Mike Hawthorn Tony Hulman Al Unser Sr. Walt Hansgen 1 Australian touring car driver Tony Longhurst is born in Sidney,...
The late ’60s were a revolutionary period in racecar design. Advances in aerodynamic research were creating a fiercely fast, new...
It takes much more than skis to traverse 356 miles of ice in Antarctica – especially if you are driving a 1956 Porsche 356A vintage car. Senior Chassis Design Engineer Kieron Bradley, a UK-based extreme explorer, has spent the past 18+ months re-engineering Valkyrie Racing’s classic Porsche while ensuring the...
The 2022 Historic Sportscar Racing (HSR) race event schedule delivers calendar continuity with a familiar lineup of HSR events on...
Mike Costin (left) and Keith Duckworth. A single-seater Brabham arrives in Singapore for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix. On the...
The 1969 Trans Am Championship-winning Penske Sunoco Camaro Z28 driven by Mark Donohue to a win at Riverside Speedway on October 5th 1969. Acrylic on 40″x 20″ canvas. Commissioned art; limited editions available. Paul Chenard Automobiliart.com [email protected] 1 902 817-9273 www.pinterest.com/automobiliart www.facebook.com/automobiliart.ca...
The 1965 Lola T70 spider raced by Jerry Grant to victory in the 1966 Bridgehampton USRRC race will be offered...
Photo Gallery from SOVREN’s Sept. 4-5, 2021, Columbia River Classic at Portland International Raceway. [button link=”https://sportscardigest.com//columbia-river-classic-subscriber-photo-gallery-3/” size=”large” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here...
The event was the Gran Premio delle Vetturette. On the Circuito di Montichiari, race cars zipped back and forth between the towns of Montichiari and Brescia. Tires screeched and dust was thrown up into the air. There were 60 laps to be completed, each one 17.3 kilometers long. This was...
Formula 5000 was a racing series for open-wheel, single-seat racing cars built to a specific set of rules. The engine...
1 The Spa 1000 km WEC race is won by Bob Wolleck, Mauroi Baldi, and Ricardo Patrese in a Lancia...
According to the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, Le Mans and multiple Targa Florio winner Nino Vaccarella passed away on September 23rd, at the age of 88. Born on March 4, 1933, in Palermo, Nino Vaccarella’s passion for motorsport matched his love for teaching in his native Sicily. He became one of the best sports...
Similar to its sister event the Goodwood Revival is becoming more of a festival, a festival celebrating the best of...
Photo Gallery from the 2021 Goodwood Revival, in Chichester, England....
The Peterson Museum in Los Angeles is filled with wonderful automotive treasures. The eye-catching post-war muscle cars, sports cars, exotic supercars and racecars are amongst the most popular with visitors. We are all fascinated with fast cars and the technology used to create them. One of the greatest performance cars...
The Anglo-European Trophy; Brands Hatch, September 14, 1963 Tin Mayer was a very talented, young American driver and the brother...
There were no rally cars, as such, during the sport’s first 50 years or so, just the bog standard daily...
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest has announced the passing of Gordon Spice, third place finisher at the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans then turned constructor. Born on April 18, 1940, in London, Gordon Spice first made his mark on his home turf at the end of the 1960s in...
I chose one of the 1967 film’s most iconic racing scenes set in one of the few iconic racing circuits...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has opened the second of two Luftgekühlt exhibits, Prototype Giants, which focuses on the history and legacy of the legendary Porsche 956 and 962 racecars. The Porsche 956 was built to comply with the 1982 FIA World Sportscar Championship (WSC)’s new Group C regulations and was the first...
Clay Regazzoni Norman Dewis OBE Manfred Winkelhock Nigel Bennett 1 The CART Michigan 500 is won by Nigel Mansell driving...
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 adoption, they took two straight victories at Le Mans in 1996 and ’97 in some of the company’s most improbable successes. “Buoyed by our success at the 1994 Le Mans,”...
Long recognized as a superlative showcase of automotive history, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance made history of its own at...
The legendary and most famous sports car race in the world—the 24 Hours of Le Mans—will be honored at the...
As a tribute to the Ford GT supercar, the prototype vehicle that gave life to the program more than a half-century ago, Ford is introducing the 2022 Ford GT ’64 Prototype Heritage Edition. The limited-edition vehicle is inspired by the 1964 Ford GT prototype that debuted at the New York...
The Lewes Speed Trials; Lewes, August 21, 1936. The famous pre-war Brooklands racer George Harvey-Noble at speed in the ex-Louis...
In 2015, it was announced that the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur would hold a street Grand Prix for GT3...
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SL The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL driven by Americans John Fitch and Kurt Gesell at the 1955 Mille Miglia. Fitch and Gesell won the GT class, and finished in 5th place overall. Arthur Schening is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator living in Arlington, VA. Prints are 19″...
