Bentley Motors rolled out the red carpet to welcome over a hundred members of the Bentley Drivers Club (BDC) –...
Subaru driver Mark Higgins set an all-time fastest lap of averaging 115.356 MPH today on the iconic Isle of Man...
The 1965 12 Hours of Sebring Grand Prix is legendary because it was won by American drivers driving an American car. Jim Hall and his Chaparral cars broke several speed records but the overall records were not broken because of the record rainfall half way through the race. That deluge,...
Long before he became famous for designing and building Indianapolis racers that won the 500-mile race five times, Los Angeles...
The inaugural Ferrari Tribute to Mille Miglia took place May 6-9, 2010, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. After three...
The Ferrari 599XX is the first ever production-derived sports car to break the 7-minute barrier on the classic 20.832 km Nordschleife circuit, lapping in 6 min 58.16 sec. The 599XX, which inspired the 599 GTO, is an extreme berlinetta designed for track but not official competition use, and is a...
Russo and Steele was scheduled to hold its 10th annual Sports & Muscle in Scottsdale auction January 20-24, 2010 in...
Porsche has been successful in many branches of motorsports, scoring tens of thousands of victories worldwide over the course of...
Having bid farewell to Formula One, BMW will reportedly strengthen its involvement in GT and touring car racing for 2010 and beyond. In light of the news, we profile one of their more famous production cars that became a race car – the BMW M1 Procar. The BMW M1 Procar...
The Porsche 934 was a racing version of the Porsche 911 Turbo, prepared to FIA Group 4 rules, similar to...
Holiday Gift Guide 2009 Oyster Perpetual Datejust II $7,525 41mm, stainless steel case, 18kt white gold fluted bezel, 31 jewel...
Happy Halloween from Sports Car Digest. Hennessey Performance Engineering is well-known in modern tuner circles for their ability to wring out amazing performance figures from Corvettes to Vipers and nearly everything in between. One of their latest creations is a supercharged version of the Cadillac CTS-V that turns the already...
It has been well documented that RM Auctions, in association with Sotheby’s, recently sold a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa...
Juan Manuel Fangio (1911 – 1995) was a race car driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula...
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 winning 17. While BRM certainly created more successful F1 cars, the most astonishing has to be the BRM Type 15 with its inconceivable 1.5 litre V16 engine. The first post-war...
A primer on in-car video systems for the historic racer. Humans are such visual animals that even when our eyes...
Artcurial is offering a Matra MS650 (s/n 01) at its 2009 Classic and Racing Cars auction on Sunday, February 8th...
For fans of the Alfa Romeo Type 105 series, the following video is a must see. And as unequivocal fans of the gritty little Alfa, we would also recommend this six minute slice of nirvana to all classic car nuts....
To celebrate 60 years of collaboration between Shell and Ferrari, the marketing geniuses at Shell decided to pay homage to...
Vintage Greeting Cards Dinstinctive collection of vintage-themed holiday greeting cards. 10 packs of cards starting at $35. www.viacelli.com/vintage Become a...
ALMS Porsche GT2 driver Dirk Werner came into the series this year with a championship pedigree that matched the accomplishments of his team, Farnbacher Loles Racing. In their initial foray into the ALMS series the team has performed like they’ve been involved...
Climb Dance is a record-winning short film which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a...
Victory by Design is a series of documentary films on the subject of famous racing automobile marques produced in the...
Race car driver Gary Sheehan typically races modern sedans like the Subaru WRX STi, so he jumped at the invitation to drive the ex-Jo Bonnier McLaren M6B Can-Am vintage racer at Infineon Raceway. In Gary’s first outing in the brutal 600hp...
The “American Le Mans Memories” online video series is a Speedtv.com and AmericanLeMans.com joint venture that opens up the vast...
A significant record recently dropped at the legendary Nordschleife circuit at Nurburgring. In testing last week at Germany’s Nurburgring, Cadillac’s...
While Jay Kay is best known as lead singer of the band Jamiroquai, he is also fairly well-known in auto circles as a very serious car collector. His well-thought out collection includes among others, a Fiat Abarth 1000, Frua-bodied Maserati A6 G2000, Lamborghini Miura SV, Ferrari 550 and Enzo, Aston...
The 1967 Can-Am race at Road America signaled the start of an era that would become known as “The Bruce...
The first Chaparral, a conventional front engined vehicle, was built by Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes in 1961. In 1962...
Every five years, there is a gathering of Ferrari 250 GTOs from around the world celebrating the car’s anniversary. French champagne maker Moët & Chandon sponsors the get-together, which last took place in 2007 at Infineon Raceway and California’s wine country. Former Ferrari 250 GTO owner Stephen Mitchell attended the...
