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GOODWOOD SPEED WEEK
Edgy Edwardians star in SpeedWeek potpourri Marcus Pye Reports Curated to showcase the best aspects of the Goodwood Members’ Meeting, Festival of Speed and Revival – all lost to the COVID-19 pandemic this year – SpeedWeek was a colourful mix of motor sport genre performed behind closed doors at the…
HSCC SILVERSTONE FINALS
The curtain comes down on an intense season Seemingly within only a matter of weeks from the delayed start of the season, the Historic Sports Car Club was on home ground at Silverstone for the annual Finals Meeting on the National circuit. Good grids, some typical end of season excitement…
French Championship Season
Originally scheduled to consist of five race meetings, with two races at each meeting for each championship series, the FFSA and HVM Racing pulled off the unique feat of providing all five French Championship events, albeit with the first three rescheduled. Now they are looking forward to a more normal…
Motors Cup – Le Mans
Bugatti Bonus Though the French Championships were decided at Val de Vienne in late September (see our November issue), there was still some fun to be had and some points to score for a few of the individual French series at the October 16-17 Motors Cup meeting at the Le…
HSCC Champions
Though the season was shorter than usual, the HSCC provided enough racing to hold meaningful championships in some of its categories, and after their Finals Meeting on 17-18 October (see page 44) and last Formula Ford races at the Formula Ford Festival Brands Hatch on 24-25 October, all the championships…
Motor Racing Legends Silverstone
Marcus Pye reports on an event, conceived and executed within only a few weeks, that proved to be like food to drivers starved of racing this season Historic Tourist Trophy brings Silverstone lining to MRL’s year Organised in the wake of the Spa Six Hours event’s late but inevitable cancellation,…
Madonna di Campiglio
Entries are now open for the annual Winter Marathon regularity rally based in the resort of Madonna di Campiglio in the Italian Dolomites. It is due to run next year on 14-17 January. One of the unique features of this event is the race on the frozen lake on the…
E-type Jaguar 60th Race and Tour
The Jaguar E-type will be 60 next year and no doubt the Jaguar Heritage PR team will be cranking up the volume to remind us what an extraordinary car it was, or should we say, is, because they are re-making them. They have for the moment pulled the plug on…
Next Year at Monterey
As organisers need to sort their calendars early, many are setting their dates even now as they rush into the unknown territory of 2021. The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is set to take place on 12-15 August and will feature historic Indy Cars for the very first time. Other races…
Algarve Classic Festival
With the UK quarantine restrictions in place, it is clear that very few UK competitors are willing or able to travel to Portugal and Motor Racing Legends, which was to have four grids there made up mainly of British teams, has decided not to go. Duncan Wiltshire of Motor Racing…
French Champions Crowned
Frédéric Rouvier has won the French Historic Circuits Championship in the Single-seater/Proto category for the third year in a row. Aged 42, Rouvier, a native of Cannes, who is an educational manager at Oreca Events, won this new title at the wheel of a March 783 run by Italian team…
Who is it?
Our caption competition published in the September issue did not elicit one response, not even a wild guess. Where is your sense of adventure? For those of you who have been trying to figure it out we apologise if it was just a little too obscure. The correct answer is…
Salon Privé Concours d’Élégance
This year’s Salon Privé attracted a record number of entries to the grounds of the elegant Blenheim Palace on 22-26 September for the prestigious Concours d’Élégance. It was the first automotive event in the world to use the Liber app, which has been developed for major event organisers to ensure…
United Autosports Historics
The success of United Autosports on both sides of the Atlantic at Daytona and Sebring, in the British GT Championship, in the European and Asian Le Mans series, running drivers such as Fernando Alonso, Juan Pablo Montoya, Lando Norris and former DTM Champion Paul Di Resta is probably well-known to…
Terre di Canossa
The 10th edition of the Gran Premio Terre di Canossa exploring the roads of Emilia and Tuscany came to a close on October 4 with a win for Alberto Aliverti and Stefano Valente driving an Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 SS Zagato in less than ideal weather conditions for such an…
The HERO Summer Trial
One of the few significant UK classic rallies to go ahead since the COVID lockdown was the HERO Summer Trial, which moved to the late summer date of 25-27 September on a heavily revised route. After two and a half days of competition, largely in Shropshire, over special tests and…
Rallye Elba Storico
Alberto Salvini and Davide Tagliaferri took their Group 4 Porsche Carrera RS to victory in the XXXII Rallye Elba Storico-Trofeo Locman, run on its originally scheduled date of 17-19 September with a full entry list of over 130 cars. The second round of the Italian Championship was this year, for…
Tour de Corse Historique – 20th Edition
In these difficult times the Tour de Corse Historique was a kind of beacon of normalcy, when a full complement of 210 cars, over 130 in competition (VHC) and the others split into regularity categories (VHRS) of high, medium and low average speed, took the start in Porto-Vecchio on 6…
NK HTGT
Gamma Racing Day – TT Circuit Assen Eager to Get Started A somewhat chaotic start for the NK HTGT race at the Gamma Racing Day meeting on 26-27 September got the red flags flying. The second attempt was slightly less messy, with only Martin Bijleveld and Egbert Kolvoort getting penalties…
Monza Historic
At the heart of the temple of speed Jean-Marie Biadatti reports Though there were fears for the worst, in the lead-up to the event due to the pandemic, Monza Historic went ahead as planned on the weekend of 18-20 September. Even though many regulars from the Peter Auto grids were…