Jonathan remains unbeaten in F4 UAE Cape Town driver Jonathan Aberdein is literally making the Formula 4 UAE series his own following another dominant weekend in Abu Dhabi, where he started from pole position and went on to win all four races to remain unbeaten in Formula 4 UAE’s ten races so far.”I have to […]
Haas Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean won on his return to the Trophee Andros ice racing series at the Alpe d’Huez.The Frenchman joined reigning champion Jean-Baptiste Dubourg at DA Racing to drive a Renault Clio in the series.He qualified eighth for the opening race of the weekend but retired. However, he bounced back in the […]
Volvo Trucks pulls off some pretty cool stunts in the name of showing off the engineering behind its trucks. We’ve seen Jean-Claude Van Damme do the splits between two Volvos, a Volvo truck driver tow a paraglider, a 4-year old girl operate a Volvo truck remotely, and a valet figure out how he’s going to […]
Romain Grosjean will return to the ice in December to take part in the annual Andros Trophy event next weekend with series champions DA Racing. The Haas F1 driver has competed in the event since 2009 and has gone on to win twice before. In his most recent outing, in 2014, the Frenchman finished on […]
GAS Sports have announced that a round of the SuperGP Champions Trophy will form part of Africa Bike Week™ for the next three years.Over the past three years the SuperGP Champions Trophy has grown and is now firmly established as the premier motorcycle racing series on the South African calendar with many of its stars […]
Fashion entrepreneur reportedly tried to get $10,000 to continue partying in NYC Fiat heir Lapo Elkann, grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli and brother of FCA chairman John Elkann, was arrested in New York City over the weekend for filing a false police report alleging his own kidnapping with the intent to acquire $10,000 to […]
Dennis Lind has won the fourth edition of the Lamborghini World Final held on Valencia’s “Ricardo Tormo” circuit. The Dane of the team Raton Racing, aged 23, is the new European champion of the 2016 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo and the 2016 World Champion in the PRO category. The driver, at his debut in the […]
MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has claimed a record-tying fifth victory in the Monza Rally Show event, seeing off closest rivals Dani Sordo and Marco Bonanomi. Rossi took the lead from Sordo in the second of the event’s 10 stages, when the WRC frontrunner picked up a penalty for hitting a cone. From that point on, […]
One round, two races and the Engen Volkswagen Cup championship is settled for 2016. Settled once four competitors have sorted out their finishing positions after the last race. Zwartkops Raceway sees this showdown take place on Saturday, November 26, when the Engen Volkswagen Cup field competes in the Extreme Festival. “The final race day for […]
One of the most popular race teams in Eastern Cape motoring circles, the father-and-son combo of Neil Stephen and his two sons Geoff and Jono, will be going all out for top saloon and Index honours in this weekend’s Three Hour endurance race at the Aldo Scribante race circuit at Port Elizabeth. The Ford and […]
Lee Thompson Racing heads to Zwartkops’ 26 November Comsol Volkswagen Challenge season finale with two cars involved in a tight three-car brawl chasing Class A honours. LTR’s Waldie Meintjes finds himself in the joint class championship lead with rival Rory Atkinson, with teammate Tasmin Pepper 12 points adrift in third. “Kyalami was not good to […]
Drivers are waiting anxiously to see what the coming years will have in store for the prestigious touring cars eventThe cliche is that the toughest circuits bring out the best from the best but Tom Coronel says he knows exactly what it takes to win the Macau Guia Race.“It’s a place where you need real […]
Al Maqoodi bags buggy race at Desert Championship The 2014-15 Emirates Desert Champion, Ahmed Al Maqoodi, made a winning return to the Emirates Desert Championship on Friday morning, winning the BUGGY race for the Polaris UAE Racing Team.Emirati Al Maqoodi has only made limited appearances in the championship since winning the title two years ago […]
The president of the Sports Bureau Pun Weng Kun believes that Hong Kong’s recent FIA Formula E race will have a positive influence on the Macau Grand Prix. “I think it is a good thing that the neighboring region is organizing a car race. It will generate more interest from people,” he told the media […]
The stunning rout of the US election by President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party has brought a mixed reaction among the motorsport community.Most notably, Mexican Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez has split with his new sunglasses sponsor via Twitter after the brand tweeted a message stating that crying Mexican eyes could hide behind its […]
