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The Return of the Corkscrew Hillclimb
It was perhaps the spectacle of the year at the Monterey Motorsports Reunion last year when, for the first time instead of the race meeting continuing on Sunday, the organisers staged the Corkscrew Hillclimb & Community Day at Laguna Seca, allowing cars of all types to rocket up the course…
Silver Fern
Following a successful running in 2022 after the world hiatus, the Silver Fern Rally New Zealand will return on 23-30 November 2024 over the remote, fast and flowing classic rally stages of the beautiful South Island of New Zealand. With snow-capped mountain backdrops and glaciers in the west, mountain passes…
Tuthill in Rally North Wales
As reported in our April issue, Richard Tuthill returned to the rally driver’s seat, announcing that he will be participating in this year’s British Historic Rally Championship, beginning with the Rally North Wales on 25 March. Though he has had outings with his own Below Zero Ice Driving team across…
Historic Support Races at Long Beach
First run in 1975 as a Formula 5000 race, then as the U.S. Grand Prix West with Formula One from 1976 to 1983, and CART from 1984 to 2008, and IndyCar starting in 2009, the now titled Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach is the second oldest race on the…
NASCAR 75th at Road Atlanta
The 45th Historic Sportscar Racing Mitty at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta went into the record books as one of the biggest-ever editions of HSR’s oldest and first blockbuster race meetings after an exciting and competitive weekend of racing on 27-30 April. Founded in 1948, NASCAR marks its 75th Anniversary in…
Spa Classic 2023
Spa-Francorchamps circuit was the setting for the second event on the 2023 Peter Auto calendar, the epic Spa-Classic. Once again it turned out that this great event attracted big crowds – more than 22,000 visitors admired the over 800 historic cars in the paddock in addition to a wide range…
Bosch Hockenheim Historic Das Jim Clark Revival
Over 35,000 enthusiastic German spectators flocked to the Hockenheimring for their annual springfest known as the Bosch Hockenheim Historic. More famous for its subtitle of ‘Jim Clark Revival’, the event managed to attract the proper seventies and eighties Formula One cars for the first time, with Masters Historic Racing bringing…
Donington Historic Festival – Evening primrose smells sweetest
Marcus Pye reports on the 12th Donington Historic Festival, topped by an RAC Pall Mall Cup enduro dominated by Lotus Elans.. Resurfaced at a cost of £2.5m over the winter, Motor Sport Vision’s 1.979-mile Donington Park switchback circuit looked pristine for the 12th Historic Festival on the last weekend of…
Scottish Malts Rally
The HERO-ERA Scottish Malts rally returned on 24-28 April with its usual theme of visits to whiskey distilleries and golf courses along the route, plus a new start and finish at the glitzy Gleneagles resort. This time only pre-1975 cars were eligible for an overall victory, whilst the entry fee…
Maroc Historic Rally Two Wins For Deveza
Revived as a historic event in 2010 by the Corsican driver Yves Loubet and “Le Grand Maghreb” motor sports club, the 12th edition of this rally, once a round of the World Rally Championship, in 1973 when Alpine was crowned World Champion of manufacturers, then in 1975 and 1976 with…
FIA European Rally Championship Round Two
The 57th Šumava Klatovy Rallye, a round of the Czech Republic Rally Championship was also the 31st running of the Historic Vltava Rallye counting towards the FIA European and Czech Historic Rally Championships. With nearly an equal number of competitors in each group, (69 historic cars and 78 modern), the…
Tour Auto 2023
The Tour Auto is an event as old as motor sport itself. The current celebration of its glory days, when it was called the Tour de France Auto, has been probably one of the key achievements of Patrick Peter’s and his Peter Auto organisation by bringing together 200-300 cars, all…
Algarve Welcome Spring
The Iberian Historic Endurance season kicked off at the Algarve Welcome Spring meeting in Portimão when more than 30 cars took to the tarmac of the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve to participate in their first race of the year, with Pedro Bastos Rezende’s impressive De Tomaso Pantera and Paulo Lima’s…
Alfa Revival and Youngtimer Cups
After its first full season in 2022 as organisers of the Alfa Revival Cup, created and popularised by Tommaso Gelmini, Canossa events has subsequently added a Youngtimer series and a series for modern Ferraris to its portfolio. Joining the PNK Mugello Racing Weekend on 28-30 April, both the Alfa Revival…
Pau Classic Grand Prix
In an evocation of the “3 Heures internationales de Pau”, contested on the street circuit at the foot of the Pyrenees on Easter weekend in 1958, Diogo Ferrão has invited his Iberian Endurance drivers to enter four races over the weekend of 20-21 May, with the driver who completes the…
Monaco 2024
The ACM has announced the grids for the 2024 Grand Prix de Monaco Historique, which will take place on the weekend of 10-12 May. There are no Formula Junior or F3 cars on the timetable. Time to start preparing/buying your F1 cars! Race A1 – Louis Chiron – Pre-war Grand…
Tin Tops at Monterey
Last year, members of the American racing fraternity, and the public at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion discovered what fun touring cars can be after a raucous group of Tin Tops of the 1955-1969 era entertained crowds in a one-hour mini-endurance race. Such was their popularity organisers have made sure…
Three Decades of the Spa Six Hours
Revised Programme The 30th Spa Six hours will be marked by changes to the usual programme. The meeting will start on Wednesday, 26 September with the free practices, usually scheduled on Thursday, and qualifying will commence on Thursday with all the support races on the timetable for Friday and Saturday. …
Red Bull Ring Classic
Austria’s Red Bull Ring in Spielberg will be the host of a historic motor sport festival on 9-11 June. Feature races will be for Group C cars, organised by Gephardt Marketing, BOSS GP for recent Formula cars, and the FHR grids, such as the Youngtimer Cup, Gentle Drivers Trophy and …
European E-fuel Policy Could Save Historic Vehicles
FIVA (the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens) is welcoming news that the use of carbon-neutral e-fuels is now officially recognised in Europe as an important factor in tackling climate change. In recent years, FIVA member organisations have been actively studying the use of e-fuels and the results to date suggest…