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.
Featured marque Corvette is the major focus in the official poster art of the 2013 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 16-18 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in California. The official artist, Bill Patterson, unveiled this year’s artwork that features the red, white and blue 1967 Chevrolet Corvette. The poster car is the 1967 Chevrolet Corvette No. 9 that was raced by … [Read more...]
The Mercedes-Benz Club of America (MBCA) will host StarFest 2013 on May 18-22 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The event will bring together technical experts in the fields of restoration, maintenance and performance for four days of seminars and workshops. "StarTech is MBCA's longest-running national event," according to William West Hopper, National StarTech Committee Chairperson. … [Read more...]
To balance their schedule and attract new racers, SVRA is rescheduling their Rockingham event and introducing an innovative "Double Points/Half Price" program. Originally scheduled for April 18-21, SVRA's "Race the Rock Vintage Celebration" at Rockingham Speedway has been rescheduled to August 8-11, 2013. The New Jersey Motorsports Park event is being held July 18-21, 2013. … [Read more...]
The Historic Grand Prix Cars Association held its Spring Test Day on Friday, April 19, 2013 at the Silverstone National Circuit in England. Held the day before the annual VSCC Spring Start, the event is a great opportunity for both the car and driver to get up to speed before the vintage and historic racing season begins. A varied and interesting selection of automobiles challenged the 2.638 … [Read more...]
Franco Gozzi, a key part of the history of Ferrari, passed away April 23rd, 2013 at the age of 81. “We have lost a key figure in the history of Ferrari,” said President Luca di Montezemolo. “My most abiding memory is of all the hours we spent together, talking about drivers and cars and I am grateful for the fact he was close to me when I was a young sporting director at the Scuderia.” … [Read more...]
By Michelle Cabatingan My love of cars and wanting to race them began at a young age of nine years old. It started on a winter afternoon in 2004 when my dad came home with a brand new PlayStation 2, a gaming system that my cousin introduced to me. Every time I went to visit him we would always be playing the video game, Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy. I had been asking for one, ever … [Read more...]
The HGPCA Nuvolari Trophy Race will be among the featured racing classes at the 2013 Donington Historic Festival, scheduled for May 3-5 at Donington Park in Leicestershire, England. Pre-war Grand Prix racing cars will compete in their national colours and a number that originally raced there almost 80 years ago will compete at the track once more. Two iconic Alfa Romeo Tipo B P3 masterpieces, … [Read more...]
Lincoln will feature prominently on the official poster for the 2013 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, scheduled for Sunday, August 18th on the grounds of Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. When Edsel B. Ford II came upon the 1956 Lincoln Continental MK II last year, he admired the long lines and elegant custom styling of the automobile, but he didn't immediately recognize it. Imagine his … [Read more...]
Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser, Jr. was named Grand Marshal for the 2013 Portland Historic Automobile Races, scheduled for June 27-30 at the Portland International Raceway in Oregon. The 1990 and 1994 CART champion will return to the site of his first Indy Car win in 1984 at Portland International Raceway. In addition to the inaugural 1984 CART race, Unser won at Portland again in … [Read more...]
Lost and Found After 60 Years - A Truly Italian History By Giuseppe De Angelis Since the birth of the car at the end of the nineteenth century, cars have been a great passion in the De Angelis family. My grandfather and his brothers were founders of the local Automobil Club of Italy in our hometown of Ascoli Piceno. My father Francesco (born in 1923), and his brothers Vito (born in 1920) and … [Read more...]
Did the gearbox on your BMW 328 take a turn for the worse at the Mille Miglia? For owners of collector cars wearing the BMW logo, BMW Group Classic should be among the first phone calls to make in the search for replacement parts. The current range on offer through its affiliated BMW Classic Center comprises some 40,000 components and is steadily expanding. The most recent addition to the … [Read more...]
A selection of Ferrari supercars are the latest offerings for the 2013 RM Auctions Villa d'Este sale, scheduled for the 25th of May during the famed Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este weekend on Lake Como, Italy. A total of sixteen Ferraris are among the 40 lots offered during the single-day auction. Max Girardo, Managing Director of RM Auctions, said, "RM has a reputation for selling the … [Read more...]
Photos by Lili Rahmati The inaugural Ventura Farms Concours was staged Sunday, March 17, 2013 in Lake Sherwood, California. The event was held at the 2,200-acre Ventura Farms, owned by David H. Murdock, Chairman and CEO of Dole and Castle and Cooke. The non-judged 2013 Ventura Farms Concours featured vintage automobiles from various prominent museums and collectors, in addition to displays … [Read more...]
The Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California announced several new additions to its collection of art, furniture and automobiles in celebration of the third anniversary of the museum’s opening. Over the past three years, Peter and Merle Mullin and the Mullin Automotive Museum staff have established it as one of the premier collections of Art Deco art and automobiles. Since its founding, … [Read more...]
The 2013 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance marked the first time that a rare pair of the surviving ‘Prinz Heinrich’ Benz cars were displayed in public at the same event. Both Prinz Heinrich Benz models were presented in museum quality. The 21/80 hp 1910 racer came directly from the Mercedes-Benz Museum collection in Stuttgart, Germany, and the other from Bruce McCaw’s private collection … [Read more...]
