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.
Photos, event coverage, news and information on vintage and classic car road rallies, including Mille Miglia, Tour Auto, California Mille, among others.
Report by Martin Swig | Photos by Maurice LiangThe Anti-Football Run is finally winning. After over 20 years of staging our January 1st drive, to save people from having to stay home and watch football, the Bowl promoters have given in. They moved their games to January 2nd!Over 150 cars gathered at 8:00am on New Year's Day 2012 for the annual 100+ mile drive in beautiful western Marin … [Read more...]
The East African Safari Classic Rally 2011 was held November 19-28, starting in Mombasa on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast.On the last day of the 2011 Kenya Airways East African Safari Classic rally the priority of all crews was to drive their cars over the finishers’ ramp at Mombasa, come hell or high water. And there have been plenty of both on this incredible adventure of a rally. Out of … [Read more...]
The inaugural Eco Targa Florio was staged September 29 - October 2, 2011 in Sicily, Italy.The Eco Targa Florio 2011 was comprised of three events: the Green Prix for alternative energy vehicles, the Classic for historic vehicles and the Ferrari Tribute for Ferraris built between 1948 and today. The first staging of the Eco Targa Florio ended after three days of competition, curves and trials … [Read more...]
The inaugural Mille Miglia North America Tribute was held October 25-29, 2011, starting and ending in Santa Barbara, California.Event organizer Stratus Media Group, Inc., is sub-licensed to produce the Mille Miglia North America Tribute by the MAC Group, Meet Comunicazione and Sanremorally (ATI) – official licensees of the Mille Miglia trademarks and organizers of the famous automobile … [Read more...]
Rally Nippon 2011 – From Japan’s Modern to Ancient CapitalsReport and photos by Len ClarkeThe 2011 running of Rally Nippon, quickly establishing itself as the last big event on the historic calendar here, went from Tokyo to Kyoto, making stops at some of the country’s most beautiful temples and shrines along the way.First held in 2009, Rally Nippon has gained a remarkable amount … [Read more...]
The London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 2011 was held Sunday, 8 November in London, with nearly 500 pre-1905 vehicles celebrating the 115th anniversary of the 1896 Emancipation Run.The Royal Automobile Club’s flagship event received entries from 22 countries, with the international contingent representing over 25% of the total field. Germany, the celebrated country in this year’s Run, had … [Read more...]
The Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti was held September 2-3, 2011 at Cortina d'Ampezzo in the heart of the Dolomites in Northern Italy.The Coppa d’Oro delle Dolomiti is a 400km Regularity Classic rally event only open to cars built before 1961, although post-1961 cars are permitted in another class. The race was divided into two stages: Friday, September 2, 2011 and Saturday, September 3, 2011. … [Read more...]
By Martin SwigOn October 25-29, 2011 the Santa Barbara, California Stratus Media Group showed us their interpretation of a Mille Miglia. Originally scheduled for August, the Mille Miglia North America Tribute was postponed until October “to allow entrants time to prepare their cars.” I was interested to observe, because for twenty-one years I’ve been involved with the California … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Dirk de JagerIn 2010, the Bourgoo brothers of Belgium realized a dream with setting up the first rally organized by the Zoute Automobile Club. The Bourgoo’s, who run the Bentley dealership in the high-society town of Knokke-Zoute on the Belgian coast, have always enjoyed driving rallies and wanted to bring the same experience to their region and also involve the city in … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Len ClarkeLa Festa Autunno was held October 8-12, 2011, starting and ending in Tokyo.Celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2011, La Festa Autunno is Japan’s most well-known historic rallying event, and attracts some of the finest machinery in this, a country filled with automotive works of art.Begun in 1997, the event, originally known as La Festa Mille Miglia, … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Dirk de JagerThe Alfa Romeo 8C Europe Rally 2011 was held September 20-25 in Austria.Among Alfisti, the Alfa Romeo 8C, or eight cylinder models, are ranked as the most exclusive and best models produced by the Milanese manufacturer. Available in different engine displacements and long or short chassis models, the best known would be the 2300 usually seen with bodies … [Read more...]
Report and photos by Vince JohnsonThe inaugural Supaloc Classic Targa Adelaide, held 14-17 September 2011 in South Australia, was the opening round of the Australian Targa Championship. Entries in the four-day tarmac rally were limited to cars twenty years or older, grouped into Early, Late and Contemporary Classic categories. More modern cars contested the Regularity section, nominating an … [Read more...]
Report by John Waugh and pictures by the photographers of John Waugh, Photographic ImagesThe 2011 running of the Colorado Grand was held September 12-17, starting and ending in Vail, Colorado.The Colorado Grand saw new ground in 2011 with the first ever travel outside of the state. As usual, a remarkable collection of entrants was assembled, highlighted by more than 20 Ferraris including … [Read more...]
The biennial Gstaad Audemars Piguet Classic was held 31 August to 4 September 2011 in the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. Organized by Peter Auto, the second Gstaad Classic took place on three new courses on the winding roads of the Alps, punctuated by timed stages on closed roads around one of the most beautiful villages in Switzerland - Gstaad.The scenic village of Gstaad offered an exceptional … [Read more...]
The Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance 2011 was held Thursday, August 18th, starting and ending at the Pebble Beach Equestrian Center in Pebble Beach, California. The annual scenic 60-mile trip around the Monterey Peninsula, held in association with the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, is open to vehicles that are participating in the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours on Sunday, August 21st. This year saw … [Read more...]
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