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How can you become a part of Sports Car Insider?

Although there is a core group of contributors, anyone is welcome to submit. Sports Car Insider is made up of many voices, but it has its own voice and style (though that voice and style is evolving all the time). We suggest sending a query via our contact form with a summary of your idea, and links to related samples.

Note: If you submit something, you should be prepared to have your work run alongside the name for which you are already well-known in the online world. Sports Car Insider does not have an advertising budget; much of our traffic results from the combined halo effect of our contributors.

What kind of content gets published on Sports Car Insider?

  • Sports Car event overviews (not race reports or results per se`)
  • Unique car reviews… restorations, hands-on experiences
  • Driving events or road trips with unique car groups or themes
  • Personalities - car related people… designers, racing drivers, race team owners, historical figures
  • Lifestyle - collections, collector events, auctions, cruises, one-off car themed events
  • What kind of essays get published on Sports Car Insider?

Essays should:

  • be 75 to 1500 words.
  • tell a story.
  • be related to the sports car and driving lifestyle/culture.
  • reveal something unique about the subject and your PERSONAL interpretation of it.


Essays should NOT:

  • talk about Sports Car Insider
  • talk about the essay-writing process
  • be banal, obvious, or cliche
  • describe a project that you are planning to undertake, someday


Sports Car Insider reserves the right to edit written submissions. All content  is subject to our discretion with respect to boundaries of “good taste.” We will not censor an article, but rather reject it.

Photo Contributions

Here again, Sports Car Insider has a core group of contributing photographers. Please know, our benchmark for quality images is set high and is a prominent part of the site’s appeal.

If your work is accepted it must be a gallery presentation of 20-40 images and must be accompanied by a brief introduction (100-250 words) describing the event, vehicle or photo-essay. Introduction style should reflect the writing and philosophical style of Sports Car Insider.

Technical Specifications

All images must

  • be 1024 pixels on the longest side at 72ppi.
  • be watermarked with the photographers name and copyright placed DISCREETLY in the lower righthand corner.
  • contain NO LOGOS, borders or frames.

If images accompany a story, please make every effort to limit the altering or digital manipulation of your images. While it is fine to clone or remove a tin can or piece of garbage, we ask that you work to retain the original context of the photo. (This does not apply to staged/studio static and/or artistic submissions.)

Sports Car Insider may crop or adjust images slightly to fit the page format. However we will not manipulate or change an image. Rather we will reject it.

All content  is subject to our discretion with respect to boundaries of “good taste.” We will not censor an article or image, but rather reject it.

All articles, essays, reports, graphics and images submitted to Sports Car Insider remain the property of the creator.