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Auctions at Retromobile
An integral part of Retromobile week has for some time included associated auctions and this year RM Sotheby’s started the ball rolling in a massive facility beneath the Rue de Rivoli called Les Salles du Carrousel. For once the big-ticket seller was not a modern supercar but a 1960 Ferrari…
Laguna Seca – Latest Circuit to be Hit by Lawsuit Over Noise
Sixty-seven years after it was founded, the Laguna Seca circuit is being sued by a group calling itself the Highway 68 Coalition over noise and traffic generated by the track. The lawsuit, against the track’s owner, Monterey County, as well as the Monterey County Board of Supervisors and Friends of…
British Historic Rally Championship Round One Riponian Stages Rally
George Lepley took his Mitsubishi Galant VR4 to victory in the first rally of the 2024 British Historic Rally Championship season on 11 February when he won the Riponian Stages Rally. Lepley and co-driver Dale Bowen used their four-wheel-drive machine to great effect in treacherous, rain-soaked conditions, to secure the…
Winter Romania Rally Victory for Paul Chabloz
The 8th edition of the Winter Romania Rally on 19-21 January was perfect, both in terms of the weather conditions and the intensity of the competition in the different categories. A fierce duel pitted last year’s winners, Paul Chabloz and Philippe Escobar in a BMW 325 IX against the winner…
ADAC Eifel Rallye Festival Rally Cars from A – Z
Plans for the 2024 Eifel Rally Festival are already well advanced, and entries have been open since 1 February. Within a couple of days more that 100 applications were received. Cars from almost fifty different manufacturers, from Alfa Romeo to Wartburg have participated in the past 11 editions and almost…
New Six-day event from Croatia to Bavaria
Taking in closed-road special stages and circuits along the way, Target Bavaria Rally (TBR) promises six exciting days with a start at Rijeka (in Croatia), to Postojna in Slovenia and the Karawank mountains to Austria, paving its way through Zeltweg and Salzburg before coming to an end in Munich Germany. …
Rallye des Princesses
The Rallye des Princesses Richard Mille will celebrate its 23rd edition on 25-30 May and with a varied route each year so that the Princesses can experience different regions and different cultural traditions, this year they will head West. After the traditional start from the Place Vendôme in Paris, this…
2 Generations Rally
The first to come up with a formula to encourage families and younger people to engage in some mild competition while enjoying classic cars, the 2 Generations Classic was first run in 2016 and proved to be an immediate success. Run by the Belgian SeaSunRally Organisation, who have been organising…
Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique
As every year now, there are about ten days between the two Monte-Carlo rallies, the modern WRC and the historic, the latter not attracting the same clientele at all, and especially not the same spectators. After a flawless run, Belgian Michel Decremer won the 26th edition of the Rallye Monte-Carlo…
Winter Marathon, Madonna di Campiglio 2024
The young Franciacorta Motori crew of Edoardo Bellini and Roberto Tiberti took their third victory in the Winter Marathon on 19 January in extreme cold conditions in the same 1937 Fiat 508 C with which they won in 2021 and 2022. Having led from just after the first stage in…
Dakar Classic Saudi Arabia
Nearly 500 teams of bikes, trucks, buggies and cars, including 78 Classic entries, converged on a super-sized bivouac near the ancient Arabic oasis city of Al-’Ula (also known as AlUla) situated in the Hejaz region of Saudi Arabia on the historic incense route that once linked India and the Persian…
F5000 New Zealand Rounds 2 & 3
Taupo International Motorsport Park With three races over the weekend, the first 2024 round of the New Zealand ‘23-‘24 F5000 season brought 10 cars to the grid on 20 January at Taupō International Motorsport Park. Originally 14 starters were on the entry list, with amongst others, the McLaren M10A of…
ASAVÉ – Return to Fundamentals
After the sad passing of ASAVÉ stalwart Alain Goupy last year, a new team has taken over the reins of the oldest organisation in Europe dedicated solely to historic motorsport. ASAVÉ, or the Association Sportive Automobile des Véhicules d’Époque, was founded in 1972 and has been organising races for historic…
Goodwood Revival Programme Announced
Goodwood has announced its full list of races for the Revival, which will be held on 6-8 September this year. As each year, there have been a few tweaks to the programme and cut-off dates. The small bore sportscars are back in the Madgwick Cup and the Fordwater has reverted…
V de V Sports in 2024
After a hiatus of a few years, V de V Sports, known for organising endurance races for historic and modern cars, has come back in force. After a successful 2023 season punctuated by the V de V 6 Hours at the Grand Prix de France Historique, the 6 Hours of…
Masters Historic Racing and GP Extreme Merge
Leading race organisation, Masters Historic Racing, has announced a merger with GP Extreme, the UAE-based motorsports group. After 20 years at the helm, Masters, founder Ron Maydon is preparing to step back from the day-to-day running of the organisation, having secured its future in the hands of GP Extreme founder…
Peter Auto – Big Plans for 2024
You can’t accuse the Peter Auto organisation of stagnating. Always innovating and mixing things up, Peter Auto has announced that the 2024 season will see the creation of two new grids: the Classic Touring Challenge and The Gentlemen Challenge. Also, there is a change to the previously published calendar. …
Season Opener – GP de France Historique
Entries are now open for the Grand Prix de France Historique, which takes place on 19-21 April with a focus on single seat categories. The Masters Racing Legends F1 cars will be topping the bill that also includes the opening rounds of the new HVM-HSCC Interseries for historic F2 cars…
Pre-‘63 GT is Back!
Much copied, the original series for Pre-‘63 GT cars is back on the calendar. Originally conceived by Carol Spagg of Historic Motor Racing News and Ben Cussons of the Royal Automobile Club to allow cars such as Lotus Elites, 356 Porsches, SZ Alfas, MGA Twincams, Turners, Reliants and other interesting…
Velocity Capital Management Acquires Parella Holdings
Starting 12 years ago with the acquisition of the Sports Racing Vintage Association after his retirement from an executive role in the Telecommunications business, historic racer Tony Parella has continued to acquire historic and modern race series, including the Historic Sportscar Racing – West (HSR) organisation, which he consolidated into…