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/”...
By now, you’ve presumably seen at least some of our extensive coverage of this year’s Porsche Rennsport Reunion VI, from...
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)....
Duncan was initially entranced by record keeping and statistics in racing events. This interest morphed into a desire to race...
Photo Gallery from the VHRR’s Aug. 4–6, 2018, Winton Festival of Speed in Benalla, Australia....
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...
Car guys all have a little Walter Mitty in them. We dream about racing, restoring a rare car, driving our...
Fitting an engine many times the size of the original is never a sure fire recipe for racing success. Mark...
Introduced at the 1963 Paris Auto Show as the replacement for the front-engined 250 GTO, the 250 LM was a direct evolution of the sport prototype 250 P spyder, which had won the LeMans 24 hours that year. In an effort to get around the FIA homologation rules, Enzo Ferrari...
As Rolf Stommelen climbed behind the wheel of the front-running Andial/Meister Porsche 935K3 after co-driver Derek Bell had pitted to...
Fathers and their sons who have each won the Formula 1 World Championship are few and far between. There are...
Lotus is asking for help help in tracking down the long-lost Lotus Mark I, the first car built by company founder Colin Chapman. As the British marque continues its 70thcelebrations, it wants fans from around the world to pick up the trail of the most elusive Lotus ever – the...
Howden Ganley Do you like your racing cars to be aesthetically pleasing? Most people do, me included. So how do...
The new Ferrari Monza SP1 and SP2 have been unveiled upon the occasion of the company’s Capital Market’s Day at...
RM Sotheby’s has announced another headlining car for its Porsche 70th Anniversary auction, set for October 27 at the Porsche Experience Center Atlanta (PEC). To the growing All-Porsche line-up, RM Sotheby’s now adds what is perhaps one of the most original examples of the Porsche 956 Group C. Few race...
September 2018 Heinz Melkus Tom Walkinshaw Jackie Ickx Francois Cevert 1– Mario Andretti wins three midget feature races at two...
Last Friday I was mindlessly killing some time on Facebook, when I happened to stumble across the livestream of Goodwood’s...
Prince Bira coming out of Holly Wood with the ex-Whitney Straight Maserati 8CM, during the Donington Grand Prix, on October 3, 1936. He would go on to finish in 5th place. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel:...
A number of years ago the 500-cc Club of America instituted a very special perpetual award of recognition aimed at...
The Golden Days of Thompson Speedway and Raceway 1945-1977 By Terry O’Neil Occasionally a spark of inspiration can become the...
Louis Wagner [dropcap]S[/dropcap]eeing the Darracq 120 racer that Louis Wagner (also a pioneer aviator) drove to victory in the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup race in Wallace McNair’s shed in Hamilton, New Zealand, felt a little like finding a Rembrandt at a garage sale. The car ranks up there with Ray Harroun’s Marmon...
F5000 stalwarts Kevin Bartlett, Howden Ganley and Ken Smith used a visit to a very special workshop in Salinas, California,...
The number 17 E-Type as driven by privateer Peter Sargent and Peter Lumsden at the 1964 24 Hours of Le...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953-1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962-1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964-1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972-1981. This included...
An image of Reid Railton with his parents depicted the engineer at the time of his decision, supported by Henry...
Howden Ganley As the calendar year moves into its second half, we come to what motor racing calls its “Silly...
RM Sotheby’s made auction history when a 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, chassis no. 3413 GT, long considered to be the ‘holy grail’ of the collector car world sold for $48.4 million, becoming the most valuable car ever sold at auction. There were cheers and applause when five-time Le Mans winner...
One of just four Scuderia Ferrari works cars built to contest the World Sports Car Championship in 1963, the 275...
August 2018 Danny Sullivan “Big Daddy” Don Garlits W.O. Bentley Frank Nichols 1 – “Big Daddy” Don Garlits becomes the...
The British Grand Prix, Brands Hatch, July 11, 1964. Jim Clark in his Lotus 25. He started from pole and led all the way with Graham Hill’s BRM 61 never far behind. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel:...
