Alfaholics News

Alfaholics Crowned 2024 Peter Auto Champions

2024 has been a highly successful race season for Alfaholics! Peter Auto’s inaugural “Classic Touring Car Championship” saw Alfaholics go head to head with some of the biggest names in European historic racing

BBC Top Gear – Alfaholics GTA-R 290 vs Ferrari Roma

Watch our GTA-R 290 go head to head with the new Ferrari Roma as Chris Harris takes on Paddy McGuinness in the latest Top Gear challenge Watch on iPlayer

Alfaholics Win U2TC Outright at Donington Historic Festival 2019!

5 victories for Alfaholics in the past 6 years at the Donington Historic Festival! Grid numbers might have been down for Donington this year, but the competition was no less fierce with British Touring Car champion Andrew Jordan trying his hand in the series driving a JRT prepared Cortina, alongside the sister car of Ambrogio […]

Alfaholics Race Report – Spa-Francorchamps 2018

Having won with the GTA at Spa in 2017 and with the McLaren M6B proving to be super-competitive in the Masters Historic Sports Car Championship, we went to Spa hopeful of victory with both cars. After free practice on Thursday everything looked good and, come qualifying on Friday, things only got better. Andrew went out […]

Alfaholics Finish on the Podium at Silverstone Classic 2018

For our second race of the year, we headed to Silverstone for the world’s biggest historic race meeting. Knowing how fierce the U2TC competition always is at Silverstone, we scheduled a couple of test sessions prior to the event in order to do some more chassis setup work and try to eek out some extra […]

Alfaholics Finish on the Podium at Donington Historic Festival 2018

Have been so dominant in 2017 and winning the U2TC Championship, our GTA was firmly in the crosshairs of the top Cortina drivers as the 2018 season approached. Steve Soper had built another new car, while others had carried out development work over the winter. We knew that there was no room for complacency and […]

Alfaholics track day 2018 through the eyes of an intern…

…as experienced by Lukas Duyck. Get a good night’s sleep they said, we’re leaving at 6:30. It turned out not to be that difficult, knowing that I’d be fully woken up in Andrew’s TI Super-R on the way to Castle Combe. Despite being England, it wasn’t even raining but a beautiful sunny day! We arrived […]

Alfaholics Win U2TC Championship 2017

We are proud to announce that we have won the U2TC Championship for FIA specification pre-1966 Touring Cars! For the last race of the season, we embarked on the long drive to Portugal to the wonderful Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, near Portimao. Having won all 4 of the U2TC races we had entered this year, […]

Alfaholics take double victory at U2TC Spa-Francorchamps 2017

A wet qualifying session saw us line up on the front row of the grid next to Steve Soper’s Team Dynamics run Lotus Cortina for race 1. Andrew got a typically excellent start and battled hard with Steve for the first 20 minutes regularly changing places until we finally managed to build a 2 second […]

Alfaholics Win U2TC Outright At Donington Park Historic Festival 2017

Having won this race for the last 3 years in a row, there was a certain degree of expectation amongst followers of the series that we would win again this year. However, we knew that nothing could be taken for granted as the Cortinas had been undergoing some intense development over the winter. Of particular […]

Alfaholics Podium Finish in Masters Pre-66 Race @ Spa-Francorchamps 2016

For our last race of the season we headed to Spa-Francorchamps, deep in the Belgian Ardennes forest. This time we chose to run with Masters, which would put our GTA wheel to wheel with the big American V8s, namely the Ford Mustangs and Falcons, as well as the usual array of Cortinas. Qualifying proved to […]

Alfaholics Finish on U2TC Podium at Silverstone Classic 2016

For our third race of the year, we returned to the sensational annual Silverstone Classic – the world’s largest historic race meeting with packed grids and plenty of action all weekend. The racing is always fierce at the Classic as some of the big names come to fight it out in what is recognised to […]

Alfaholics Win U2TC Outright @ Donington Historic Festival 2016

After a fierce battle at our season opener at Goodwood, next stop was the highly acclaimed Donington Historic Festival which is always a fun event. Having finished on the podium 4 years in a row and having won the race outright for the past 2 years, there was much expectation for us to complete the […]

Alfaholics 1600 GTA Races at Goodwood Members Meeting 2016

An invitation to race at the 74th Goodwood Members’ Meeting was a fantastic opportunity to kick off our 2016 race season. Now in its third year and proving to be a huge success, the Members’ Meeting was conceived by Lord March to recreate the wonderful atmosphere of the original BARC Members’ Meetings of the 1950s […]

Evo Track Car of the Year – Which car takes the crown?

Charles Morgan’s Classics – Carfection

Charles Morgan looks at the Alfaholics GTA-R 270, a re-imagining of the Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint.

Alfaholics Take Pole Position & Outright Win @ Portimao!

