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 2009 East African Safari Classic Rally will take place November 22nd through December 1st, starting from Mombasa, Kenya and covering 4,300 kilometers of which 1,900 will be competitive.Forty one local and international drivers have already signed up for this year's rally and Kenya Airways announced a sponsorship package to keep the event's title sponsorship. … [Read more...]
The Mille Miglia Storica returned to the roads of Italy on May 13-17, 2009 for another 1,000 mile road rally from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia."The legend has won. After last year's enormous success, the world's greatest road race has surpassed itself to become even greater," said Alessandro Casali, President of the Organizing Committee of the Mille Miglia, at the Awards Ceremony which … [Read more...]
BMW and the Mille Miglia are united by a shared history that goes back a long way. The triumphs of the BMW 328 are as inseparably linked with this 1,000-mile race as the winning appearance of the BMW 507 in the late 1950s.BMW Classic is writing a further chapter of this historic narrative at the 2009 Mille Miglia. An icon of BMW racing history, normally only on view at the BMW Museum, has been … [Read more...]
The 2009 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance featured more than 30 classes, including the Race Cars of 1963 to 1972.In a class that included many incredible race cars, our highlighted cars – 1971 Porsche 911 STR and 1972 Datsun 240Z – stood out from the class … [Read more...]
The seventh historic revival of the Coppa Milano-Sanremo classic car race took place March 13-15th in Northern Italy.Open to classic cars built between 1906 and 1973, the Coppa Milano-Sanremo takes competitors on mountainous terrain and country roads passing through the villages and fields of the Pavese region, the hills and valleys of the Gavi, until finally reaching the summit of the … [Read more...]
The 19th running of the California Mille will take place April 25-30, 2009 over 1000 miles of Northern California's finest roads. Approximately 75 historic race cars – those that could have qualified for Italy's famed Mille Miglia race – will take an entirely new route in 2009, traversing the majestic Pacific Coast, California's legendary gold country and the picturesque Sacramento River … [Read more...]
The inaugural Targa California 2009 Tour will take place March 26-28 in Paso Robles, California. Inspired by the defunct No Frills Iron Bottom Motoring Tour, the Targa California Tour aims to carry on with the casual nature of the No Frills Tour. Targa California is open to any and all pre-1975 cars and, similar to the No Frills Tour, there is no entry fee, prizes, established pace or specified … [Read more...]
The 2009 Tour Auto will become Tour Auto Optic 2000, as Optic 2000 replaces Lissac as the main partner of the Tour Auto rally. Held next year on April 20-25, Tour Auto organizers expect two hundred classic racing cars to participate in the 18th annual rally, which is open to cars whose model participated in the original Tour de France Automobile from 1951 to 1973. … [Read more...]
Bloomington Gold Tours announced three all Corvette tours planned for 2009, all of which include deluxe lodging, great cuisine, unforgettable group activities, merchandise, trip mementos and the ultimate in Corvette entertainment. … [Read more...]
The 2008 Classic Adelaide finished in extraordinary circumstances with Porsche driver Bill Pye winning the outright Late Classic category after a late drama cost Kevin Weeks almost certain victory yesterday. Weeks, the 2007 winner with co-driver Bec Crunkhorn, finished an agonizing 2.8 seconds behind Pye after he had dominated four days and more than 250 kilometers of special-stage racing. … [Read more...]
The Mille Miglia returns to the roads of Italy on May 13-17, 2009 – a thousand miles of driving excitement with the famous cars that have written the story of the greatest road race in the world. The city of Brescia is, as always, the backdrop of the Starting and the Finish Line for the race that will cross some of the most beautiful towns of Italy. The fascination of Rome will pay tribute … [Read more...]
After the winter rain that fell on the International Concours in Regent Street, the participants on the 2008 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (LBVCR) were greeted by warm autumn sunshine as they crossed the finish line in front of large crowds on Brighton's seafront on Sunday, November 2nd. The first cars left Hyde Park at sunrise, flagged off in the presence of His Royal Highness, The Duke of … [Read more...]
The 2008 Carolina Trophy Vintage Road Rally took place September 14th – 19th in the Blue Ridge and Great Smokey Mountains throughout North Carolina. The 4th annual Carolina Trophy continued as a competitive TSD and regularity trial in the spirit of the Mille Miglia and Alpine Rallye. Each team chose to be classified as either "competitive" or "touring", giving both the serious and casual … [Read more...]
Muscle cars came as far away as Georgia, Texas and Canada to participate in the 2008 Muscle Car 1000 rally October 5th - 9th in Northern California. The 4th annual rally included 30 teams that took part in the five-day, all-inclusive 1,000 mile adventure. The event was limited to classic muscle cars, defined as those owning a 1964-1973 American Muscle Car (GTO, Roadrunner, Barracuda, etc.), … [Read more...]
The 2009 Coppa Milano-Sanremo: a bit more competition, a bit less excursion The seventh revival of one of Italy's truly historic motoring events, Coppa Milano-Sanremo, starts early next year on March 13th to March 15th. … [Read more...]
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