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.
Long before he became famous for designing and building Indianapolis racers that won the 500-mile race five times, Los Angeles fabricator Frank Kurtis made a considerable reputation building the best midget race cars in the world. Beginning in the late 1930s, his company, Kurtis Kraft, churned out over 1,150 midgets, 500 in ready-to-race form and 600 kits. Described by the National Midget Auto … [Read more...]
Porsche has been successful in many branches of motorsports, scoring tens of thousands of victories worldwide over the course of five decades of competition. From victories in the Carrera Panamericana and Targa Florio to Daytona and Le Mans, Porsche is the most successful sports car racing manufacturer in the world. Given their recent foray in SUVs and 4-door sedans (or perhaps as a reminder … [Read more...]
Having bid farewell to Formula One, BMW will reportedly strengthen its involvement in GT and touring car racing for 2010 and beyond. In light of the news, we profile one of their more famous production cars that became a race car - the BMW M1 Procar. The BMW M1 Procar Championship, sometimes known simply as Procar, was a one-make auto racing series created by Jochen Neerpasch, head of BMW … [Read more...]
The Porsche 934 was a racing version of the Porsche 911 Turbo, prepared to FIA Group 4 rules, similar to the Porsche 935 which was prepared to FIA Group 5 rules. Introduced for the 1976 racing season, the Porsche 934 was manufactured for two years, with at least 400 being manufactured. … [Read more...]
Happy Halloween from Sports Car Digest. Hennessey Performance Engineering is well-known in modern tuner circles for their ability to wring out amazing performance figures from Corvettes to Vipers and nearly everything in between. One of their latest creations is a supercharged version of the Cadillac CTS-V that turns the already quick Caddy into a 700hp beast capable of 11.07 second … [Read more...]
Juan Manuel Fangio (1911 - 1995) was a race car driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing. He won five Formula One World Driver's Championships — a record which stood for 46 years eventually beaten by Michael Schumacher — with four different teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati), a feat that has not been repeated since. Many consider Fangio to … [Read more...]
British Racing Motors (BRM) was a British Formula 1 motor racing team. Founded in 1945, it raced from 1950 to 1977, competing in 197 Grands Prix and winning 17. While BRM certainly created more successful F1 cars, the most astonishing has to be the BRM Type 15 with its inconceivable 1.5 litre V16 engine. The first post-war set of rules for Formula One allowed 1.5 litre supercharged or … [Read more...]
Artcurial is offering a Matra MS650 (s/n 01) at its 2009 Classic and Racing Cars auction on Sunday, February 8th at the Palais des Congrès in Paris. Three Matra 650s were built: 01-02-03. The 650 is probably the most sought after and important sports "barchetta" from Matra. Contrary to the later 660s and 670s, the 650 is the only one which can be driven on the road and thus is fully eligible … [Read more...]
For fans of the Alfa Romeo Type 105 series, the following video is a must see. And as unequivocal fans of the gritty little Alfa, we would also recommend this six minute slice of nirvana to all classic car nuts. … [Read more...]
To celebrate 60 years of collaboration between Shell and Ferrari, the marketing geniuses at Shell decided to pay homage to Ferrari F1 cars by creating a commercial that has to be the best car-guy commercial of all time. The sights and sounds will blow you away as Ferrari F1 cars from past to present blast through the streets of London, Rome, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, New York, and Sydney. … [Read more...]
ALMS Porsche GT2 driver Dirk Werner came into the series this year with a championship pedigree that matched the accomplishments of his team, Farnbacher Loles Racing. In their initial foray into the ALMS series the team has performed like they've been involved … [Read more...]
Climb Dance is a record-winning short film which features Finnish rally driver Ari Vatanen setting a record time in a four-wheel drive, all-wheel steering 600hp Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 GR at the 1988 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb. … [Read more...]
Victory by Design is a series of documentary films on the subject of famous racing automobile marques produced in the 1990s and 2000s. The series began as a single film focused on Porsche, directed by award winning film-maker Tony Maylam, executive produced by Clive Pullan and hosted by former racing driver, Alain de Cadenet. Commissioned by cable channel Speedvision, the US channel commissioned a … [Read more...]
Race car driver Gary Sheehan typically races modern sedans like the Subaru WRX STi, so he jumped at the invitation to drive the ex-Jo Bonnier McLaren M6B Can-Am vintage racer at Infineon Raceway. In Gary's first outing in the brutal 600hp … [Read more...]
The "American Le Mans Memories" online video series is a Speedtv.com and AmericanLeMans.com joint venture that opens up the vast ALMS/IMSA racing archives in order to show fans the original race broadcasts. The series started with the 1989 Sears Point IMSA Camel GTP/Camel Lights race and it continues with the coverage of the IMSA GTO/GTU race from the same weekend. … [Read more...]
