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 50th anniversary of Cobra will be celebrated at the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, scheduled for August 17-19 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. Created by Carroll Shelby in 1962, the original Shelby Cobra quickly established itself as the dominant American competitor on the international sports car racing scene, narrowly missing the World Sports Car Championship … [Read more...]
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2011 was held August 19-21 at the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. A strong field of 550 historic race cars from nearly every decade of motorsports history were divided into 17 groups according to age and engine size. Formerly known as the Monterey Historic Automobile Races or Monterey Historics, this year's Rolex … [Read more...]
The Ferrari 250 GTO class was a featured race at the 2011 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, held August 19-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. The Ferrari 250 GTO race group was the obvious fan favorite at the 2011 running of the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, as the GTOs were swarmed everywhere they went during race weekend. A field of seven Ferrari 250 GTOs were … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Dennis Gray The Monterey Motorsports Pre-Reunion 2011 was held August 13-14 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. Formerly known as Monterey Pre-Historics, the event is held the weekend before the much, much larger Monterey Motorsports Reunion. The 2011 edition of the Monterey Pre-Reunion was again open to the public, allowing spectators to enjoy a more … [Read more...]
A selection of significant Jaguar race cars will be exhibited at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2011, scheduled for August 19-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. Among the special activities planned for this year's Monterey Motorsports Reunion race weekend is the Jaguar Heritage Display that will celebrate the automobiles and drivers that achieved motor racing … [Read more...]
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2011 revealed its official poster art, depicting a Briggs Cunningham Jaguar E-Type Lightweight in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the E-Type. Jaguar is this year’s featured marque at the annual gathering of historic race cars to be held August 19-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas, California. Renowned artist Bill Patterson, who is the … [Read more...]
Interview and photos by Dennis Gray (unless noted) On Tuesday between the Pre-Reunion and the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, Cris Vandagriff, Historic Motor Sports Association (HMSA) President, agreed to sit down for an interview with Sports Car Digest. I knew a little about Cris, mainly that he had grown up around his father’s import car dealership, Hollywood Sports Cars. He knew and … [Read more...]
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2011 will celebrate the racing heritage of one of Britain’s legendary motor car companies - Jaguar. Few companies are as synonymous with sports car racing as Jaguar, and the reunion will highlight the 50th anniversary of the iconic Jaguar E-Type and 60th anniversary of the remarkable Jaguar C-Type’s win in the 1951 24 Hours of Le Mans. “The Rolex … [Read more...]
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2011 will be held August 19-21 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The list of race groups for the Monterey Motorsports Reunion have been announced, highlighted by the return of booming Can-Am race cars. Entry request forms are now being accepted. “We are keeping the event fresh with new race groups such as Can-Am,” said Gill Campbell, CEO/general manager … [Read more...]
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2010, held August 12-15 at the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California, featured more than 600 vintage race cars grouped into 19 classes. Photographer Dennis Gray documented the racing action, offering a total of 275 images from the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2010 on top of 100 photos from the Monterey Pre-Reunion. … [Read more...]
The Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2010 vintage car race was held August 14th and 15th at the 2.238-mile, 11-turn Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Monterey, California. A field of more than 600 classic race cars took to the track, grouped into 19 different racing classifications. Formerly known as the Monterey Historic Automobile Races or Monterey Historics, the "inaugural" Rolex Monterey … [Read more...]
The Monterey Motorsports Pre-Reunion (formerly Monterey Pre-Historics) has long been the insider’s choice as a good way to enjoy the vintage racing action at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca without having to fight the crowds. Held August 7-8, 2010 on the weekend prior to the much larger Monterey Motorsports Reunion, the Monterey Pre-Reunion was officially open to the public for the first time this … [Read more...]
The Monterey Motorsports Reunion 2010 will celebrate motorsports legend Dan Gurney when it returns to Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on August 13-15th. The feature titled: "Dan Gurney, the Cars He Built, the Cars He Drove" honors his role in shaping motorsports history by bringing together some of the historically-significant race cars associated with the legend. "I am both humbled and blown away … [Read more...]
Historic Stock Cars will take the grid at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion for the first time, with the drum brake Stock Cars class featured at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on August 13-15, 2010. Joining the Ferrari GTOs, Bugatti Type 35s and Cobra Daytona Coupes in the paddock is an impressive field of championship cars, such as the two-time Stock Car Champion Ned Jarrett's 1966 Ford … [Read more...]
A strong field of 38 historic F1 cars will take to the grid to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Formula One at this year's Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, held August 12-15, 2010 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. “The first world championship Formula 1 race was held at Silverstone in 1950 and for this year’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we wanted to celebrate the 60 years of … [Read more...]
