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Legend Boucles @ Bastogne
Cancelled this year and replaced by a ‘balade’ of classic cars from the general public running over the stages without timing, the Boucles @ Bastogne has set the date of 5-6 February for the 2022 edition, avoiding a clash with the Monte Carlo Historique, which takes place the week before…
Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique – Back to the roots
The 24th edition of the Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique will mark the return of concentration legs on 27 January-2 February, with three cities on the starting list: Bad Homburg, Milano and Reims. After a COVID hiatus, this move was made by the Organising Committee of the ACM, who want to once…
Winter Marathon
With winter fast approaching its time to think about which winter event you will be entering for early next year. The 34th Winter Marathon has just opened its entry list for the three-day event based in the ski resort of Madonna di Campiglio in the Italian Dolomites. This event is…
FIA European Rally Championship
Rally de Asturias Histórico ‘Zippo’ and Piceno take Spain by storm The Rally de Asturias Histórico was the first of two 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship rounds to be held on the Iberian Peninsula, with the Rally Costa Brava scheduled for November. A small contingent of FIA drivers made…
30th Tour Auto Historique
The return of the Cobras For the second year running, the Tour Auto Optic 2000 was postponed to September, which ultimately aligns more closely with its history, as in times past it took place in late summer/early autumn. In addition, to celebrate its 30th anniversary, the event finished in Nice,…
Monterey 2021
After the events of 2020 brought racing and many historic car events to a standstill, Car Week in Monterey was officially back for 2021 and with it, the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion and the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Car Week’s two cornerstones. Many of the usual small and large shows…
Vallelunga Classic
La Dolce Vita by Peter Auto Report by Jean Marie Biadatti The fourth meeting of the season after Dijon, Le Mans-Bugatti and Nogaro, the Italian track of Vallelunga near Rome welcomed the Peter Auto grids just a few days after the arrival of the Tour Auto in Nice. It should…
HSCC: Watts takes gold as F2 returns to Oulton Park
Marcus Pye Reports The wail of two-litre engines reverberated through the trees, traversed the tranquil lake and rent the air above rural Cheshire as the first standalone Formula 2 races at Oulton Park since 1972 highlighted the annual Gold Cup event, entertaining a large audience over the 28-29 August Bank…
French Historic Circuits Championship
Historic Tour Val de Vienne The French Historic Circuits Championships (Historic Tour) reached its halfway point at the 3.7km Val de Vienne circuit in western France on 3-5 September, with 250 drivers in 19 races. After two races each at Albi and Dijon, contenders for the two 2021 French…
Hockenheim Historic
After last year’s cancellation of the Bosch Hockenheim Historic, the organisers did everything they could to make sure it would happen in 2021. As a tribute event to Jim Clark, it usually takes place in April, the month Jim Clark suffered his fatal crash at Hockenheim, but the dreaded COVID…
Goodwood Revival
It’s Yesterday Once More… Goodwood fans and many among the historic motorsport fraternity had been counting the days down to the September 17-19, 2021 Revival Meeting since COVID torpedoed last year’s event. Two years on from the last edition what they found was a different looking venue, with new elements…
Masters GT Challenge
With fewer traditional F1 support races this season, the Masters were invited to stage two 30-minute races for their Gentlemen Drivers ‘60s GT grid at Silverstone to support the Pirelli Formula 1 British Grand Prix. A 33-car, all-British, grid was duly formed, consisting of Cobras, TVR Griffiths and E-type Jaguars…
Donington Festival 2022
Historic Promotions and circuit operator MotorSport Vision (MSV) have signed a new agreement for the Donington Historic Festival, ensuring the future of the event for the next three years. Dates for 2022 have been announced and the Festival will keep its traditional place on the calendar of the early May…
Four Straight Historic Formula One USA wins for Gregory Thornton
Having missed the opening event in California in May, English-resident Irishman Greg Thornton has made it four straight wins in the Masters American Historic Formula 1 series when he took his 1982 Lotus 91 to four race victories on back-to-back weekends, at the historic Watkins Glen circuit on July 11,…
GT & Sports Car Cup Two More Rounds in 2021
With high demand, Automobiles Historiques added an extra GT & Sports Car Cup race to its 2021 calendar and are offering a 90-minute race at the Castle Combe Autumn Classic, before finishing their season, as tradition dictates, with a two-hour enduro at the Algarve Classic Festival on 29-31 October. Eligible…
No Nürburgring
Those who expect to see our Oldtimer-Grand-Prix report in this issue will be disappointed. If you hadn’t already heard, the Oldtimer, along with other events to have taken place at the Nürburgring, was cancelled for this year at the last minute. This time it was not due to COVID, but…
Uno Spettacolo Italiano
Brands Hatch was the location of Festival Italia on August 15, celebrating a wide spectrum of motorsport, people and virtually anything else Italian. Peter Collins Reports… Perhaps one of the most remarkable features was to be found in the static display of Abarths from Tony Castle-Miller’s emporium. On show in…
Skills Shortage an “Existential Threat”
According to FIVA (Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens) some of the most iconic vehicles in history could be lost to the future unless new blood is introduced to the restoration industry. That is the main conclusion reached at a FIVA-supported international symposium in Bucharest that took place in July, entitled…
Automobile Week in St Moritz
Organisers of Bernina Gran Turismo have expanded their offering to encompass a week of automotive festivities for this year’s event, which will be the seventh edition. Celebrating the Internationale St. Moritzer Automobilwochen that took place in St Moritz in 1920 and ’30, an automotive film festival, a sprint race, and…
Auto e Moto d’Epoca
The huge organisational machine behind the giant Auto e Moto d’Epoca exhibition in Padua is working full steam ahead for the 2021 edition, having reported strong demand for its 115,000 square metres of exhibition space from international vendors. One of the new features of the 21-24 October show, will be…