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PRESCOTT SPEED HILL CLIMB - Editorial Rambling : Peter Baker

Austin 7s and another hill climb Words by Peter Baker. Images by Simon Arron and Peter Baker. I’ve visited Prescott Speed Hill Climb so many times this year I can drive there blind-folded. Last Wednesday (20 July), for example, I popped in first thing as a record number of Austin 7s were expected, their intrepid owners having travelled from around the globe to take part in this ...

ENNSTAL CLASSIC 2022 : Roman Klemm

Jochen Rindt and Ferdinand Porsche would be delighted Words and images by Roman Klemm. Click top right to view Gallery. In the ‘downwind of enthusiasm’ for Jochen Rindt's achievements, an elite of motoring journalists naturally developed in Austria in the mid-1960s, who more or less regularly accompanied their national idol, with a German passport, on his breakneck adventures ar...

Ben's Brief - VSCC SILVERSTONE AND SHELSLEY'S CLASSIC NOSTALGIA 202

Junior Reporter Ben Lawrence out and about Click top right to view Ben’s images Hundreds of vintage machines gathered at the Silverstone circuit on 16 July for round three of the Vintage Sports Car Club race season. Eight qualifying sessions and nine race sessions made up the day with grids varying from pre-war cars to Formula 500s, and even the celebration of 100 years of the Austin...

SOLITUDE-REVIVAL 2022 : Roman Klemm

Return to the ‘Lonely Castle’ Words and images by Roman Klemm. Click top right to view Gallery The name Solitude is not as familiar to motorsport fans in Germany as the Nurburgring, Hockenheim or Avus, but this race track near Stuttgart has also experienced its own fame, from events of the motorcycle world championship to non-championship Formula 1 races. As early as the b...

WALTER ROHRL AT NORISRING 2022 : Roman Klemm

Walking with the ‘God of the steering wheel’ around Norisring’s paddock Words and images by Roman Klemm. Click top right to view Gallery. Of course, drivers such as Rene Rast, Bruno Spengler, Maxi Goetz and other ‘youngsters’ from the DTM series tried their best on the short track around Zeppelin's grandstand this year. But the insiders knew about the true high...

LE MANS CLASSIC 2022 - Editorial Rambling : Peter Baker

Nothing beats Le Mans Classic Words and images by Peter Baker Le Mans Classic 2022. Say what you like about the French but they know how to produce good wine, grow onions, cook, and organise race meetings, including this, the 10th edition of what has become Europe’s, maybe the world’s, biggest and best historic race meeting. So well done Peter Auto the brains behind the event. ...

INAUGURAL AUSTRIAN HISTORIC 2022

Peaks of the first Austrian Historic at the Red Bull Ring Words and images by Roman Klemm. Click top right to view Gallery. After the original majestic Osterreichring was closed in 1994, the area near Zeltweg lay idle for a long time. After a few years, it was taken over by the sponsor AI, who rebuilt it, but with a shortened track. Already at the beginning of the millennium, the organise...

Ben's Brief - CADWELL PARK, SHELSLEY WALSH AND LOTON PARK JUNE 2022

Junior reporter Ben Lawrence has been out and about Click top right to view Ben's images HSCC Cadwell Park, BHC Shelsley Walsh and MHC Loton Park The past weeks have been very busy, so here’s a recap on the last three events. On the Saturday of the Queen’s Jubilee, we travelled to Cadwell Park for the Wolds Trophy, a race meeting on the Historic Sports Car Club calendar....

TIFF NEEDELL INTERVIEW - Roman Klemm

Roman interviews Tiff Needell - briefly in Formula 1, briefly about Formula 1 Words and images by Roman Klemm Being a radical fan of the seventies, I remember the year 1980 also well - the year in which a certain driver took a brief look at the world of F1 - Englishman Tiff Needell. Needell was filming for his TV programme at the 2022 Grand Prix de Monaco Historique and ‘ran in my w...

Ben's Brief - PLAINS RALLY 2022

Junior reporter Ben Lawrence in North Wales Click top right to view Ben's images The Plains Rally included round three of the British Historic Rally Championship in Bala, North Wales on Saturday 21 May. The day consisted of a total of 45 miles of special stages. The first stage was Aberhirnant where Matt Edwards set the fastest time in his Fiat 131 Abarth, but Nick Elliott was only one se...

