to include three days…
Sahara Challenge
Such was the demand for places for HERO-ERA’s rally starting in Spain and crossing to Morocco, it nearly took place this year, not once, but twice due to the number of entries. Both got shelved at the last minute due to COVID, but now the event, that takes competitors into…
Strong Entry for the Chihuahua Express
Thirty entries for the open-road race (stage rally) are listed on the official Chihuahua Express website, including the winner of this year’s Pan-Am, Carlos Cordero, plus another ten entries in the ChiX Tour. These entries do not include a dozen competitors from the US who paid their entry fee for…
Mille Miglia 2022
Next year’s event will take place on 15-18 June. Entries opened on 4 November and will close on 14 January. There is an eligibility registration scheme (at a cost of €500), which must be completed before an entry application can be made. See https://1000miglia.it.
New Dates Confirmed for East African Safari
The East African Safari Classic Rally that was to take place on 1-9 November 2021 has been rescheduled for early next year organisers have confirmed. “Despite the regrettable news of the postponement of the 2021 event, the management can now confirm that it will take place on 10th – 18th…
Carrera Italia
The newest long-distance rally organisation, the not-for-profit Rally the Globe, got back to business on 2-12 October with its first long distance adventure since it had to cancel its ambitious plans to, literally, Rally the Globe. Inspired by Italian rally history, Carrera Italia started and finished in Sanremo on the…
Carrera Panamericana The Champion takes Command
This 34th edition of the revival Carrar Panamericana, which took place on 15-21 October, was won by Ricardo Cordero and Marco Hernández in their Studebaker Champion after a comeback that seemed all but impossible. After a blown tyre set them back over four and a half minutes on the first…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship
Rallye International du Valais – Stajf and Zelinka fly high in Switzerland Round eight of the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship was run in a Switzerland wearing its finest autumnal colours. The Rallye International du Valais on 21-23 October also counted towards the Swiss championship and the historic Swiss…
London to Brighton 125th Anniversary
As an unseasonably mild London was still shrouded in darkness, nearly 300 veteran cars, their drivers, passengers and hordes of enthusiastic well-wishers gathered in Hyde Park on Sunday 7 November for the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run. Celebrating 125 years since the original Emancipation Run, which was held…
Algarve Classic Festival – A soggy season finish
They came for a relaxed meeting in the sun but instead their season-closer proved challenging in many respects – and not just meteorologically. The Algarve Classic Festival turned into a soggy affair that became a struggle with the timetable and a handful for the drivers, although many enjoyed the slippery…
Deux Tours d’Horloge 2021
Joel Wykeham joined the Sleep Shelby Racing Team for an attempt on the first Historic 24 Hours race in nearly 10 years. L’Automne en Provence Competitors were greeted with all the beautiful autumn colours in the vineyards around Le Castellet as the Circuit Paul Ricard was bathed in low November…
MRL Silverstone GP Meeting
Cottingham/Girardo win at Snakes and Listers The second Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall Cup race for Pre-‘61 sports racers and Pre-‘66 GT and Touring cars, over three hours on Silverstone’s Historic Grand Prix circuit, ended Motor Racing Legends’ season in style on October 31. After a spin at Luffield on…
Jerez Historic Festival Andalusian Summer
For decades, it was usual that the international historic motor racing circus would annually retreat to the Iberian Peninsula for a sunny holiday bookended by a couple of race meetings. COVID-19 put an end to that relaxing tradition, but in 2021 it made a glorious comeback. With some having already…
Goodwood Members’ Meeting
Members and Maestros make Magic at Goodwood Marcus Pye Reports Not in the history of the second-tier events at Goodwood – under the British Automobile Racing Club’s banner from August 1949 to July 1966, and GRRC-badged from the spring of 2014 – had a Members’ Meeting been staged as late…