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Les Princesses Cancelled
France is suffering badly from the effects of the pandemic, and with it the 100 teams that signed up for this year’s Rallye des Princesses. Having had to cancel their event in 2020, for the second year running, Viviane Zaniroli and her team are amongst the many French organisers that…
Rallye de Portugal Historic 2021- Good News
After the cancellation of the event in 2020 due to travel restrictions, the Automobile Club de Portugal confirmed that the Rallye de Portugal Histórico, considered the best European regularity rally, will take place on 4-10 0ctober 2021 as part of the Estoril Classics Week. With its traditional start in the…
ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival – Anniversary Edition
Sadly organisers of the Eifel Rally Festival, scheduled this year for 22-24 July have decided to postpone the tenth running of the event until 2022. “The Eifel Rallye Festival exists principally for its participants and the thousands of fans. Demonstration drives of historic rally cars, the enthusiastic fans out on…
Gravel Romania Historic Rally
Due to run for the second time last year, but like so many other events, cancelled at the last minute, the Gravel Romania Historic Rally promises to be challenging with a five-day route and 24 ES, for a total of 391kms of timed special stages, all on 100% gravel. Open…
Sanremo Rally Storico
The 36th Historic Sanremo Rally opened both the Italian and FIA Historic Rally Championship seasons on 7-8 April. Back on the FIA calendar after a five-year absence, some 75 crews, of which over 20 were contesting the FIA Championship, were at the start line, including three past winners and six…
Masters Historic Race Weekend
Let’s Go Racing! A chilly but sunny Easter weekend saw Britain’s long-awaited return to racing, and historic cars were honoured to be the first to fire up their engines when Masters Historic Racing and the HSCC’s single-seater department convened for the Masters Historic Race Weekend at Donington Park…
HSCC Snetterton
Formula Ford cars of three eras took centre stage on Snetterton’s 300 Circuit as the Jim Russell Trophy meeting honoured one of the category’s founders and opened the Historic Sports Car Club’s 2021 season on 17-18 April. Local hero Russell bought fleets of FFs – Lotus, Alexis, Merlyn and Van…
SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series
Final Round Hampton Downs Just when defending F5000 Series title holder Michael Collins looked like wrapping up this season’s series, Auckland resident Grant Martin pulled his Talon MR1/A “out of the shed,” qualified second to Collins, then proceeded to lead the first race at the final round, the big Paul…
Classic Silverstone – Full Steam Ahead
With the all-clear for the UK to go back to (the new) normal from 21st June according to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ‘Road Map’, the Classic at Silverstone will finally be celebrating its 30th birthday, looking back over the years with a ‘greatest hits’ agenda. Depending as it does…
Peter Auto 2021 Season
Like all organisers, especially those with an international profile, Peter Auto has been struggling to maintain a viable racing calendar through all the various and unpredictable restrictions imposed by different governments and governing bodies. First to be postponed was the Dix Mille Tours du Castellet, which moved from March to…
Historic Tour Albi to Kick off the French Season
In keeping with the calendar initially announced, the French Historic Circuits Championship, known as the Historic Tour, will kick off on 9-11 April at the Albi circuit, confirmed official championship promoter HVM Racing. “With the FFSA and our series coordinators, we have been struggling for a year now to maintain…
Retromobile Cancelled
Although the show’s organisers took the precaution of scheduling the event in June, instead of on its usual February date, in order to avoid the worst of the pandemic restrictions, Retromobile has had to be cancelled for the second year running. It was already problematic for many of the show’s…
Another Disappointment, Another Remedy
Following the disappointment of last year, and still wanting to give their drivers some endurance racing in the meantime, V de V scheduled a six-hour enduro at Valencia (see our March 2021 issue) on 16-17 April. But alas, that too had to be cancelled due to the situation in Spain…
V de V Endurance
Last year the V de V Organisation had particularly bad luck in the timing of their Deux Tours d’Horloge event. Having arranged for it to run after a summer full of racing, the second lockdown in France came just days before the start of the event, which had to be…
GT & Sports Car Cup – More E-Type Celebrations
The GT & Sports Car Cup celebrates not only its own 15th anniversary this year, but it will also add to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Jaguar E-type with a dedicated class for the much-loved and highly successful British sports car at its first race of the season on…
Goodwood Members’ Meeting Postponed
After the UK government’s announcement on 22 February that spectators would only be allowed in limited numbers at sporting events after 17 May, Goodwood has taken the decision to postpone its 15-16 May Members’ Meeting to the autumn. In the hopes that they will be able to welcome a large…
Masters Formula Atlantic to debut in US
The Masters have been expanding into America for some years now, but this year marks a further push, with a new Masters-run meeting at Laguna Seca on 15-16 May, and a new series, Formula Atlantic Plus, for Formula Atlantic, Formula Super Vee and Formula 2 cars from the pre-1986 era….
Hockenheim Historic – The Thunder Returns – In August
The continued uncertainty due to COVID, has resulted in the postponement of the Bosch Hockenheim Historic race meeting, originally scheduled for 7-9 May, and now with a provisional date of 27-29 August. With Formula Junior, HSCC Formula 2, the HGPCA historic Grand Prix cars, Youngtimers and the first Group C…
Star Entries for the 1st Aléria Historic Rally
Two Corsican rally greats, Jean-Pierre Manzagol and Ange-Marie Venturini are working on their plans for the recently-announced, Aléria Historic Rally, which will take place in on 9-12 June on the eastern coast and in the centre of the island (see our March issue). Venturini will be driving his ex- Andruet,…
Ypres Historic to Run Indpendently of WRC Event
While the Ypres Rally Belgium has moved to August to become a round of the World Rally Championship, the Ypres Historic Rally plans to run on the event’s traditional date of June 27. The 28th edition of the Historic Rally, which is a round of the Historic Belgian Championship, will…