Category: Classic Cars

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    Historic Touring Car Legends vs. MRL HTC: Clash of the Classic Racing Series

    On 21 May 2024, the Historic Sports Car Club announced that interest was building for its “Touring Car Legends” series. The first event will be 8 & 9 June at Donington Park. The series caters for Group 2 and Group A machinery, so it should see wide arched Escorts, RS…

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    GT3 Cars Homologated 2006-2012 to Compete in New MRL Series

    Motor Racing Legends is expanding its historic racing series by introducing the GT3 category for cars homologated between 2006 and 2012, with specifications allowed up to 2015. The first race will be at Silverstone in October 2024. The move is seen as meeting the necessary “historic” criteria, and familiar vehicles…

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    Donington Historic Festival 04/05 May 2024 (with thanks to the XJS Club)

    Thursday 2nd May dawned with an e mail from Motor Racing Legends (MRL) informing us that it had been acquired by Aythorpe Promotions Limited (APL). APL is led by prominent historic racer Shaun Lynn. I have had the pleasure of racing with the MRL organisation between 2014 and 2021 in…

  • An Americano With an Extra Shot Please……..

    …….. was the answer I gave to the lady on the coffee kiosk at the Bicester Scramble on Sunday morning. It was cold so I chose the Americano rather than my usual Double Espresso. What has coffee got to do with anything you ask? Well it seems a number of…

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    The Right Crowd and No Crowding

    The Goodwood Road Racing Club 81st Member’s Meeting The modern version of the annual Goodwood Member’s Meeting started in 2014 with the 72nd version. Significantly and only for The Member’s Meeting, the age limit for cars racing on the circuit is increased to 1982, in order to permit the Group…

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    Diversity Makes The Difference

    The standard Volkswagon Polo of 2015 vintage weighs in at 1242Kg. So, why not stick a 428 Bhp power unit into one and have some fun? That’s exactly what this bloke did. I can’t begin to imagine the torque steer generated by such massive power, but fair play to anyone…

  • Goodwood does MG

    You like motorsport and you are reasonably well off but you’re not a milionaire. You like the idea of racing but you don’t have a car. You’ve looked at historics and note that there are loads of Cobra’s, GT40s, E Types and Elans, but amongst all of them, there’s an…

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    When Sunday Comes

    Well, the first Sunday in the month that is. This day is set aside for the Car Collective’s Leighton Buzzard Cars and Coffee morning at Jackson and Phillips’ garage in Leighton Buzzard. Always a good turn out of diverse cars and this meeting was no exception. There was the young…

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    Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024

    In the late Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a super computer known as “Deep Thought” takes eons to work out the answer to life, the universe and everything. In fact it takes so long to calculate that the computer forgets the question. I suspect Douglas based…

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    Shark Nosed Corvettes

    Shark Nosed Corvettes

    I’ve been looking through some of my photographs from 2023 and inside the file for Pistons and Props at Sywell, I found one which I think, shows off the Corvette C3 in all its curvy glory. Designed by Larry Shinoda who was directed by Billy Mitchell, they’re not a car I’ve…