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IMPORTANT: Changes to the FIA Sporting Code IMPORTANT: Changes to the FIA Sporting Code
 IMPORTANTChanges to the FIA International Sporting Code1.4 – COMPETITOR ELIGIBILITY.  Changes to Article 18 of the FIA International Sporting Code over the winter means that all drivers, when c ......
Motor Racing Legends Awards 2011 Motor Racing Legends Awards 2011
Motor Racing Legends Awards 2011 – The Winners A glittering array of both trophies and motorsport stars, including Sir Stirling and Lady Moss, set the tone of the annual Motor Racing Legends Awards D ......
2012 Calendar published 2012 Calendar published
Motor Racing Legends 2012 CalendarThe Motor Racing Legends race calendar for the 2012 season has now been published.There is another full season of racing in prospect for the year starting, of course, with the ......
JD Classics Challenge in the Algarve JD Classics Challenge in the Algarve
JD Classics Challenge at the Algarve, 22 October 2011 The second ever round of the JD Classics Challenge, run by Motor Racing Legends, saw 18 historic Touring Cars from the 1972-85 era (Groups 1, 2 an ......
Pre-War Sports Cars in the Algarve 2011 Pre-War Sports Cars in the Algarve 2011
Pre-War Sports Cars at the Algarve, 22 & 23 October 2011 The Motor Racing Legends Pre-War Sports Cars race at the Algarve Historic Festival came in two halves: 30 minutes on Saturday, an ......
Group C Cars at Le Mans in 2012 Group C Cars at Le Mans in 2012
Group C Cars at Le Mans in 2012 On the Saturday of the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours (16th June 2012), the magnificent cars of the Group C era will be vying for race honours in the annual historic support rac ......
RAC Woodcote Trophy at Spa 2011 RAC Woodcote Trophy at Spa 2011
Woodcote Trophy at Spa, 24th September 2011  Saturday’s Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy race at Spa was won from pole by the white D-type of Carlos Monteverde and Gary Pearson, although th ......
Woodcote Trophy at the Oulton Park Gold Cup Woodcote Trophy at the Oulton Park Gold Cup
Woodcote Trophy at the Oulton Park Gold Cup Although John Ure and Patrick Blakeney-Edwards dominated Monday’s Royal Automobile Woodcote Trophy race at the Oulton Park Gold Cup with their Cooper T24/2 ......
Woodcote Trophy at the Silverstone Classic 2011 Woodcote Trophy at the Silverstone Classic 2011
Woodcote Trophy at the Silverstone Classic The outright winner of the Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy race at the Silverstone Classic was never in doubt, after Gary Pearson and Carlos Monteverde post ......
Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy at Dijon Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy at Dijon
Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy at Dijon  The major rainstorms which hit Dijon earlier in the week had turned to hot summer weather by the Saturday of the Grand Prix de l’Age d’Or, i ......
Le Mans Legend 2011 Le Mans Legend 2011
Le Mans Legend 2011 As 10 o’clock approached on the Saturday morning of the 2011 Le Mans 24 Hours, any spectator who merely expected to see a gentle parade of fabulous old cars in the Le Mans Legend ......
Donington Historic Festival 2011 Donington Historic Festival 2011
Donington Historic Festival, 30 April to 1 May 2011Motor Racing Legends ran races from all four of its series at the first ever Donington Historic Festival on 30 April and 1 May – a spectacularly successf ......
Mad Jack at the Donington Historic Festival Mad Jack at the Donington Historic Festival
                                                   supported by  'Mad ......
JD Classics Challenge Adds 1972-76 Touring Cars to the Action JD Classics Challenge Adds 1972-76 Touring Cars to the Action
JD Classics Challenge Adds 1972-76 Touring Cars to the Action   Following the enthusiastic response from racers to the launch of the JD Classics Challenge, the new Historic race series for Groups ......
Motor Racing Legends 2010 Awards Dinner Motor Racing Legends 2010 Awards Dinner
Motor Racing Legends 2010 Awards Dinner  Wednesday 26th January 2011 saw over 200 guests flock to the Royal Automobile Club for the annual Motor Racing Legends Awards Dinner. Among them were Sir Stirl ......
