1 Test driver Norman Dewis O.B.E. begins a 33-year career at Jaguar (1952). 2 Tobacco advertising on radio and TV...
Photo Gallery from SVRA’s Nov. 20–21, 2021, SoCal SpeedTour at California Speedway, Fontana, California. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//socal-speedtour-subscriber-photo-gallery/” size=”large” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from SVRA’s Nov. 20–21, 2021, SoCal SpeedTour at California Speedway, Fontana, California. #116 – 1967 Triumph Spitfire – Alan Berry Boris Said, yes that Boris, in his 2002 Mazda Miata is chased by John Stott running a 1993 Mazda Miata. Frank Arciero in the #5 1958...
There have seldom been races which have been held under such atrocious conditions that they remained in the imagination of...
Each year the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion celebrates the greatest achievements in motorsport by accepting only the best of the...
The Formula 5000 Drivers Association has announced its racing schedule for 2022. The Association will hold three official races for the 2022 Revival Race Series. The 2022 U.S. Formula 5000 Revival Races will take place at the following venues: June 16-19: SVRA – Indianapolis Motor Speedway July 14-17: Road America...
Sports 2000, the popular road racing category that has provided an affordable yet competitive entry into sports car racing for...
Officials of the Put-in-Bay Vintage Sports Car Races have officially announced that their 2022 event is planned, once again, for...
Lotus founder Colin Chapman was undoubtedly gifted at what he did, admittedly some of his cars were better than others but in general, when Lotus built a racing car it was a good one. The Type 23 design was, in hindsight, one of the really good ones. Introduced at the...
The global Lotus community is saddened to learn that Hazel Chapman, the wife of Colin Chapman and co-founder of Lotus,...
Bob Osiecki’s winged wonder Mad Dog IV, which shattered the international closed-course speed record at Daytona International Speedway in 1961,...
America’s premier sports car endurance race started at an abandoned WWII Army Air Corps base in Florida. “The 12-Hours of Sebring” is one of the most important racing events in the U.S. Inaugurated in 1952, Sebring took its place among the ’50s-era international endurance races on which the World Manufacturers’...
“Who do you think you are? Stirling Moss?” This, so the story goes, is what a policeman asked the legendary...
Bob Tullius Aldo Andretti Romolo Tavoni Oscar Koveleski 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed (1929). 2 British sports car racer and...
1968 Porsche 908 LH (long-tail) The number 64 Porsche 908, driven by Hans Herrmann and Gérard Larrousse, won the prototype class in the 1969 24 Hours of Le Mans, and took second place overall, behind Jacky Ickx and the Gulf Ford GT40. Arthur Schening is a freelance graphic designer and...
Photo Gallery from HSR’s Oct. 30–31, 2021, Classic 24 Daytona. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//classic-24-daytona-subscriber-photo-gallery/” size=”large” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here for 6 more pages...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from HSR’s Oct. 30–31, 2021, Classic 24 Daytona. 133 Peter Rogal 76 Porsche 935 54 Forest...
1 Ricardo Rodriguez dies in an accident during the non-championship Mexican Grand Prix on the Magdalena Mixhuca Circuit in Mexico City, Mexico (1962). 3 FIA declares that, beginning in 1993, all F1 cars must have flat bottoms. Ground effects chassis are outlawed (1982). 4 Hulman & Company announces they are...
Author, photographer, racer and co-founder of the Fabulous Fifties organization, Art Evans has passed away at the age of 87....
On February 6th 1967, Ferrari pulled off one of the most spectacular feats in its entire history when it took...
Due to the ongoing repercussions of COVID on a number of elements key to the delivery of the event, the RaceRetro show recently announced that it would be unable to run the annual event in its full capacity. As a result, the decision has been made not to compromise the...
While every family has a legacy of sorts, there’s only one that can boast the roots of Porsche motorsports in...
The only Dragonsnake Cobra equipped at the factory with the Stage III quadruple-Weber carburetion system, this 1965 Shelby 289 Cobra,...
Tom Tjaarda Master of Proportions by Gautam Sen While there are a number of post-war automotive designers that have penned significant, lasting designs, few have had the sheer number of ionic and influential designs as American-born designer Tom Tjaarda. Tjaarda’s name and style has become synonymous with the De Tomaso...
The International “Senior Service” Sports Car Race; Silverstone, July 10, 1965 Bob Bondurant doing what he could with John Willment’s...
Out of the shadows of World War II and its aftermath has come an unique Alfa Romeo sports car flaunting...
On Friday, November 12, 2021, the automotive world lost one of the last, great American racing heroes of the ’50s and ’60s, when Bob Bondurant passed away at the age of 88. Robert Lewis Bondurant was born on April 27, 1933, to John Roper Bondurant and Ruth Williams Bondurant of...
Sam’s Scrapbook: My motorsports memories By Sam Posey with John Posey Even the most casual racing enthusiast will recognize the...
When the green flag waved on Nov. 9, 1957, for the Eighth Annual Pebble Beach Road Race, those in attendance...
Mecum Auctions has announced that the famed Corvette Z06 known as “Gulf One”, will be offered for sale at its Kissimmee auction, January 6–16, 2022. With a singular history chronicled by voluminous and highly detailed documentation, this 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray Z06, known as “Gulf One,” holds a special...
