The famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indiana hosted the third annual Brickyard Vintage Racing Invitational on June 16-19, 2016. Over...
Vintage Car Racing
Photos, news, results and more from vintage car racing events around the world. At Sports Car Digest we believe sports cars are meant to be raced so we decided to celebrate the world of vintage car racing right here. We celebrate both the race cars from our past and the events that are designed to showcase just how amazing these machines are. The cars are the stars, they are loud, smelly and beautiful “time machines” that we are totally obsessed with. We cover all the major vintage races that feature historic sports-cars from across the globe. We share our passion for vintage racing thus creating memorable motorsports events. Vintage motorsports is growing quickly, and according to HSR, vintage racing represents one of the fastest growing segment of motorsports in the United States and Europe. Get all the updates and news on this growing space here.
Audi Tradition will participate in the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed with two historic cars: Nick Mason, the drummer of...
The Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival 2016 was held June 2-5 at Sonoma Raceway Sears Point in Sonoma, California. Beautiful weather greeted the 350 vintage and historic cars that competed in 13 groups on the 12-turn, 2.52-mile road course in Northern California’s wine country. The 2016 Sonoma Historics was the second...
The 2016 running of the famed Mille Miglia rally took place 19-22 May in Italy starting in Brescia. The Mille...
The 2016 Ennstal Classic Rally will be held 27-30 July on the roads of Austria. The three-day rally in the...
The Spa Classic 2016 was staged 13-15 May on the 4.352 mile, 20-turn Spa-Francorchamps track in Belgium. Organized by Peter Auto, the 6th running of the historic endurance race attracted 17,000 spectators to the legendary circuit in the valley of the Ardennes. The weekend provided an opportunity to relive some...
Report and photos by Bill Wagenblatt The SOVREN Spring Sprints 2016 was held April 29 – May 1 at Pacific...
The second annual Les Grandes Heures Automobiles 2016 will be staged September 24-25 at the legendary banked Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry...
The second round of the 2016 Jaguar Classic Challenge was staged 21-22 May at the historic 3.6-mile Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire, England. The duo of Julian Thomas and Calum Lockie took their second consecutive race victory in the Jaguar Classic Challenge by a mere two-tenths of a second in the...
The Mille Miglia 2016 was held 19-22 May over 1,600 km (1,000 miles) of Italy’s most beautiful regions, starting and...
The sixth running of the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge will begin on Sunday 12th June 2016 as 110 crews...
The California Mille 2016 was held April 24-28 over 1,000 miles of twisty back roads in California. The 26th annual rally brought together 67 historic cars from all over the world to San Francisco to salute Italy’s most famous open road race, the Mille Miglia. The Cal Mille began with...
The 2016 Goodwood Members Meeting was staged March 19-20 on the 7-turn, 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit in West Sussex, England....
The Graham Hill Trophy at the 2016 Goodwood Members Meeting was held March 19-20 at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit...
The Donington Historic Festival 2016 was held April 30th – May 2nd at the 11-turn, 1.979-mile Donington Park in Leicestershire, England. In spite of the British weather throwing almost everything it had at it, the Donington Historics presented three days of exciting historic motor racing over the Bank Holiday weekend....
The California Festival of Speed 2016, one of the largest Porsche events held in the Southwest, took place on the...
The Jarama Classic 2016 was held 1-3 April at Circuito del Jarama outside Madrid, Spain. Near the Spanish capital the...
The Flying Scotsman Rally 2016 was staged 15-17 April, starting in England and finishing in Scotland. The 110 crews faced rain, hail, sleet and snow as they journeyed from the starting line at Leicestershire’s Belvoir Castle, driving around 700 miles through Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, Northumberland, and into Scotland for the finale...
The Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) Spring Club Races 2016 was staged April 9-10 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in...
It is 40 years since James Hunt beat Niki Lauda to the 1976 World Championship title in Japan, winning by...
Ground-pounding racers from the famed Can-Am series will be featured at the 2016 Monterey Motorsports Reunion, to be held August 18-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California during Monterey Classic Car Week. Known for its “excess is barely adequate” reputation, the Can-Am series was known for its free-wheeling...
The HSR Mitty Speedfest 2016 was held on April 22-24 at the 12-turn, 2.54-mile Road Atlanta racetrack in Braselton, Georgia....
The Tour Auto Rally 2016 was held April 18-24 on the secondary roads and race circuits of France. Organized by...
The Peter Collins Trophy at the 2016 Goodwood Members Meeting was held March 19-20 at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit in England. This race honoured one of the great motor racing eras when Aston Martin, Jaguar, Maserati and Ferrari all entered seminal speedsters into battle for endurance glory in the...
Racing legend George Follmer was named Grand Marshal for the Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival, scheduled for June 2-5, 2016 at...
The works Audi Quattro returns to Shelsley Walsh after 30 years as the 2016 Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb will celebrate...
The Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) kicked off its 49th season at Sonoma Raceway Sears Point in Sonoma, California on April 1-3, 2016. The event featured testing on Friday, with vintage racing on the 12-turn, 2.52-mile road course on Saturday and Sunday. Each race group competed in three races each...
BMW Performance Driving School and BMW USA Classic announced a new driver training program that will afford a limited number...
The S.F. Edge Trophy at the Goodwood Members Meeting 2016 was held March 19-20 at the 2.4-mile Goodwood Motor Circuit...
BMW will be the Central Feature Marque at the 2016 Goodwood Festival of Speed, scheduled for 23-26 June at Goodwood House and the 1.16-mile Goodwood hill climb in West Sussex, England. The company will take center stage at the Festival to honor its centenary year. Epitomizing this year’s Festival of...