BROOKLANDS CELEBRATES LAND SPEED RECORD

Land Speed Record Centenary Celebration Words and images by Peter Baker It was a long day. Rising at five-thirty, birds a-twitter, and on the road not much after six. Destination Brooklands. We arrived in the trusty MG ZTT just as the town hall clock in Weybridge chimed nine o’clock, so just time for coffee and bacon rolls before the day’s Land Speed Record Celebrations got underway....

CELEBRITIES AT JIM CLARK REVIVAL: Roman Klemm

Celebrities at the 2022 Jim Clark Revival in Hockenheim Words and images by Roman Klemm This year's historic event in Hockenhiem, during the weekend 7-8 May, has been a huge success after past decade of slight decline. The grandstands were filled almost at the level of DTM weekends and the queues in front of the food outlets were tens of meters long. At a time when no one knows what terri...

BOSCH HOCKENHEIM HISTORIC 2022 : Roman Klemm

The Jim Clark Revival Words and images by Roman Klemm 7-8 May 2022 The Hockenheim Historic, known also as 'Jim Clark Revival', is the traditional curtain-raiser of the motoring season at the Hockenheimring. The organisers managed to put together a very interesting programme and, thanks to wonderful spring weather, thousands of fans rewarded them with their visit. From a sports point of vie...

DONINGTON HISTORIC FESITVAL 2022 - Editorial Rambling : Peter Baker

Mixing the old with the not quite so old Words and images by Peter Baker The appearance of three Silk Cut Jaguars at this year’s Donington Historic Festival sent my mind racing back to Le Mans, June 1988 when I, along with 130,000 other UK supporters, after sensing victory for the home team, staged a track invasion to welcome the victorious Jaguar across the line. Such was the state ...

DONINGTON PARK TO CADWELL PARK - Peripatetic Peter : Peter Baker

Masters at Donington and VSCC at Cadwell Words and images by Peter Baker From one park to another, split by a comfy night in a B&B and a good Italian meal. The long list of Easter weekend historic motorsport events kicked off on Friday 15 April at Donington, with what proved to be a fantastic day of racing, courtesy of Masters Historic Racing. This included a 25-minute outing for clas...

Ben's Brief - HSCC SNETTERTON 2022

Junior reporter Ben Lawrence at Snetterton Click top right to view Ben's images We travelled to the second event on the Historic Sports Car Club calendar in Norfolk over the weekend 23-24 April 2022. The day’s racing started with the Historic Formula Fords first race. A tight qualifying session led to Tom McArthur putting his Titan Mk4 on pole by just 54 thousandths of a second from...

GOODWOOD MEMBERS' MEETING 2022 - Editorial Rambling : Peter Baker

79th Members' Meeting Words and images by Peter Baker It’s pointless me going on about the 79th Members Meeting. After all, most of you were either there, or watched it on the telly. Suffice to say, Goodwood continues to exceed all expectations and our trip there and back (some 300 miles) was accomplished in Erik the SAAB 9-5 without any just cause for complaint. In fact, I’m su...

BAKER STREET : Peter Baker

The car's alive with the sound of music Words by Peter Baker As if it were only yesterday, I remember fitting and then listening to my first car radio. Somebody gave me a secondhand unit, along with speaker and aerial, and with a friend’s help made up a bracket, drilled a hole in the front wing and connected a live wire behind the ignition switch of my 1961 Mini. Bingo. Unfort...

HSCC BRANDS HATCH 2022 - Editorial Rambling : Peter Baker

Down the Hatch, 2-3 April Words and images by Peter Baker Nineteen-year-old Harry Barton (BMW 1800Ti) will never forget his first two Historic Touring Car races at Brands Hatch as a full on racing driver. Thrown in at the deep end, twice in one afternoon, young Harry was to come up against one of the best drivers in the business, a certain Nigel Cox. Nigel has been lifting one wheel of his ...

Ben's Brief - RALLY NORTH WALES 2022

Junior reporter Ben Lawrence on 2022 Rally North Wales Click top right to view Ben's images I went to North Wales near Dolgellau for the first round of the 2022 Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship and the second round of the British Historic Rally Championship. The event was made up of four different stages run twice, starting with Pantperthog then Dyfi and Big Ray in the same fores...



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