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.
British marques dominated the 20-minute Fordwater Trophy race for production-based sports cars. Patrick Blakeney-Edwards, who had surprised himself by claiming pole in Jonathan Procter's Frazer Nash Sebring, led from start to finish, pulling out a four-car gap over the pursuing Aston Martin DB2 of fellow front row starter Oliver Leyba within half a lap of the flag dropping. … [Read more...]
This upcoming weekend (September 19-21) Goodwood will celebrate the tenth anniversary of the popular and unique Goodwood Revival.With the weather forecast looking very encouraging for the event, around 115,000 excited motor sport enthusiasts are expected to come to see their favorite star cars and drivers in action. After ten years, the Goodwood Revival is firmly established as the world's … [Read more...]
Externally, Earls Court looks like the entrance to a 1950s Motor Show, promising to display 'cars of the future' inside. As no post-1966 vehicles are ordinarily allowed on site during the Goodwood Revival, the Earls Court Motor Show will enable the event to break out of its 'period' timeframe and display post-1966 vehicles. The effect will be like walking into a Tardis, offering other-worldly … [Read more...]
Selecting the overall victor at the annual Cartier 'Style et Luxe' automotive design competition at the Goodwood Festival of Speed is never an easy task. However, at this year's event, held on the sweeping Cartier Lawn at Goodwood House over the weekend of July 11-13, the judges duty of crowning the overall winner was made easier by a truly stunning motor car. … [Read more...]
The 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed was deemed by the 140,000+ spectators as the best one yet, with so much going on, that the crowds didn't know where to look first. Just one week after Lewis Hamilton's epic victory at the British Grand Prix, a wildly partisan crowd toasted the Formula One star with champagne as he appeared on the balcony of Goodwood House to the interviewed by popular … [Read more...]
Audi Tradition is marking this year's Festival of Speed at Goodwood, England, held July 11th – 13th, with a world debut. At the largest classic car racing event in the world, the Ingolstadt company will be taking the wraps off an absolutely authentic reconstruction of the original Auto Union "Silverarrow" Type D Dual Compressor from 1939. Construction of this racing car, the original version … [Read more...]
With just over two weeks to go until the 2008 Festival of Speed gets underway July 11th – 13th, Goodwood is getting into celebratory mode as it prepares to mark a number of significant motor sport and automotive anniversaries at the event, including Goodwood's own 60th anniversary since motor racing began at the famous West Sussex venue in 1948. A selection of the many anniversaries being … [Read more...]
With over five weeks to go until the 2008 Festival of Speed on July 11-13, Goodwood can already confirm that over 80 of the world's greatest motor racing drivers and riders will be present at the world's largest celebration of motoring culture, with more big names still expected to follow over the coming weeks.Here are just some of the star drivers and riders taking part in this year's … [Read more...]
To the earth-shaking accompaniment of over 50 competition racing cars and motorcycles firing into life, The Earl of March announced the key attractions due to appear at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed, being held between July 11-13.Many top competition cars, motorcycles and road-going supercars due to be at the Festival in July, were gathered in the Park at Goodwood House in West Sussex … [Read more...]
Recent Comments