The Earl of March announced many of the key attractions due to appear at this year’s Festival of Speed, held...
Vintage Car Racing
Photos, news, results and more from vintage car racing events around the world. At Sports Car Digest we believe sports cars are meant to be raced so we decided to celebrate the world of vintage car racing right here. We celebrate both the race cars from our past and the events that are designed to showcase just how amazing these machines are. The cars are the stars, they are loud, smelly and beautiful “time machines” that we are totally obsessed with. We cover all the major vintage races that feature historic sports-cars from across the globe. We share our passion for vintage racing thus creating memorable motorsports events. Vintage motorsports is growing quickly, and according to HSR, vintage racing represents one of the fastest growing segment of motorsports in the United States and Europe. Get all the updates and news on this growing space here.
The Earl of March has confirmed the theme of the 2009 Goodwood Festival of Speed as “True Grit – Epic...
Wayne Gardner took his customary win in the second half of the Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy, riding John-Lee Pemberton’s Matchless with his usual élan. Ian Bain made the best start with a ten ’bike-length lead by the time all the riders first arrived at St. Mary’s but he soon dropped...
Although there was never a race called the Brooklands Trophy in Goodwood’s heyday, it was not unusual to see pre-war...
The Glover Trophy was originally presented to the winner of the Richmond Formula 1 race, which was for contemporary F1...
In Goodwood’s heyday, especially in the circuit’s earliest years, the Goodwood Trophy race was for older (essentially pre-war) single seater racing cars, although the trophy was also used for sports cars. At the Goodwood Revival, it is a race for Grand Prix and Formule Libre single seaters of a type...
Nicky Leventis and Bobby Verdon-Roe claimed a resounding Lavant Cup victory, the latter anchoring the win with an epic drive...
Maserati charger Lukas Huni dominated the Madgwick Cup that featured sports cars with under two litre engines. The pole-sitter was...
The Goowood Tourist Trophy was a three-hour endurance race for World Championship sports cars, and later for GT cars. This race evolved from the Nine Hours race, and was one of the showpiece occasions of the Goodwood season. At the Goodwood Revival, this is the main race on Sunday afternoon:...
Named after the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, the Richmond Formula 1 race was traditionally for contemporary F1 cars. It...
Racing legend and Goodwood Revival favorite Sir Stirling Moss established another milestone on September 17th, 2009 when he turned 80...
The Mini reached its 50th birthday in 2009 and this year’s St Mary’s Trophy saloon car race was dedicated entirely to Cooper models driven by such marque legends as Rauno Aaltonen, Alec Poole, John Fitzpatrick and Barrie ‘Whizzo’ Williams. As always, the St Mary’s Trophy is run in two parts...
Julian Bronson mastered his monstrous McLaren M1B to win the final race of the 2009 Goodwood Revival meeting – a...
A record number of motor racing enthusiasts and retro-fashion fans flocked to the Goodwood Revival on September 18-20, 2009 to...
The ninth Grand Prix de Pau Historique was held May 22-24 on the historic street circuit in southwestern France. The famous town circuit welcomed on this occasion a hundred classic competition cars, come to compete on the splendid historical layout. Besides the extremely pleasant weather, the 2009 race saw the...
Participants in the 2009 Gstaad Classic Audemars Piguet should enjoy a great start to the fall season. From September 2nd...
Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) released their 2009 vintage race schedule, which includes a new season February kick-off race at Moroso...
Historic Trans-Am released their 2009 vintage race schedule, which only features vintage races on the West Coast. However, don’t be surprised if they show up at many other races this year as they are always a crowd favorite. The objective of the Historic Trans-Am Group is to recreate the original...
The 2009 HSR Sebring Endurance Challenge was held March 5th – 8th at the famed Sebring International Raceway in Sebring,...
The Le Mans Legend historic race on June 13th, which this year is for Le Mans-type race cars from 1949...
Le Mans cars from 1949 to 1965 provided spectacular entertainment for the crowds, as Ferraris and Jaguars, Porsches and Astons and the rest of the colorful 61-strong grid fought fiercely for race honors in the 2009 Le Mans Legend, the historic support race which takes place a few hours before...
John Fowler from West Hallam in Derbyshire has been named as the overall winner of the 2009 London to Brighton...
This year the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (LBVCR), the world’s longest running motoring event, will celebrate Veteran vehicles...
Since the 2004 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (LBVCR) the number of overseas participants taking part in the world’s longest running motoring event has increased by 50%, with international participants forming over 20% of the 500 pre-1905 vehicles that participate on the 60-mile Run from London’s Hyde Park to...
Despite the weather forecast for rain and gale force winds, nearly 500 intrepid veteran car owners made the start in...
The Mille Miglia returns to the roads of Italy on May 13-17, 2009 – a thousand miles of driving excitement...
In 1977, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Mille Miglia Cup, the Brescia Automobile Club decided to organize the Mille Miglia Rally on local roads, as a regularity event with competitive speed trials – a format already adopted for the last three Mille Miglia races organized from 1958 –...
The Mille Miglia Storica returned to the roads of Italy on May 13-17, 2009 for another 1,000 mile road rally...
The 2009 Monterey Historic Automobile Races were held August 15th and 16th at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California....
The 2009 Monterey Historic Automobile Races were held August 15th and 16th at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. Held annually at the 2.238-mile and 11-turn Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, the Monterey Historics celebrated its 36th anniversary in 2009. Sunday at the Monterey Historics included the earth-shaking Can-Am class,...