It was 45 years ago when the first “made-for-TV” race series pitted the world’s most famous and successful race car...
Thirty years ago, Mercedes-Benz achieved a double victory in 1989 with the new Sauber-Mercedes C 9 Silver Arrows. A third...
Sixty years on from Aston Martin’s greatest victory, when Roy Salvadori and Carroll Shelby took Aston Martin’s only outright win at Le Mans, the crews of the Vantage GTEs once again prepare to fight. In the front-running GTE Pro class, Aston Martin Racing will race against five of the world’s...
Maserati recently celebrated the 80th anniversary of Luigi “Gigi” Villoresi’s impressive win at the 1939 Targa Florio at the wheel...
One of the strongest number sequences ever produced by Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year: the Porsche 917....
As Bentley marks its centenary year in 2019, the British company’s ground-breaking supercharged model of the pre-war years won the marque a legion of motor sport fans around the world. The legendary ‘Blower’ Bentley, with a supercharged engine, was sensationally quick in 1929. Especially with Bentley Boy, Sir Henry ‘Tim’...
The 1957 Ferrari 355 Sport (chassis 0674) owned by Cavallino Investments of Cortland, Ohio was awarded the Spirit of the...
The Bugatti Type 57 SC Atlantic Coupe is not just one of the legends from the French automaker but perhaps...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles opened its newest exhibit on Saturday, February 23, 2019 featuring ten race cars from the collection of Petersen Founding Chairman Bruce Meyer. Titled “Winning Numbers: The First, The Fastest, The Famous,” the exhibit contains cars from Meyer’s personal garage that broke land speed...
The Fiat 500 F series, acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York in 2017, was seen...
McLaren Special Operations (MSO) has completed a unique new McLaren P1 GTR project to mark the 30th anniversary of Ayrton...
A Good (Car) Guy is Hard to Find: A Girl’s Memoir By Petra Perkins with Louis Galanos Memory: A blazing fireball was racing into the stands — headed straight at me — so I fled in a panic. High-pitched engines shriek by, one after another, in endless, killing, head-splitting noise....
The 1951 Panhard Dyna X 110/X85 owned by Yoshinobu and Miyoko Kato won the FIVA Best Preserved Vehicle award at...
In 2012, Sports Car Digest and Senior Photographer Dennis Gray profiled famed car collector, Jon Shirley. Ever gracious with his...
Porsche set another new record on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife in cooperation with Manthey-Racing. On Thursday, 25 October 2018, the Porsche GT2 RS MR with 700 hp completed a lap of the 20.6-kilometre long circuit in 6:40.3 minutes. No other road-legal vehicle has ever been so fast on ‘The Green Hell’ track....
Lotus needs your help in tracking down the long-lost Lotus Mark I, the first car built by company founder Colin...
Twenty Lamborghini Espada and Islero models gathered on 7 September 2018 in Perugia, Italy to tour the region in celebration...
At its final huge public appearance on the “919 Tribute Tour”, the record-breaking Porsche 919 Hybrid Evo met a historic counterpart — the Porsche 917/30 from 1973. The two racing cars were in the circle of stars at the Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI, the world’s biggest meeting of historic and...
On the 120th anniversary of the founder’s birth, the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy pays tribute to his passion for...
Porsche unveiled the new 935 race car at the 2018 Rennsport Reunion VI, which was staged September 27-30 at WeatherTech...
The Aston Martin DB5 is back, thanks to a collaboration between Aston Martin and EON Productions, the company that produces the James Bond films. Following the DB4 G.T. continuation project, a series of 25 Goldfinger DB5 continuation editions will be created for customers by Aston Martin Works and EON Productions....
The debut Grand Basel was staged 6-9 September 2018 in Basel, Switzerland. Celebrating ‘Excellence in Motion’, the inaugural Basel edition...
The new Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2 were recently announced at the factory in Maranello. These limited-edition special-series cars are...
Ruf Automobile GmbH displayed the all-new CTR and recently restored CTR ‘Yellowbird’ #001, which was awarded Best In Class at the Quail Motorsports Gathering. Seven RUF vehicles from different eras were corralled for “The Alois Ruf Reunion”, a culmination of a career that honors Alois Ruf Jr.’s decades of dedication...
Lamborghini Polo Storico has completed restoration of one of the most famous <a href=”https://sportscardigest.com/lamborghini-miura/”>Miuras</a> ever built: the Miura SVR. On...
Amid the bustle and hubbub of a popular Riviera restaurant, a baritone burble rises through the floor, vibrating up high,...
Some cars have gone down in history for legendary wins, for the innovations they introduced or for the drivers who piloted them to glory. Others, meanwhile, have become veritable icons for what they represented: a unique story, a turning point in history, a social phenomenon, an event that rippled beyond...
The 1913 SCAT 25/35 HP owned by Corrado Lopresto won the FIVA Best Preserved Vehicle award at the 2018 Concorso...
With 5 minutes and 19.55 seconds on the stopwatch Timo Bernhard crossed the finish line of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife at the...
The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany opened the “70 Years of the Porsche Sports Car” exhibition on Friday, June 8th, 2018. On this very day in 1948, the Porsche 356 ‘No. 1’ Roadster received its general operating permit. With this special exhibition, Porsche presents numerous stories and milestones through which...
