Historic Racing News

After a month’s rest from racing, there’s no better way to get back into the motoring stride than to jump straight in at the deep end, which is exactly what…

This has to be Jamie Davies. We were fierce rivals in karting in 1988 and that competitiveness only continued on and off until 2004 when we were team-mates at Le…

The Cooper-Zerex sports car’s homecoming, see page 12, marks its survival as perhaps frontline road racing’s greatest-ever ‘transformer’, having in essence run in no fewer than seven distinct configurations. The…

Historic Racing Drivers Club Lydden Hill, July 3 This year’s British Grand Prix proved to be a gripping contest, but 140 miles towards France there was an appetising alternative with…

Back in the mid-1960s I was with Motor Racing magazine and a newly-launched stablemate named Miniature Auto. Alongside my motor racing fixation I was an avid model maker, and at…

The tenth running of the Le Mans Classic finally took place after a Covid-inflicted break of four years and was most certainly bigger and better than ever before. Just look…

The British Racing Drivers' Club has suspended Nelson Piquet's honorary membership "with immediate effect" following his comments about Lewis Hamilton. The Brazilian used a term in an interview to describe…

Many underestimated the Duke of Richmond when he set up the Goodwood Festival of Speed, but few could have predicted its roaring success, writes Andrew Frankel

Since we last checked in, it's been another busy month in the Maeers stable, with races in both the UK and France – and I have two highlights in particular…

Pigged-off is probably not the most refined expression, but it adequately describes at least part of this particular bystander’s reaction to what the historic racing scene has become. I’m the…

The Eifel mountains echoed to the sounds of V12 Ferraris with the return after a three-year absence of the Nürburgring Classic. Although small scale when compared to events such as…

The recent MG Live! event at Silverstone in June featured a special celebratory race to mark the 60th anniversary of one of the brand’s most-loved models, the MGB. The MG…

The straw bales are set, the verdant lawn is manicured and that glorious British Summertime is just revving up – it's almost time for the 2022 Goodwood Festival of Speed,…

Nigel Mansell will drive his championship winning Williams FW14B at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, amongst other of his past F1 cars

Monaco’s Historic Grand Prix roared back to its best in May with packed grids, covering seven decades of single-seater racing, once more lining up on the sun-drenched Côte d’Azur. After…

One of the things about motor racing seasons is they tend to go from not much to everything at once as soon as all the big events kick in, and…

Watch now: Monaco Historic GP live stream   Historic racing is back on the glorious streets of Monte Carlo. The kerbs are freshly painted, the yachts are docked and the…