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Monterey Car Week
“Our visiting friends from Europe exclaimed, “We have nothing like it!” Two racing weekends, four major concours and a dozen others, six auctions, several rallies, dozens of private parties and all set in one of the most spectacular seaside resorts in the world. It attracts over 250,000 visitors and nearly…
Mantorp Park Celebrating 50 years
Bengt-Åce Gustavsson Reports The Mantorp Park racetrack in Sweden celebrated its 50th anniversary on 24-26 August together with the Racerhistoriska Klubben. Event promoter MK Scandia managed to invite over 600 exhibition cars, and there was plenty to see throughout the weekend. In addition to many fine display cars there were…
Mustang Milestone
\Ford Mustangs of all model series since the sports car’s launch in 1964 met on September 7 at the Lommel Ford Proving Ground in Belgium to set a new world record for the largest number of Mustangs ever gathered in one place. With a total of 1,326 Ford Mustangs, the…
Alfa Revival Cup – Misano
Round four of the Alfa Revival Cup, the last race before the long summer break, took place at the Misano World Circuit on July 13-14. Dodging a morning thunderstorm, the young driver from Milano, Davide Bertinelli took his first ever pole position at the head of the 23-car grid in…
Asfalt Classic in Rudskogen – Norway
The biggest race meeting for historic cars in Norway is the “Asfalt Classic” at Rudskogen. Nestling in the forest south of Oslo, the circuit was built in 1990, and rebuilt in 2011 when it was doubled in length to 3.217kms, offering an extremely challenging ride, the elevation changes offering some…
Dutch Championship NK HTGT
Grouwels and Newall at Assen The Dutch NK HTGT pre-‘66 championship made its yearly trip to the Assen TT track for the Gamma Racing Day event on August 16 in very changeable weather conditions. A dry Saturday afternoon quickly became a very wet one just seconds before the start of…
Eventful October
Drivers are heading south to cheat the onset of winter for a number of attractive events You are probably reading this at the end of September/early October and there are still a number of race meetings on the calendar before the season ends. First of these is the Dijon Motors…
Preview: Sonoma Festival 2020
After a successful inaugural event in 2019, the Sonoma Speed Festival will run for the second time on May 28-31, 2020 at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California. Billed as the place for the most authentic racing cars from the brass era to the modern age, along with the track…
HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup
Alan Cox Reports The 18th running of the HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup took place at the Cheshire circuit with 21 races spread over the sweltering Bank Holiday weekend of 24-26 August. Since a Historic Gold Cup was introduced in 2016, it has been awarded to the winner of the…
Goodwood Revival 2019
Wilson scoops Lotterer Jackpot at Glorious Goodwood! Marcus Pye Reports It’s subjective of course, but, if speaking to a cross-section of competitors is any guide, the 22nd Goodwood Revival Meeting, bathed throughout in glorious Indian Summer conditions on 13-15 September, was right up there among the best from their side…
Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix 2019
The annual Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix was organised on its traditional first weekend of August date by CEO Jens Peter Lange and his team with the sporting side of things run under the Automobil Sports Klubben Hedeland for the 19th time. Once run in the Tivoli Gardens in Denmark’s capital,…
Grand Prix Historique du Pas De Calais
Undoubtedly the major attractions at the Grand Prix Historique du Pas De Calais on 6-7 July were the two rounds of the 500 Owners Association Circuit Championship. Many of the 500 racers are also Formula Junior drivers, and they were well represented at Croix, led by likely winner Mike Fowler…
Vintage Sports-Car Club, Prescott Hill Climb
Prescott is the great early August annual social occasion for VSCC members with the Orchard car park as full of desirable motor cars as is the competitors’ paddock. Rileys are always well represented and with the grandson of founder William, and son of Victor Riley, Victor Jnr in attendance,…
VRA Vintage Race of Champions – St James Crashes Out
Lyn St James crashed James Heck’s Corvette out of a star-studded Charity Pro-Am race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the weekend of 3-4 August. The seven-time Indy 500 starter and prominent sports car racer sustained minor injuries during the crash and was kept overnight in hospital as a…
Liège-Brescia-Liège 2019
Organised by Malcolm McKay’s ClassicRallyPress organisation, this year’s Liège-Brescia-Liège Rally for Triumph TRs in July saw 26 TRs from 1953 to 1976 take part. The rally closely followed its original 1958 route but was split over 10 days instead of the original continuous 60hrs with just one 8hr break. Still…
Midnattssolsrallyt
Rådström Reigns on the Road…. Fastest from the off, Arne Rådström dominated Sweden’s most important historic rally, the KAK Midnight Sun Rally, in his Volvo 262 at the head of a highly competitive 130-car field, finishing each of the three days, from July 10 to 13, in the lead. But,…
Preview: Tour de Corse Historiques
Entry demand is strong for the 2019 Tour de Corse, which will kick off on October 7 with a shakedown stage in Porto-Vecchio before setting off on a new five-day route that will take in some 840kms and 17 special closed road timed stages, with night stops this year in…
Preview: 50 Years of the Circuit des Remparts Angoulême
The Circuit des Remparts will this year celebrate 50 years since the first ‘Circuit Automobile des Remparts’ at Angoulême with a re-evocation of that original grid. Run in 1939 as two qualifying heats of 40-laps each, followed by a final of 70 laps, it was hardly surprising there were a…
Preview: Spa Six Hours
This meeting has now become so big that it commences on Wednesday 25 September with track sessions for pre-war cars (this in collaboration with the Belgium Classic Cars Federation) and the activities of Aston Martin Heritage, who is sponsoring the track time for their customers with recent racing cars. This…
Preview: Formula Atlantic at Long Beach
After a successful run this year for historic IMSA cars at the Long Beach Grand Prix, next April Historic Formula Atlantic cars will run two 20-minute support races at the annual IndyCar street racing event. Races will run Saturday, April 18 along with the IMSA WeatherTech Championship race and Sunday,…