Coupe Sport Leicht (CSL) is a name synonymous with BMW racecars. Of all the BMW CSLs, none was as outrageous...
At the 1976 Geneva Motor Show, Alfa Romeo revealed the final iteration of its series of concept cars based on...
Jean Rédélé loved cars! His father was a dealer. In 1946, he took over from his father and became the youngest Renault dealer in France. But Rédélé was also a racer. Winning his class in the Mille Miglia and the Coupe des Alpes in a 4CV, he knew what to...
The Bavarian Motor Works was established in 1916. Originally building aircraft engines, at the end of World War I, they...
Available in two- and four-door sedans, station wagons and even tradesman’s panel vans, the first generation Ford Escort, released in...
Team McLaren McLaren started the 1973 Formula One season with drivers Denny Hulme and Peter Revson piloting the soon to be obsolete M19 while they waited for the highly anticipated and developed M23. By the third round of the year Hulme was equipped with the first chassis and for the...
During the coming months, Sports Car Digest will be running a series of photo retrospectives drawn from the film archive...
As a team manager my experience of driving racing cars is limited, although at the start of my motor racing...
These days every modern 911 road car is turbocharged, but that wasn’t the case in the ’70s. Porsche was exploring the use of turbo technology with their racecars in the late ’60s and by ’72 they were developing a turbocharged 911. Originally, they were doing this to comply with homologation...
In 1977, Porsche’s “improvised” Type 936/77 took on the full-court press of four Renaults at Le Mans. Retirements and technical...
Porsche, throughout its racing career, has created some of the most iconic machines of all time: the RSK, 904, 906,...
If there are so many of us desperately searching for our old racing cars, why in the heck are we ever crazy enough to sell them in the first place? That is the very question that has intrigued Charlie Miller for the past 26 years. Miller is an engineer who...
In my era as a race and rally driver, we were expected to assist in both the general and technical...
As Europe tried to recover from World War II, manufacturers began producing small cars to satisfy the need for personal...
The Clay Regazzoni driven BWM M1, in BMW Motorsport livery, as raced in the short-lived Procar Championship series (1979-1980). Arthur Schening is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator living in Arlington, VA. “I started working on this series of historic racing car illustrations 6 or 7 years ago. I never intended...
French Grand Prix; Dijon-Prenois, July 1,1979. Mario Andretti with the unhappy Lotus 80. It was not a success, and the...
The 1979 French Grand Prix was held on July 1st at the Dijon-Prenois Circuit near Dijon, France. While the race...
I grew up designing on a drawing board, right to the end of my time in motor racing, and I’m still on a drawing board today. I’ve designed a lot of cars from scratch, and when I say from scratch I mean a blank piece of paper. Even in today’s...
There are certain cars made notable by television. The Beverley Hillbillie’s truck, The Munster Mobile, Honey West’s Cobra. Then there...
The Lancia 037 Prototype will be the stand-out vehicle at the upcoming RM Sotheby’s Milan Sale planned for sale on...
The Le Mans 24 Hours; Le Mans, France, June 19–20, 1982 The start. Porsches in the ascendance, with Jacky Ickx and Derek Bell in the lead…and there they would stay until the finish. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTIONPO Box 8204, Stamford, CT 06905 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax:...
Sports Car Digest has been running a series of photo retrospectives drawn from the film archive of Bob Harmeyer. The...
The Brazilian Grand Prix at Jacarepagua, March 13, 1983. Nelson Piquet sits in his Brabham BT52-BMW before practice with teammate...
My greatest racecar has to come from my Formula One experience. Every part of an F1 car is designed to go very, very fast and each car is specifically made for maximum speed. From the start of my motor racing career, I had many good experiences in other cars of...
(Chassis #Z1058301) Vintage Racecar’s Siamese Twin, Vintage Roadcar, features a monthly column, “By Design,” inked by automotive and industrial designer...
900-horsepower 1984 Lancia LC2 goes full throttle at Brands Hatch in UK....
Of course, my dad gave me the talent to become a racing driver and he helped me a lot. He was not only a successful racer, but also a good and fair sportsman. He taught me a lot of the things that helped me in my career. This year saw...
No one could accuse Porsche of letting the grass grow under its feet when motor racing’s governing bodies chose to...
What an amazing difference a decade makes! I hadn’t long before jumped out of a 1976 Ford Escort Mexico, before I sat behind the wheel of a 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo. Smooth! Cultured! Modern! Three words that came to mind as both cars were poles apart and while the Escort...
