Words by Jessica Wendland Upon arriving at the Velocity Invitational, I was immediately struck by the pulsating energy that filled...
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Twenty years ago, CSRG (Classic Sportscar Racing Group) decided they wanted to work with the then named “Sears Point Raceway”...
1 Dr. Wunibald Kamm arrives in Florida to consult with the Cunningham race team on the design of their C-4RK race car (1952). 3 Walter Kaaden, one time head of the racing department of MZ Motorcycles, dies at the age of 76 (1996). 4 NASCAR great Buck Baker born (1919)....
Driving down to Laguna on Thursday morning, my compatriot Bill Wagenblatt and I were reminiscing about past vintage Laguna events. From...
September 30th through October 2nd found CSRG hosting their 19th Charity Challenge on the 12-turn, 2.52-mile Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma,...
Ms. Ellen Bareley curated the Le Mans Legends Heritage Display. This display contained close to fifty cars, all with Le Mans history. From the 1929 Bentley Speed Six overall winner in 1929 and 1930 to the 2016 Ford GTLM class winner. Among the displays was the Jim Hall 1967 Chaparral...
The 2022 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion is being held at the WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway this year. For the first...
Photos and words by Dennis Gray A week after running WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway, the SVRA drivers, crews, and cars...
Driving into Monterey’s Laguna Seca on Thursday, the weather did not look good. A cold rain was accented by an even more frigid wind. Still, the paddock was filling with cars, mostly covered with polyethylene sheets. With the rain, not many drivers took advantage of the track for testing. But...
Masters Historic Racing USA made a West Coast stop at WeatherTech Raceway, Laguna Seca, April 1st through 3rd. Masters brought...
If you’re searching for an American racetrack with a unique history, look no further than WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca on...
Jeff O’Neill’s second motorsport event, the Velocity Invitational, took place November 11th through the 14th at Weathertech Raceway, Laguna Seca. O’Neill and his General Manager Ryan Turri put together ten groups of historic vintage race cars along with a Mustang v. Mini endurance race. Additionally, demonstrations occurred throughout the weekend...
While digital cameras certainly offer a wide gamut of advantages over their largely forgotten “film brethren”, one thing they didn’t...
Saturday November 13th, I sat down with McLaren Racing’s Chief Executive Officer Zak Brown. The conversation took place in McLaren’s...
By Dennis Gray, Bill Wagenblatt, & Rex McAfee On my way home from the Velocity Invitational held at Weathertech Raceway Laguna Seca, I have a few thoughts I would like to share. Event organizer Jeff O’Neill and his band of jolly pranksters have brought European-style vintage racing to America, period....
This November 11 – 15, Bill Wagenblatt, Rex McAfee and Dennis Gray will be covering the 2021 Velocity Invitational for...
The 2021 season finale for Masters Historic Racing USA concluded on the weekend of Oct 17 at Sonoma Raceway CA....
Masters Historic Racing is joining the Yokohama Drivers Cup for a weekend of racing at Sonoma Raceway (aka Sears Point). Masters has brought three classes of cars: Masters Historic Formula One USA with three sub classes within the F1 group. Patrick Head for post-1972 ground-effects F1 cars. Emerson Fittipaldi Post-1972 for...
Don’t forget to check out other Monterey Car Week coverage, we’ve compiled a list of them for you: 2021 RMMR...
Monterey Car Week Event Coverage Sports Car Digest has coverage on a variety of shows during the 2021 Monterey Car...
SportsCarDigest is excited to bring you additional preview photos captured during Friday’s qualifying for the 2021 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. These images are a small taste of what you may expect when our intrepid photojournalists Bill Wagenblatt, Rex McAfee, and Dennis Gray post images from...
2021 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion will be under way from Thursday, August 12th through Sunday, August 15th at WeatherTech Raceway...
The 2021 Monterey Motorsports Pre-Reunion was held on Saturday August 7th and Sunday August 8th. Staged the first weekend of...
On a Saturday-Sunday two-day race weekend (June 5-6) at Sonoma Raceway, the best racing by far was the Historic Trans-Am race on Saturday then again on Sunday. There were multiple passes for the lead not just during the race but each lap of the race. Two or three cars side by...
You might have come across the name Jeff O’Neill recently. He’s been popping up in the news as he’s been...
Masters Historic Racing’s first USA stand-alone event and the first USA event of the 2021 year was the Masters Speed...
After the Sears Point Raceway Sonoma Speed Tour event, SVRA pulled up stakes and traveled 152 miles south to Weather Tech Raceway Laguna Seca for the SVRA 2021 Trans-Am SpeedFest. By Saturday morning the Laguna paddock was filled to capacity with over a dozen cars pitting outside the paddock along...
The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association Sonoma SpeedTour was held at the Sonoma Raceway on April 22-25. Capturing all the action...
The David Love Memorial Vintage Races was held on April 9 -11 at Sonoma Raceway. The event pays tribute to...
The Masters Series has announced it will running its first, stand-alone event in the United States, the Masters Speed Festival, on May 15–16, 2021 at the Monterey Peninsula’s famed Weathertech Laguna Seca Raceway. Run groups for this two-day event will include: Masters Historic Formula One USA will be racing for...