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Laguna Seca
In the ongoing saga over WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, home to the annual Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, the five-person Monterey County board of supervisors voted unanimously to enter into contract negotiations with A & D Narigi, LLC (A&D). Provided both sides can agree terms, the company led by former Monterey…
Roger Albert Clark Rally 2020
Paul Lawrence Reports on one of the toughest rallies in historic motorsport McCormack the third Marty McCormack and Barney Mitchell won the 2019 Roger Albert Clark Rally in late November after a fabulous battle with Jason Pritchard and Phil Clarke on the 13th edition of this unique event. Marty McCormack…
East African Safari Classic 2020
Rosenberger Rules under the African Sky Paul Lawrence Reports Austrian driver Kris Rosenberger and co-driver Nicola Bleicher headed the Safari Classic Rally at the finish in Mombasa on Friday 6 December after nine tough days through Kenya and Tanzania. Rosenberger, who last rallied in Kenya back in 1989, took his…
Le Jog 2020
The Silver Jubilee edition of Le Jog, the Land’s End to John O’Groats Classic Reliability Trial, was the UK’s final major classic rally of 2019, as 83 cars tackled the challenging and relentless 800-mile trek up the length of Great Britain. The Porsche 356 of German crew Thomas Lundt and…
Coppa Delle Alpi 2020
Peter Collins went along to test the first winter rally from the organisers of the Mille Miglia Perhaps perceiving a gap in the litany of quality historic car events in Italy, MM Srl, the organisers of the Mille Miglia since 2013, decided to turn their hand to running a winter…
F5000
NZ Tasman Revival Cup – Round 1 Local fans of New Zealand’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series had two of their own to cheer on at the opening round of the 2019/20 series at Feilding’s Circuit Chris Amon Manfeild. One – Tim Rush – is a…
Classic 24 Hours of Daytona
The 2019 Classic 24 Hours at Daytona presented by IMSA was held on 13-17 November on the 3.56-mile road course at the famous Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Peter Falkner Reports from the North American ‘Temple of Speed’ Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) conceived the idea back in 2014…
Flying Scotsman
Nearly 90 cars are already entered for the 12th Flying Scotsman from the Endurance Rally Association. The three day rally for pre-war cars runs from 3-5 April and takes crews from Chester to the Gleneagles Hotel near Perth in southern Scotland. Among the entries are Will Onions and vintage radiator…
Cento Ore Anniversary Edition
The Modena Cento Ore is 20-years-old, and to celebrate, a special 20th anniversary edition is planned for 2-7 June, featuring a long-awaited departure from the Eternal City. Competitors will spend two nights in Rome and two nights in Florence with, as always, the prize-giving and final night in Modena. Circuits…
Marathon de la Route
Photo Courtesy Marathon de la Route The 2020 edition of the Marathon de la Route will run from June 13 to 16 across the Bourgogne-Franche Comté, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Occitani regions of France. The route will cover 1800km including 50 regularity sections. “The course will be completely new, with two short…
2020 British Rally Championship
The 2020 calendar for the Motorsport UK British Historic Rally Championship has been unveiled. The schedule grows from seven to eight events and takes in five gravel events and three asphalt events, including two closed-road rallies. The Jim Clark Rally returns to the calendar after a break with closed-road stages…
HSCC Silverstone Finals
Championship Deciders Strong grids and an end-of-term atmosphere at the annual HSCC Silverstone Finals Meeting on the weekend of 19-20 October saw some close finishes across 21 races and 280 entries. A number of season-long contests were settled including in a bumper grid of Historic Formula Ford 2000s where Andrew…
Masters Champions
Masters Champions The 2019 FIA Masters Champions are Matteo Ferrer-Aza, Martin Stretton, Henry Fletcher, Jason Wright/Andy Wolfe and Chris Jolly/Steve Farthing. Ferrer-Aza is the new post-78 FIA Masters Historic Formula One champion, with Stretton and Fletcher lifting the post-83 and pre-78 titles respectively. Wright and Wolfe took top honours…
Historic Tour 2020 & Other French Dates
Don’t change a winning formula is the logic adopted by the FFSA and HVM Racing for the 2020 Historic Tour season. Thus the calendar will again see five race meetings, the main differences from this year being a return to the Nogaro circuit and date changes for the meetings at…
Silverstone Classic 30th Anniversary
A lot has changed since 1990, when the first of what was then known as the Christies International Historic Festival was staged (see our March 2013 issue for the story of that first event) at Silverstone. It was a resounding success, and despite being preceded by events such as the…
Banger Racing at its Best
The Historic Sports Car Club has unveiled the Production Car Challenge, a new race series for production touring, sports and GT cars from the 1980s. The new series will be open to cars with standard bodyshells and only minor modifications to engines and suspension, and will not be open to…
French Champions
The French Championships concluded at Val de Vienne on the weekend of 26-27 October (see our report page 46) with Didier Gruau and Frédéric Rouvier crowned respectively as GT/Tourisme and Monoplaces/Prototypes champions, Rouvier for the second year running. Both won two out of two races at the Vigeant weekend, Gruau…
London to Brighton Veteran Car Run
Otherwise known as the Brighton Run, the Royal Automobile Club’s London to Brighton event took place on its traditional date of the first Sunday in November in unseasonably mild weather and under cloudless skies. Photo Peter Collins
Press release from SVRA:
REMINGTON ARMS BECOMES SVRA’s OFFICIAL RECREATIONAL FIREARMS COMPANY Iconic American Company Fits Nicely In SVRA Paddock Packed With Racing Icons Southlake, TX (October 29, 2019) – Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) today announced that the Remington Arms Company is now the “Official Recreational Firearms Company of SVRA.” Founded in New…
Fiskens at Retromobile
Each year, for over 10 years Fiskens has curated, presented and sold an amazing selection of historic cars, including many competition cars, from its glamorous stand at Salon Retromobile. The Fiskens team will be there again next year – dates are 5-9 February – with another array of cars for…