Historic Racing
Group C Racing – Le Mans Report
The second race weekend of the 2008 Group C Racing Series took place at Le Mans during the 76th Le Mans 24 Hours week. Thirty-three Group C cars were gathered together at the French track in their first appearance since 2004. Two 30-minute qualifying sessions and a 10 lap race on Saturday morning were scheduled for this weekend[...]
Victorious Aston Martin to appear at Goodwood
The Aston Martin Racing DBR9 which triumphed at the Le Mans 24 Hour endurance race – for the second consecutive year – is set to appear before British fans at the Goodwood Festival of Speed over July 12-13. In a repeat of the 2007 victory, the 009 car – this time resplendent in the iconic Gulf livery – took the GT1 class victory at Le Mans, driven by David Brabham, Antonio Garcia and Darren Turner after one of the closest GT1 battles in Le Mans history[...]
Jan Lammers back in his winning Jaguar
Jaguar will commemorate the 20th anniversary of its historic 1988 Le Mans win by returning the race winning Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-9LM which will lead a special parade lap ahead of this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours Race on Saturday, June 14.[...]
Group C Racing – Spa-Francorchamps Report
The Group C Racing Series had its first two races of the 2008 season at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend. On the 7 kilometer long circuit one 45-minute free practice session and a 40-minute qualifying session were followed by two races. On Saturday afternoon a 30-minute sprintrace took place followed by a 90-minute enduro race on Sunday afternoon.[...]
Classic Endurance Racing – Spa-Francorchamps Report
Round three of the Classic Endurance Racing series brought the historic cars to an historic track, the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. Like in Monza the sun was out all weekend as thirty-four cars took to the track. As the race started on Saturday afternoon there were thirty-two of them taking the start.[...]
Classic Endurance Racing – Monza Report
The Autodromo Nazionale Monza hosted the second round of the Classic Endurance Racing series last weekend. No less than 46 classic cars were entered for the CER round on the historic Italian track, several cars returning to the circuit on which they raced in the seventies.[...]
Classic Endurance Racing – Barcelona race
Probably many of our readers are already familiar with one of the top attractions at LMS weekends: CER (Classic Endurance Racing). A very attractive grid of over 35 cars (with peaks of 50 or more) are gathered every Friday and Saturday at the LMS weekends with practice, qualifying and a 1-hour race[...]
From Apex Motorsport on Richard Lloyd, David Leslie and Chris Allarton
STATEMENT FROM HARRY HANDKAMMER ON BEHALF OF APEX MOTORSPORT The loss of Richard Lloyd, David Leslie and Chris Allarton in an air crash on Sunday, 30th March has reverberated throughout British motorsport, and those shock waves have obviously been felt most deeply by not only their families, but also by all of us within Apex [...]
David Leslie and Richard Lloyd killed in plane accident
A tragic plane accident took the lives of 5 people outside of Kent in the UK today. Among the deceased were ex-drivers David Leslie and Richard Lloyd who were on their way to Nogaro for the FIA GT3 equalisation test where they were running the Team Apex Jaguar. David Leslie had a strong driver career [...]
RIP Paul Frère (30-01-1917 – 23-02-2008)
Sad news this weekend from Belgium where it was announced that former racing driver and journalist Paul Frère passed away at the age of 91. Despite his age Frère was still a welcome guest at several circuits and was seen at multiple events last season. [...]
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