Brand New Race Series: Touring Cars 1977-1985 Brand New Race Series: Touring Cars 1977-1985
Brand New Race Series: Touring Cars 1977-1985  Motor Racing Legends has launched an all-new race series for Groups 1 and 2, and Group A Touring Cars, such as raced in the British and European Touring ......
Pre-War Sports Cars at the Algarve 2010 Pre-War Sports Cars at the Algarve 2010
Pre-War Cars at the Algarve AutodromeAlgarve Historic Festival, 16 October 2010 It looks like a misprint but it’s not: in the Motor Racing Legends Pre-War race at the Algarve, first and second places ......
Woodcote Trophy at Spa Woodcote Trophy at Spa
Woodcote Trophy at SpaSpa Six Hours Meeting, 26 September 2010  In heavy rain, with an oil slick right round the circuit left by an earlier race, the Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy was a slippe ......
Woodcote Trophy: Silverstone Classic 2010 Woodcote Trophy: Silverstone Classic 2010
Silverstone Classic 2010: Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy  Sir Stirling Moss, in his first race since breaking both ankles in a fall down his lift shaft earlier this year, made a glorious comeba ......
Group C Race at Le Mans 24 Hours Weekend Group C Race at Le Mans 24 Hours Weekend
Group C Race at Le Mans 24 Hours Weekend  Report supplied by Group C Racing – The Le Mans weather proved unpredictable in 2010, with random showers, lots of cloud and intermittent bouts of fabul ......
Woodcote Trophy at Dijon Woodcote Trophy at Dijon
Woodcote Trophy at DijonGrand Prix de l'Age d'Or, Dijon 19 June 2010  The Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy race at Dijon saw a stunning grid of exceptional quality tackling very damp conditions & ......
Pre-War Cars at Dijon Pre-War Cars at Dijon
  Pre-War Cars at DijonGrand Prix de l'Age d'Or, Dijon 20 June 2010   Race day dawned cold and damp; hardly the sort of weather expected for Dijon in June. But at least the one-hour Mot ......
Early post-War cars join pre-War racers Early post-War cars join pre-War racers
 Early Post-War Cars Join Pre-War Racers HSCC Silverstone 16 May 2010 The Motor Racing Legends Pre-War Sports Car Series race at the HSCC International meeting on the Silverstone Grand Prix circu ......
New for 2010: Blakeney Motorsport Trophy New for 2010: Blakeney Motorsport Trophy
 New for 2010: Blakeney Motorsport TrophyWe seem to be seeing more and more family members pairing up for our two-driver races, especially ‘two-generation’ entries – father and son, fathe ......
Motor Racing Legends 2010 Race Calendar Motor Racing Legends 2010 Race Calendar
Motor Racing Legends 2010 Race CalendarThe full 2010 race calendar for each of the three series run by Motor Racing Legends (plus the Le Mans 24 Hours support race) has now been confirmed. Major festivals in th ......
Motor Racing Legends 2009 Awards Dinner Motor Racing Legends 2009 Awards Dinner
Motor Racing Legends 2009 Awards DinnerThe Motor Racing Legends Awards Dinner saw the magnificent Mountbatten Room at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall packed to capacity on 27 January 2010, with ......
Group C Cars to Race Again at Le Mans in 2010 Group C Cars to Race Again at Le Mans in 2010
Group C Cars to Race Again at Le Mans in 2010 The support race at next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours (12-13 June 2010) will be for cars from the Group C era – hence the crowds will see such icon ......
The Algarve Historic Festival 2009 The Algarve Historic Festival 2009
Pre-War Sports Cars at the Algarve Historic Festival Talk about David and Goliath. The first half of the Motor Racing Legends Pre-War Sports Cars race on the fantastic, undulating Algarve race circuit was ......
Algarve Entries Algarve Entries
Algarve Entries Provisional entry lists for our two races at the Algarve Historic Festival, 16-18 October, have now been published. Among the cars entered for the two-hour, two-driver Sir Stirling Moss Tro ......
Woodcote Trophy at Spa: Day of the D-types Woodcote Trophy at Spa: Day of the D-types
Woodcote Trophy at Spa: Day of the D-types As ever, the Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy race saw a fantastic turnout of pre-1956 sportscars, with 40 starters ranging from Jaguar D-type and C-type, th ......
