Sports Car Digest - The Sports, Racing and Vintage Car Journal
Sports Car Digest focuses on Classic Car Auctions, Concours d’Elegance, Vintage Car Racing, Road Rallies and other historic automotive events.
Marcel Hundscheid hails from the very south of the Netherlands, just 10 minutes away from the German border and about 20 minutes from the Belgian border. His start with photography in 1983 focused on military aviation, continuing with aviation photography until 2006. In that year Marcel started photographing motorsports, and since February 2009, he started his own company Speed-O-Graphica providing motorsports photography to teams, drivers, media and customers. He also works as a motorsports editor for the Dutch general sports news website Sportdome.nl, one of the largest sports news communitys in the Netherlands. Besides his work as a motorsports photographer and editor, Marcel works full-time as an IT specialist. He is married with a young daughter.
Report and photos by Marcel Hundscheid The Bosch Hockenheim Historic - Jim Clark Revival was held April 20-21, 2013 at the Hockenheimring in Germany. A field of 500 drivers competing in eight different categories celebrated the 9th annual historic races, held in honor of the two-time world champion tragically killed in an accident at the Hockenheimring on April 7th, 1968. As new FIA … [Read more...]
By Marcel Hundscheid For the third consecutive year Peter Auto will host the Spa Classic at Spa-Francorchamps. The Ardennes track is one of the major appointments for both modern and classic motor racing and the event is now positioned as the classic car event in Belgium. The Spa-Francorchamps track is the place to be May 24-26, 2013. … [Read more...]
By Marcel Hundscheid The European historic motorsports scene will kick off with the Bosch Hockenheim Historic, in honour of the Scottish two-time Formula 1 World Champion Jim Clark, during the weekend of April 19-21, 2013. Over the years the event has become one of Germany’s largest and more important classic car events and attracts more than 20,000 visitors. The Hockenheimring was … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Marcel Hundscheid The Spa Six Hours 2012 was held September 24-26 at the 4.352 mile, 21-turn Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. The 20th anniversary edition of the Spa Six Hours was in just one word -- magic! Over 600 historic race cars and 1000 drivers participated in a huge tribute to celebrate the event created 20 years ago by the Roadbook Organisation, hosted … [Read more...]
By Marcel Hundscheid Once a year the German ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobilclub e.V) settles down at Circuit Zolder in the Northeastern part of Belgium. The track originally built in 1963 and hosted the Formula 1 from 1975 to 1982. The late Gilles Villeneuve died during qualifying on this track. The track is also known as Circuit Terlaemen and measures 4.011 km in length. Between 2006 and … [Read more...]
By Marcel Hundscheid The Spa Six Hours, one of the highlights on the European historic motorsports calendar, will celebrate its twentieth anniversary during the weekend of September 21-23, 2012. Vincent Collard and Alain Defalle had an idea to organise a six hours endurance race for historic touring cars and GTs, built before 1965. Nowadays the event is much more than just a race, without … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Marcel Hundscheid Take a legendary race track, invite over 600 historic cars built between the 1920s and '90s and combine it with three days of extraordinary weather conditions. Bring these elements together and you have the perfect ingredients for an epic historic race event. Between August 10-12, 2012, the Nurburgring hosted the Oldtimer Grand Prix for the 40th time. … [Read more...]
By Marcel Hundscheid The 40th anniversary edition of the Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nürburgring will be held from 10th – 12th August 2012. During the three-day event it is possible to see the most beautiful, rarest and most fascinating race cars in the history of motorsports. The 2012 Oldtimer Grand Prix will revive the glory days of Formula One, sports prototypes as well as touring cars … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Marcel Hundscheid The Belgian Roadbook organisation produced the 2012 Spa Summer Classic during the weekend of June 15th, 16th and 17th. Participants and spectators were treated with some vast grids featuring historic single seaters, sports cars, GT’s and touring cars. Weather conditions during the event changed from autumn like grey and rainy on Friday and Saturday to … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Marcel Hundscheid The legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit hosted the 2nd annual Spa Classic during the weekend of May 25-27, 2012. This epic historic event was organized by the well-known Peter Auto organization from France. Beautiful blue skies, warm temperatures and a vast field of iconic classic race cars were just three ingredients to create a perfect historic … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Marcel Hundscheid Around 21,500 spectators saw 218 participants divided into eleven different categories during the 2012 Bosch Hockenheim Historic – Jim Clark Revival, from April 13-15th on the Hockenheimring in Germany. Changing but dry weather conditions over the weekend treated spectators and drivers to some interesting and challenging action. Unique was the … [Read more...]
By Marcel Hundscheid The second edition of the Spa Classic will be held 25-27 May, 2012 at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps track in Belgium. After the success of last years inaugural edition the Spa Classic will be back in the Ardennes region for a new 100% classic meeting! Organised by the French Peter Auto organisation, the Spa Classic hosts a magnificent grid featuring all the grids from … [Read more...]
By Marcel Hundscheid The Bosch Hockenheim Historic 2012 in honour of the Scottish race driver Jim Clark will be held 14-15 April at the Hockenheim race track in Germany. Approximately 500 participants and over 20.000 spectators are expected at the popular Grand Prix circuit. Race fans can expect an action packed programme featuring single seaters, touring cars, GTs as well as sports cars … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Marcel Hundscheid The Spa Six Hours 2011 was held September 23-25 at the 4.352 mile, 21-turn Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. Hosted by the Roadbook organisation of Alain Defalle and Vincent Collard, around 600 historic race cars, a vast crowd and beautiful and warm weather conditions were just a few ingredients to make the 2011 edition of this event the best so … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Marcel Hundscheid During the weekend of 12-14 August 2011, the Nürburgring hosted the 39th edition of the Oldtimer Grand Prix, organised by the Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD). Despite heavy rain on both Friday and Saturday afternoon, and almost the entire Sunday, 61,500 enthusiasts found their way to the famous track, seeing drivers from twenty different countries. … [Read more...]
