From the very beginning of the automobile, men with a passion for speed and technology built cars to compete. These...
The late Benny Parsons became best-remembered by many fans during NASCAR’s explosive growth in the 1990s, as a smiling color...
Automotive designer and engineer, Gordon Murray has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in the Queen’s New Year Honors 2019. The accolade is in recognition of his ‘services to Motoring’ after a lifetime of devising and delivering creative and ground-breaking projects in the motorsport and automotive sectors....
Leading the field of early consignments for Worldwide’s annual Scottsdale Auction on Wednesday, January 16th is an exceptional and highly...
Once upon a time in a bar…well, near a bar…I was talking to a couple who had just bought a...
Robert KubicaPhoto: Stefan Brending He was a spectacular Formula 1 driver and the first Polish addition to the F1 circus, who had it all going for him after six years in the top echelon of motor racing. He even won the 2008 Grand Prix of Canada in a BMW Sauber...
That Don Martine is an MG guy is beyond dispute; the long-time Monterey-area hotelier and racing enthusiast lives and breathes...
Photo Gallery from the Sept. 22–23, 2018, HSRCA Spring Festival at Wakefield Park, Goulburn, Australia. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//hsrca-spring-festival-subscriber-photo-gallery/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here...
The Internet has changed our lives in so many ways. In just the past 20 years, the Internet has both opened up the expanse of our immediate world and at that same time made it all closer to hand than we ever could have imagined. It is as a result...
There is something about racing which gets into the blood more thoroughly than a good dose of Castrol R and...
Subscriber Photo Gallery from the Sept. 22–23, 2018, HSRCA Spring Festival at Wakefield Park, Goulburn, Australia. The Holden Torana of...
The Mid-Ohio Grand Prix, Mid-Ohio, September 27, 1970 John Eiteljorge with his Brabham BT21F (#74) leads the field to the start. He would ultimately finish 17th. Photo courtesy of: THE KLEMANTASKI COLLECTION PMB 219 – 65 High Ridge Road, Stamford, CT 06905-3814 USA., Tel: (203) 461-9804 • Fax: (203) 968-2970...
This new book from Dalton Watson about the Porsche 917—one of the most successful and iconic racing cars of all...
December 2018 David Hobbs Zora Arkus-Duntov Divina Galica James Hunt 1– Divina Galica tests a Hesketh 308E-Ford F1 car at Snetterton,...
In 1963, Rover and BRM teamed up to construct a turbine-powered sports car to compete in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. First entered at Le Mans—as an experimental entry and so not officially categorized at the finish—in 1963, drivers Graham Hill and Richie Ginther drove the Rover-BRM to what...
Mecum Auctions has announced that it will be selling the 1965 Ford GT Competition Prototype Roadster GT/109, the only open-cockpit...
The Canadian American Challenge Cup was co-sanctioned by the SCCA and the CASC; it was a series nicknamed the “unlimited”...
The idea of the M1 became official in September 1975, when Jochen Neerpasch, head of BMW Motorsport GmbH presented the strategy of BMW Motorsports to the board of the BMW. A part of that strategy involved motorsports with production cars, which in the 1970s, had gained enormous popularity among drivers...
Today, Franco Cortese is, perhaps, one of motor sport’s forgotten stars and he shouldn’t be. He was the driver who...
Howden Ganley A recent visit to the famous Donington circuit in England, for the launch of a wonderful book about...
Imagine it’s 1973 and you’re an aspiring racer/car builder. Working out of your little shotgun shack, single-car garage, you’ve welded together a pretty sweet little sports racer. Your surfer buddy, who’s good with fiberglass, has fashioned you a sexy and light body to drape over your putative race winner. Despite...
Daily Graphic Race Meeting; Goodwood September 18, 1948 Here is the start of the first race, at the first race...
November 2018 Denis Jenkinson Keke Rosberg Stirling Moss Tom Kristensen 1 – Final Can-Am race for Chaparral. Vic Elford starts...
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...
How on earth does someone with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin become known as...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These...
He is literally the fastest man on the planet, and has been since October 15, 1997. That was when Andy Green set the current World Land Speed Record of an average 766.035 mph taking him to Mach 1.02, which also made him the world’s first supersonic car driver. And he...
In January 1957, a big mustached man wrestled with a mighty Studebaker racing car on a narrow, twisty and bumpy...
Howden Ganley There is an old maxim which says America and Britain are two countries divided by a common language...
Roger Penske’s video remembrance of driver and Penske teammate Craig Fisher, who passed away in August at 82. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//craig-fisher/” color=”blue”]Click here to read our interview with Craig Fisher[/button]...
