The Historic Grand Prix Car Association, the GT & Sports Car Cup and the Formula Juniors – with a fair bit of 1000cc F3 screamers thrown into the mix – joined Masters Historic Racing’s four grids to end all their 2022 seasons under the Portuguese sun for another edition of the Algarve Classic Festival. This time, there was much less of a mess compared to last year when things went awry during the course of the weekend, and with 2021’s rain swapped for dry and mostly sunny conditions in 2022, all was well at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve.

The Dutch came to the Spa Six Hours with just six cars, yet four of those took podium positions, one of which was the big one – first place in the 2022 Spa Six Hours, the biggest historic endurance race of the season that with an entry of 90 cars was almost back to its pre-multi-crisis form. The memory of David Hart taking the win in René Herzog's Shelby Mustang GT350 was almost gone when his son crossed the finish line in first, the GT40 shared with Dad and Nicky Pastorelli a full lap ahead of the competition.

On its fresh late-August bank holiday date, The Classic proved to be a success with both fans and competitors, partly helped by three days of glorious sunshine and entry lists usually overflowing with cars. The racing was extremely good too, several races offering thrills all the way down to the finish line.