The seventh historic revival of the Coppa Milano-Sanremo classic car race took place March 13-15th in Northern Italy. Open to...
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 2009 HSR Sebring Endurance Challenge was held March 5th – 8th at the famed Sebring International Raceway in Sebring,...
The Earl of March announced many of the key attractions due to appear at this year’s Festival of Speed, held July 3-5, as well as the Goodwood Revival, held September 18-20. Many of the top competition cars, motorcycles and supercars due to be at the Festival in July and the...
Historic Trans-Am released their 2009 vintage race schedule, which only features vintage races on the West Coast. However, don’t be...
The 2009 Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix will take place July 18-19 at Schenley Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Vintage...
Silverstone Classic organizers announced that an exciting and eclectic grid of early 1960s racers will battle it out on track at the classic car race in July. Participation is limited by invitation only to GT cars built and homologated before January 1st, 1963, from AC Cobras to Short Wheel Base...
The 12th annual Coronado Speed Festival will take place on September 26th and 27th, 2009. This Fleet Week San Diego...
Historic Grand Prix cars will race for the first time at Lime Rock Park on Memorial Day weekend as part...
In 1970 New Zealand’s Bruce McLaren died in an accident at Goodwood, UK, while testing his latest Can-Am sports racing car in preparation for the 1970 Can-Am series of races to be held in USA and Canada. Forty years later, to mark the significant contribution made by Bruce to international...
The 2009 HSR Walter Mitty Speedfest was held May 1-3 at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. For the uninitiated, the...
Mini’s fiftieth anniversary will be celebrated in four classes at this year’s Silverstone Classic, with a 48-car grid in two...
BMW and the Mille Miglia are united by a shared history that goes back a long way. The triumphs of the BMW 328 are as inseparably linked with this 1,000-mile race as the winning appearance of the BMW 507 in the late 1950s. BMW Classic is writing a further chapter...
The Le Mans Legend historic race on June 13th, which this year is for Le Mans-type race cars from 1949...
The 2009 Heacock Classic Gold Cup Historic Races will take place June 5-7 at Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Virginia....
The Mille Miglia Storica returned to the roads of Italy on May 13-17, 2009 for another 1,000 mile road rally from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia. “The legend has won. After last year’s enormous success, the world’s greatest road race has surpassed itself to become even greater,” said...
The 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally will take place November 22nd through December 1st, starting from Mombasa, Kenya and...
In 1977, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Mille Miglia Cup, the Brescia Automobile Club decided to organize the...
Formula One Grand Prix cars had never raced at Lime Rock Park until recently when the Historic Grand Prix group made their way to the storied 1.53-mile track in Connecticut. As part of the Memorial Day Road Racing Classic at Lime Rock Park, May 22-25th, which featured the Grand-Am KONI...
Andrew Smith secured victory in the second World Sportscar Masters race, held May 24-25 at Brands Hatch GP, guiding his...
With less than one month to go until the 2009 Festival of Speed (July 3-5), Goodwood can already confirm that...
Today marks the 75th anniversary of both the first start and the first victory of the new Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow with the designation W 25, as the famed team triumphed at the International Eifel Race held on June 3rd, 1934. This debut race, won by Manfred von Brauchitsch, was the...
The 2009 Wine Country Classic Historic Car Races were held May 30-31 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. A very...
The 2009 Heacock Classic Gold Cup SVRA Historic Races were held June 5-7 at Virginia International Raceway in Alton, Virginia....
The Silverstone Classic arrives on the Silverstone start line next month from July 24-26, celebrating over 90 years of historical racing. Organizers expect over 900 racers prepare to go head to head in 20 races, featuring 700 cars from original Formula One chassis and Minis to exotic ’60s sports cars....
The second round of the 2009 Classic Endurance Racing season was held at Spa Francorchamps on May 8-9. The historical...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association announced that a field of about a dozen historic Formula 5000 cars will be competing...
The first of Aston Martin’s GT prototypes, Project 212, has been entered in the pre-’63 GT race at the 2009 Silverstone Classic. This is the first appearance at the Silverstone Classic of Project 212 which is, according to James Knight, International Head of the Bonhams Motoring Department, “one of the...
Since the 2004 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (LBVCR) the number of overseas participants taking part in the world’s...
The ninth Grand Prix de Pau Historique was held May 22-24 on the historic street circuit in southwestern France. The...
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...