Racing Sports Cars website was launched in February 2002 and its main purpose was to provide large photo archives from various types of sportscar racing. There are also some other possible plans in the future but at the moment photo archive remains the focus of the RSC site.
The photos are sorted on race by race basis. The intention is to show at least one view of each car in every particular race. The programme cover as well as entry list from the race programme is a part of each race gallery.
For that reason any kind of contribution is very important for the development of the site. So if you feel that you or any of your friends have a collection of photos from sportscar racing and would provide them with a permission to use them for RSC site, we would appreciate if you contact us. For further details about posting photos and their format please visit following link.
We may have also interest in some kind of support like sponsorship of the site or some donations to keep the site alive as long as possible. For further details please visit this link.
Within each race the photos of particular cars are sorted by race numbers. Next to the thumbnail view there is a lot of information about each car that includes some technical and entrants information as well as results achieved by the car during the meeting. At some races the gallery is enlarged by additional unsorted photos that usually include other views of some rare cars, photos from race start or some accidents.
The Racing Sports Cars website is a large project. Any contribution of sportscar photos or race programmes (cover and entry lists scans) is the main way the site may grow. We appreciate very much all contributions from friends and sportscar enthusiasts received so far. If you are new to the site or have some personal collection of photos from sportscar racing, we would like if you could think about possible contribution for the site where you can share your collection with thousands of people.
Even if you don't have any photos, you may still know some friends, photographers, websites or publications that would give their permission to use their photos here on RSC site.
However we do not use any pictures from books, magazines, other websites or any other sources without prior permission of the photographers, publishers or site owners. Even such photos may be still useful for our personal archive to help to sort out other pictures or to get some additional information about the car such as color scheme, sponsorship, tyres or so. But any copyrighted photos cannot be used for RSC without premission. We do believe that all photos on RSC site are used within that criterion. Most of the photos used on RSC site are copyrighted by their original authors, few of them are copyright free. Non of them can be used for any other purpose than a personal collection without prior agreement of Racing Sports Cars and credited photographer or subject.
We appreciate whatever format of pictures and way to receive them but since some people ask us for details, we would like to describe some general information about the photos that are commonly used on RSC site. All photos on RSC site are in JPG format. Their usual dimension is about 750x450 pixels or similar (other common sizes are for example 800x420, 700x500, 720x480 or 600x600). The JPG compression is usually set to keep the file size within 40 and 85 kilobytes. Programme covers are usually 600 pixels high and entry lists are as large as they would remain well readable.
Contributed photos are welcomed to be larger than this stardard RSC format, we would crop them or downsize by ourselves. Pictures may be sent by email, which is the most common way or sent on a CD. For those files sent by email we would appreciate if size of each particulat photo does not exceed some 300÷500kB. It is also possible to send photos by post and we would scan them and send carefully back.
Generally we cover almost all sportscar races. We don't have capacity to include also racing cars or touring cars races apart from few exceptions mentioned below. RSC covers following championships:
RSC also covers for example some Trans-Am races but only years 1973 to 1988. We would also have interest in races like touring car editions of 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps that were counted towards the FIA Championship for Endurance drivers (1979 to 1981), similarly as some IMSA RS endurance races, as well as European Touring car races 6 Hours of Nürburgring that were part of DRM in its early years.
Simply if you like to contribute and weren't sure if such race is covered, we would always appreciate if you ask us.
Since the RSC project is a private effort and during last two years interest about the site grew up very much, it caused problems with very high traffic as well as increased requirements for the web space. We have already escaped from free webhosting services in order to bring to you more reliable and quicker browsing. We would appreciate any kind of support to keep the whole site that desires web space almost 1.5 GB and data transfer about 50 GB monthly alive. For that reason we may need some kind of sponsorship or donations to pay for the hosting and other expenses needed to run the whole project. We would wish the site to remain on web for a very long time but as it is quite private effort, we would also appreciate any support to maintain it.
For further information, please, contact us at rsc@atlas.cz.
