Recently, Acura shared a glimpse of the upcoming limited-production 2022 NSX Type S supercar, the best performing road-legal NSX ever...
For the 22nd summer, petrol heads, automotive hoi polloi and motor racing royalty gathered at England’s West Sussex home of...
For the first time since April 2011, we have updated the look and feel of Sports Car Digest. Readers will benefit from larger pictures and gallery functionality, better image captioning, more interactive search functionality and easier navigation throughout the site. Similar to previous updates, the biggest changes are under the...
Southern California’s Automobile Driving Museum debuted a new exhibit, “A Woman’s Touch,” on January 27. The focus of this exhibit...
Adrian Newey Biography Newey was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom on December 26th, 1958. His father was a veterinary surgeon...
Famed motorsports designer and engineer Adrian Newey will be reunited with a racecar he designed and ran at Daytona International Speedway when he makes his North American competition driving debut in the third edition of Historic Sportscar Racing’s Classic 24 Hour at Daytona presented by IMSA, November 8-12. Entered to...
Car guys all have a little Walter Mitty in them. We dream about racing, restoring a rare car, driving our...
With 2010 advertising campaigns being finalized, we’d like to suggest Sports Car Digest as an advertising partner for your company...
A growing number of businesses have committed to 2011 advertising campaigns with Sports Car Digest – and we’d like to invite your company to benefit as well. Whether promoting a product, service or event, advertising with us helps you raise brand awareness, increase sales, drive profits, boost mind-share, and enhance...
The Edwardian aero-engined monsters that make up the S.F. Edge Trophy, a firm fan-favorite of previous Members’ Meetings, will return...
We are frequently told that Formula One is at the cutting edge of technology, but that has been true only...
The late ’60s were a revolutionary period in racecar design. Advances in aerodynamic research were creating a fiercely fast, new breed of racecar. From Can-Am to Formula One, cars were sleeker, quicker and sprouting inverted airfoils or “wings” as a means of harnessing the power of the rushing wind to...
Mike Lawrence In a recent editorial, Casey Annis bemoaned wind tunnels and the negative effect they have had on racing...
A new exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum will appeal to both the automotive enthusiast as well as those who...
Automotive Fine Arts Society member Jay Koka will demonstrate once again his ability to master multiple painting styles when he displays three new pieces during the 14th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance March 13-15, 2009, in Amelia Island, Florida. Koka’s feature painting, “Drift 2,” will be joined by “Lussori 2,”...
It’s part Dr. Frankenstein, part Andy Granatelli. A place where old Fiat 500s are reborn, given new life, and prepped...
I couldn’t quite pinpoint why, during the research and writing of this profile, that I kept hearing the Lennon/McCartney hit...
By Jeff Walker, Chubb Collector Car Every so often we’re reminded that no matter how well you prepare, Mother Nature can take over and change everything. It seems that every year some part of the country is left picking up the pieces after a weather event or other natural disaster....
After the First World War and into the ’20s, many car manufacturers throughout Europe became involved in Grand Prix racing....
John WatsonPhoto: Mike Jiggle To many, although it may have seemed so, my first Grand Prix win at the Österreichring,...
During my mid-teens a particular photograph in Motor Sport caught my eye. It was of an old Aston Martin racing at Silverstone, and there was something about it that somehow encapsulated the excitement of motor racing and what it could be about. Peter SutcliffePhoto: Mike Jiggle Upon leaving school I...
If you’re a fan of yachting, as well as racecars, then your interest may have recently been piqued with the...
One of the great things about the growth of historic racing over the past decade is the wide variety of...
Many enthusiasts are aware of Ettore Bugatti’s marvelous sports cars and exemplary GP cars. However, not many people know that in the late 1930s, Bugatti planned on building record-braking airplanes, as well. Therein hangs a tale. Ettore Bugatti departed from his usual creation of advanced racecars and hired Louis de...
Photo: J. Michael Hemsley Gabriel Voisin was an amazing man. Born in France in 1880, he built a four-wheeled automobile...
I’ve been revisiting a series of cars recently from the period of my youth. There’s something to be said about...
The world of motorsport has many colorful characters, but few as interesting and humorous as Akton “Ak” Miller. A founding member of the National Hot Rod Association, Miller combined his passion for hot rods and straight-line speed with an interest in open road racing to create some amazing specials for...
Hot Rod pioneer and NHRA co-founder, Ak Miller has passed away at the age of 81. Miller began his long...
Two-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser Jr. will be the guest of honor at the 6th annual Motorsports & Memories...
Two-time Indy 500 winner and two-time U.S. National Champion Al Unser Jr. will serve as Grand Marshal for the 20016 running of The Mitty at Road Atlanta on the weekend of April 21-24. After championship successes in Super Vee and single-seat Can-Am competition, Unser broke into Indycars in 1983, won...
