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.
A historic motoring event will be staged at famed Windsor Castle to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012. With full permission of Her Majesty The Queen, the inaugural Windsor Castle Concours of Elegance will take place within the inner courtyard inside the walls of Windsor Castle from September 7-9, 2012.Windsor Castle Concours of Elegance Creative Director, Jeremy Jackson Sytner at … [Read more...]
The Porsche Collection of Matt Drendel will be offered at the 2012 Gooding and Company Amelia Island Auction, scheduled for Friday, March 9th in Amelia Island, Florida.The Drendel Family Collection consists of both road and race cars spanning 25 years of Porsche history from 1973 – 1997, with 10 of the 18 lots being offered without reserve. In addition, Gooding Amelia Island 2012 sale … [Read more...]
Heading into the penultimate MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series 2012 round at Christchurch's Powerbuilt Tools Raceway at Ruapuna Park the question on everyone's lips was 'who can beat the Lola T400 of Michael Lyons?'The answer - emphatically - was the McRae GM1 of Steve Ross, the 2011/12 series points leader finally breaking the young British driver's nine-race winning streak with … [Read more...]
The Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile auction was held Friday 3rd February 2012 at the Retromobile Show in Paris, resulting in €14.5 million in total sales and a 90% sell-through rate. The total sales figure was the highest ever for a collector car auction staged in France.Artcurial assembled a strong collection of approximately 100 automobiles for their 2012 Retromobile auction, with a … [Read more...]
Bonhams held its flagship Paris auction on Thursday 2 February 2012 at La Halle Freyssinet in Paris, resulting in total sales of €7,198,038 and a 62% sell-through rate.Bonhams offered over 100 cars and 35 motorcycles, including three private collections, with top sale going to the 1961 Aston Martin DB4GT Coupe that sold for €1,012,000. … [Read more...]
George Follmer, who has competed in virtually every form of auto racing and is considered one of the sport's living legends, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with the 2012 Phil Hill Award. RRDC president Bobby Rahal presented Follmer with the award at a dinner prior to the running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the season opener of the 2012 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series.The Phil … [Read more...]
Mecum Auctions held its 2012 Kissimmee Auction on January 24-29 at Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee, Florida, resulting in total sales of nearly $60,000,000 and a 73% sell-through rate.The Florida auction kicked off Mecum’s 25th year and a staggering 2,158 vehicles crossed the block, the most in company history. The six-day event achieved a 30% increase in attendance over last year. … [Read more...]
With over 50 years in motorsports – as a driver and team owner – American A. J. Foyt’s remarkable career has seen him make his mark nationally and abroad in at least four countries: Canada, Great Britain, France and New Zealand. His race record includes: winning the Indianapolis 500 four times in 35 consecutive tries; the 24 Hours of Le Mans (1967); and the Rolex 24 At Daytona (1983, … [Read more...]
For more than four decades, the Porsche 911 has been deemed an automotive icon and the epitome of the sports car. That means that the launch of the new Type 991 is an important event for the Porsche Museum Stuttgart as well. As a curtain raiser for 2012, the new generation is being welcomed as part of a major special exhibition from 31 January to 20 May, 2012 under the banner "911 Identity". … [Read more...]
Russo and Steele staged its 12th annual Sports and Muscle in Scottsdale auction on January 18-22, 2012 in Arizona, resulting in more than $20 million in sales and a 71% sell-through rate.Russo and Steele offered more than 700 cars over five days in Arizona, with the top sale going to the 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L-88 Roadster that sold for a world-record $687,500. … [Read more...]
Series young gun Michael Lyons (Lola T400) completed an MSC F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series clean sweep with another lights-to-flag victory in the final 15 lap feature at the second New Zealand Festival of Motor Racing - celebrating BMW Motorsport historic motor racing meeting at the Hampton Downs circuit south of Auckland on January 28-29, 2012. Having qualified quickest and won all four MSC … [Read more...]
The Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona 2012 was held January 28-29 on the 12-turn, 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway, a combined track made up of portions of the NASCAR tri-oval and an infield road course.With the minutes ticking down on the Rolex clock in Pit Row, there was an epic battle for the 2012 Rolex 24 at Daytona title taking place on Daytona International Speedway’s road course. … [Read more...]
Report and photos (unless noted) by Peter HelbachThe Louwman Museum was opened by HRH Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on July 2, 2010. This opening marked the culmination of eight years of very hard work by Mr. Evert Louwman and his management team, led by Museum director Ronald Kooyman. Regulations being what they are, this was the time it took, from the first application to build a museum … [Read more...]
The 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed will honor sports car racing in 1972 and the 30th anniversary of the famed Group C era when it returns to the 1.16-mile Goodwood hillclimb in West Sussex, England on 28 June to 1 July.Forty years ago, the 1972 season was a pivotal year in sports car racing. In America, Can-Am was at its peak, with a fascinating battle for supremacy between McLaren, Porsche, … [Read more...]
The Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile auction will be staged Friday 3rd February 2012 at the Retromobile Show in Paris.Artcurial has assembled a strong collection of motor cars, automobilia and motorcycles for their 2012 Retromobile auction, headlined by the sale of cars from the former collection of Jean-Claude Bajol: a Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder with factory hardtop – formerly owned … [Read more...]
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