February 2010 The Spirit of Competition By frederick a. Simeone, M.d. Dr. Simeone began collecting cars before he could drive,...
July 2006 Speed, Frozen in Time : Vintage Racecar Images By Jamie Hankin Readers of Vintage Raecar will be familiar...
January 2005 12 Hours of Sebring—1970 By Harry Hurst If you poll almost anyone familiar with the history of long-distance endurance racing and ask them what one of the most exciting, epic seasons of all time was, nine times out of ten the response will be 1970. The 1970 endurance...
October 2010 2010 Lotus Evora Let’s face it, historically to be a Lotus road car owner you needed to suffer...
September 2010 2011 Jaguar XJL Photo: Brad Jansen Sadly there are times in our lives when we have to be...
2011 Jaguar XKR Coupe & Convertible In this the 50th year of the hallowed E-Type, it seemed only too fitting to take a turn behind the wheel of the current spiritual descendant of the XKE—the XKR. The XKR, is distinguished from the standard XK model, ostensibly by its 510-hp supercharged V8 engine, which...
Formula 1 in Camera, 1960-69: Volume 2 By Paul Parker Thankfully, renown motor racing photographer Paul Parker has found a...
1964 Lotus 30 During his test drive at Silverstone, the author found that most of what he’d heard about the...
Enjoy the raw flat-12 sound coming from a Ferrari 512 BB LM as it roars around Spa-Francorchamps!...
Continuing the legacy of the groundbreaking 550 Maranello, the 575M boasts an enhanced version of the original 550’s V12 engine...
The fifth annual Put-in-Bay Road Races Reunion (PIBRRR) was held August 27-29 at historic Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Launched in 2009 by...
The 2019 Put-in-Bay vintage sports car races (held September 24-27) continued to earn enthusiastic praise for the event’s renowned atmosphere where enjoyment is the primary goal, “laid back” is the desired attitude, and the racing is expected to be competitive but respectful. The event takes place—where it began with a...
The search for rare or interesting automobiles to profile for Vintage Road & Racecar has a few obvious starting points. Concours,...
The Ferrari 330 P4 was the Scuderia’s weapon of choice for the 1967 World Manufacturers Championship. The car’s 4-liter V-12...
Highlights from the 1963 24 Hours of Le Mans that was won by F1 drivers Ludovico Scarfiotti and Lorenzo Bandini in a Ferrari 250 P....
Watch this video as Nick Padmore details what it’s like to drive this JPS-liveried legend with a screaming DFV 3.0-litre...
Ex-Coppa Florio 1907 Wolsit Factory Racer A little-known aspect of the history of the British Wolseley firm was its Italian...
Jaguar’s XK120 Roadster was introduced at the London Motor Show in the fall of 1948. A year later, cars began to appear on American roads and tracks. They came in three configurations: roadster, convertible and coupe. All three were raced, but most entrants preferred the somewhat lighter roadster version. The...
Primarily, my racing with BMW was through Teddy Mayer and McLaren, as BMW and McLaren had been partners in a...
Radical Motorsport has unveiled the full specification of its all-new SR3 XXR. Enhancing the proven formula of the SR3, the...
Photo Gallery from the Setp. 7-8, 2019, Radnor Hunt Concours, in Edgemont, PA. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//radnor-hunt-concours-subscriber-photo-gallery/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here for more photos from the Radnor Hunt Concours[/button]...
Subscriber-exclusive Photo Gallery from the Setp. 7-8, 2019, Radnor Hunt Concours, in Edgemont, PA. 1930 Packard 745 Seven-Passenger Phaeton by...
De Palma, his riding mechanic alongside, guides his factory Vauxhall over the 37.631-km Circuit de Lyon during the 1914 French Grand Prix, a race run barely a month before the onset of WWI. One of the greatest, and nice with it—that was Ralph De Palma. He won well over 2,500...
It was 95 years ago that the car which came to be known as ‘Cloverleaf’, XR 1981, lined up at...
One of the stars taking the green at this year’s Greenwich Concours, June 1-2, will be a very rare Ghia-bodied...
Photo: Pete Austin Where do we start with the story of the March 761? In true Sound of Music fashion—at the very beginning. In the late 1960s, a band of four guys, Max Mosley (a barrister), Alan Rees (a former racing driver), Grahame Coaker (engineer and racing driver) and lastly,...
You’re familiar with the Porsche 962, the dominant Le Mans sports car. But, have you seen the 962-200? This rarely...
David Brabham drove the Jaguar XJR-14 sportscar, which he raced four times in the 1991 World Sportscar Championship, for a...
A very impressive sound coming from one of the most famous and most successful F1 cars in recent history that won 15 out of the 17 races during the 2002 season. Enjoy!...
