Historic Racing News

After its war-enforced hiatus, motor racing was well and truly back on the agenda  by the late 1940s – not least thanks to the Cooper Car Company set up by…

After an absence of three years, the 12th edition of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique will return this April, boasting a bumper entry list and a special dedication to…

Silverstone is giving away 10,000 tickets for this summer's events to NHS staff and key workers, in recognition of the challenges they faced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Entries to the…

Competition cars are a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Why? Because they’re so difficult to value. The market for each car is not wide, and there’s a…

Wildly eccentric yet immensely talented, self-taught engineer Harold William Clisby was responsible for Australia’s greatest racing might-have-been: a Formula 1 engine which could have beaten the Repco V8 to the…

The cars out on track, some of them at least, look as though they are hot off a World Endurance Championship grid. It’s a double-take moment because the prototypes and…

From AC 3000ME to Volvo 480ES, the list of models eligible to race in the Historic Sports Car Club’s new 1980s Production Car Challenge is as long as Bez’s guestlist…

This year's 78th Goodwood Members' Meeting has been postponed until the autumn when crowds are expected to be able to return to the long-running event. Originally scheduled for March 2021,…

Motorsport UK has announced that national non-elite-level racing will be able to resume in England on March 29 in line with lockdown restrictions being lifted. Following the announcement by Prime…

It is around this time of year that I usually start to look back at photographs and footage of the previous summer’s races and recall the smell of cut grass…

On the face of it, this year's historic racing calendar is mouthwatering. Goodwood returns with a full complement of familiar events, while packed grids are promised for the Historic Monaco…

  Winter Challenge to Monte Carlo February 7-11 The 22nd Winter Challenge to Monte Carlo takes place in early February and provides a great test for competitors –hopefully with a…

Historic car owners have been warned that they face returning to the "dark ages" without a Brexit deal, as new research finds that the classic car sector contributes almost 20…

Organisers of the French Historic Grand Prix have announced plans for 70 Formula 1 cars to take part in next year's three-day summer festival. A total of 300 historic racing…

The first in a new line of Bentley Blowers has been produced in tribute to Sir Henry Birkin's legendary design

Goodwood has announced the return of its full series of motor sport events in 2021, setting dates for the Members' Meeting, Festival of Speed and Revival after a year's hiatus.…

It’s difficult to imagine a Lotus 47 ending up in a scrapyard nowadays, but that was allegedly where this one was saved from during the early 1970s,  a time when…