Grand Prix of Historic Vehicles in 2024
Organizers Grand Prix of Historic Vehicles represent the form of this year's series. There are five events in this year's calendar - regularity races for sports and racing cars up to the year of manufacture 1965. All of them continue the long-standing traditions of motorcycle and car racing. The goal of the series is to showcase historic racing techniques and honor the legends of the sport.
The first event of the series is Sosnova Classic, which will take place on the weekend of 18 to 19 May 2024.
"The Sosnová Classic continues the more than 120-year history of racing in Českolipsk. Lovers of historic racing machines of all categories will enjoy themselves, we expect more than two hundred participants. The plan also includes a celebration of the 50th birthday of the Škoda 200 RS, club meetings of Fiat and Škoda 1000 MB cars, and exhibitions on the history of Mercedes and Tatra cars" says Pavel Dušánek, head of Driving Camp Autodrom Sosnová.
The next event in the calendar is July Brno Grand Prix Revival. "After the successful Revival in 2014 at the Masaryk Circuit, we held other editions at the Brno Exhibition Center. This year, we are returning to the Masaryk Circuit on the 13th and 14th with the historic motorsport festival. 7. 2024. We will welcome here the best of the world series of historical time trials not only from Europe but also from the Czech Republic. We are also looking forward to the participants of this year's GPHV" said Kateřina Kupková, manager of this year's Brno Grand Prix Revival.
August Bugatti Grand Prix has already firmly secured a place in the Barum Czech Rally Zlín.
Ladislav Samohýl, organizer of the event and a great lover of historic cars, added to the event: "The Zlín Bugattky are indirectly linked to racing in our town in the 1930s, especially the Zlín Eight. Our urban circuit is known for its frequent change of track surfaces. The Bugatti Grand Prix is watched by several tens of thousands of spectators every year when it opens the Barum rally.” The date of the event is 8/16/2024.
At the beginning of September, the legendary first Saturday of school is regularly held Zbraslav–Jíloviště. "Zbraslav experienced its greatest prosperity in the 1930s, when the race was included in the European Championship series and tens of thousands of spectators came to watch the fights between the "King of the Hills" Hans Stuck and Rudi Caracciola. In 1930, even a hundred thousand of them arrived - on bicycles, on foot, by car, by train and by steamboat. This is what motivates us to prepare this year's regularity rides for the Eliška Junková Cup. It is already the fifty-seventh time in modern history" says Markéta Profeldová, director of the event.
The last venture of the series will be a ride to the hill of historic vehicles at the end of September Brno–Soběšice. Company director Karel Kupka stated: "International races started in Brno exactly 100 years ago on the track in Soběšice. The race hosted a number of important drivers and was later followed by the Masaryk Circuit. We are proud of this year's anniversary, but also of fifty years of organizing commemorative rides by our Veterán Automoto Club Brno. I can reveal that we are planning big celebrations in this anniversary year.'' The date of the event is 9/28/2024.
Organizers Grand Prix of Historic Vehicles at the end of the year, they planned to announce the overall results of the series and hand over the traveling GPHV cup.
Race calendar:
Sosnová Classic 18.–19. 5. 2024
www.sosnova-classic.cz
Brno Grand Prix Revival 13.–14. 7. 2024
www.brnogp.cz
Grand Prix Bugatti Zlín 16 August 2024
www.bugattigp.cz
Zbraslav–Jíloviště 7 September 2024
www.zbraslav-jiloviste.cz
Brno–Soběšice 28 September 2024
www.veteranbrno.cz
Miroslav Krejsa
president of the championship
phone +420 602 404 863
https://gphv.cz/
