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....
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 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...
Joseph Gilles Henri Villeneuve, better known as Gilles Villeneuve, passed away May 8th, 1982 in a crash during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. The memory of Gilles Villeneuve is still vivid and alive in the minds of many; his talent, his speed, his bravery which bordered...
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...
Racing drivers Hans Herrmann, Geoff Brabham, Denise McCluggage, Johnny O’Connell and Jim Downing were inducted into the Sebring Hall of Fame on 16 March 2012, the day prior to the 60th Anniversary Twelve Hours of Sebring. Hans Herrmann is a two-time Sebring winner in addition to his Le Mans victory...
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...
An exhibition examining Andy Warhol’s fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society is on display until May 13, 2012 at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Warhol and Cars: American Icons exhibit features more than forty drawings, paintings, photographs and related archival material spanning from...
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...
For more than four decades, the Porsche 911 has been deemed an automotive icon and the epitome of the sports car. That means that the launch of the new Type 991 is an important event for the Porsche Museum Stuttgart as well. As a curtain raiser for 2012, the new...
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...
Sports Car Digest published 569 stories in 2011 for an average of nearly 11 per week. They included timely coverage of auctions, events, rallies and vintage races, in addition to profiles of cars, collections, races and much more. Thankfully, our readers enjoyed a few of them… Based upon page views...
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...
Notable American Grand Prix Drivers Michael Andretti The son of a racing legend, Michael Andretti was the Indy Car Champion in 1991 and making quite a name for himself. Having listened to his father’s recollections of his Formula One career the younger Andretti attempted to follow in his dad’s footsteps....
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 1965 Lotus 35 Climax powered Tasman Series/Formula 2 race car has been added to the collection of automobiles at the LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM), courtesy of a donation by John and Marilyn Dimmer. ACM, set to hold its grand opening in June 2012, took delivery of the...
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...
All three of the major endurance races will celebrate notable anniversaries in 2012. The most famous race of them all, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, will celebrate its 80th running in 2012, while in America both the Rolex 24 Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring race will celebrate...
British enthusiast Martyn Corfield aims to revive the pre-war British car marque Atalanta Motors by producing a new traditionally coach-built...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers assigned to the Outbound Enforcement Team (OET) at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport...
The BMW Museum in Munich is devoting a special exhibition to the development of the big BMW Coupes and Convertibles, starting October 28, 2011 and running through the end of September 2012. Entitled “The Line of Beauty”, it features 14 outstanding exhibits that span the years 1937 to 2011 and...