We rounded off our 2015 season in the best possible style, taking outright victory in the last round of the fantastic U2TC series at Portimao. In making the long journey to the Algarve, we had expected to enjoy some warm and sunny weather. Unfortunately it wasn’t to be – the further south we drove, the […]

Alfaholics Victorious at Donington Historic Festival 2015

The cream of the U2TC grid assembled for the 2015 season opener at Donington, with all the fastest FIA cars present. Having won the race in 2014, all eyes were on Alfaholics to see how we would fare this year. Qualifying was due to be a tricky session, as it had rained overnight and showery […]

Alfaholics Finish On The Podium @ Silverstone Classic July 2014

This was a tough weekend’s racing in our FIA App.K GTA after an issue in qualifying left us outside the top 5 on the grid and doubtful of a good result. In the 50 minute 2 driver race, Andrew battled door to door with several Cortinas in the first half of the race, ultimately losing […]

Alfaholics Victorious at the Donington Historic Festival 2014

We are very proud to report that we took outright victory in the U2TC race at the Donington Historic Festival! U2TC is widely regarded as Europe’s toughest and most competitive series for pre-1966 touring cars, so it was a wonderful result to beat all the Lotus Cortinas and BMW 1800s! Qualifying was always going to […]

Alfaholics Race in the Monterey Reunion at Laguna Seca – August 2013

This summer, we were invited to take our FIA App.K 1600 GTA to California to race in the annual Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, which takes place at Laguna Seca over the Pebble Beach weekend. Although this would mean us missing two important European meetings, namely Silverstone Classic and Spa 6 Hours , it was a […]

On Board Video in Andrew Banks’ Alfaholics TI Super-R @ Nurburgring Nordschleife!

On Board Andrew Banks’ Alfaholics TI Super-R @ Goodwood

Wonderful on-board footage of a top specification Alfaholics TI Super-R at Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit. Driven by Andrew Banks at the recent Octane Magazine Trackday. Beautiful balance and poise exhibited by both the car and driver!

Alfaholics Finish on the U2TC Podium at the Donington Historic Festival 2013

To start our 2013 race season, we entered the opening round of the super competitive European U2TC series at the Donington Historic Festival. As usual, it was a full grid made up mostly of Lotus Cortinas, a couple of BMW 1800s and a few GTAs – no doubt it would be a race for Alfaholics […]

Alfaholics Finish On The U2TC Podium At Silverstone Classic 2012

With life so busy at Alfaholics, we have struggled to find the time to get our race GTA out in 2012. Our first outing of the year would be at the Silverstone Classic meeting in the U2TC race. What initially seemed like plenty of time to get the car ready, turned into last minute preparations […]

Alfaholics FIA 1600 GTA Races At Silverstone Classic 2011

Our first race of 2011 was at the prestigious Silverstone Classic event, where we received an entry for our FIA App.K 1600 GTA in the ultra-competitive U2TC series. This event has exploded in size over the past few years, becoming the number one ‘must race at’ meeting in the European historic calendar. Arriving on Thursday, […]

Alfaholics FIA 1600 GTA Races at the Algarve Classic, Portimao – October 2010

For our last race of the year, we couldn’t resist the temptation to leave a typically damp October in England and follow the sun south, taking our newly built 1600 GTA down to Portugal for the annual Algarve Classic European FIA meeting; its first proper event since we completed the build. At Portimao, we would […]

Alfaholics Nurburgring Trip August 2010

Our pilgrimage to the Ring this year was once again a sell-out event as customers joined us from all over Europe for a fantastic weekend of driving and socialising. Rain showers could do little to dampen the excitement but certainly spiced up the circuit driving! The hotel was reserved exclusively for Alfaholics customers and the […]

Alfaholics Nurburgring Track Weekend 20-24 August 2009

Alfaholics organise customer trip for August 2009!

Alfaholics Nurburgring Trip 20th-24th August 2009

Full Report with Photos!

Alfaholics Nurburgring Trip 1-4th August 2008

Another Sell-Out Trip – Full Report with Photos!

Alfaholics Nurburgring Track Weekend 1-4 August 2008 Sign Up

Alfaholics organise another customer trip for August 2008!

Alfaholics moves to new premises in Clevedon near Bristol

After 9 years operating from Devon, we have now moved to a modern 5,000 sq.ft warehouse on the outskirts of Bristol

The Alfaholics GTA Replica goes to the Nurburgring Nordschleife

Max takes his GTA Replica on a European Road Trip

Nurburgring F1 Circuit – 5-7 October 2007

Dutch & German Alfa Challenge Season Finals

Alfaholics 2.0 Sprint GT on the podium at Dijon • 21-24 June 2007

Grand Prix de L’Age D’Or Report

Alfaholics R-Types set 8m15sec lap time at the Nurburgring

An invitation to take part in an open pitlane track day at the Nurburgring Nordschleife in June gave us the perfect opportunity to take the Alfaholics R-type cars to the infamous 14 mile circuit deep in the Eifel mountains. A quick phone call to track day enthusiast and customer Richard Cotton confirmed that he was […]