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Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique 2026
We are hearing many things about Rally Monte Carlo Historique 2026. Crews wearing crash helmets on regularities. And for the first time, four wheel drive cars will be on the list of starters. Better news perhaps for the more adventurous, to celebrate 100 years there will be a start from John o' Groats in Scotland, organised by our friend Douglas Anderson. He also planning to run a non-competitiv...
Peking to Paris
Peking to Paris 2025
A Feat of Endurance!
The Peking to Paris 2025 won the hearts and minds of onlookers and petrolheads alike around the world; watching the journey and reading the stories of the hardest Motor Challenge ever as they unfolded. It is truly the last great motoring adventure still running today.
The 37-day odyssey started in Beijing (formerly known as Peking), l...
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DONINGTON HISTORIC FESTIVAL 2025
The 2025 Donington Historic Festival takes place over the Bank Holiday weekend 2-4 May. Always a firm favourite with spectators and competitors alike, Donington Park is the perfect setting for families to enjoy a long weekend of historic motorsport, with racing through Friday to Sunday. Viewing points and places to enjoy a picnic abound. Organisers, Motor Racing Legends, along with their new par...
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ROGER ALBERT CLARK RALLY 2025
Following a demand for places the 2025 Roger Albert Clark Rally, 19-24 November, has extended entries from 180 to 200, making it the biggest entry on a UK rally for nearly three decades This increase has been possible as the event is a nominated rally within Schedule 4 of the Motor Vehicles (Competition and Trials) Regulations of 1969. Historically, this regulation permits a small number of ralli...
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BRSCC 2025 OULTON PARK NW
The British Racing and Sports Car Club heads to Oulton Park on Saturday 19 April for a mixture of sprint and endurance racing. Headlining the meeting will be the Audi TT Cup Racing Championship, with high performance racing from the BRSCC Pro Sport Sprint Series with its purpose-built race cars. The day’s finale is the two-hour endurance battle that will be fought during the PBS Brakes Su...
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LEVEL PLAYING FIELD FOR HISTORIC RACING
Those involved in historic racing have for some time been requesting from organisers a more level playing field. The criticism mostly aimed at the Ford Cortina Lotus, a car that has been developed (allegedly) way beyond the example used to gain its HTP/FIA papers in a bid to win at all costs. Arguably modifying cars in search of victory has always played an important part of our sport. However, we...
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BRSCC PBS BRAKES SUPERSPORT ENDURANCE CUP AND BRITCAR ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP 2025
Retro-Speed magazine will be covering both these exciting series, which involve endurance races taking place at Brands Hatch, Croft, Oulton Park, Silverstone and Snetterton. As well as reporting each round, with plenty of photographs taken by Peter Baker, the magazine will also follow the fortunes of Team Retro-Speed members. Both Championships are close fought and guarantee a great family d...
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MOTOR RACING LEGENDS TAKES OVER HRDC
It has been announced that Motor Racing Legends has taken over HRDC. A good move, made at a time when historic motorsport needs to regroup. Expect to see great value racing on offer, with full grids See HRDC grids at MRL Donington Historic Festival (4 May), MRL Snetterton Classic (28/29 June), HSCC Oulton Park Gold Cup (26/27 July), Castle Combe75 Autumn Classic (21 September) and MRL Silverston...
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DONINGTON HISTORIC FESTIVAL 2025
Extended to three days over the weekend 2-4 May, the Donington Historic Festival at Donington Park offers classic racing of every description, including new to DHF, the GT3 Legends category for cars built between 2006 and 2012, which was launched in 2024. More information from Donington Historic Festival....
TEAM RETRO-SPEED ENTERS RALLYE MONTE-CARLO HISTORIQUE 2025
It has become tradition that Retro-Speed Magazine, one way or the other, gets involved with that most authentic of all rally re-creations, Rallye Monte-Carlo Historique. Thus, in January, we will be providing a service crew in support of entry number 226, the little 1960 Triumph Herald shared by member Peter Barker(UK) and Christa Percival (USA). They will leave Reims on the evening of Thursday 3...
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HSSC AT CASTLE COMBE'S AUTUMN CLASSIC 2024
HSCC racers head for Castle Combe Races from the Historic Sports Car Club will play a leading role in this weekend's Autumn Classic at Castle Combe, 21-22 September, writes Paul Lawrence. The HSCC is pleased to be a partner in the event, providing a total of six races across the weekend. As part of the category’s 60th anniversary celebrations, there will be two races for the HS...
