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Milan to San Remo Cup

The 2009 Coppa Milano-Sanremo: a bit more competition, a bit less excursion

The seventh revival of one of Italy’s truly historic motoring events, Coppa Milano-Sanremo, starts early next year on March 13th to March 15th.

15Oct2008 | Sports Car Digest | 0 comments | Continued
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Great Savannah Races Celebration

A special 100th anniversary celebration of the Great Savannah Races will take place at the Hilton Head/Savannah Historics track event at the re-opened road course on Hutchinson Island in Savannah, Ga. Racing events will take place on Thursday, October 30 and Friday, October 31.

14Oct2008 | Sports Car Digest | 0 comments | Continued
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2009 VIR Gold Cup Historic Races Managed By SVRA

VIRginia International Raceway and Sportscar Vintage Racing Association announced that the annual Heacock Classic Gold Cup Historic Races will become a joint venture promoted by VIR and SVRA for 2009 and beyond. Mark your calendars now for the weekend of June 5-7 and plan to attend the Heacock Classic Gold Cup for 2009.

10Oct2008 | Sports Car Digest | 0 comments | Continued
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Motor Racing Legends at Spa

Stirling Takes Class Win in His Own OSCA in Woodcote Trophy Race at Spa

The Spa round of the Royal Automobile Club Woodcote Trophy, organized by Motor Racing Legends, welcomed a very special entrant on 26-28 September. This was the first race outing for Sir Stirling Moss in his own, just-restored OSCA. Moss bought the OSCA [...]

6Oct2008 | Sports Car Digest | 0 comments | Continued
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SVRA VIR Fall Festival Results and Photo Gallery

Sportscar Vintage Racing Association returned to Virginia International Raceway on September 27-28 for the annual VIR Fall Festival.

The 2008 VIR Fall Festival attracted over 200 entries from all across the spectrum, including a McLaren M6B Can-Am car, a classic-era 1928 Frazer-Nash, a Lister

3Oct2008 | Sports Car Digest | 0 comments | Continued
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XK Challenge Continues with Master Series in 2009

Following a debut season running alongside the Masters Cloth Cap category, the JEC/Vredestein XK Challenge will continue to run under the wing of the Masters Racing Series in 2009.

The arrangement was highly popular this year, with grids of over 30 cars for the Cloth Cap/XK Challenge races. The XK drivers embraced the longer race format [...]

1Oct2008 | Sports Car Digest | 0 comments | Continued
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Stirling Moss to Race Own OSCA at Spa

The first race outing for Sir Stirling Moss in his own, just-restored OSCA will be the Woodcote Trophy at Spa on September 26-28th. Moss bought the OSCA FS372 two years ago and had the car restored by Hall & Hall.

“Stirling wanted his first race in the OSCA to be a round of the Woodcote [...]

26Sep2008 | Sports Car Digest | 0 comments | Continued
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Goodwood Revival Race Results

The 2008 Goodwood Revival came to a close over the weekend, as 124,000 visitors enjoyed the unique atmosphere over three days of exciting racing and wonderful nostalgia, taking visitors back to the 40s, 50s and 60s and the romance of motor racing as it used to be.

23Sep2008 | Sports Car Digest | 0 comments | Continued
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Whitsun Trophy Race – Goodwood Revival

An epic Whitsun Trophy provided a suitably dramatic dénouement to the 2008 Goodwood Revival race card. At the start, former BTTC champion Frank Sytner led from the outside of the front row in his Lola T70 Spider while last year’s winner – and pole sitter – Ray Bellm spun his Ford GT40 just two corners [...]

23Sep2008 | Sports Car Digest | 1 comment | Continued
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Royal Automobile Club TT Race – Goodwood Revival

One knowledgeable pundit voiced his belief that the entire grid was worth £85-million, not that any of the drivers in the RAC TT Celebration seemed overly concerned by the value of their steeds. This hugely popular one-hour race for closed-cockpit GT cars that raced from 1960-64 predictably witnessed some close – occasionally too close – [...]

23Sep2008 | Sports Car Digest | 0 comments | Continued