Howden Ganley There is an old maxim which says America and Britain are two countries divided by a common language...
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 Monterey [Click here for our coverage]. At this point, if Rennsport is news to you, you would have to have been in an automotive coma for the past month or...
October 2018 Dan Gurney Wilbur Shaw Nino Farina Paul Radisich 1 – F1 & sports car racer Willy Mairesse is...
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...
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 Walker and Duncan Pittaway have done just that with their GN-based, Vintage Sports Car Club-eligible specials, using components originally intended for the aviation industry. Joseph Mark Bates evaluates the results…...
Introduced at the 1963 Paris Auto Show as the replacement for the front-engined 250 GTO, the 250 LM was a...
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 only two dads and their lads who have pulled it off. The first to climb that particular Everest were the Hills: Graham won the 1962 world title driving a BRM...
Lotus is asking for help help in tracking down the long-lost Lotus Mark I, the first car built by company...
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 the factory in Maranello. These limited-edition special-series cars are the first in a new segment called ‘Icone’ and draw inspiration from the most evocative Ferraris of the 1950s and feature...
RM Sotheby’s has announced another headlining car for its Porsche 70th Anniversary auction, set for October 27 at the Porsche...
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 Kinrara Trophy race for over 3-liter GT cars. Dubbed as the world’s most expensive race grid, this one-hour twilight race featured 8 Ferrari 250 SWBs, 8 Jaguar E-Types, 4 Ferrari...
Prince Bira coming out of Holly Wood with the ex-Whitney Straight Maserati 8CM, during the Donington Grand Prix, on October...
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 catalyst for change. Just such a convergence took place with the construction of Thompson Speedway in 1940, a 5/8thmile oval track, dubbed “The Indianapolis of the East.” A road course...
Louis Wagner [dropcap]S[/dropcap]eeing the Darracq 120 racer that Louis Wagner (also a pioneer aviator) drove to victory in the 1906 Vanderbilt...
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 Mans – it failed to finish the race due to a gearbox issue. Jaguar built 12 lightweight E-Types for racing, two examples were modified with this distinctive low-drag bodywork. Arthur...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international...
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:...
