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International St. Moritz Automobile Week
In what has become a full ten days of events and celebrations of the competition car, the German organising team has been adding more events to the St. Moritz Automobile Week. The Kilometre Lancé, or flying kilometre on the aerodrome, and the concours have been augmented with two tours, the…
Rally the Globe launches Alaska to Mexico Marathon for 2023
With the ongoing global pandemic, and political unrest in Myanmar hampering the advanced planning of events in South East Asia, the timetabled Road to Hanoi Marathon has been deferred until 2024 and replaced on 2023’s calendar with a journey through some of the most spectacular scenery in North America. Crossing…
Flying Scotsman
Bentley specialist William Medcalf has won the challenging Flying Scotsman rally after leading the three-day (1-3 April) event for pre-war cars from day one in his Bentley SuperSports. Rain, snow and a hailstorm that blew across Scotland on day two assaulted the drivers, most in open cockpits, leaving just 79…
Circuit of Ireland
Preston’s James Ford won the two-day Circuit of Ireland Historic category on his trip across the Irish Sea. The Ford Escort, navigated by Neil Shanks, led from start to finish over the mixed conditions. Far from the Circuit of old when teams travelled across the island, a simple format of…
Rallying for the Next Generation
Staged in brilliant early spring sunshine on 25-27 March, Rally the Globe’s first-ever Generations Rally, centred in the poetic English Lake District National Park, was a great success on many counts. Created specifically to introduce potential future endurance rally competitors – notably those of a younger age – to historic…
Gravel Romania Historic Rally
The 3rd Gravel Romania Historic Rally, which will take place on 5-9 July, will consist of a route spread over five days with 25 special stages totalling 380km of timed stages, held on 100% Gravel. HTPs not required. Contact Paul Lacombe and his team via the website at www.romania-historic-rally.com.
Stella Alpina 2022
Entries are now open for the 37th edition of the Stella Alpina, the event organised jointly by Scuderia Trentina and Canossa Events that will take place on 3-5 June. After the great success of the 2021 edition, the Stella Alpina is once again taking to the spectacular roads of…
FIA European Regularity Trophy
The qualifying events for the 2022 FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies (THRR) have been announced and will include 15 rallies in 11 different European nations. Two of the qualifying events have already been run, the Ypres Historic Regularity Rally (26-28 November 2021) and the Ostbelgien Classic (3-5 December 2021),…
GT Anniversary at the 24 Hours of Spa
SRO Motorsports Group will celebrate its 30th anniversary in style at this year’s TotalEnergies 24 Hours of Spa on 28-31 July with a historic GT event organised by Peter Auto as a curtain-raiser ahead of the main race. Two one-hour races called GT Anniversary 2022 and a parade in the…
Three out of Three for Collins at Skope Classic
50 Years after McRae and Hawthorne A little over 50 years ago, in 1972, the late, great Graham McRae drove his then new Leda ‘GM1 001’ Formula 5000 single-seater to a dominant victory in the Lady Wigram Trophy race on a temporary circuit at Christchurch’s Wigram Air Force Base in…
2022 FIA Historic Rally Championship Round 1 70th Rally Motul Costa Brava
With past postponements and other restrictions well and truly behind us, more than 170 cars from across Europe started the Rally Costa Brava on 17-20 March, celebrating the 70th edition of the event. There were victories for Pascal Perroud and Denis Giraudet, who topped the results sheets of this first…
ESPÍRITU DE MONTJUÏC
A mixed bag Drivers flying out to Barcelona in the hope of a season-opener under the Spanish sun were slightly disappointed as the Iberian peninsula proved unable to escape the cold spell that froze the entire continent on the first weekend of April. The end result was a bit of…
Early Days at Watkins Glen
Home of the Formula One United States Grand Prix for 20 years (1961–1980), “The Glen,” as the Watkins Glen International Circuit is known, was built in record time back in 1956 to host motor races previously held on public roads in and around the village. Jenny Ambrose from the International…
French Championships Round 1 Historic Tour Magny-Cours
The eighth edition of the French Historic Circuit Championships (Historic Tour) opened the season at Nevers Magny-Cours on March 25-27, with an encouraging number of entries that included some 15% foreign drivers. The 10 championship grids, bringing together 14 separate Challenges, Championships or Trophies, with guest grids from Colmore YTCC…
French Championships Round 2 Historic Tour Lédenon
Three weeks after the season opener at Magny-Cours, Easter weekend saw the second round of the FFSA French Historic Championships take place on the undulating Lédenon circuit in high summer conditions, with temperatures approaching 30 degrees. This represented a return to this southern circuit, as the final round of…
HSCC Season Opener Brands Hatch
Smith Leads Formula Atlantic Comeback Fifty-one years after Australian Vern Schuppan – the future Formula 1 racer and Porsche Le Mans winner – won the inaugural British Formula Atlantic race at Brands Hatch in a Palliser chassis, a Historic iteration brought a new flavour to the HSCC’s season-opener on the…
Historic F2 Champions
While the HSCC’s championships were decided either at Mallory Park in September or at the Silverstone Finals meeting in October (see our November issue), the International Formula 2 Series was only able to name its 2021 Champions after the Dijon Motors Cup meeting in October. From 10 races at…
Postponed Tasman Revival
When the Wellington-based MG Car Club was forced to cancel this year’s popular MG Classic motor racing meeting, due to be held at Manfield Circuit Chris Amon over the weekend of 13-14 November, it eliminated the first round of 2021-22 MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series, which has run…
Peter Auto 2021 Final Standings
A mixed season for most series, including for Peter Auto, has meant that not all the usual participants were able to compete in all the races. This has brought some interesting season winners to the fore. Peter Auto quite rightly gives as much importance to a class win as…
French National Champions Crowned
Sébastien Mathieu (GT/Tourism) and Lionel Robert (Monoplaces/Protos) are the 2021 French historic racing champions. Aged 37, Mathieu has been a staunch supporter of the GT Classic Trophy from the start, first in a Porsche 964 RSR, and then at the helm of a BMW M3 GTR developed by himself…