Historic Motorsport Previews

Goodwood's Festival of Speed 2025 (10-13 July) is going the whole distance, celebrating 75 years of Formula One. Expect cars from every decade demonstrating each day, with a shoot-out featuring the fastest cars closing the meeting on Sunday afternoon. Of course, FoS is much more than just F1. New car launches, celebrities, rally cars on the live Forest Stage, and static displays featuring the w...

Historic F2 and Historic F3 set for high-profile this weekend  Two flagship categories from the Historic Sports Car Club will be prominent at this weekend's high-profile Historic Grand Prix at the famous circuit of Zandvoort on 15-18 June, writes Paul Lawrence Both Historic Formula 2 and Historic Formula 3 will have double-headers at the Dutch Grand Prix track as part of ...

Touring cars feature five times at Festival  The 2023 Donington Historic Festival, 29-30 April, will host five spectacular touring car races, just one week after the opening round of the Kwik Fit BTCC featuring today’s cars and their drivers. Touring car action begins on Saturday, 29 April with a combined grid for the Historic Touring Car Challenge, Tony Dron Trophy, Sixties Touring C...

Known as Europe’s No.1 Historic Motorsport Show  Race Retro returns in 2023 and will take place over the weekend 24-26 February at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. Sponsored by Reis Motorsport Insurance, Race Retro caters for every motorsport enthusiast, whether choosing a championship series, visiting the trader stands for that elusive part, perhaps pick up a ‘classic’ at ...

Season Finale, Silverstone GP Circuit  Motor Racing Legends closes off its 2022 season with the Silverstone GP meeting this weekend 22-23 October. Saturday commences with an entertaining array of Historic Touring Cars for the Historic Touring Car Challenge and Tony Dron Trophy with U2TC and STCC. For the final time this year, these cars will thunder down the Hamilton straight at the start o...

Silverstone Finals for HSCC  The championship racing season for the Historic Sports Car Club will finish in style this weekend, 15/16 October, at the annual Silverstone Finals Meeting on the national circuit, writes Paul Lawrence. After another tremendous season of historic racing, several championships will go down to the wire at Silverstone with many of the Club's key championships wrappi...

Championship showdown in Sanremo   The entry list for the ninth and final round of the 2022 FIA European Historic Rally Championship will be the 37th Sanremo Historic Rally in Italy on 13-15 October, and the main contenders for the four titles that have yet to be decided in Category 4 and Category 2, writes Jeff Carter. Category 4 will see six entries, but all eyes will be on the two ca...

Stages in the dusk and a Water Splash  The second edition of Historic Rally Festival, based around Telford in Shropshire, takes place on 15-16 October, the highlight being held at Weston Park. This two-day rally cars demonstration commences with a ceremonial start in Telford Town Park and scrutineering in the QEII Arena. For 2022, new stages at Ironbridge Power Station have been included o...

Big entry for 34th Rally Elba Storico  The 34th edition of the Rally Elba Storico will see 49 cars from the golden era of rallying, with half of the entry being FIA EHRC point-scoring competitors for the first of two visits to Italy. Round 8 of the 2022 FIA European Historic Rally Championship will take place on the 22-24 September and features 10 special stages over a distance of 135km. A ...

Rally de Asturias Historico  Round 7 of the 2022 FIA European Historic Rally Championship takes place in Spain, with Rally de Asturias Historico on 1-3 September, reports Jeff Carter. There are six entries in Category 4. With Championship leaders Ville Silvasti and Risto Pietilainen choosing not to travel to Spain, their nearest rivals in the Championship will be looking to close the 22-poi...

Classic Formula 1, Foodie Fest and funfair  The coming bank holiday, 26-28 August, Silverstone will be home to what must be one of the largest and best family-orientated historic motorsport festivals anywhere in the world. In fact, such is the enormity, I don’t think any other circuit, anywhere, could deal with the sheer numbers, writes Peter Baker. On track the combined organising tal...

HSCC racing in the Park The championship season for some of the Historic Sports Car Club's core championships continues at Oulton Park on Saturday 6 August, a week after the high profile Gold Cup event, writes Paul Lawrence. Back at the Cheshire circuit for a one-day meeting headline races include Historic Formula Ford 1600, Historic Road Sports, 70s Road Sports and Historic Touring Cars. T...

