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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…
Iberian Historic Endurance – Nicha Cabral Memorial
This year in August the Portuguese nation lost a great character and proponent of the sport, Portugal’s first Formula One driver Mário de Araújo ‘Nicha’ Cabral. As drivers prepared for the last race of the weekend at the Estoricl Classic event, a minute’s silence was observed to honour his memory…
HSCC Historic Wolds Trophy – Cadwell Park
Formula Ford 2000 in the War of the Wolds Marcus Pye Reports HG Wells’ science fiction novel The War of the Worlds has gripped readers for more than 120 years. Historic Formula Ford 2000 has only been around for 13, but back in Lincolnshire’s Wolds where the series’ first battle…
French National Championships Rounds Four and Five
Historic Tour – Nogaro – Val de Vienne The whole of the French historic racing season has been condensed into three exciting months with round four taking place at Nogaro on 11-12 September and the fifth and final round running at Val de Vienne only two weeks later. With the…
Falkenberg Classic
The Falkenberg Classic, organised by Sweden’s Racerhistoriska Klubben together with the Sports Car Championship, welcomed 160 drivers at the Falkenberg circuit near Sweden’s south-east coast on 19-20 September for a further two rounds for each grid of the Swedish Championships. Bengt-Åce Gustavsson reports. Dead Heat in Falkenberg Talk of the…
Estoril Classics
The three-day Estoril Classics race meeting has been steadily gaining momentum over the past four years, with a winning formula involving 20-25 degree weather under a beautiful blue sky, an iconic circuit, built in 1972, that has seen all types of international racing, the beauty of the region, great food…
Castle Combe Autumn Classic
Stormtroopers Haddon and Wolfe win GTSCC classic Castle Combe’s ninth Autumn Classic should have been a special climax to the circuit’s 70th Anniversary celebrations on October 3-4. Coronavirus dictated a late start to the season, with initial events run without spectators, but just when car club members and enthusiasts (in…
The New Zealand Silver Fern Rally
In another blow to historic rallying the planned Silver Fern Rally has been cancelled due to the on-going COVID-19 travel restrictions. The marathon biennial event relies on entries from Europe to make it viable and with those now not possible the organisers had no option but to cancel the 2020…
Rallye des Princesses
Since 1999 Viviane Zaniroli has been encouraging women to get behind the wheel of old sports and GT cars and compete in their own right. The resulting Rallye des Princesses regularity rally, inspired on the old Paris – Saint-Raphaël Féminin, has been a great success over the ensuing 20 years,…
Rallye Monte-Carlo
Though some things have changed much will be the same on next year’s Historic Monte, which takes place on 30 January – 3 February. Though organisers have foregone the multi-national starting points in 2021 after the trauma of this year’s COVID epidemic, the challenge will be as tough as ever…
Monterey
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR), organisers of Daytona 24 Classic and Sebring Classic 12 Hour, amongst many others, has been named the new sanctioning body of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca (WRLS). The previous sanctioning body was the Historic Motor Sports Association. In the new multi-year…
Bentley Recreations
The Blower Continuation Series is a run of 12 newly-built recreations of one of the most famous Bentleys of all time – the supercharged 4½-Litre ‘Blower’ Bentley raced by Sir Tim Birkin in the late 1920s. Forming the world’s first pre-war continuation series, Bentley Motors is creating 12 cars amid…
Classic Sports Car Club Thruxton
Hancocks’ 40 minutes of Classic K glory Father and son Anthony and Ollie Hancock’s fine Mintex Classic K race victory at Thruxton on July 26 was the super-fast Hampshire circuit’s season-opener and the historic element of the Classic Sports Car Club’s belated 2020 season start. Lithe Lotus Elans are ideally…
Patrick Quiniou
We have lost another friend this month with the passing of Patrick Quiniou, after a long spell of ill health at the age of only 65. A whole generation of French racers will have great memories of Patrick and the race meetings he organised, most notably the Grand Prix…
Jon Dooley 1946-2020
“A lot of investment of self goes into a winning car at this level. It involves keeping going beyond reason when things do not go so well.” It is with the upmost sadness that I write that Jon Dooley, a friend of 35 years and someone with whom I have…
NK HTGT racing gets underway
The 2020 NK HTGT season finally got underway at Zandvoort on the weekend of 12-13 September with two 45-minute races in the Kronos organised Benelux Open weekend. Despite COVID restrictions in the Netherlands, some 25 teams were raring to go, sharing the track with Triumph Competitions. Qualifying was interrupted by…
Championnat de France des Rallyes VHC
Bumper entries mark the resumption of the French rally season Rallye de la Châtaigne After the long break between the Touquet Pas-de-Calais rally in March, and the second round of the French Historic Rally Championship, the Rallye de la Châtaigne finally got under way on 19-21 August. The 2020 edition…