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Anderstorp Race Festival It’s Raining Again…
This year’s fourth round of the Swedish Historic Championships was run at a wet Anderstorp, but unlike last year, most of the rain fell during free practice and qualifiers, while most races were run on a dry, or drying track. It was 50 years since the first World Championship race…
Nürburgring 1000km The Long and Winding Road
Nürburgring and Nordschleife. There is no other combination of words in motorsport that evokes the same level of excitement and awe. In order to maximize that excitement, the promotors of the Youngtimer Trophy, arguably the continent’s most successful historic touring car series, decided to add a 1000km race around the…
GOODWOOD REVIVAL Glorious Goodwood at 75
Goodwood’s 75th anniversary and the 25th Revival Meeting since 1998 – pandemic-torn 2020’s was cancelled – cued massive celebrations on September 8-10, with Spitfires reminding onlookers of the fabled motor circuit’s wartime past. The 11th Duke of Richmond & Gordon, whose boyhood dream to reopen the track with the social…
Dix Mille Tours
The 13th edition of Peter Auto’s Dix Mille Tours at the Paul Ricard circuit in southern France saw nearly 25,000 spectators enjoying a profusion of entertainment, activities and exhibitions amongst a gathering of some 460 collector’s cars and 348 racing cars on track, as Peter Auto’s slick and professional organisation…
Silverstone Festival 25-27 August
It started in 1991 as the Christie’s Historic International Festival, then morphed into the Coys Historic Festival, then for many years it was the Silverstone Classic. Now set on a date a month later, it has reverted to the Silverstone Festival title, perhaps to better encompass the many other activities…
A BOSS Weekend in Rio
The fourth race weekend of the 2023 BOSS GP Racing Series in Misano Adriatico felt like the carnival in Rio. The Italian race promoter PNK Motorsport invited colourfully dressed samba dancers into the paddock that proved to be a lucky charm for two Brazilians that were right at the front…
Historic F3 plans 60th celebrations in 2024
The 60th anniversary of the introduction of the 1-litre Formula 3 category will be celebrated during the Historic Sports Car Club’s Historic Formula 3 Championship next season. The HSCC is devising a 2024 calendar with some high profile race meetings along with a big push to encourage more of the…
HSCC Chairman Roger Bevan Stands Down
The Historic Sports Car Club has announced the resignation of its Chairman Roger Bevan with immediate effect. Roger made the decision to stand down from the role for personal reasons after serving for three years in the role. Also Chairman of the Historic Formula 2 series, he and his wife…
Italian Speed Festival
Since it took over the running of the Alfa Revival Cup series at the end of 2021 and the formation of Canossa Racing, the Canossa Events team have been developing the concept of the Italian Speed Festival, run for the first time last year and scheduled to run again at…
GT & Sportscar Cup
With the summer break over, the last two rounds of the GT & Sportscar Cup will be rounding off its season at two of the series’ regular venues. The Castle Combe Autumn Classic is a one-day event, which takes place on 23 September and is always a favourite with the…
Goodwood 2024 Dates Announced
No sooner had the sound faded on this year’s Festival of Speed than Goodwood made the announcement that the 2024 event will take place on 11-14 July. It has also been announced that the Members’ Meeting will take place next year on 13-15 April.
Old and New – Bentley and Biofuel
A 1200-litre fuel bowser within the Bentley production site at Crewe in Cheshire may appear unremarkable – but its contents have enabled vehicles from the Bentley Heritage Collection and press fleet to reduce their CO2 impact by an estimated 85%, compared with ordinary petrol. Bentley ran its six strong fleet…
Shelsley Walsh Classic Nostalgia
With a class for everything from Edwardians to Youngtimers, single seaters to big banger sportscars, a huge crowd turned out on 22-23 July to the Worcestershire Shelsley Walsh hillclimb, the oldest motor sport venue in continuous use in the world, for the annual Classic Nostalgia meeting. Saturday rain gave way…
Second Veteran Summer Run
Pre-1905 pioneering cars revved up for November’s London to Brighton Veteran Car Run with an enhanced day trip through rural Surrey and Sussex. The second-running of the Royal Automobile Club’s Summer Run on 20 July was hailed as an even greater success than last July’s very well-received inaugural event. The…
British Historic Rally Championship
Jason Pritchard produced a masterclass of wet weather driving to secure his first Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship victory in five years after storming to victory at the Nigel Ferguson Fabricators Tour of Epynt on 30 July. After a slow start, Pritchard and co-driver Phil Clarke overhauled current championship…
Rally Greats at Eifel Rallye Festival
Stig Blomqvist, Rauno Aaltonen, Bruno Thiry, Kalle Grundel, Nicky Grist, Harald Demuth, Rui Madeira, Rudi Stohl and Niki Schelle were just some of the rally stars that attended the Eifel Rallye Festival in Germany’s Daum region on 27-29 July, where over 160 historic rally cars entertained tens of thousands of…
HERO Rally of the Tests and Other Upcoming Events
The 21st edition of the Rally of the Tests sees some changes, as after 10 years Clerk of the Course Guy Woodcock is passing the mantle to a new team of George Mullins, Andy Pullan and Seren Whyte to continue to deliver this classic endurance event – the one everyone …
Subaru to Star at Rallylegend
It has been 30 years since the Subaru Impreza 555 made its debut in the World Rally Championship, at Mille Laghi in 1993, and the 21st edition of Rallylegend intends to mark the occasion by bringing about the reunion of the iconic and unforgettable ex-works Subaru Impreza 555s produced by…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 6: Rallye Weiz
Tibor Erdi claimed his third outright victory of the 2023 FIA European Historic Rally Championship season with a dominant performance on Rallye Weiz in Austria on 13-15 July. The Hungarian and his Croatian co-driver Istvan Kerék completed the 500kms of the rally, including 145kms of timed stages, to the acclaim…
FIA European Historic Rally Championship – Round 7: Lahti Historic Rally
Finnish World Rally Championship hero and Toyota GR World Rally Team principal Jari-Matti Latvala and his co-driver Enni Mälkönen claimed an emphatic victory in the FIA European Historic Rally Championship round in Finland on 11-12 August. Fresh from making his WRC return on the previous weekend’s Rally Finland at the…