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RACE RETRO 2025

Annual historic motorsport show successfully returns Words and pictures by Ken Davies Race Retro 21-23 February, Stoneleigh ParkFollowing its cancellation in 2024 due to flooding, Race Retro - run by Clarion Events - bounced back to promote and showcase club and national motorsport, including all forms of circuit racing, rallying, speed hill climbs and much, much more. Annually, thi...

DAVID BRODIE OBITUARY

David Brodie 1943-2024 Appreciation by Ken Davies. Images courtesy of the David Brodie Archive. British saloon car racing legendViewed in the pantheon of British motor racing history, David Brodie, who died on Tuesday 17 December, was an international saloon car racing folk hero., perhaps best known for carrying the iconic script 'Run-Baby-Run' on the front of his Ford Escort 2.1-litre Mk1...

RALLY ANGLO CALEDONIAN 2024

Rally fends off Storm Bert Seb Perez and Dale Bowen were the big winners on the inaugural Rally Anglo Caledonian, organised by the Roger Albert Clark Rally Motor Club, as they won both elements of the Fuchs British Historic Rally Championship double-header during a quite remarkable rally in the Scottish Borders on 23-24 November 2024, reports Paul Lawrence. The two-day competition, across...

HISTORIC MINARDI DAY 2024

Doing It the Italian way Report and pictures from Roman Klemm, Click to view Gallery. 24-25 August 2024 Former F1 owner Giancarlo Minardi celebrated the history of motorsport in Imola, traditionally held in August. Around 10,000 fans came to see the interesting event in the heat. Mr. Minardi does not organise races for historic cars - Imola welcomed everyone who had an interesting racing ...

Barton Racing at Silverstone MSVR Motor Racing Legends 18th-19th October 2024

Silverstone MSVR Motor Racing Legends 18th-19th October Barton Racing Celebrates in Style with Another Important Win Report by Peter Baker For the second consecutive year Harry Barton/Ollike Reuben concluded their UK season by driving the Barton Racing TVR Griffith to overall victory in the prestigious Motor Racing Legends Pall Mall Cup Race 2024. It was a victory deserved with a...

HSCC SILVERSTONE FINALS 2024

Great racing for HSCC Finals weekend Report and image form Paul Lawrence Champions were crowned and epic victories were scored as the Historic Sports Car Club’s 2024 championship season finished in style at Silverstone over the weekend 12-13 October. Some outstanding racing took place as season-long battles were won and lost and it was in the weekend's second SDC Classic Formula For...

EDELWEISS BERGPREIS ROSSFELD BERCHTESGADEN 2024

Farewell to Rossfeld Words and pictures by Roman Klemm. Click to view Gallery In 2013, a group of enthusiasts around Achim Althammer from Freilassing came up with the idea of reviving the traditional Rossfeld hillclimb race in a historic form. At two-year intervals, racing engines roared again above Berchtesgaden, on the track that was one of the most feared mountain routes in Europe until ...

LIVE YOUR DREAM: WITH LAUDA'S MCLAREN-FORD MP4/1B

Live your dream: With Lauda's McLaren-Ford MP4/1b at the Grand Prix de Monaco Histroique Report and Images by Roman Klemm Two years ago, during the Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, one of the British drivers in Historic Formula 1 approached me to ask if I could provide him with my photos. It was Mark Higson, owner of a perfectly restored McLaren MP4/1B. This year, we agreed...

SIT-IN-TEST IN CHAMPIONSHIP-WINNING DALLARA-OPEL 396 F3

Sit-in-Test in Championship-winning Dallara-Opel 396 F3 of Jarno Trulli Report by Roman Klemm, Images by Roman Klemm and Walter Falbesoner One of the biggest rising stars of motor racing in the mid-1990s was Italian Jarno Trulli. In 1995, with the support of Red Bull, the karting world champion got his first opportunity in older Formula 3 cars, only to win the German champio...

NORISRINGS SECRET SENSATION: LOTUS EUROPE GP5 - DRM

Norisrings Secret Sensation: Lotus Europe Gp5 - DRM Report and Images by Roman Klemm Old race cars are very expensive to restore and maintain. Both from a financial and technical point of view. It is therefore not surprising that those who have been in this scene for a longer period of time will find that they are following the same cars from event to event. Only exceptionally doe...