THE LEGEND BOUCLES AT BASTOGNE 2025
The Legend Boucles @ Bastogne 2025 will take place on the weekend of 1 and 2 February
The countdown has begun... As tradition dictates, the Royal Automobile Club de Spa is taking advantage of the sporting lull at the heart of the summer period to officially launch the next edition of its flagship event: the Legend Boucles @ Bastogne! The 2025 edition will take place on the first w...
HISTORIC MODSPORTS AND SPECIAL SALOON TO TAKE CENTRE STAGE AT CROFT
Historic Modsports and Special Saloon to take centre stage at Croft
Report by Paul Lawrence
The HSCC Historic Modsports and Special Saloon Series will mark its best entry to date when more than 20 cars line up at Croft this weekend (10-11 August) during the Croft Historic Festival.
To celebrate the success of the new series, the cars will line up on the grid during Satur...
RALLY ANGLO CALEDONIAN 2024
There has been great early response to Rally Anglo Caledonian, a new event for 2024. Organised by the Roger Albert Clark Rally Motor Club the rally will run on 23-24 November. Rally Anglo Caledonian will cover 140 forest stage miles in northern England and southern Scotland, with its base in Carlisle, and will run on alternate years when the Roger Albert Clark Rally does not take place. For up-t...
VSCC DONINGTON PARK 2024
The SeeRed Meeting returns to Donington Park, Sunday 7 July, for the Vintage-Sprots Car Club’s special 90th anniversary year celebrations. An eclectic mix of racing and on-track displays, will make this the highlight of the VSCC 2024 racing season. More information from the VSCC....
MAX VERSTAPPEN TO MAKE FOS DEBUT
Get ready for Goodwood's biggest ever celebration of a Formula 1 team, Oracle Red Bull Racing reveal their megastar line up for the 2024 Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard - including World Champion Max Verstappen. Alongside Max, Sergio Perez, Daniel Riccardo and other famous faces will attend on the Sunday. Prepare for an extraordinary moment on the Hill before the drivers join on th...
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DRAGSTALGIA 2024
Dragstalgia at Santa Pod Raceway, on 5-7 July, will celebrate 60 years since the first International Drag Festival kick started drag racing in the UK. This diamond anniversary, Europe’s biggest historic drag race meeting, will celebrate the sport’s ‘golden age’, with classic racing machinery on two wheels as well as four. Vintage music, fashion and style will add to the pa...
JAGUAR SPARES DAY RETURNS TO STONELEIGH PARK
The first 2024 Jaguar Spares Day returns to Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire on Sunday 17 March. A haven for Jaguar enthusiasts and owners of classic or modern examples, there will be around 100 stalls, ranging from established major Jaguar parts suppliers and restoration specialists to replica manufacturers and autojumblers, including enthusiasts clearing out their garages of miscellaneous spares...
HSCC F2 CLASSIC INTERSERIES 2024
Entries are now open for the second and third rounds of the Historic Sports Car Club’s 2024 F2 Classic Interseries. The new look F2 Classic Interseries is a continuation of the partnership between the HSCC and French promoter HVM Racing. The race series for pre-1979 Formula 2 and Formula Atlantic cars is one of Europe's leading historic single seater categories. Action starts at the Grand ...
DEJA VU MONTE CARLO 2024
Following 2023's successful inaugural event, Deja vu Motorsport is turning its attention to Deja vu Monte Carlo 2024. No pressure, no timing, or rallying experience, only a sense of adventure is all that is needed. Nor is a rally car required, though a classic car with character from the 1960s onwards would add to the atmosphere. Entries will be limited to 50. More information from Deja vu Motors...
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CASTLE COMBE WINS BEST COMPETITIVE EVENT
Castle Combe’s Autumn Classic was voted Best Competitive Event at the Royal Automobile Club’s 2023 Historic Awards presentation at its Pal Mall clubhouse.
Held on 23 November and now in its fifth year, the prestigious RAC Historic Awards celebrates exceptional events, people, endeavours and innovation in the UK historic motoring sector, a burgeoning growth industry that adds an estim...
RALLYSTORY 2024
Better known for its rallying adventures, Rallystory is holding the 15th edition of its ice driving experience this coming January. Held 10-11 January 2024, in the Alpes d’Huez, there are six sessions at the circuit each day. Hotel, coach transfers and hospitality are included. More information at rallystroy.com. ...
