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Outside Race Retro with Jonathan Sharp

March 4, 2014 By pete

Story and photos by Jonathan Sharp

The view from a muddy field, the Live Rally stage at Race Retro

Race Retro is not just a show of static racing cars. (Read Roy P. Smith’s report of the show inside). A key element of the show is the live Rally stage in which various Rallying greats are demo’d enthusiastically by their passionate owners. The highlights on the stage this year for VeloceToday readers had to have been the Lancia Delta S4, a Ferrari 308 GTB Michelotto, a pair of Renault 5 Turbos and an Alpine 110. [Read more…] about Outside Race Retro with Jonathan Sharp

Inside Race Retro with Roy P. Smith

March 4, 2014 By pete

Stunning Sprint Speciale at Race Retro.

Story and photos by Roy Smith

Roy P. Smith takes a look at Race Retro’s Inside Offerings

29,000 visitors were greeted by James Hunt’s McLaren M23 Formula One car on arrival to this year’s Race Retro before heading towards the popular ‘Speed Street’, passing a superb line-up of McLarens on the way including the centerpiece of the 50th anniversary celebrations – Emerson Fittipaldi’s 1974 double championship winning M23. [Read more…] about Inside Race Retro with Roy P. Smith

Race Retro 2013

February 28, 2013 By pete

Team Vialle Alpine 110B Rallycross car was the most successful A110 in the FIA European Rally Cross championship.

Story and Photos by Jonathan Sharp unless otherwise noted.

The annual Race Retro show, now in its 10th year at Stoneleigh in Warwickshire, has always been considered to be a harbinger of the arrival of spring and the start of the new season of historic car racing in the U.K. This year spring had certainly been put on hold for the weekend. It was cold; the wind chill had been described by somebody more eloquent than me as being stiletto sharp, but the fun went on regardless.
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