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.
The Silverstone Classic 2013 will play host to a line-up of car displays, parades and events to celebrate the centenary of Aston Martin. Aston Martin will be the event’s official 'Featured Celebration Marque for 2013', and highlights during the weekend will include a 100-car parade at lunchtime on Saturday 27 July – featuring a collection of past and present Aston Martin models marking the … [Read more...]
The Modena Trackdays 2013 will be staged on July 30-31 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. The Ferrari-focused event will see 200 classic cars and more than 20 Formula 1 entrants contest the famed 4.352-mile, 20-turn track in the Ardennes. Since 1993, Modena Trackdays has been held every other year on the race tracks of Nürburgring and Spa-Francorchamps, coordinated by Modena … [Read more...]
The last West Coast f/8 Motorsports Photography Workshop for 2013 will take place during the Legends of Motorsports McLaren 50th anniversary celebration, held June 15-16 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. The workshop is open to all photographers wishing to get up close and personal with some of the greatest historic racing cars in the world. The Group f/8 workshops start … [Read more...]
The 2013 running of the Ferrari Tribute to Mille Miglia was staged May 16-19, starting and ending in Brescia, Italy. After three days of competition, nearly 115 of the 140 post-1957 Ferraris entered crossed the finish line in Brescia on the night of Saturday, May 19th. Historical cars like the 330 GT 2+2 and modern GTs like the latest F12 drove through Italy on the rally. The original Mille … [Read more...]
Seventy five years after its debut in the legendary Mille Miglia endurance road race, the BMW 328 completed the 2013 running of this tradition-steeped reliability trial in similarly impressive style. BMW Group Classic fielded a team of nine BMW 328 models for this year’s event, with all making it to the finish, displaying the same reliability that helped the BMW 328 on its way to class … [Read more...]
Bentley Motors competed in the 2013 Mille Miglia with two unique 4 1/2 Litre Supercharged "Blowers" - a 1930 Le Mans race car belonging to perhaps the most famous and daring of the Bentley Boys and a company demonstrator that is still going strong even after nine decades on the road. The No. 2 Team Car – raced at Le Mans by Captain Tim Birkin – was brought by Bentley Motors in 2000 and has … [Read more...]
The competition car collection of Irvine Laidlaw will headline the 2013 RM Auctions London sale, scheduled for 7-9 September, at its established Battersea Park location and in partnership with the St. James's Concours of Elegance in central London. The highlight of the Lord Irvine Laidlaw Competition Car Collection is the ex-Works and ex-Ecurie Ecosse, 1955 Jaguar D-Type, chassis number XKD … [Read more...]
The 2013 running of the Targa Florio Classic will be staged 9th to the 13th of October on Circuito delle Madonie and the roads of Sicily, Italy. The MAC Group announced a multi-year agreement with the Palermo Automobile Club (AC Palermo) to organise the Targa Florio Classic and the Ferrari Tribute to Targa Florio. … [Read more...]
The 2013 Palos Verdes Concours d'Elegance will be staged September 15th at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Among the headline entries at this year's event will be the famous '20 Grand' 1933 Duesenberg SJ Torpedo Sedan that wears a California license plate with its original sales price. … [Read more...]
LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM) has chosen Dr. Fred Simeone, founder of the Simeone Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the 2013 recipient of the “Nicola Bulgari Award.” This recognition is given to individuals who make outstanding contributions to preserve America’s automotive heritage through education, car restoration or collecting classic cars. The award, named … [Read more...]
The inaugural Bonhams auction at the Spa Classic historic races was held Saturday 25th May 2013 at the Spa Motor Circuit in Belgium, resulting in a total of nearly €3.4 million. The top result at the 2013 Bonhams Spa Classic auction went to the 1964 Ferrari 275 GTB Berlinetta, offered with well-documented period competition history, which sold well above … [Read more...]
The Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este 2013 was held the weekend of 24-26 May at the Grand Hotel Villa d'Este and neighboring Villa Erba on Lake Como in Cernobbio, Italy. A crowd of more than 6,000 patrons traveled to the shores of Lake Como for this exquisite and tradition-steeped display of historical and prototype automobiles. First held at the same location in 1929, the Villa d'Este Concours … [Read more...]
The RM Auctions Villa d'Este 2013 sale was held 25th May at Villa Erba on the shores of Lake Como, Italy, resulting in total sales of €27,322,400 ($35,519,120 USD) and an 84 percent sell-through rate. As part of the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este weekend, a crowd in excess of 1000 people saw five cars exceed €1,000,000 and 11 lots surpass their pre-sale estimates. … [Read more...]
The Quail Motorsports Gathering 2013 will be held Friday, August 16th at the Quail Lodge Golf Club in Carmel, California. The 11th annual event will again offer interesting and important automobiles and motorcycles displayed in a garden-party setting. The 2013 edition of the Quail will honor 100 years of Aston Martin and feature a Retrospective of Automobili Lamborghini Celebrating 50 Years, as … [Read more...]
RM Auctions announced early consignments for its 2013 Monterey sale, scheduled for August 16-17 at the Portola Hotel and Monterey Convention Center in California. Highlighted offerings for RM's 28th annual flagship Monterey auction include more than 20 Ferraris and marques such as Maserati, Duesenberg, Hispano-Suiza, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz. Among the notable Ferraris consigned to date are … [Read more...]
