Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, Peter Auto and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest have decided to postpone the tenth...
This race was the brainchild of the wealthy race driver and automobile enthusiast, Vincenzo Florio, who in 1906 created the...
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Originally built to compete in the 1910 Prince Henry Trophy, a German trial designed to discover the world’s best all-round...
He crashed numerous cars and aeroplanes, did his best to drown an admiral, and his dog delayed a critical wartime...
In light of the rapidly developing COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and its effect on public gatherings, organizers of the second annual Sonoma Speed Festival have elected to reschedule the automotive lifestyle event at Sonoma Raceway to the Labor Day long weekend, September 4-6, 2020. Sonoma Speed Festival organizers have been monitoring the...
Classic and vintage car restoration specialist Thornley Kelham is undertaking its most challenging project yet; a complete nut-and-bolt concours-standard restoration...
A radiator in the shape of a horseshoe and a bright blue finish – everytime one of the striking Bugatti...
Kirk F. White, consummate enthusiast and partner with Roger Penske when the pair entered a Ferrari 512S for Mark Donohue in the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans, has passed away. According to a message from his family: This beautiful, crazy, beloved man, father of five, author of DontWashMine.com, owner...
Photo Gallery from SVRA’s Feb. 27–29, 2020, Sebring Vintage Classic, at Sebring, Florida. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//sebring-vintage-classic-subscriber-photo-gallery/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here for 7...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from SVRA’s Feb. 27–29, 2020, Sebring Vintage Classic, at Sebring, Florida. 99 Michael Moss 69 Lola...
Bristol, once a significant marque, has relocated to the “Great Paddock In The Sky.” For some time it had been on life support and a car make in name only. In 2011, it had been acquired by Kamkorp a privately-owned small group of engineering companies, among them Frazer-Nash Research Ltd....
After some 50 years of automobile racing, the Grand Prix Formula, or Formula One, was created by the FIA (Federation...
The Automobile Club de Monaco (ACM) has announced the cancellation of both the FIA Monaco Grand Prix and the Monaco...
When Rod Millen hit the starter on his custom-designed and built four-wheel drive, four-rotor 1985 Mazda RX7 the explosion made photographer Dennis Fregger and I jump. It shattered the morning quiet, and flushed the birds out of the bushes a hundred yards away. The sound of an unfettered rotary engine...
The special “Greatest Hits” racecard at this summer’s 30th Silverstone Classic ( July 31-August 2) will feature a pair of super-evocative...
Photo Gallery from the Mar. 8, 2020, Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. [button link=”https://dev.sportscardigest.com//amelia-island-concours-subscriber-photo-gallery/” color=”blue”]Subscribers click here for 4 more...
Subscriber exclusive Photo Gallery from the Mar. 8, 2020, Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance. Auctions are an important part of the Amelia Island weekend. Here two cars from RM/Sotheby’s await their turn to go under the hammer. The maroon 1947 Cadillac Series 62 Convertible Sedan would bring $75,600, while the black...
Organizers of the famed Long Beach Grand Prix—which this year was to include an historic Formula Atlantic support race—have announced...
Organizers of the Alfa Revival Cup in Italy have announced that they have had to cancel the 2020 opening round,...
The awe-inspiring collection of John Atzbach—highlighted most notably by the first 1965 Shelby GT350R Competition Model built, known as the “Flying Mustang”—was announced today by Mecum Auctions as an offering that will serve as the headlining main attraction of Dana Mecum’s 33rd Original Spring Classic, to be held at the...
July 3, 1938; French Grand Prix; Reims-Gueux Hermann Lang, in the Mercedes-Benz W154, at full speed across the fields of...
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t Monaco, the first significant race of the 1933 season, a new Grand Prix team made its debut: Scuderia CC,...
Entering its third year, Vintage Indy has announced a four on-track event schedule presented by Hagerty Insurance for 2020. Vintage Indy is the on-track event extension of the Vintage Indy Registry™, which was founded in 2017. The organization is a member of the Vintage Motorsports Council and is dedicated to the...
Alfred Neubauer Charlie Whiting Mark Donohue Wolfang von Trips 1 Ernst Loof, Werner Miethe, Lorenz Dietrich, and George “Schorsch” Meier...
With 400 vintage cars, thirty less than last year, in order to ensure greater safety and quality of service to...
The 1963 Corvette Grand Sport started as a lightweight version based on a prototype that mirrored the new 1963 Corvette. The cars were driven by Roger Penske, jim Hall and Dick Guldstrand among others. Here is Dick Thompson’s car as he won a 1963 Sport Car Club of America race at Watkins Glen. –...
Equipe Classic Racing, organizers of the Equipe GTS and Equipe Pre ’63 FIA Production Sports Car series, is introducing a new...
Two long-time veterans of racing on the streets of Long Beach—Willy T. Ribbs and Oriol Servia—will be honored by induction...
From 1964 to 1978, a series of flat-bottomed formula cars were manufactured to serve as steppingstones to Formula One and the upper echelons of open-wheel racing. In the late ’50s, F2 and F3 were consolidated into Formula Junior. However, with that category’s demise at the end of 1963, F2 was...
