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 1948 Ferrari 166 MM is the definitive 1950s sports car configuration, with its smooth envelope, long flowing hood and short tail. Named for the Mille Miglia race, it was created by Carrozzeria Touring in Milan, and compared to the 125S, from which it was developed, the Barchetta (“little boat”) is a masterpiece of simple style.Ferrari expert and 166 MM owner David Seielstad has called … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Dennis GrayThe Classic Sports Racing Group (CSRG) kicked off its 44th season at Infineon Raceway Sears Point on April 2-3, 2011. The event featured testing on Friday, with vintage racing on the 12-turn, 2.52-mile road course on Saturday and Sunday.A full field of vintage race cars graced the road course over the weekend, including Sports Racing, Formula and … [Read more...]
The Tour Auto Rally 2011 was held 11-16 April on the roads and circuits of France. Over 230 cars gathered in Paris for the start of the 20th historical Tour de France rally, a multi-day event that combines 2,500 km of road driving with multiple circuit and hillclimb stages.The 2011 edition of the Tour Auto Optic 2ooo rally paid tribute to the cars of Zagato, one of the greatest Italian … [Read more...]
Our MG Mighty Midget, TC for All TimesBy William Edgar and photography courtesy of Edgar Motorsport ArchiveMy first really dramatic recollection of our MG-TC was drifting through Sunset Boulevard’s curves, my father at the wheel. He’d folded the screen flat and the wind-blown tangs of hot engine and rubber were sheer adrenaline. I was 15 then, had already learned to drive the … [Read more...]
Legendary Indianapolis 500 champions Mario Andretti, Arie Luyendyk, Bobby Rahal, Johnny Rutherford, Al Unser, Al Unser Jr. and Bobby Unser each will each drive a winning car from "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" around the fabled Brickyard oval during pre-race ceremonies at the 100th Anniversary Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 29, 2011.The participants, with the years of their victories and … [Read more...]
Report by Vince Johnson and photos by Bob Taylor and Grant SimsThe Clipsal 500 Adelaide 2011 was held 17-20 March at the 14-turn, 3.22 km Adelaide Street Circuit in South Australia.Fifteen years ago the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix headed interstate from South Australia, but Adelaide still echoes to the sound of race engines each year. The Clipsal 500 is actually two 250 kilometre races … [Read more...]
The inaugural Donington Historic Festival will be held 30 April to 1 May, 2011 at Donington Park near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England.The on-track action at Donington Historic Festival 2011 will see more than 300 historic racing cars battling it out in a packed programme of historic races from the 30s to the 80s, with diverse grids that range from Group A Touring Cars to Group C … [Read more...]
By Will SilkWhile many may hold the opinion that road racing has lost quite a bit of its luster in recent years, one does not have to look far, but perhaps just a bit closer at some exciting machinery that has been created in the past decade to carry on the great tradition of on track glory that once was seemingly found to be occurring at tracks all over the world. In the mid 1990s, a … [Read more...]
There is a healthy rivalry brewing between three racing adversaries -- a Canadian/American team, an Australian team, and the current record holder UK team. All are bent on having the first vehicle to travel faster than 800 mph for the World Land Speed Record.The Canadian/American team, North American Eagle, once they have secured sponsorship funding could attempt the record this year. The UK … [Read more...]
Daytona is a name that has long been part of the speed racing history as early American-based land speed record attempts were undertaken on the beaches within a 20-minute drive of today’s Daytona International Speedway. As stated in Speed on Sand, written by William Tuthill, and published by the Daytona Beach Museum of Speed in 1969, “This area, encompassing Ormond and Daytona Beach, is the … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Vince JohnsonThe Phillip Island Classic Festival of Motorsport was held 18-20 March, 2011 at the 4.445 km (2.762 mile) Phillip Island Circuit in Victoria, Australia.With around 500 entries contesting 46 races and regularity time trials over the weekend it’s no wonder the Phillip Island track status stays hot all day long. … [Read more...]
By Martin SwigJay Lamm is a long-time friend. Back in 2006, when he first thought of “LeMons,” I encouraged him. I told him he should simply go ahead and do it; the sooner he started, the quicker he’d discover exactly how it should be done. “Just make your mistakes and move on.”The first 24 Hours of LeMons at Altamont Speedway, near Livermore, California, was a huge success. … [Read more...]
By Louis GalanosIn secret testing almost two weeks (April 1 to be exact) after the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring race Alfa Romeo arrived at Sebring with their one-of-a-kind, six-wheeled, twelve cylinder Alfa-Romeo T33/6/12. Designed to give the Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512 a run for its money, the Alfa Romeo sported a 5-liter V12/60 degrees/4v engine and six wheels in total. … [Read more...]
The Silverstone Classic 2011 will be held 22-24 July at the famous Silverstone circuit, birthplace of the FIA Formula One World Championship and home of the 2011 Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix. The three-day event will feature over 1000 drivers racing more than 800 of the world’s finest competition cars spanning the full spectrum of motor sport history.The world’s biggest classic … [Read more...]
The second race of the SVRA vintage car racing season was held March 16-20, 2011 at the famed Sebring International Raceway in Sebring, Florida. Held in conjunction with the 12 Hours of Sebring, the event is held on the same 3.7 mile, 17-turn track that is home to the American Le Mans Series race won this year by Peugeot 908 HDi of Oreca Racing.Since the vintage racers share track time with … [Read more...]
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