270 entries for Donington Park  Strong grids featuring over 270 entries and two busy days of racing make up the Historic Sports Car Club’s next race meeting at Donington Park circuit on 18-19 June. A superb 28-car grid for the Historic Formula 3 Championship will evoke memories of the one-litre F3 screamers of the late 1960s and early 1970s as a strong UK contingent is joined by a wel...

Queen’s Jubilee to be celebrated at Cadwell Park  The Historic Sports Car Club will celebrate the Platinum Jubilee during its annual Wolds Trophy meeting at Cadwell Park on 4-5 June, reports Paul Lawrence. The weekend of historic racing is always a great occasion in the HSCC calendar and this year it coincides with the very special Platinum Jubilee celebrations for the Queen's remarka...

Silverstone GP next for HSCC  One of the flagship events of the Historic Sports Car Club’s 2022 calendar will be this weekend's Silverstone International Trophy meeting on the Silverstone Grand Prix (14-15 May), reports Paul Lawrence. Making its seasonal debut will be the HSCC Thundersports category for an array of sports racing and GT cars of the 1970s. There'll be no less than four ...

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Historic F2 opens in Germany  The Historic Sports Car Club’s Historic Formula 2 International Series returns to full European action this weekend, 7-8 May, at Hockenheim in Germany, reports Paul Lawrence. The event that celebrates the life of the late great Jim Clark has a fine line-up of races and Historic F2 has pride of place on the timetable. A representative and competitive grid ...

Round 2: 30th Historic Vltava Rally  Round 2 of the 2022 FIA European Historic Rally Championship will be held in the Czech Republic, with the 30th Historic Vltava Rally being the host event on the 5-8 May, reports Jeff Carter. Forty-six entries have been received by the organisers, with 36 competitors eligible for championship points. All of the category winners from the opening round in S...

Season starts for Motor Racing Legends  Organised by Motor Racing Legends (MRL), the 2022 Donington Historic Fesitval takes place this Bank Holiday weekend, Saturday 30 April and Sunday 1 May. Nine of the MRL series will be in action during the Festival. Launched in 2021 the Amon Cup for Ford GT40s will start at 17:50 on Saturday with a 80-minute challenge racing into dusk. On Sunday the f...

The HSCC heads east  Competitors from the Historic Sports Car Club will head east over the weekend 23-24 April to the Snetterton 300 circuit for the second race meeting of the Club's 2022 season, reports Paul Lawrence. A full and varied weekend of racing will include several guest grids, adding to the usual HSCC mix of single seaters, sports cars and touring cars of the 1960s and 1970s. Sev...

Fifteen qualifying events confirmed for the 2022 FIA THRR  The qualifying events for the 2022 FIA Trophy for Historic Regularity Rallies (THRR) have been announced with 15 rallies in 11 different European nations, writes Jeff Carter. Two of the qualifying events have already been run, the Ypres Historic Regularity Rally (26-28 November 2021) and the Ostbelgien Classic (3-5 December 2021), t...

79th Members' Meeting  The 79th Goodwood Members' Meeting takes place this weekend, 9-10 April 2022, writes Peter Baker.The Goodwood gates open on Saturday from 07:00. Practice begins at 10:00 with the first of three races scheduled for 15:30 and, in between, the lunch break sees a pair of Formula One demonstrations. After competition ends at 18:35, and following a Porsche demonstration...

Brands Hatch start for HSCC season  The Historic Sports Car Club’s 2022 racing season kicks off this weekend, 2-3 April, at Brands Hatch with a full weekend of action on the Indy circuit, reports Paul Lawrence. Heading the action is the superb Historic Formula Ford 2000 Championship, which once again has drawn a fabulous entry dictating a qualifying race each day ahead of the champions...

Round 1 preview: 70th Rally Motul Costa Brava Round 1 of the 2022 FIA European Historic Rally Championship will be held in Spain with the 70th edition of the Rally Costa Brava being the host event on 17-20 March, writes Jeff Carter.  Organised by RallyClassics, the Rally Costa Brava will be based in the city of Girona, with the Hotel Gran Ultonia as the administrative base. The rally compe...

HSCC confirms European schedule  The Historic Sports Car Club has unveiled a pan-European calendar for its 2022 Historic Formula 2 International Series, reports Paul Lawrence. Six double-header events at major European meetings have been confirmed. The calendar includes a return to the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit and trips to Hockenheim, Paul Ricard, the Nurburgring and Dijon. The stun...

