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Gravel Romania Historic Rally
Postponed from its original date of 15-20 June, Paul Lacombe and his team have set the new date of 27-31 October for the 2nd Gravel Romania Rally. For cars up to 1990, the event offers a five day route that includes 24 gravel stages in the forests of Transylvania, for…
Cup and Touring Car Trophy
The German Cup and Touring Car Trophy started its 11th season in full summer sunshine around three months later than usual on the weekend of 4-5 July at Hockenheim, with a 30-car grid. In the first race, Harald Tänzler (BMW E46 WTC) celebrated a safe start-to-finish victory, his second overall…
New Event – Goodwood Speedweek
Members’ Meeting: Cancelled, Festival of Speed: Cancelled, Goodwood Revival: Cancelled, but the Duke of Richmond is not to be downcast. Instead he has announced a new, online event to take place on 16-18 October, that will be, in the Duke’s words, “The fastest, most exciting and spectacular event we have…
Jaguar race at Oulton Park
As reported in our July issue, the Historic Sports Car Club still wants to offer the Jaguar drivers at least one event in 2020, and have announced their own race for pre-‘66 Jaguars at the Oulton Park Gold Cup on 29-31 August. The Dunlop Historic Trophy will be a one-hour…
Motor Racing Legends Revised Schedule
Sadly, after searching for a date on which to run the postponed Donington Historic Festival, organisers have been forced to hold it over until next year. The 2021 date will be announced soon. In the meantime, though, there is excitement in the ranks as the Legends’ season will be…
Alfa Revival Cup – Imola
As in the UK, the weekend of 11-12 July saw the re-start for historic racing in Italy. Imola was the venue and, along with the first round of the Gruppo Peroni Italian Historic Championships, the Alfa Revival Cup cars were on the programme. Thirty cars for the Championship and 19…
International Historic Hill Climbing
The FIA European Hillclimb Championship has also been reworked to give competitors five events and the points rules revised accordingly: 11-12 July Trento Bondone 1-2 August Ecce Homo Sternberk 28-30 August GHD Petrol Ilirska Bistrica 18-20 September Buzetski Dani 25-27 September Coppa Chianti Classico More generally speaking, the FIA,…
Major US Events Cancelled
Regrettably WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca’s new management team has cancelled the 2020 Monterey Motorsports Reunion, yet another event to fall victim to COVID-19. In a July 12 statement that included all the usual remarks about public and staff safety, President and General Manager of WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca’s John Narigi…
GP de Monaco – Past, Future and Present in 2021
Having announced the cancellation of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique for 2020, it was initially envisaged to wait until it’s natural date in 2022 for it to run again. This was largely due to the E-Grand Prix, run in alternate years in the May slot occupied in even numbered…
The Scandinavian Calendar
Bengt-Åce Gustavsson fills us in on how the Scandinavian season is shaping up… Historic Racing in Sweden: All racing in Sweden was banned during April, May and June. Now we are hoping that we can start racing in July, but we don´t know for sure. I´ll give you the calendar…
News from the UK…….
Goodwood Cancelled As we went to press with our July issue, news came from Goodwood that both the Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival meetings have been cancelled for this year. Lord March and his team held out for as long as possible in the hopes of staging both events…
The Portuguese Season
Portugal is one of the least hard hit countries by COVID 19. Authorities there closed borders and locked down early, and now Portugal is enjoying the fruits of such prudent management with a pretty full schedule of racing for the rest of the season. They also have the advantage of…
Making up for Lost (Track) Time
After two months of only being able to report postponements and cancellations, we are very pleased to have received news from the V de V organisation that the Deux Tours d’Horloge, scheduled for 6-8 November at Paul Ricard is very much on! The Deux Tours is the only 24-hour race…
Green Light for French Championships
The French “deconfinement” of the population will allow the 2020 season of the Historic Tour (the French Historic Circuits Championship) to start on 17-19 July on the circuit of Albi, at a race meeting originally scheduled to take place in April. In accordance with other postponed dates already announced, the…
Racing Resuming
We don’t envy the plight of race promoters in various countries in Europe and around the world, with each country mandating different safety measures when racing resumes, and these changing nearly from day to day. There is also the constant threat that the whole thing will go into reverse at…
Rally Monte-Carlo Historique 2021
Dates for the 2021 edition of the popular historic Monte have been set for 27 January-3 February with only one starting point. In the post-pandemic world, organisers of this major endurance regularity rally have decided that all competitors will start and end in Monte Carlo. They have written to authorities…
Historic Portugal Rally Confirmed
The last uncertainties have been resolved and the organisers of the 2020 Rally de Portugal Histórico confirm their event will take place on the originally scheduled dates of 5-10 October. The 15th edition of this rally, considered by many to be “the most beautiful European regularity rally”, offers a route…
RallyLegend Gets Go-Ahead
Despite it usually attracting large international crowds, Vito Piarulli and Paolo Valli, the creators of RallyLegend, have decided to go ahead with the event on 8-11 October. “The support we’ve received both from the Government of the San Marino Republic and our sponsors has been crucial to us deciding to…
British Championship Succumbs to COVID
One of Britain’s most popular historic rally championships, the HRCR Clubmans Championship, is the latest victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although two rounds were run in February and March before the lockdown started, many rounds have now been cancelled and with only two possible events remaining on the calendar, the…
Balkan Classic Moves to Northern Poland for 2020
The revised Balkan Classic rally is set to run in the last half of September, with final dates still to be announced. Due to restrictions in its usual venue in Bulgaria, and in consideration of other pandemic-related difficulties, organiser Alexander Kovatchev has announced that the rally, for cars up to…