Here is a great Targa Florio videos found on YouTube. Nearly seven minutes of 8mm-filmed action at the 1969 Targa...
SCD realizes that you have most likely seen this model or video before, especially considering it has been viewed 375,000 times on YouTube. We have viewed it at least a dozen times, but it never fails to amaze. If you have never seen this video or read the story behind...
Ex-F1 driver François Cevert was a name Sports Car Digest was not too familiar with until recently when we stumbled...
Sports Car Digest did not attend the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring, so we did the next best thing and...
The 1979 French Grand Prix was held on July 1st at the Dijon-Prenois Circuit near Dijon, France. While the race was significant because it was the first victory for a turbocharged car in Formula One, it is remembered more for the intense fight for second place between Ferrari driver Gilles...
Sports Car Digest loves a good scuffle. We especially like those involving F1 cars on the razor’s edge, and the...
Built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in Germany, the Nordschleife circuit at Nurburgring is...
North American-based Historic Grand Prix will make its first appearance at the HSR Mitty SpeedFest taking place May 1-4, 2008 at Road Atlanta in Braselton, GA. Historic Grand Prix consists of authentic vintage Formula One racing cars from the FIA 3.0 liter era that raced from 1966 – 1983. The...
SPEEDtv.com has teamed with the American Le Mans Series and AmericanLemans.com to re-live great sports car racing action through bi-weekly...
The amazing 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans produced the closest race finish ever, as Jacky Ickx and Jackie Oliver’s...
Group B referred to a set of regulations introduced in 1982 for competition vehicles in sportscar racing and rally racing regulated by the FIA. These Group B regulations fostered some of the quickest, most powerful and sophisticated rally cars ever built, as there were few restrictions...
Enzo Ferrari is best known for the cars that bear his name, but his fall-outs with employees and customers are...
Every five years, there is a gathering of Ferrari 250 GTOs from around the world celebrating the car’s anniversary. French...
The first Chaparral, a conventional front engined vehicle, was built by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes in 1961. In 1962 Jim Hall and Hap Sharp formed Chaparral Cars, Inc. and immediately began the design and construction of Chaparral 2, a mid-engined car with an aerospace inspired semi-monocoque fiberglass chassis. In...
The 1967 Can-Am race at Road America signaled the start of an era that would become known as “The Bruce...
While Jay Kay is best known as lead singer of the band Jamiroquai, he is also fairly well-known in auto...
A significant record recently dropped at the legendary Nordschleife circuit at Nurburgring. In testing last week at Germany’s Nurburgring, Cadillac’s upcoming new 2009 CTS- V completed a lap of the legendary Nordschleife in 7:59.32. This blistering time appears to be the fastest ever publicly documented for a production sedan....
The “American Le Mans Memories” online video series is a Speedtv.com and AmericanLeMans.com joint venture that opens up the vast...
Race car driver Gary Sheehan typically races modern sedans like the Subaru WRX STi, so he jumped at the invitation...
Victory by Design is a series of documentary films on the subject of famous racing automobile marques produced in the 1990s and 2000s. The series began as a single film focused on Porsche, directed by award winning film-maker Tony Maylam, executive produced by Clive Pullan and hosted by former racing...
Climb Dance is a record-winning short film which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a...
ALMS Porsche GT2 driver Dirk Werner came into the series this year with a championship pedigree that matched the accomplishments...
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To celebrate 60 years of collaboration between Shell and Ferrari, the marketing geniuses at Shell decided to pay homage to...
For fans of the Alfa Romeo Type 105 series, the following video is a must see. And as unequivocal fans...
Artcurial is offering a Matra MS650 (s/n 01) at its 2009 Classic and Racing Cars auction on Sunday, February 8th at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. Three Matra 650s were built: 01-02-03. The 650 is probably the most sought after and important sports “barchetta” from Matra. Contrary to the...
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes...
British Racing Motors (BRM) was a British Formula 1 motor racing team. Founded in 1945, it raced from 1950 to 1977, competing in 197 Grands Prix and...
Juan Manuel Fangio (1911 – 1995) was a race car driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing. He won five Formula One World Driver’s Championships — a record which stood for 46 years eventually beaten by Michael Schumacher — with four different teams (Alfa Romeo,...