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Truck Champion Aims for Peking-Paris
Former British Truck Racing champion Richard Walker is starting preparations for his biggest motor sport challenge to date, as he embarks on a project to contest the Peking-Paris Rally in 2022. Walker, a multiple truck racing champion, has most recently contested a few races in a Lotus Cortina with his…
BHRC schedule changes for 2021
The organisers of the Motorsport UK British Historic Rally Championship have come up with a significantly altered calendar for 2021 after losing this year’s championship to the COVID-19 pandemic. Championship manager Colin Heppenstall, from the Roger Albert Clark Rally Motor Club, says he has deliberately opted for events that are…
Rally Round
We were surprised to find the following message in our inbox from Liz Wenman in mid-July. Rally Round is no longer running international car rallies or driving adventures, a decision has been prompted mainly by the situation of the global pandemic but also it is time to enjoy my fabulous…
Canossa Events North America
Well known Italian events Company, Canossa, organisers of regularity rallies such as the Stella Alpina and Terre di Canossa, and competitive rallies, such as the Modena Cento Ore, have announced a series of North American, small-group road-trip excursions, starting with the Fall Rallye New England in October. In 2019 US-based…
Rally Weiz Cancelled
After all the work put in by everyone to salvage the FIA Championship, the Rally Weiz, originally postponed, has had to be cancelled for 2020 after all. “The sports scene in Austria still has the annoying Corona virus in its power. So much so that the organisers of the Rally…
Shelsley Re-opens
A second weekend of 2020 track action took place at Shelsley Walsh with two meetings over the weekend of 8-9 August. The annual Vintage VSCC day was held on Saturday and was followed by the Reg Phillips Trophy meeting on Sunday, as drivers got back in the seat and sharpened…
French Championships – Season Opener!
Historic Tour Postponed for three months but fortunately saved, the Historic Tour d’Albi (also called “3ème Grand Prix Historique d’Albi” this year) kicked off the French Historic Circuit Championships on 17-19 July with hope and relief for over 200 drivers. With the country still subject to “post-containment” health rules linked…
Master Historic Festival Donington
Paul Lawrence Reports Masters boldly took a date on the third weekend of the UK’s belated racing season and ran most of its key categories including F1, Historic Sports Cars and Endurance Legends. For both F1 and Historic Sports Cars, these were the first qualifying rounds for the 2020 FIA…
Dix Mille Tours
Postponed from its original April date the Dix Mille Tours event finally took place on the weekend 24-26 July under a glorious Provençal sun, launching the start of the 2020 Peter Auto season. The long wait meant that the resumption of racing was all the more appreciated by those…
48th AvD-Oldtimer Grand Prix
The 2020 AvD-Oldtimer-Grand- Prix, which took place in low-key pandemic conditions, was nonetheless a success for organisers and the drivers of some 300 cars. It wasn’t easy for the organisers, without whose hard work the event wouldn’t have happened. They were even given permission to accept 5000 spectators per day,…
Organisers Fall on Hard Times
While Club racing is restarting all over Europe and the US, those events that rely on large club and spectator participation have virtually all been cancelled for 2020. From Monterey to Goodwood, from Silverstone Classic to le Mans Classic, all have fallen victim to COVID. These are the very events…
French Historic Rally Championship
The FFSA has done a great job of saving the 2020 French National Historic Rally Championship, which, despite the long interruption will still consist of seven rounds. With the Touquet rally already run in March before lockdown, the rest of the season is scheduled to run as follows: Championnat de…
British Historic Rally Championship Cancelled
In another blow for beleaguered British rallying, this year’s Motorsport UK British Historic Rally Championship has been cancelled. Championship promoter Colin Heppenstall had been hoping to run a shortened three-round championship in the later part of the year but the announcement that the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire, scheduled for 25-16 September,…
The Winter Challenge is Launched
HERO-ERA has launched the 2021 Winter Challenge to Monte Carlo, scheduled to run from 7 to 11 February from a start in Reims. The organisers expect that COVID-19 restrictions will not impact the five-day event, which promises a top quality route and winter rallying at its best, as crews tackle…
La Carrera
On July 29, 1937, in the latter years of the Great Depression, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Canada, and the United States signed the Convention on the Pan-American Highway, whereby they agreed to achieve speedy construction, by all adequate means, of…
UK Finally gets Rally Go-Ahead
It may have taken a little bit longer compared to other disciplines, but 115 days since the COVID-enforced sabbatical, rallying was given the go-ahead in the UK starting on 11 July. As it stands, single and multi-venue, closed road, navigational and road rallies will now begin to resume under the…
Tour de Corse Historique
Plans are pushing ahead for the 20th edition of the Tour de Corse Historique, which will run from 5-10 October on the Mediterranean island. With an expected entry of 200 cars, the event will take in 20 closed-road special stages covering 350km of competitive rallying over five days. The…
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…