OLIVER SOLBERG ENTERS 2023 ROGER ALBERT CLARK RALLY
World Rally Championship star Oliver Solberg will drive a Ford Escort RS1800 on this November’s Roger Albert Clark Rally, 22-27 November. Oliver’s father Petter will lend his son the family Escort Mk2 and the 21-year-old will seize the opportunity to drive some of the stages his family has been talking about for generations.Go to the Roger Albert Clark Rally website for more informati...
EXTENDED ROUTE FOR 2023 CARLISLE STAGES
An extended route is planned for this year’s Carlisle Stage. The opening leg consists 55 competitive miles in the darkness of Friday evening, 20 October, followed by a full day of 45 stage miles on 21 October. As well as being the deciding round of the Fuchs Lubricants Motorsport UK British Historic Rally Championship and KNC Groundworks Motorsport UK Scottish Rally Championship, the Carli...
ENTRIES STILL AVAILABLE FOR TROPHEE EN CORSE 2023
Organised by Rallystory, the 30th Trophee en Corse takes place from 19-22 October 2023. Following scrutineering in Toulon on 19 October, the 30th edition of this Corsican rally begins on Friday 20 October from Bastia, the first two Legs taking competitors to Porticico. On Saturday, Legs 3 and 4 will see the rally return to Porticcio, before the final two Legs on Sunday 22 October finish in Ajacc...
FORMULA FORDS AT 2023 OULTON PARK GOLD CUP
Historic and Classic Formula Fords from the Historic Sports Car Club will be in action at this year's Oulton Park Gold Cup on 28-30 July. It will be a double-header for the combined grid of period Formula Fords and is in place of the planned Thundersports races. Historic Formula Ford covers the early years from 1967 up to 1971, while Classic Formula Ford takes the FF1600 story to the end of 1981....
SILVERSTONE FESTIVAL 2023
There will be free admission to Silverstone Museum for ticket holders to the 2023 Silverstone Festival, taking place over the Bank Holiday 25-27 August. This is the first time entry to the Museum is included in the Festival ticket price, and there’s not a charge for under 16s. For more information and to purchase tickets go to the Silverstone website....
HSCC GUARDS TROPHY 2023
The Historic Sports Car Club’s Guards Trophy will start its 50th season with a 30-car grid at Silverstone on Saturday 27 May for a one-hour-long race on the Grand Prix circuit. This is a long-established championship for pre-‘66 GT cars and pre-‘69 sports racing cars and can trace its history back to 1974 when it was first run as the HSCC Classic Sports Car Championship. In 200...
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BENJAFIELD'S RACING CLUB RETURNS TO LE MANS CLASSIC 2023
It wouldn’t be the same without the ‘Bentley Boys’ and you can bet your life they’ll be celebrating 100 years of Le Mans in style. Some 50 cars, led by five time Le Mans winner Derek Bell, will depart the BRDC UK headquarters and travel in convoy, arriving at the famous La Sarthe circuit on Thursday 29 June. The Bentley only races take place over the following weekend. For...
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GOODWOOD REVIVAL 2023 LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE
Tickets available for the 2023 Goodwood Revival on 8-10 September are now limited. The three-day admission and Grandstand package, and Saturday only and Grandstand package, are now sold out. There’s limited availability for the Friday only and Grandstand package and Sunday only and Grandstand package. Tickets bookable only via Goodwood....
WIGTON MOTOR CLUB
Wigton Motor Club, the North’s largest motor club, is organising a late morning event on Sunday 23 April in support of the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs’ Drive It Day. Vehicle owners are invited to meet up at Dalemain Mansion and Gardens. All vehicles are welcome and drivers are asked to please make a donation of £5, all monies of which will be shared between Cock...
GOODWOOD''S FIRST BREAKFAST CLUB 2023
The first of the 2023 Goodwood Breakfast Club events is less than a month away, with Supercar Sunday on 7 May. Supercars and hypercars will gather to showcase what manufacturers can create, with some of the fastest and most desired cars expected to attend. Goodwood’s Breakfast Club meetings continue to be a family favourite and are free to enter, with good coffee and breakfast available to ...
GUARDS TROPHY DRIVERS INVITED TO MONDELLO PARK
Competitors from the Historic Sports Car Club’s Guards Trophy have been invited to play a key role in the Mondello Park Historic Festival over the weekend of 12/13 August 2023. The pre ’66 GT cars and pre ’69 sports-racing cars will have two non-championship races at the Irish track. There will be an hour-long race on Saturday and a 40-minute race on Sunday for the Irish Intern...
