Historic Racing
55 cars for Classic Endurance Racing at HTTT
The 2010 Classic Endurance Racing season will be a little bit different than it was in recent years. Unlike the previous season the historic sportscars will not race at all the Le Mans Series events but only at Paul Ricard HTTT, Spa-Francorchamps and Silverstone. Two other rounds will be held at Monza in June and again at Paul Ricard in October. Fifty-five cars are on the provisional entry list for the opening round.[…]
Didier Miquee passed away…
Sad news from France today where Classic Endurance Racing competitor Didier Miquee passed away after he suffered a heart attack while racing a Debora at the LM Story event taking place this weekend at Le Mans.[…]
Classic Endurance Racing - Luco wins at Barcelona
The Classic Endurance Racing season opener at the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona, Spain had over 40 cars taking part. Highlights of the first weekend were a Porsche 935 ‘Moby Dick’, a Sauber C5, the Ferrari’s 712 and 512 BBLM as well as the regular Porsche 936.[…]
Classic Endurance Racing 2009 plans!
The Classic Endurance Racing 2009 calendar has arrived! The most famous European Historic series will open, as during the last years,the Le Mans Series meetings.
This fifth season main novelty is a third round on the recently launched Algarve racetrack, in the South of Portugal. This appointment, under the sign of modernity and technology for the […]
Classic Endurance Racing - Silverstone Report
The final round of the 2008 Classic Endurance Racing season took place at the Silverstone circuit. Corentine Quiniou went into the final round as the leader of the series, ahead of her father Michel. Michel would only have one chance of beating his daught; taking a win himself and hoping his daughter would not score (m)any points.[…]
RIP Phil Hill (20-04-1927 - 28-08-2008)
A true American racing legend passed away today. Phil Hill, a former Formula 1 world champion and three times Le Mans 24 Hours winner, died in a hospital in Salinas, California. Hill had Parkinson’s Disease and was taken to hospital after making a visit to the Rolex Monterey Historic Automobile Races.[…]
Classic Endurance Racing - Nürburgring Report
The penultimate round of the 2008 Classic Endurance Racing series took place at the Nürburgring, supporting the ‘ADAC 1000KM Rennen’. 41 cars started the weekend, with several new additions in the field. Eventually 37 cars were seen in the race. One of the highlights was the Porsche 908 that was entered for Sascha Maassen.[…]
Le Mans Classic - Grid 6
The most “recent” period at Le Mans Classic with a limit of 1979 for the newest car reflected again the changes after the golden age of prototypes. The evolution would go on for the 3 and 2 liter classes with Chevron, Lola and other smaller constructors trying to match Matra first and Porsche later. The GTs would also follow suit and some supercars of the time like the Ferrari 512, Porsche 935 and the BMW M1 would also get numerous entries at La Sarthe[…]
Le Mans Classic - Grid 5
It was a golden era for many, the time of Ford, Ferrari and Porsche battling it at the highest level. Legendary cars like the GT40, the 917 or the 330P3 and 4 raised the bar very very high…so high that the rules had to be changed drastically for 1972 leaving the 1966-1971 as a unique, unforgettable period at Le Mans. Maiden overall victories for Ford and Porsche and the twilight of Ferrari at Le Mans mark a very emotional period of Endurance racing[…]
Le Mans Classic - Grid 4
The period covered by grid 4 (1962-65) was all Ferrari at Le Mans, but towards the end it was clear that Ford would be a serious challenge for the Maranello machines. The main entries were still GTs but some of the factories were already making the transition to prototypes, the Porsche 904 or the breathtaking ISO Bizzarrini being very good examples of this[…]
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