By Will Silk With traditional forms of investments seeing troubled times in a global economy that continues to only offer...
Among the major car collections in the world, there is one that stands out more than any other as synonymous...
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...
Thousands of images dating to the earliest days of Ford Motor Company are being hauled out of the Ford archives...
Indianapolis 500 fans worldwide have debated for decades about which drivers are the greatest in the race’s glorious history. Now...
By a vote of its current members in 2010, the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC) elected 24 race-car drivers and supporters of the sport to membership in the 58-year-old organization. The list includes IndyCar, ALMS, Grand-Am, Formula Mazda, Super Vee, Historic, and Touring champions. The RRDC roster now totals approximately...
By Will Silk The Chevrolet Vega is perhaps one of those cars that history has brushed aside for a number...
Most of the international racing successes of Porsche works drivers Timo Bernhard (Germany) and Romain Dumas (France) were clinched together....
Augie Pabst, described as “one of the fastest, most charismatic and popular drivers in his day” by the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America, to which he’ll be inducted later this year, was named the recipient of the 2010 Bob Akin Award by the Road Racing Drivers Club (RRDC). The...
Audi will unveil the latest in its range of e-tron concept studies – an all-electric, 1:2 scale version of the...
In late January, 2011, the dynamic duo of the Scott brothers announced that they will be producing a TV series...
By Will Silk Speculative interest in using vintage cars as a means of investment have been in use for decades, but recently a new, more organized approach, has been unveiled by IGA Automobile. Headed by Ray Bellm, the former president of Grand Prix Racewear and himself a racer having won...
From Bloomberg: Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is helping an investment group that aims to buy $150 million worth of...
Story by Stephen Mitchell The first time I saw a Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso was at Riverside Raceway where...
The story of Carroll Shelby will be told at the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) Museum through the special exhibition, Shelby: A Retrospective. Running from February 11th – April 24th, 2011, the exhibit will feature approximately 18 cars representing the manufacturers and body styles that chronicle Shelby’s history as...
By Will Silk Artists Nicolas Cancelier of Belgium, Paul Chenard of Canada, Anna-Louise Felstead of the United Kingdom and Rick Rucker...
The Board of Directors of the International Motorsports Hall of Fame announced the 2011 class on Wednesday, January 12 at...
By Will Silk It has taken some time, but 2011 will mark the debut of a new series of racing on North America’s West Coast called Formula Pacific. The concept of Formula Pacific began when Bill Huth, owner of Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California conjured up a vision of...
Sports Car Digest published 516 stories in 2010, ranging from auction results, car profiles, event and vintage racing coverage, yet...
Contributor Stephen Mitchell has plans for a documentary on the original Carrera Panamericana races (!) and would like to tap...
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 1971 24 Hours of Daytona by Louis Galanos and much more....
The British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) celebrated motor racing achievements of 2010 on 6th December at the BRDC Annual Awards....
By Will Silk Amidst the rumors and ongoing legal battles between Group Lotus and the 2010 Team Lotus race organization...
Motor Racing History – 3.5-litre Naturally-Aspirated Engines, Active Suspension and Electronic Driver Aids 1989 was another McLaren year but this time the championship was won by Alain Prost. With turbos now banned the other teams were able to reduce their deficit to the Hondas. During the season there were six...
Motor Racing History – The Monsters F1 Turbo Engines The Turbo Years The war between FISA and FOCA continued into...
Motor Racing History – Radical Technical Innovations & The Era of Ground-Effects The Birth of Ground-Effects Two major developments occurred...
Motor Racing History – The Big 12 Cylinders & The Arrival of Sponsorships, Advanced Safety and Aerodynamics Checkbook Racing The 1968 season had barely begun before it was rocked to its very foundations by the death of its biggest star, Jimmy Clark, in a minor Formula 2 race (ed. The circumstances...
By Will Silk In 1952, Schuco Toys of Nuremburg, Germany released a tin toy motorcycle powered by a wind-up clock...
Motor Racing History – New British Teams & The Rear-Engined Revolution The Rise of British Racing Green Green cars began...
Motor Racing History – Formula One And A World Championship For Drivers In 1946, following World War II, only four races of Grand Prix calibre were held. Rules for a Grand Prix World Championship had been laid out before World War II, but it took several years afterward until 1947...