NKHTGT, the Dutch-organised historic racing series for FIA touring cars and GTs built between 1947 and 1965, has announced its planned 2022 schedule, with a total of 11 races on six circuits in five countries, and will be designated an International Club Championship (subject to KNAF/FIA approval). The programme starts in April with the Preis der Stadt Stuttgart at the Hockenheimring in Baden-Wur...

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Rally pace will be relentless  Although attracting an entry of some 80 cars, only those manufactured or registered before the end of 1968 are eligible for overall awards. A very reasonable decision. After all, the event is designed as a rerun of fifties and sixties classic rallying, not as a road race between modern looking cars, such as hotted-up Volkswagens, Peugeot 205GTis and Porsches. T...

HSCC heads for Silverstone Finals meeting  The championship season for the Historic Sports Car Club will conclude in style at Silverstone on 16-17 October with a bumper 18-race programme for the annual Finals Meeting on the national circuit, writes Paul Lawrence. Cam Jackson, Horatio Fitz-Simon and Tom McArthur will settle the Historic Formula Ford title across three races at Silverstone. ...

Italian island of Elba next stop for the 2021 EHRC  Round 7 of the 2021 FIA European Historic Rally Championship, the 33rd Rally Elba Storico will be held over two days on the 24/25 September, and has attracted a large entry of 62 cars, of which 22 are eligible to score championship points, writes Jeff Carter. BMW, Ford, Lancia and Porsche feature in Category 4, with six entries from Austri...

HSCC heads to Mallory Park  The Historic Sports Car Club will return to Mallory Park in Leicestershire for its penultimate 2021 championship meeting of the season this coming weekend 18-19 September, writes Paul Lawrence. Two full days of racing, featuring double-headers for all categories, will deliver a true club race meeting at the friendly Midlands circuit. The action will focus on the ...

Oulton Park next for HSCC  The annual Oulton Park Gold Cup on 28-30 August is another headline event in the Historic Sports Car Club season and a fabulous entry of more than 300 cars will make it a great weekend at the Cheshire track, writes Paul Lawrence. The addition of two races for the Historic Formula 2 Series will give fans a fantastic treat as the stunning F2 and Formula Atlantic car...

Finland next for the 2021 EHRC  The Lahti Historic Rally in Finland will be the host event for Round 5 of the 2021 European Historic Rally Championship, and is the only gravel rally on this year’s schedule, invoking the spirit of the legendary 1000 Lakes Rally, writes Jeff Carter. The ceremonial start will take place at Lahti Harbour on Friday 13 August from 09:31. Leg 1 will consist ...

The 14th Open Vauxhall Run  The 14th Ted's Opel Vauxhall Run takes place this coming Saturday14 August. This is one of the largest Opel Vauxhall events in the country and has enthusiasts coming from all over the 32 counties. Registration is between 09:00 and 10:00, and the first award is being presented at 10:00. The Run will start from The Mills Inn at 10:15 with the route passing through...

The VSCC heads to Prescott  Prescott Speed Hill Climb and the Vintage Sports-Car Club are, in every way, joined at the hip, writes Peter Baker. It was Tom Holt of the VSCC who, in 1937, discovered the venue was for sale and suggested to the Bugatti Owners' Club they buy it, which of course they did. And the rest, as they say, is history. The first VSCC meeting at Prescott took place in Aug...

Silverstone brings us the biggest and best in historic racing  Unless some organiser in Europe springs a very late surprise, this weekend’s three-day ‘The Classic’ at Silverstone, 30 July-1 August, will assuredly rank number one historic race meeting of 2021, and quite rightly too, writes Peter Baker. Putting together a sell-out event, along with all its financial implicati...

HSCC races will feature at The Classic  Two grids from the Historic Sports Car Club will feature in the race line-up at The Classic, Silverstone on 30 July-1 August 2021, writes Paul Lawrence. The biggest historic racing festival is back after an enforced absence in 2020 and a stellar programme of races has been assembled to mark the 30th edition of the event. From the HSCC portfolio, Histo...

Championship contenders to go head-to-head in Austria  Rallye Weiz, based in the Styrian region of Austria, on 15-17 July, has attracted 18 EHRC crews from 10 different nations across Europe, who will compete for points in Round 4 of the FIA European Historic Rally Championship, reports Jeff Carter. There are seven entries in Category 4, from Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, and Spa...

