The sport of vintage racing is enjoyed by thousands of spectators and participants around the world. It attracts people of...
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Porsche Aftermarket Tuning: The State of Play There are few tuning companies in the world who are universally entrusted with...
I have been road racing since the early 1980s and vintage/historic racing since the late ’80s; always in 105 series Alfa Romeos. But I remember, back in the early ’90s, racing with this little blue sports racer called a “LaBoa”. When I say “racing with” I mean I saw it...
In 1965, I enjoyed a working holiday in London. On Friday 18 June that year I took the cheapest tour...
In the 1950s, home-made, one-off sports cars were being created everywhere across the country, the majority of them emerging from...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix, but he is best remembered for his exploits with a humble Lotus 7 during the early 1960s. Some time ago, our esteemed Editor (Casey Annis) reminded us about the doghouse...
Over the past few months, we here at Sports Car Digest have been expanding beyond just covering classic sports cars...
Before we begin, I’d like to take an opportunity to say that this season’s Formula 1 Grand Prix has been...
The first time I ever saw Daijiro (Dai) Yoshihara was on a circa 2008 episode of Best Motoring, where he and fellow drifter Tyler McQuarrie took turns putting a Mine’s Nissan GT-R and Spoon Honda NSX Type R GT through the paces at California race track, Willow Springs. This was...
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was undoubtedly gifted at what he did, admittedly some of his cars were better than others...
Whereas the roots of the RS dynasty can be traced to one car before the RS4 B5, this twin-turbocharged superwagon...
When you think of a company like Alfa Romeo, which boasts a century of creating legendary sports cars, the 156 GTA is probably not the first to cross your mind. Sure, it isn’t the most recognized sports car coming from the fabled Milanese company, but it is an important chapter...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of...
Let’s face it, the Alfa Romeo SZ will most likely trigger a fight or flight reaction. A car with such...
Out of the shadows of World War II and its aftermath has come an unique Alfa Romeo sports car flaunting stunning design and engineering. It also reveals secrets that contributed to the design of Enzo Ferrari’s post-war V-12. Among the many pleasures of Alfa Romeo’s 111th-year celebrations is the surprise...
Click here to read “Chargers Part 1—World Rallying 1957–1965 The CSI struck again in 1965, this time putting out a...
Photos by Djordje Sugaris It might not have been the prettiest, but the BMW M5 E60 is by far the...
It is an indisputable fact that the world is going digital. 30 years ago, the internet was in its infancy, used mostly by universities and research centres. Of course, there were classic car auctions back then—but they were in-person only, and you often didn’t know what cars were on the...
The late ’60s were a revolutionary period in racecar design. Advances in aerodynamic research were creating a fiercely fast, new...
Mike Costin (left) and Keith Duckworth. A single-seater Brabham arrives in Singapore for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix. On the...
For the classic car enthusiast, auctions are a veritable gold mine of possibility. There are auctions for every type of vehicle from a first generation Mazda MX-5 to a classic Jaguar E-Type. With as many types of buyers as there are out there, there are auctions of every type, from...
The Peterson Museum in Los Angeles is filled with wonderful automotive treasures. The eye-catching post-war muscle cars, sports cars, exotic...
There were no rally cars, as such, during the sport’s first 50 years or so, just the bog standard daily...
The grass is always greener on the other side, they say and in our case, horses are faster and louder. As you already know, cars that weren’t originally sold in the United States have to reach 25 years of age to be legally imported, registered and used on the road....
Ex-Donald Healey Motor Company works driver, Clive Baker first began his connection with Healeys and Austin-Healeys in Tasmania. Clive went...
Accused of sandbagging at Daytona, two WSC-95 spyders were in storage until called to duty by Team Joest. Porsches by...
Without a shadow of a doubt, Carroll Shelby is the greatest American racing car constructor of the 20th century and the story of his road to 1966 Le Mans victory was recently turned into an A-List blockbuster, Ford v Ferrari. But, before the GT40, there was the Shelby Cobra Daytona,...
In 2015, it was announced that the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur would hold a street Grand Prix for GT3...
Over the last decade, McLaren Automotive has built their reputation with their exclusive, luxury, high-performance supercars, and recently, they revealed...
Back in 1989, Porsche brought about some major upgrades to the 911 model since it was long due. They had to keep up with the market so they phased out the G model and brought in the brand new 911 Carrera 4 type 964. Though 964 was an internal...