The Put-in-Bay vintage sports car races continue to evolve from a quirky little “Reunion” event back in 2009 to one...
RM Sotheby’s celebrated 70 years of Porsche on Saturday with the company’s single-marque Porsche 70th Anniversary Auction at the Porsche...
The Edwardian aero-engined monsters that make up the S.F. Edge Trophy, a firm fan-favorite of previous Members’ Meetings, will return to the Goodwood Motor Circuit as the first race confirmed for the 77th Members’ Meeting, taking place on April 6–7, 2019. Big engines are a key part of what makes...
Photo Gallery from the from the Oct. 20–21, final round of the Alfa Romeo Revival Cup at Misano, Italy....
The final AMOC Racing meeting of 2018 saw competitors taking on the challenge of a rain-lashed Silverstone on Saturday, October...
He is literally the fastest man on the planet, and has been since October 15, 1997. That was when Andy Green set the current World Land Speed Record of an average 766.035 mph taking him to Mach 1.02, which also made him the world’s first supersonic car driver. And he...
Photo Gallery from the Oct. 6–7, 2018 CSRG Charity Challenge at Sears Point Raceway. [button link=”https://sportscardigest.com//csrg-charity-challenge-subscriber-photo-gallery/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here for...
Subscriber only Photo Gallery from the Oct. 6–7, 2018 CSRG Charity Challenge at Sears Point Raceway. Chris Locke – 1976...
Duncan was initially entranced by record keeping and statistics in racing events. This interest morphed into a desire to race and so he has for 22 years. However, with a keen eye for the history of the sport, his desire to race eventually juxtaposed into a desire to keep alive...
Kevin Wheatcroft, son of noted collector and Donington Park owner Tom Wheatcroft, has announced that his father’s famous racecar collection...
Introduced at the 1963 Paris Auto Show as the replacement for the front-engined 250 GTO, the 250 LM was a...
RM Sotheby’s has announced the addition of a 1956 Ferrari 290 MM with a significant motorsport pedigree, for its Petersen Automotive Museum Auction on December 8. Campaigned by Scuderia Ferrari for the 1956 and 1957 seasons, the fully matching-numbers, Ferrari Classiche-certified racer was piloted by an amazing assortment of factory...
The Long Beach Grand Prix has announced that in addition to the Indycar and IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship races,...
The International Motor Racing Research Center is again partnering with the Society of Automotive Historians to present “The First Turn Meets the Cultural...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) today revealed its 2019 racing schedule which includes the additions of two of America’s most revered road courses, WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, and Lime Rock Park. SVRA’s series gets into full swing for its 41st year in February with the annual Sebring Vintage Classic weekend...
Howden Ganley There is an old maxim which says America and Britain are two countries divided by a common language...
Marking its 70th anniversary, Lotus held a spectacular event to commemorate the significant milestone of founder Colin Chapman’s first Lotus, built...
Nick Padmore, Greg Thornton, Julian Thomas & Calum Lockie and Keith Ahlers & Billy Bellinger have been confirmed as the Masters Historic Racing champions of 2018 from the two FIA Historic Championships that Masters operates. Thornton and Padmore scooped their titles in the FIA Masters Historic Formula One Championship while...
Photo Gallery from the Sept. 27–30, 2018 running of the Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI at Weathertech Laguna Seca. [button link=”https://sportscardigest.com//rennsport-reunion-vi-subscriber-photo-gallery/”...
In the first of a series of new Market Guide columns, our market expert Mark Leonard takes a look back...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
Porsche passion fueled a record turnout of fans at Rennsport Reunion VI, the latest iteration of the world’s largest Porsche...
By now, you’ve presumably seen at least some of our extensive coverage of this year’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI, from...
Subscriber only Photo Gallery from the Sept. 27–30, 2018 running of the Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI at Weathertech Laguna Seca. 1967 910 driven by Stephen Thein Jerome Rodela in his 1984 935 1969 917K driven by Bruce Canepa 1966 906 driven by Jeff Zwart 1976 934 driven by Daniele Perfetti...
A brief video overview of the 2018 Porsche Rennsport Reunion at Weathertech Laguna Seca Raceway. ...
Roger Penske’s video remembrance of driver and Penske teammate Craig Fisher, who passed away in August at 82. [button link=”https://sportscardigest.com//craig-fisher/”...
Prince Bira in his E.R.A. pursues Hans Ruesch’s Alfa Romeo 8C35 up the hill to South Tower corner. Ruesch won his preliminary heat over Bira, but the “eight stone of dynamite from Siam” (as the program called him) won the final at an average speed of 57.5 mph. Photo courtesy...
In January 1957, a big mustached man wrestled with a mighty Studebaker racing car on a narrow, twisty and bumpy...
Fitting an engine many times the size of the original is never a sure fire recipe for racing success. Mark...
October 2018 Dan Gurney Wilbur Shaw Nino Farina Paul Radisich 1 – F1 & sports car racer Willy Mairesse is born in Momignies, Belgium (1928). 3 – Jackie Ickx and Jochen Mass drive a Rothmans Porsche 956 to victory in the World Endurance Championship 6-hour race at Fuji, Japan (1982)....