Racing car engineering firm Lola Cars was founded in 1958 by Eric Broadley on the success of front-engined sports cars...
The Mullin Automotive Museum will celebrate the life and work of designer Gabriel Voisin (1880 – 1973) with an exhibit...
The Ferrari Myth exhibition opened May 18th, 2012 at the Italian Center in the Shanghai Expo Park, offering visitors the chance to learn about the marque’s past, present and future. The inauguration ceremony was attended by the company’s Deputy Chairman Piero Ferrari, and representatives of both the Chinese and Italian...
Over 20 Ferrari cars lit up the slipways of Titanic Belfast May 11-12, 2012 as Ferrari Owners’ Clubs from Ireland...
Three times Formula One World Champion, motorsport safety campaigner and former F1 team boss Sir Jackie Stewart will join leading...
On 14th April 1927, the first mass-produced Volvo rolled off the production line at the Lundby factory in Gothenburg, Sweden. Now, 85 years later, the Volvo Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of commercial vehicles and Volvo Car Corporation sells almost 500,000 cars each year. At 10am on...
Championship racer and innovator Jim Hall was honored on Thursday, April 12, 2012 at the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC)...
The 2012 International Motor Racing Research Center speaker series will focus upon “America’s Great Tracks,” highlighting the great tracks at...
Review by Wallace Wyss It was a long time coming; a near complete authorized biography of a giant in American sports car circles, Carroll Hall Shelby. The author is a surprising choice, British author Rinsey Mills, surprising only because in a couple of his earlier books on Shelby he seemed...
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve, better known as Gilles Villeneuve, passed away May 8th, 1982 in a crash during qualifying for...
By Martin Swig Every few weeks we read of a new world record price paid for a collector car. Are...
Rental car company Hertz announced that the McLaren MP4-12C sports car is now available for hire, offered exclusively by Hertz / Premiere Velocity in the UK. Michel Taride, President, Hertz International and Executive Vice-President, Hertz Corporation, said, “Hertz aspires to offer truly innovative rental experiences to our customers, and the...
Racing drivers Hans Herrmann, Geoff Brabham, Denise McCluggage, Johnny O’Connell and Jim Downing were inducted into the Sebring Hall of...
On Monday 5 March 2012 the clock was turned back exactly 75 years at the Royal Automobile Club when a...
City-to-City Race Car Drivers The great city-to-city races were the origin of motor-racing. Attempts had been made to organize an event back in 1887, but the the Paris-Rouen reliability test of 1894 saw motor-cars take to the roads to compete for the first time. The following decade saw interest in...
An exhibition examining Andy Warhol’s fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society is on display until May...
The car whose name means “she goes” will be the focus of activities on April 21-22, 2011 at the International...
Giannino Marzotto Biography He was born at Valdagno on 13 April 1928, the son of the king of the Italian wool industry, Count Gaetano Marzotto. Soon after his 20th birthday he entered his father’s Lancia Aprilia in the Giro di Sicilia and came in second in his class. In 1950...
For more than four decades, the Porsche 911 has been deemed an automotive icon and the epitome of the sports...
The Hill Family and L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum marked the 50th Anniversary of Phil Hill’s 1961 World Championship for Ferrari...
A museum dedicated to Enzo Ferrari and motorsport will open March 10, 2012 in Modena, Italy. The Enzo Ferrari House Museum will open its doors to the public with an exhibition titled, “The Origins of the Myth” that will explore the story of Enzo Ferrari the man, the driver and...
Sports Car Digest published 569 stories in 2011 for an average of nearly 11 per week. They included timely coverage...
A husband-and-wife team from Great Britain recently completed a remarkable trip around the world in a rare 1956 Bristol 405...
Sports Car Digest is taking a break for the holidays, but we will be back in the New Year with the latest and greatest from the classic car world, including previews of Arizona Auction Week, a profile of the 1967 24 Hours of Daytona by Louis Galanos and much more....
Notable American Grand Prix Drivers Michael Andretti The son of a racing legend, Michael Andretti was the Indy Car Champion...
Several prominent cars from the famed Ralph Lauren Collection are currently offered for sale, and at prices that will make...
By Will Silk Spark Models has been around for a little over a decade now, and recently the company released a 1:43 scale replica of Porsche’s all new GT3R Hybrid racing car. Selecting the GT3R Hybrid to model in 1:43 scale offers Porsche enthusiasts the opportunity to snatch what is...
A 1965 Lotus 35 Climax powered Tasman Series/Formula 2 race car has been added to the collection of automobiles at...
By Edward Lenahan Among the many reasons to read Michael Cannell’s newest novel “The Limit,” which accurately reanimates the 1961...
Margie McNally Petersen, wife of Robert E. Petersen and co-founding benefactor of the Petersen Automotive Museum, passed away at her home in Beverly Hills, California on November 25, 2011. Her passing was due to a long and valiant battle with breast cancer. She was 76. Margie Petersen was born and...