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GOODWOOD MEMBERS' MEETING 2023 TICKETS LIMITED
Tickets are very limited for Goodwood’s 80th Members’ Meeting on 15-16 April 2023. Both Saturday and Sunday tickets, as well as Weekend Passes, are extremely limited and all grandstands are sold out for the Meeting. Don’t miss out, purchase tickets from the Goodwood website....
MGB AWARD WITHIN HSCC AUTOSPORT 3-HOUR RACE
The racing MGB will be celebrated during the Historic Sports Car Club’s 2023 Autosport 3-Hours race at Snetterton on 23 April. With entries building well for the return of the endurance race, MGBs are playing a strong part in the early line-up for the 18th edition of the famous race. To celebrate 60 years of the iconic British sports car, the HSCC will award a special trophy for the best pe...
SPA OPEN PITLANE 2023
Organised by Roadbook Events, the 2023 Spa Open Pitlane opens the season for the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday 19 March. The track day welcomes both classic and modern cars, whether they be daily-use road cars or competition cars. Open wheeled, formula and single-seaters are not eligible. The track will be open from 09:00 to 12:00 and again from 13:00 to 18:00. Limited to 80 cars, drive...
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WIN TICKETS TO RACE RETRO 2023
We have two one-day tickets to give away for Race Retro 2023, taking place from 24-26 February at Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire. Simply answer the following three questions for your chance of winning:- 1. Who is the headline sponsor for Race Retro 2023? 2. Which auction house will be holding a sale during the show’s weekend? 3. The Live Rally Stages will be hosted ...
HSCC 2023
Following three trial events this year, the Historic Sports Car Club will run a six-date schedule for its Historic Modified Sports and Special Saloon Series in 2023. The emphasis remains on pre-1980 cars and the regulations are available now from the HSCC. Each two-day event will feature a 15-minute qualifying session and two 20-minute races, starting at Snetterton in late April, followed b...
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GOODWOOD 2023
Early bird tickets are available for both the Festival of Speed, 13-16 July, and Goodwood Revival, 8-10 September. Book before 31 March 2023 for the Festival of Speed and before 30 April 2023 for Goodwood Revival. Fellows also now receive a 10 percent discount on tickets and grandstand passes. Save up to 15 percent on tickets for the Members’ Meeting, 15-16 April, by booking before 1 Januar...
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LE MANS 24 HOURS 2023 TICKETS
Le Mans 24 Hours celebrates 100 years next year, 10-11 June, and tickets will go on sale on Friday 21 October 2022. Bound to be the race of the century, organisers Automobile Club de l’Ouest have a number of admission packages available. The Early Bird price for a 4-Day Race Week admission ticket is 94euro, the price applies until 28 February 2023 after which it will rise to 102eruo. Early...
CHRIS REA'S FERRARI ART WORK FOR SALE
Anglia Car Auctions (ACA) is to sell a collection of 68 original pieces, each created by international rock star and artist Chris Rea. The collection is entitled ‘La Passione’ and was inspired by Rea’s passion for Ferrari and its motorsport history. The collection will be auctioned by ACA in its Classic sale to be held on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November 2022. ‘La Passion...
RAC'S ART OF MOTORING EXHIBITION 2022
This year’s Royal Automobile Club’s annual Art of Motoring exhibition is expanding and will be held in Sotheby’s Conduit Gallery in London’s Bond Street. The exhibition is one of the main events of the Club’s London Motor Week and will be held from Monday 31 October to Saturday 6 November. Entrance to the exhibition will be free of charge and the majority of the wo...
WIGTON MOTOR CLUB 2022
Wigton Motor Club enrolled over 100 new members during September, most of them as a result of the Cumbria Classic & Motorsport Show at the end of August. Included are 25 under 25-year-olds, who joined under a special promotion The Club has increased its membership over recent years, and it now stands at well over 900, with the majority of members living in the north half of Cumbria, within 30...
CARLISLE STAGES RALLY 2022
Entries are open for the 2022 Carlisle Stages Rally on 22 October, a one-day gravel event in and around Kielder Forest. This popular national event is also a round of the Fuchs Lubricants British Historic Rally Championship, covering of 44 miles in Buck Fell, Florida, Hyndlee and Riccarton. Two-wheel-drive competitors will run first on the road in a reverse seeded order, followed by four-wheeled...
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