PARADE OF LEGENDS AT THE RED BULL-RING 2024

Parade of Legends at the Red Bull-Ring 2024 Report and Images by Roman Klemm The organizer of Austrian F1-Grand Prix traditionally offers "trips to the past" in its program. Although the quality of these events is decreasing year by year, let's be glad that “Project Spielberg” organizes these special "sweets" for the fans. They don't even think of building something s...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH FRANZ WURZ

Exclusive Interview with Franz Wurz: "Charlie puts enormous pressure on himself" Report and Images by Roman Klemm Well, the name Alexander Wurz will probably mean something to F1 fans. The former F1 driver and Le Mans winner is today one of the most influential personalities of the F-Liberty circus. His sons Charlie (FIA-F3) and Oscar (CZ F4) are currently trying to follow his example....

SILVERSTONE FESTIVAL 2024

Annual historic racing jamboree celebrates Ayrton Senna Report and images from Ken Davies First run in 1990 with sponsorship from Coys auction house, the Silverstone Festival on 23-25 August; formerly known as Silverstone Classic, has grown into a British motorsport institution with something for every member of the family. Multifarious activities include pop music by current bands, a...

E-FUEL BMW PROJECT

E-Fuels: Will Common Sense Previal? Reportand Images by Roman Klemm, 22nd of June 2024 In June 2024 fans of Solitude Revival 2024 witnessed a world premiere: two-time world rally champions Walter Röhrl and Christian Geistdörfer competed there in two different cars powered by synthetic fuel from two different manufacturers. Pioneer of e-Fuel in motorsport: Royal ...

SIT-IN-TEST OF THE 1959 COOPER-MASERATI MONACO T49 SPORTS PROTOTYPE

Sit-in-test of the 1959 Cooper-Maserati Monaco T49 sports prototype Report by Roman Klemm As part of the quite successful event Red Bull-Ring Classics 2024 in Spielberg, I had the opportunity to learn the details of the oldest registered CanAm car on hand there and even sit in it: Mr. Kommerzielrat Egon Hofer from Salzburg told me about his Cooper Monaco T49, equipped with a Maserati e...

INTERVIEW WITH LUCIANO CRESPI

Interview with Luciano Crespi Report by Roman Klemm You hail from a motorsport dynasty – tell me about it. Yes. You can imagine that when I was very little I could see and feel the monoposto cars, Tulio my father is one of the pioneers of motorsports in Argentina, and the largest builder of monopostos in Latin America, he has already manufactured more than 2,500 cars. ...

The unique Melkus-Wartburg Type 59 at Brno Revival 2024

The unique Melkus-Wartburg Type 59 at Brno Revival 2024 Report by Roman Klemm Well, it seemed that every nut in the paddock of the successful Brno Revival had its own interesting story - so one had to choose from this huge offer... I actually chose to write about the Melkus-Wartburg Type 59 a month before Brno, at the Solitude Revival, where this car struck me for the first time . There ...

PRE-66 F1 CARS AT BRNO-REVIVAL

F1 for cars built before 1966 at Brno-Revival: The Coopers would be delighted Report by Roman Klemm Charles and his son John Cooper were considered pioneers in the construction of rear-engined single-seaters. Jack Brabham's World Championship titles and young Bruce McLaren's top results proved them right in the late 1950s, and soon their solution was copied by the entire F1 c...

CLIVE RICHARDS AND HIS LOTUS REIGNED SUPREME IN F-JUNIOR IN BRNO

Clive Richards and his Lotus reigned supreme in F-Junior in Brno Report by Roman Klemm The organizer of the historic Formula Junior championship, Mr. Duncan Rabagliati, could be relied upon. He brought a large field of 17 cars of his mostly British and Northern European participants to Brno. At the start of the Lurani Trophy for Formula Junior Cars International Championship there were 5...

CLASSIC FORMULA 1 AT THE BRNO GRAND PRIX REVIVAL

Classic Formula 1 at the Brno Grand Prix Revival: This is what the "F1 Czech Grand Prix" could have looked like... Report by Roman Klemm Tens of thousands of fans came to the Brno Circuit to see one thing in particular: the return of classic Formula 1 (cars from 1967-1985) to the Czech Republic. A dozen absolutely sensational cars of the "golden era" of this class, with absolut...



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