Jacques Laffite Graham Hill Hannu Mikkola John Barnard 1 Allan Moffat and Jackie Ickx drive a Ford Falcon Cobra to...
Multiple 24 Hour of Daytona winner, Jim Pace, tragically lost his battle with COVID-19 on November 13, 2020. He was...
The book “Great Marques – Porsche” starts with this paragraph by Dr. – Ing. h.c. Ferdinand (Ferry) Porsche in the Foreword: “Since the beginning of car manufacture, people have wanted to own and drive sports and racing cars above all. Car enthusiasts delight more in the sporting success of ‘their’...
Seventy years ago, on November 5, 1950, the first Pebble Beach Road Race took place — and the Pebble Beach...
The Daytona Continental (2000-km), Daytona, February 16, 1964 The grid is ready to go, in pit lane, for the rolling...
The 5th annual Sebring 12 Hour Grand Prix held in 1956 achieved international prominence when, for the first time, four major European constructors entered cars and drivers in that event. Teams from Italian auto manufacturers Ferrari and Maserati, along with English auto manufacturers Jaguar and Aston Martin made their way...
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...
From the very beginning of the automobile, man built cars to compete with a passion for speed and technology. These early innovators are in an elite club with their place in automotive history guaranteed as the creators of a true classic sports car, a genuine thoroughbred. The development of the...
A class of significant Porsche 935s will be featured at the 26th annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance on March 7,...
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 about an hour left in the race, Bob Johnson smashed the number 11 Cobra into a limping Alfa Romeo TZ near the entry to the pits. The Cobra flipped end-over-end,...
An new racing facility outside of Toronto, Canada called Oro Station has begun construction. The groundbreaking officially marks the start...
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 Formula B cars at Circuit Of The Americas (COTA). Car owner Ron Hornig will race alongside them, as he has with Geoff since 2015. The November 5-8 races are part...
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....
Motorsports legend Mario Andretti has been named the Grand Marshal for the 68th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts on Nov. 14. The three-time winner of Sebring’s 12-Hour race (1967, 1970, 1972) has a motor sports resume second to none. Andretti has...
Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) has announced a 17-race schedule for 2021. The 2021 schedule boasts 17 SpeedTour race weekends,...
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...
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 for 6 more pages of photos from Portland[/button] [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//product-category/subscriptions/” color=”red”]Not a subscriber yet? Click here and subscribe for as low as $3/month.[/button] ...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from SOVREN’s Sept. 5–6, 2020, Columbia River Classic races at Portland International Raceway. Jean-Pierre Molerus’ 1954...
The D.B.-Panhard LM of Howard Hanna and Frank Manley is prepared in the pits before the start. The unlucky duo...
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...
