Two Weekends of History on Track, Between Goodwood and Monaco

There are weekends that go beyond the calendar — when symbolic places of motorsport answer one another across the distance, giving life to something that cannot be repeated. This is precisely the case of the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique and the Goodwood Members’ Meeting: two weekends where history does not remain still in the paddocks but returns to race.
In the Principality, it is the single-seaters that dominate. The grids of the Monaco Grand Prix Historique follow one another by era, welcoming Formula 1 cars from the very origins right up to the threshold of the 2000s. The single-seaters present are magnificent. Among them: Ferrari 312, Lotus 49 and 72, Brabham BT49, McLaren M23 and M26, and Williams FW07C — to name only a few.
On the weekend of the 25th and 26th of April, Monaco will transform itself into a living museum with the Grand Prix Historique 2026, bringing back to the track the jewels that made the history of Formula 1.
If on the track one discovers amateur drivers who drive like true professionals, the picture of the weekend is completed by a particularly rich line-up and a strong presence of personalities from the world of Formula 1 — Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris among them — as well as former drivers such as Jean Alesi, who also appears on the official entry list. This year brings yet another surprise: during the Principality’s weekend, the debut of Cavallino Classic Monaco, an original and unique Concorso d’Eleganza entirely dedicated to Ferrari Formula 1 single-seaters. The cars, hosted in the setting of the Yacht Club de Monaco, span every era of the Cavallino and will also take to the track on Saturday and Sunday between 13:10 and 13:50.
A novelty of the 2026 edition of the Grand Prix Historique is the debut of Cavallino Classic Monaco, a Concorso d’Eleganza dedicated to Ferrari Formula 1 cars, held in the splendid setting of the Yacht Club.
In England, this past weekend, the script changed but the intensity remained identical. The Goodwood Members’ Meeting recovers the original spirit of the English circuit and translates it into a programme of races where variety is the absolute protagonist — exactly as it was in British competitions of the past. The entry lists tell the story of a world in which Touring Cars, Gran Turismo, and Sports Prototypes share the stage with perfect naturalness, forming the heart of the event, while single-seaters also find their space through the famous British Formula 3 races. The 2026 edition was built entirely around the celebration of the James Hunt era, with a focus on the period 1973–1979 and the 50th anniversary of his 1976 World Championship, bringing back to the track not only the cars driven by Hunt but also those of his greatest rivals and contemporaries.
This past weekend in England, the Members’ Meeting took centre stage, where cars from every era and category battled on the legendary Goodwood circuit.
At the Goodwood Members’ Meeting, alongside icons such as the Ferrari 250 GTO, the Jaguar E-Type, and the AC Cobra, one finds cars profoundly different from one another yet perfectly at ease in the same battle. This is the case of the enormous Ford Galaxies with their V8 engines, fighting it out against the small and agile Mini Coopers — which recover in the corners what the Fords gain in straight-line speed.
Monaco and Goodwood: two complementary souls that have set the month of April alight, bringing back to the track the cars that made the history of motorsport.
Spectacular, the crowd — dressed as in the 1960s and ’70s — which makes attending the Goodwood Members’ Meeting a true plunge into the vintage past.