A weekend of nostalgia  Classic Nostalgia returns to the Midland Automobile Club's Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb on the weekend of 17-18 July 2021. This will be an action-packed weekend of hill climbing, demonstrations, Group B rally cars and celebrity drivers.  There'll be spectacular classic and vintage car club displays, as well as motorbikes, trade stands and live vintage-inspired ente...

Autocar - Shelsley Walsh Young Drivers Championship  A new initiative for 2021, the Autocar - Shelsley Walsh Young Drivers Championship. Most motorsport is expensive, at virtually every level. Consequently, it is difficult for youngsters to get involved in the sport. For some the alternative is to use the highways as racetracks, with risks for both drivers and the public. So, how to make mo...

Round 3, 54th Mecsek Rally  The 54th Mecsek Rally, based in the city of Pecs, has attracted entries for Round 3 of the FIA European Historic Rally Championship from 11 different nations across Europe and runs from Thursday 24 to Saturday 26 June 2021, reports Jeff Carter. There are six entries in Category 4, from Hungary, Spain, Italy, Austria and Finland. Championship leader Daniel Alonso ...

Eighteen grids for HSCC Donington weekend  Donington Park circuit is the next destination for the Historic Sports Car Club, with a full schedule of 18 races and nearly 300 entries over the weekend of 26-27 June2021, reports Paul Lawrence. Joining many of the HSCC’s regular categories for single-seaters, sports/GT and touring cars will be races for the HSCC Thundersports, the Aurora Tr...

Championships head to Cadwell  The annual trip to Lincolnshire and the fantastic Cadwell Park circuit is another highlight on the 2021 schedule for the Historic Sports Car Club and the Wolds Trophy will run over the weekend of 5-6 June. This weekend comes hot on the heels of the HSCC’s recent Silverstone Grand Prix meeting, so it is a busy time for many of the race series. Topping the...

Packed grids for HSCC’s International Trophy  One of the highlights of the Historic Sports Car Club’s 2021 calendar will be the annual Silverstone International Trophy meeting on the Grand Prix circuit on 22-23 May, writes Paul Lawrence. Back on the schedule after being lost to the pandemic a year ago, the International Trophy has attracted over 370 entries, and most of the grid...

Golden Jubilee for Times Trophy race  The 50th anniversary of the Times Trophy race will be celebrated at the Bentley Drivers Club’s 73rd annual race meeting at Silverstone on Saturday 7 August 2021, writes Stuart Newman. A Bentley scratch race, incorporating a contest for pre-war cars, the Times Trophy is the meeting’s blue riband event and will be the high point of an 11-race p...

Italy from east to west  The 2021 Modena Cento Ore, takes place on 8-13 June, and will run from the Adriatic to the Mediterranean along the most beautiful roads in Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Umbria and Marche. Taking a coast-to-coast route the event includes 10 special uphill stages on roads closed to normal traffic, three races on the circuits at Misano, Imola and Mugello, and 1 super specia...

Jean-Claude Andruet and Henri Leconte to race at Magny-Cours Around 20 teams have entered Les 6 Heures de Magny-Cours, organised by V de V Sports during the weekend 14-16 May. The six-hour endurance race will also provide an opportunity to prepare for the eagerly-awaited Les 2 Tours d’Horloge, which will be revived on the Paul Ricard circuit in November. The types of car and regulatio...

Round 2, 29th Historic Vltava Rallye  Round 2 of the 2021 FIA EHRC takes place in the Czech Republic on 7-8. The rally is based in the Bohemian city of Klatovy and has attracted an international field of 24 cars from 10 nations with a great selection of historic cars, writes Jeff Carter. Category 4 has six entries from Spain, Austria, Finland and two home entries from the Czech Republic. Da...

Gearing up for 2021  HERO-ERA, now based at Bicester Heritage, is making a dramatic post-lockdown return, with 10 historic events planned for the rest of 2021. The schedule begins with A Novice Trial, based in Bicester, running between 21-23 May, and followed with some well-established favourites that include, the Classic Marathon (Spain and Northern Portugal), The Scottish Malts, RAC Rall...

HSCC 2021 championships open at Snetterton  The Historic Sports Car Club opens its 2021 racing season with a bumper programme on the Snetterton 300 circuit over the weekend of 17/18 April, writes Paul Lawrence. With over 240 entries and 19 races it will be a full weekend with some fine racing. Sadly, after a change in government instructions, spectators will not now be allowed at the event....