Pre-War Race at Spa – from Bugattis to Three-Wheeler Morgan Pre-War Race at Spa – from Bugattis to Three-Wheeler Morgan
Pre-War Race at Spa - from Bugattis to Three-Wheeler Morgan Such was the variety in pre-War machinery competing in the one-hour Motor Racing Legends Pre-War Sports Cars race at Spa on 27 September, that th ......
Algarve Attractions: Tours and Leisure Activities Algarve Attractions: Tours and Leisure Activities
Algarve Attractions: Tours and Leisure Activities The forthcoming Algarve Historic Festival, 15 - 17 October, has been the talk of the paddock at recent race meetings – and not just because of t ......
VSCC SeeRed, Donington: DNS for Woodcote Trophy Pole Car VSCC SeeRed, Donington: DNS for Woodcote Trophy Pole Car
VSCC SeeRed, Donington: ‘DNS’ for Woodcote Trophy Pole CarEven before the start, the pole-setting car was out of the race. In qualifying for the Woodcote Trophy race at Donington, Spencer Marsh&rsqu ......
VSCC SeeRed Donington: Pre-War Race Into the Dark VSCC SeeRed Donington: Pre-War Race Into the Dark
VSCC SeeRed Donington: Pre-War Race Into the Dark This was the last race on the Saturday of the VSCC SeeRed meeting at Donington, with just one more day to go before the race circuit would close, to be dug ......
Three Races at SeeRed, Donington Three Races at SeeRed, Donington
Three Races at SeeRed, DoningtonMotor Racing Legends is running three races at the VSCC SeeRed meeting at Donington on 5-6 September, with full grids of genuine historic sports cars in all three.Pre-War Sports ......
Silverstone Classic: Woodcote Trophy Sees Drama from the Outset Silverstone Classic: Woodcote Trophy Sees Drama from the Outset
Silverstone Classic: Woodcote Trophy Sees Drama from the OutsetThe drama started early in the Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy, when the pole-sitting Jaguar D-type of Peter Neumark blew its engine on the s ......
Silverstone Classic: BRDC 500 for Pre-War Sportscars Silverstone Classic: BRDC 500 for Pre-War Sportscars
Silverstone Classic: BRDC 500 for Pre-War SportscarsThe Pre-War race was won from pole by Gareth Burnett’s Alta Sports, who had stretched out a lead of 1min 33sec on the second-placed Frazer Nash Super Sp ......
Sir Stirling Moss Trophy Race at the Algarve Sir Stirling Moss Trophy Race at the Algarve
Sir Stirling Moss Trophy Race at the AlgarveThe brand-new ‘Autódromo Internacional do Algarve’ race circuit, finished late last year and now in its first full year of use, will play host to a ......
Silverstone Classic: Star Entries Include Sir Stirling Moss and Chris Rea Silverstone Classic: Star Entries Include Sir Stirling Moss and Chris Rea
Silverstone Classic: Star Entries Include Sir Stirling Moss and Chris ReaA fantastically diverse grid of sportscars – plus some very famous names behind the wheels – is promised in all three races o ......
Le Mans Legend 2009: Ferrari versus Lister right down to the line Le Mans Legend 2009: Ferrari versus Lister right down to the line
Le Mans Legend 2009: Ferrari versus Lister right down to the line 13th June 2009 – Le Mans cars from 1949 to 1965 provided spectacular entertainment for the crowds, as Ferraris and Jaguars, Porsches and ......
Historic support race at Le Mans 24 Hours massively oversubscribed Historic support race at Le Mans 24 Hours massively oversubscribed
Le Mans Legend – historic support race at Le Mans 24 Hours massively oversubscribedThe Le Mans Legend historic race on 13th June, which this year is for Le Mans-type race cars from 1949 to 1965, has been inun ......
Allan McNish Returns to Motor Racing Legends Dinner Allan McNish Returns to Motor Racing Legends Dinner
Latest NewsAllan McNish Returns to Motor Racing Legends DinnerIssued 16th February 2009 The Motor Racing Legends Annual Dinner, on Friday 13th February at the Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall, saw the return ......
