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.
Reversing a dangerous speed-over-scenery, Highway 5-type trend, the 2008 Mille Autunno will focus on transiting California on colorful back roads instead of bland freeways when it departs Pasadena for Sausalito on October 22. Some two dozen cars, the newest at least 36 years old, will defy current custom and take three times as long and travel twice as far as necessary in a quest to "really see … [Read more...]
Twenty-five years after it achieved legendary status in the hands of rally greats like Stig Bloomquist and Michelle Mouton, an authentic Audi Quattro coupe will celebrate the anniversary of the four-wheel-drive technology that revolutionized motorsport in the 1980s with an assault of Targa Newfoundland 2008. Sponsored by Audi Canada along with Sirius Canada and piloted by six-time Canadian and … [Read more...]
As part of their 50th Anniversary celebrations, Lola will host a public gala in its England hometown of Huntingdon on Sunday, October 12th. A selection of famous Lola racing cars will set off from Lola's headquarters in Huntingdon and travel through a designated route finishing with the cars forming a spectacular paddock in Huntingdon's historic market square. … [Read more...]
Corvette Racing will aim for a sixth victory in the GT1 class in the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans before entering the GT2 category in the second half of the American Le Mans Series 2009 season. Corvette Racing will launch a full-season assault in the restructured GT division in 2010. … [Read more...]
On Sunday, September 14th, Lotus is opening its Hethel Factory gates to host a 60th anniversary open day and is inviting enthusiasts old and new. Guests will be free to tour the impressive engineering and factory facilities and sections of the design studios will be open for all to see. … [Read more...]
NASCAR Holdings announced an agreement to acquire the Grand-Am Road Racing (Grand-Am). The future move will allow for resource sharing between Grand-Am and NASCAR while both organizations continue to operate independently. NASCAR Holdings is the legal operating entity that includes the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) and many of its subsidiaries. … [Read more...]
Widespread during Monterey Week was the rumor that a Ferrari 250 GTO privately traded hands for a whopping $30,000,000. And yes, that is not a typo. Sports Car Digest has yet to definitively confirm the rumor, but the sale is very believable as Ferrari prices have been on a tear, particularly for the very finest models. … [Read more...]
Demand for automotive fine art was strong as the Automotive Fine Arts Society experienced solid sales and attendance during their 23rd annual art exhibit at the 2008 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on August 17, 2008. Stanley Rose headlined the award winners by capturing the prestigious Peter Helck Award for his stunning painting, "Nuvolari." … [Read more...]
ALMS Porsche GT2 driver Dirk Werner came into the series this year with a championship pedigree that matched the accomplishments of his team, Farnbacher Loles Racing. In their initial foray into the ALMS series the team has performed like they've been involved … [Read more...]
At 7:30 am on Saturday, June 14th, the morning of the Le Mans 24 Hours, some 60 Ferraris took to the circuit for the Heritage Parade, organized by Motor Racing Legends. This gives Le Mans-goers the unique opportunity to drive three high-speed parade laps of the full, 8.5-mile race circuit in their own cars, just a few hours before the start of the world's greatest endurance race. … [Read more...]
Climb Dance is a record-winning short film which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a four-wheel drive, all-wheel steering 600hp Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR at the 1988 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. … [Read more...]
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is the second oldest motor sports race in America and a long-standing tradition in Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak Region. First competed in 1916, this year marks the 86th running of the "Race to the Clouds." … [Read more...]
Velocity: The Art of Motion is the largest, stand-alone automotive fine art exhibition in the United States and the first time such an event has occurred in the Upper Midwest. Given the history of the site of Hopkins Center for the Arts (former dealer lot of Suburban Chevrolet), nothing could be more appropriate than celebrating the automobile and the art it has inspired. The invitational … [Read more...]
The FIA has unveiled the provisional calendar for the 2009 season, confirming the arrival of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and the absence of a race in the United States. The season will begin again in Australia in late March and will finish in Abu Dhabi in November. The calendar will have 19 races, one more than this year. … [Read more...]
30 years, 300 000 vehicles and a BMW M3 Coupe – these are the most significant earmarks of a remarkable anniversary. Three decades after commencing with the assembly of their first series production model, the BMW M GmbH has now delivered its 300,000th vehicle. The alpine white BMW M3 Coupe was handed over to a customer in Regensburg. This East Bavarian town is also the location of the BMW plant … [Read more...]
