The 5th annual Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix held in 1956 achieved international prominence when, for the first time, four...
Photo Gallery from VSCDA’s Sept. 18–20, 2020, running of the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival at Road America. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//elkhart-lake-vintage-festival-subscriber-photo-gallery-2/”...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from VSCDA’s Sept. 18–20, 2020, running of the Elkhart Lake Vintage Festival at Road America. #961 – Ryan Festerling Porsche 911s #29 – David Denison Datsun 510 Photo: Jeff Schabowski #2 – Steven Davison – 1962 Jaguar XKE low-drag Photo: Jeff Schabowski Lane Russell, 1953 MG...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
A class of significant Porsche 935s will be featured at the 26th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on March 7,...
The annual Royal Automobile Club “Art of Motoring” exhibition traditionally talks place at the Pall Mall Clubhouse as part of London Motor Week and is the premier showcase for British automotive art. Rather than cancelling the 2020 edition due to the pandemic, the club collaborated with respected motorsport commentator Andrew...
Britain’s original Formula 1 team, British Racing Motors (BRM), is celebrating its 70th anniversary with the construction of three ‘new’...
The Shelby American Team car driven by Dan Gurney and Bob Johnson, at the 1964 12 Hours of Sebring. With...
An new racing facility outside of Toronto, Canada called Oro Station has begun construction. The groundbreaking officially marks the start of construction of a 500,000 square foot industrial facility that will join a business park with a motorsport road course and testing facilities. The project will be home to automotive engineering,...
The annual pilgrimage of motoring enthusiasts to Monterey will return August 12-15, 2021, for the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Owners...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced that father and son Geoff and Matt Brabham will race 1971 Brabham BT35...
The dual overhead camshaft engine (DOHC) has had a profound impact in high performance motor development, dating all the way back to 1914. A new video, produced by the Brumos Collection, examines how the dual overhead cam engine has evolved, citing its profound impact on racecars from three disparate and...
Many successful Bugatti racing drivers of the “golden era” were former pilots and perhaps not surprisingly many famous pilots were...
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is now offering exclusive tours of the fabled IMS Museum Basement on a regular basis....
The father and son team of Andrea and Roberto Vesco (number 46), are the winners of the 1000 Miglia 2020: after more than 1700 km through half of Italy. The duo beat an impressive field and won the competition at the wheel of a 1929 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Zagato...
Photo Gallery from the Oct 22–25, 2020, running of the Mille Miglia, in Brescia, Italy....
Motorsports legend Mario Andretti has been named the Grand Marshal for the 68th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced a 17-race schedule for 2021. The 2021 schedule boasts 17 SpeedTour race weekends, a record number in SVRA’s 42-year history. New to the schedule are Charlotte Motor Speedway, Homestead-Miami Speedway, Brainerd International Raceway, and Utah Motorsports Campus. The schedule also includes an unprecedented...
When you troll the paddock at a vintage race meet as often as I have, it takes a special car...
Photo Gallery from Vintage Indy’s Aug. 23-24, 2020, Open Wheel Icons event at WWT Raceway in Madison, IL....
Dewey “Rajo Jack” Gatson Nanni Galli Jean-Pierre Beltoise Jacky Ickx 1 Australian touring car driver Tony Longhurst is born in Sidney, New South Wales, Australia (1957). 3 Jim Epler becomes the first man in NHRA history to break 300 mph in a Funny Car when he runs 300.40 mph in...
Vanwall Group, the successor to the legendary British Vanwall motor racing team of the 1950s, has announced the renaissance of...
Photo Gallery from SOVREN’s Sept. 5–6, 2020, Columbia River Classic races at Portland International Raceway. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//columbia-river-classic-subscriber-photo-gallery-2/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from SOVREN’s Sept. 5–6, 2020, Columbia River Classic races at Portland International Raceway. Jean-Pierre Molerus’ 1954 Nichols Special in turn 5 Cooper Dubois’ 1962 Chevrolet Corvette in turn 6 Ted Herb’s 1968 Austin-Healey Spite appraching turn 6 Brian Waters’ 1962 Austin Mini in turn 6 Bill...
The D.B.-Panhard LM of Howard Hanna and Frank Manley is prepared in the pits before the start. The unlucky duo...
The Targa Florio Classica 2020 begins this week and runs from Thursday October 15 to Sunday October 18. The brainchild of industrialist...
Road America has unveiled a new bronze statue of its founder, Clif Tufte, next to the center that bears his name located in the paddock area of the sprawling 640-acre facility that he conceptualized 65 years ago. Tufte, a highway engineer, put together the land and laid out the track in 1955...
In the 1974 World Sportscar Championship for Makes at Kyalami, South Africa, a small racecar, built from the chassis of...
Scottish race legend, motorsport commentator and three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, Dario Franchitti, has teamed up with Gordon Murray...
Artist Fernando Hoyos visually examines the design evolution and family lineage of the famed Ford GT40 in this illustration, starting with the 1962 Ford Mustang I concept car, through the 1962–1963 Lola MK.6 GT and culminating in the Ford GT40 Mk1 prototypes and production cars. For more of Hoyos’ work...
