The Scene: The #25 factory BMW CSL is well known for its rich racing history and many race wins. Epic...
So we have lost Dan Gurney, a few months shy of his 87th birthday. Dan was one of the sport’s...
To Salute Dan Gurney’s selection as Featured Guest for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we asked the All American Racer to make a tough call It’s like tasking a parent to choose between children. Each is dearest for different reasons. Nonetheless, we believed it not inappropriate to ask Dan Gurney...
As accustomed as we may become to losing our racing compatriots, there remain times when a death still comes as...
John Greenwood Rick Mears 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at...
Vaso Bill Vukovich Sr. John Cobb 1 John Greenwood drives a Greenwood Corvette to victory in the IMSA sports car race at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, (1974). 2 Land Speed Record setter John Cobb is born in Esher, Surrey, England (1899). Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Derek Bell initially made a name for himself, racing in open-wheeled cars including Formula 2 and Formula 1. However, it...
When his team’s pair of Porsche RS Spyders took the green flag for July’s American Le Mans Series round at...
The Kremer Brothers, Erwin and Manfred, have been in the racecar preparation and construction business for nearly 40 years. Their names are virtually synonymous with Porsche racing machines, and they have won races and championships in GT, sports, prototype, IMSA, Group C, Porsche Cup and many other series over that...
Sebring, March 21, 1981. The grid for the 12 Hours pulls out for the warmup lap, led by the fastest...
Graham Hill Frank Costin 1 Guy Frequelin becomes competition chief of Citroen (1989). 2 Al Holbert, Derek Bell, and Al...
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the race that began as the Daytona Continental in 1962 and evolved into today’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, but not all of those races were run for a full 24 hours. The first two runnings had a three-hour duration, while the next two...
The Eagle Formula Ford that I won the SCCA Runoffs with in 1978 was a car I was involved with...
1976 March 76B I have a confession to make. When I was but a pubescent young man, I used to...
My first racing was in motorcycles on a Triumph 350. That would be in 1958 while I was in Japan serving with the Marine Corps. They were good times in between many bad times, the racing was very amateurish, but very enjoyable all the same. After being home for around...
In the days before data logging transformed our sport into a science, the judge of all things was the simple...
With its current naming rights contract with Mazda set to expire at the end of this month, the still-named Mazda...
Gianpiero Moretti, founder of the Italian automotive equipment company Momo, for MOretti-MOnza, and a gentleman sportscar racer, has died at his home in Milan, Italy, at the age of 71 following a long battle with lung cancer. Moretti was a regular campaigner in IMSA competition during the organization’s glory days...
Photo Gallery of HMSA’s Historic IMSA GTO race at the April 12–14, Long Beach Grand Prix. [button link=”https://sportscardigest.com//historic-imsa-gto-at-the-long-beach-grand-prix/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click...
Subscriber only Photo Gallery of HMSA’s Historic IMSA GTO race at the April 12–14, Long Beach Grand Prix. # 4...
When the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach takes over the streets for racing this coming Friday through Sunday (April 12–14), it won’t be just for the highly modern and new NTT IndyCar Series cars. Long Beach celebrates history and the incredible vintage cars of the past as well. Historic...
The Long Beach Grand Prix has announced that in addition to the Indycar and IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship races,...
The Historic IMSA Registry is a new group of enthusiasts dedicated to preserving and racing the cars campaigned in International...
Call me a jinx if you like. No sooner did I put the finishing touches on last month’s column about history repeating itself with schisms and rebellion in Formula One than the news broke that Steve Earle and his General Racing, Ltd. would no longer be organizing the famed Monterey...
Moving ahead with its ambitious agenda for advancing vintage racing, Historic Motorsports Productions has named the featured marques for the...
The new Historic Motorsports Productions organization has scheduled three events for its inaugural 2010 season. Watkins Glen International was the...
The pioneer eras of showroom stock and street stock endurance road racing and IMSA Racing Stocks and International Sedan (RS/IS) competition in North America will be celebrated this fall with the Inaugural Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) Street Stock Road Racing and RS/IS Reunion. The race was announced today by HSR...
The World Championship for Makes was one of the several names the FIA adopted for its global sportscar championship through...
Looking Back on a Brilliant Career… One Photographer’s Personal Recollections of the Most Successful American Endurance Racer of All Time...
Hurley Haywood has been named Grand Marshal of the 2019 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on August 15-18. Considered among the greatest drivers in endurance racing history, Haywood is a major part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA), which is...