The Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge is far more than an historical racing series, it is a global racing festival that sees historic treasures competing on tracks around the world. And for Shell it offers a unique and fascinating opportunity to display its fuel knowledge to the full. Held at race tracks in Europe and North [...]
The Sucata Run is a bargain basement banger rally tour where teams of up to 4 people drive to Europe’s most westerly point in 4 days, in bangers costing no more than £250. It takes place over the 27-31 August 2009 Bank Holiday weekend and culminates at the breath taking Guincho beach on the Portuguese [...]
One of the highlights of the British historic motorsport year, is the Gold Cup meeting 30-31 August 2009 – Bank Holiday - at Oulton Park. The Gold Cup offers a fantastic opportunity to take a trip down memory lane and get up close to some famous single-seater, touring car and sports car machinery from previous eras, plus [...]
The Rotary Club in Oosterhout (NL) proudly presents its Classic Wings & Wheels Gala on Saturday August 22, 2009 at the airbase Gilze-Rijen. Bringing together exclusive historic aircrafts and a collection of classic cars proves to be a winning match. Such was the success of their first event in 2001, that the Rotary Club will [...]
Built in the 1920s around the medieval castle Nürburg, and nicknamed – by Jackie Stewart - ”The Green Hell” , the 22.810 meters long track is widely considered to be the toughest, most dangerous and most demanding purpose-built race track in the world. After months of negotiations back and forth, the German Jan Luehn is delighted to now [...]
This year will see 47 cars take the start of the Trophées Historiques 2009 at Dijon Prenois F.I.S.C. Legendary Circuits’ last event of the year, 15-18 Oct.’09, is nearly fully booked. Only nine gridslots are still available, adding up to a total of 47 cars. This is the maximum number of cars allowed to take [...]
Spa 6 Hours, Le Mans Classic, AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix … each the epitome of sporting excellence. Add to that list the Rolex Monterey Historics. Since 1974, the Rolex Monterey Historics have showcased the world’s passion for vintage racing cars and has risen to a pre-eminent place on the international motorsports calendar, held at the [...]
The Bentley Drivers Club is celebrating its 60th year of racing at Silverstone with its first ever two-day meeting, on 8-9 August 2009. Everything from Vintage Bentleys to modern-day machines will take to the track in this, the 60th anniversary of the Club’s first Silverstone race meeting – honouring a continuous run of annual BDC [...]
One of the biggest events on the Nürburgring is also one of the most traditional historic race meetings in the world. In its 37th year running, on 7-9 August 2009, the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix will assemble its usual huge number of interesting race cars spanning nine decade of motor racing. The programme shows some [...]
Derek Bell, five time Le Mans 24H winner and two time 12H Lawn Mower Race winner is to be reunited with his championship winning lawn mower 30 years after their last win. In the weekend of 1 August ’09, Derek returns to The Wisborough Green 12 Hour Lawn Mower Race at Northchapel as guest of honour [...]
