The Sports Car Institute

The Sports Car Institute: My Passion

January 11, 2026

Why You Should Be Watching Sports Car Racing (IMSA + WEC): The Manufacturer Wars You Can Actually Relate To

When Americans think motorsport, they often think NASCAR, IndyCar, or Formula 1. Yet one of the most compelling forms of racing—both technologically and emotionally—often remains under-discovered […]
January 5, 2026

The First Time I Heard Engines Dream: How Le Mans Changed a Nine-Year-Old in Missouri — and the Ten Films Every True Enthusiast Should Know

When I was nine years old, in a tiny Missouri town where the biggest excitement was the arrival of a new Dairy Queen flavor, my parents […]
November 16, 2025

The Day Cars Stopped Being Sensible: A Short History of the First Sports Cars

If you lined up every great sports car you and I drool over—from 550 Spyders and E-Types to 911 GT3s and modern Ferraris—you’d discover something slightly […]
March 16, 2025

The F1 Driver vs. the Sports Car Collector: Who Defines Automotive Passion?

Introduction – Two Sides of the Same Passion For some, cars are tools for competition—machines built for the absolute limit, where fractions of a second separate […]