by Sarah Bennett-Baggs | May 8, 2015 | News, Pit Lane News
Whitley, Coventry – 5 May, 2015: Martin O’Connell and Andrew Kirkaldy driving a Jaguar E-type have took the chequered flag at the inaugural race of the Jaguar Heritage Challenge at the Donington Historic Festival. In what proved to be one of the most closely fought...
by Sarah Bennett-Baggs | Apr 7, 2015 | News, Pit Lane News
A superb weekend of racing at Thruxton got the 2015 racing season for the Historic Sports Car Club off to a flying start over the Easter weekend (4/5 April). Headlining the action was the stunning spectacle of the Hesketh 308E Grand Prix car of Michael Lyons taking a...
by Sarah Bennett-Baggs | Mar 30, 2015 | News, Pit Lane News
A total of 250 entries for a 17-race programme will get the 2015 season from the Historic Sports Car Club underway in style at the third Thruxton Easter Revival (Saturday/Sunday 4/5 April). Once again the annual HSCC visit to the Hampshire track has attracted one of...
by Sarah Bennett-Baggs | Dec 18, 2014 | Pit Lane News
Brian Lister, who died aged 88 on December 16th, was one of Britain’s greatest unsung racing car builders. From its inception in 1954, Lister quickly became a benchmark for the front-engined sports racing car. The Lister ‘Knobbly’, as it was known, had few...
by Sarah Bennett-Baggs | Oct 23, 2014 | Pit Lane News
The 2014 Classic Endurance Racing season closed with its fifth and final round at the Algarve Historic Festival at the Portimao circuit, the races part of the Algarve Historic Festival, with Chevron being the marque to beat. With over forty prototype and GT cars...
by Sarah Bennett-Baggs | Oct 7, 2014 | Events, News, Pit Lane News
Photos: P Korkus : pkphotomedia@btinternet.com Glorious October weather, fabulous cars, some cracking racing and a lovely period atmosphere, all came together to make the ‘Autumn Classic’ a day on Sunday. The locally made Bristol cars made the biggest impact, both...