Stirling at Silverstone Stirling at Silverstone
Stirling at SilverstoneSir Stirling Moss was among the star guests at the Official Media Launch of the Silverstone Classic on 30th April, giving passenger rides in the famous 1952 Jaguar C-type which, in period ......
RAC Woodcote Trophy RAC Woodcote Trophy
Latest NewsSurprise Winners in Annual AwardsOn Wednesday 12th November, Motor Racing Legends held its annual Awards Dinner at the Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Park clubhouse, to announce the overall a ......
Motor Racing Legend News Motor Racing Legend News
Surprise Winners in Annual AwardsStirling at Silverstone ......
2009 Le Mans Legend Eligible Years 2009 Le Mans Legend Eligible Years
Entries/results     Gallery2009 Le Mans Legend Eligible Years: 1949 to 1965Issued 5th January 2009The eligible years for the 2009 Le Mans Legend, the historic support race organised by Motor ......
Group C fever grips Le Mans Group C fever grips Le Mans
Entries/results     Gallery Group C fever grips Le MansIssued 23th June 2008 After an absence of many years, Group C sportscars came back to Le Mans and they did so in style. Providing the s ......
Group C Historic Support Race, Le Mans Group C Historic Support Race, Le Mans
Entries/results     GalleryGroup C Historic Support Race, Le MansIssued 20th May 2008The entry list for this year’s Group C historic support race at Le Mans, presented by Motor Racing Lege ......
At Spa: Bell Pips Bugatti on Last Lap At Spa: Bell Pips Bugatti on Last Lap
Entries/results     GalleryPre-War Sports Cars at Spa: Bell Pips Bugatti on Last LapIssued 30th September 2008Mike Preston's Bugatti 35B led the one-hour Pre-War Sports Cars race right up un ......
Never Say Die: Gillett's Pre-War Battle Never Say Die: Gillett's Pre-War Battle
Entries/results    Gallery Never Say Die: Gillett’s Pre-War BattleIssued 30th July 2008 At the rolling start of the BRDC 500 for Pre-War Sports Cars, poleman Simon Hope efficiently got the jump ......
Donington: David and Goliath Battle in Pre-War Sports Donington: David and Goliath Battle in Pre-War Sports
Entries/results     Gallery Donington: David and Goliath Battle in Pre-War Sports CarsIssued 2nd June 2008 Twenty-five pre-War sports cars took to the grid for the first Motor Racing Pre-War ......
Pre war Sports cars -  Stirling at Silverstone Pre war Sports cars - Stirling at Silverstone
Entries/results     Gallery Stirling at Silverstone Issued 6th May 2008 Sir Stirling Moss was among the star guests at the Official Media Launch of the Silverstone Classic on 30th April, giv ......
Stirling at Silverstone Stirling at Silverstone
Entries/results     GalleryStirling at Silverstoneissued 6th May 2008Sir Stirling Moss was among the star guests at the Official Media Launch of the Silverstone Classic on 30th April, giving ......
Stirling at Silverstone Stirling at Silverstone
Entries/results     GalleryStirling at Silverstoneissued 6th may 2008Sir Stirling Moss was among the star guests at the Official Media Launch of the Silverstone Classic on 30th April, giving ......
Woodcote Trophy: Wet and Dry at Monza Woodcote Trophy: Wet and Dry at Monza
Entries/results     GalleryWoodcote Trophy: Wet and Dry at Monzaissued 23rd June 2008 The opening Woodcote Trophy race for 2008 at Monza was shaped by the weather: dry in practice and v ......
Woodcote Trophy at Spa: Stirling Takes Class Win Woodcote Trophy at Spa: Stirling Takes Class Win
Entries/results   GalleryWoodcote Trophy at Spa: Stirling Takes Class Winissued 30th September 2008 From the start, the battle for overall honours in the one-hour Woodcote Trophy race at Spa was betwe ......
Surprise Winners in Annual Awards Surprise Winners in Annual Awards
Latest NewsSurprise Winners in Annual AwardsOn Wednesday 12th November, Motor Racing Legends held its annual Awards Dinner at the Royal Automobile Club’s Woodcote Park clubhouse, to announce the overall and c ......