By a vote of its current members in 2010, the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) elected 24 race-car drivers and...
Thirty race-car drivers have been voted into the Road Racing Drivers Club as Regular members for 2012. The group has...
Championship racer and innovator Jim Hall was honored on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) Evening with Jim Hall presented by Firestone. This was the fourth annual RRDC West Coast banquet, held prior to the running of the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The...
The Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) will honor racing icon Roger Penske at its third annual West Coast banquet prior...
When Sports Car Digest stumbled upon Roger Blanchard’s automotive paintings at this spring’s Euros at the Fair, we were struck...
On Friday 15 July 2011, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy with an historic event. One hundred Rolls-Royce motor cars, from 1911 until the present day, were displayed in the Courtyard at the Home of the car manufacturer in Goodwood, West Sussex. The cars were...
On Friday 15 July 2011, Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrated the centenary of the Spirit of Ecstasy with an historic event....
Paintings from Barry Rowe, Charles Maher and Peter Hearsey of the Automotive Fine Arts Society (AFAS) will be featured during...
The Royal Automobile Club played host to a special event on Wednesday 9 September 2015, when five-time Le Mans winner and double World Sportscar Champion, Derek Bell MBE, drove the iconic Rothmans Porsche 956-001 up the Captain’s Drive at the Club’s Woodcote Park clubhouse to commemorate 40 years since his...
Thirty-seven race-car drivers and motorsports professionals have been voted into the Road Racing Drivers Club in 2013. The group includes...
Twenty-six race-car drivers and motorsports professionals have been voted into the Road Racing Drivers Club in 2015. The group includes...
Emerson Fittipaldi was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club on April 6, 2017, prior to the running of the 43rd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. The evening event boasted a capacity crowd in celebration of the two-time Formula 1 and Indy 500 champion. It was the RRDC’s ninth...
The Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) will honor racing icon Parnelli Jones at its second annual West Coast dinner prior...
Rudy Mailander was a busy man. Although his long career in the automotive world covered writing, publicity and business affairs,...
From the moment Ron Howard let it be known that he was doing a movie called Rush built around the 1976 Formula One season, everyone listening had massive expectations for such a flick, and they couldn’t help it. Those of us who love racing are nothing short of starved for...
By Jeff Walker, Chubb Collector Car Insurance There comes a time in the life of classic car owners when driving...
The front straightaway at Lime Rock Park was renamed Sam Posey Straight to honor the racing driver that saw much...
Scott Pruett, with a record 60 victories in IMSA competition, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with the 2016 Phil Hill Award. RRDC president Bobby Rahal made the presentation at a dinner on January 27 prior to the running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the season opener...
Racing drivers Hans Herrmann, Geoff Brabham, Denise McCluggage, Johnny O’Connell and Jim Downing were inducted into the Sebring Hall of...
Endurance racing legend Tom Kristensen heads the list of 2016 inductees into the Sebring Hall of Fame. Joining Kristensen are...
In conjunction with the opening of Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee will host a panel discussion with the exhibition’s Guest Curator, Ken Gross, and noted automotive authorities and collectors on Friday, June 14, 2013. Panel participants include Richard Adatto, automotive...
A Cord L-29 Cabriolet formerly owned by Frank Lloyd Wright, the one-off Edsel Ford Model 40 Speedster and the unique...
The Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy will feature an exhibit focused on Sergio Pininfarina’s great Ferraris, starting Saturday, 27th October...
Review by Wallace Wyss With John Bentley doing the ghostwriting, Carroll Shelby wrote his book The Cobra Story in 1965, at a point when the Cobra story wasn’t done yet — not by a long shot. So you could say he began building the legend of Shelby American even before...
The Carroll Shelby Foundation is offering 66 signed copies of “Go Like Hell – Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for...
The story of Carroll Shelby will be told at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum through the special...
The latest episode in Sports Car Digest’s look back at classified advertisements features a 1953 Siata 208S Spyder that was offered for sale in the September 1964 issue of Road & Track for $4,000. Created by Societa Italiana Auto Trasformazioni Accessori (SIATA), these magnificent Italian wonders were powered by Fiat’s...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has received significant donations from philanthropists Rob and Melani Walton, as well as the Specialty Equipment...
On this day in 1934 the German racing cars that were soon to acquire the nickname “Silver Arrow” were entered...
The Silver Arrows Gala opened 11 October 2012 at the Louwman Museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The exhibition, which is open to the public, showcases the original Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows of the 1930s, in addition to their famed racing histories. The six exhibits on display in the “Silver Arrows 1934–1939”...