Cape Town’s favourite race series, the Western Cape Bold Marine GTi Challenge heads into the final stretch, with Killarney’s penultimate November 12 Power Series meeting leaving only four drivers in the championship frame, but three of them needing a minor miracle to pull it off. For all intents and purposes, the title should already have […]
Former Formula 1 driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen received the opportunity to test drive the modified Tesla Model S that will be used in the Electric GT Championship.Frentzen drove seven laps around the Paul Ricard track in France. In total 40 laps were completed during the day. “As a long time owner of this manufacturer it was great […]
Cape Town race driver Jonathan Aberdein enjoyed a brilliant start to his winter campaign when he qualified on pole position before going on to win all three of Abu Dhabi’s Formula 4 UAE Trophy races at the Yas Marina grand prix circuit over the weekend. It was also Aberdein’s first ever main circuit victory. “Yes! […]
Less than a month after competing in the Motocross of Nations (MXoN) in Italy and winning his ninth South African Motocross title, Kerim Fitz-Gerald (29) is in California where he will take on some of the world’s toughest competitors in the Red Bull Straight Rhythm event on October 22. […]
The Bridgestone BMW Club Racing Series will return to the revamped Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit on Saturday 29 October for the first time since this historic motorsport venue’s reopening. This is the format where the ground-breaking series was born- it promises to be the biggest event in the clubs history A bumper field of entries […]
When all the cars are identical, victory comes down to driver skill. If you’re looking to see some seriously close racing, check out a one-make race series. That’s the idea behind the Audi TT Cup: with each driver piloting a mechanically identical car, skill is the only differentiating factor. And as Dickie Meaden of EVO […]
New funding from Geely, the Chinese company that owns Volvo, will help the British team attempt to shatter the land speed world record.The push to build the world’s first 1000-mph wheeled vehicle is back on. After a number of delays and setbacks, Bloodhound’s attempt to shatter the current 763-mph land-speed record by shrieking to 1000 […]
Former F1 driver and World Endurance Champion Mark Webber has announced he will be retiring from racing at the end of the 2016 season. The 40 year-old is one of Australia’s most decorated international racers, picking up 9 wins in a lengthy F1 career spanning more than a decade before going on to enjoy world […]
Robert Kubica is 90% certain to return to circuit racing, rather than rallying, for 2017. The 2008 Canadian Grand Prix winner has not competed full-time this season after his World Rally Championship program ended. He attended the recent French WRC round in Corsica and said that while he still has ambitions in rallying, his most […]
Tasmanian driver Alex Peroni has moved to within touching distance of the Monoplace Challenge title after a clean sweep at the penultimate round at Magny-Cours.The 16-year-old claimed wins in all three races after qualifying on pole in the Formula Renault open-wheel series. Peroni now moves into the final round at Estoril with a 155 points […]
African Endurance heads to the Bay The 2016 Mopar African Endurance championship heads towards the final stretch when it visits Port Elizabeth for its penultimate round at what is sure to be a most intriguing Three Hours of the Eastern Cape at Aldo Scribante. Despite Simon Murray having won three of the first four races […]
Women have been making inroads in sports car racing for decades, and finally, a female driver has won a major full-season North American championship.Christina Nielsen did it this past weekend at Road Atlanta, where she and co-driver Alessandro Balzan captured the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar GT Daytona (GTD) title in the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari. […]
Top billing will belong to races for SKF Champion of Champions and Pre-66 Legend Production Cars.Fighting for victories and providing brilliant spectacle should be drivers like Hennie Groenewald (Ford Comet), Mark du Toit (Chev Camaro), Ben Morgenrood (Ford Mustang), Jonathan du Toit (Chev Nova) and Thomas Falkiner (Studebaker Golden Hawk). The Under Two-Litre class will […]
South Africa’s US IMSA PC star Stephen Simpson ended his year of on a high in spite of some challenges at the series Petit Le Mans finale at Road Atlanta in Georgia. Simpson, sharing with regular teammate Russo-Canadian Misha Goikhberg and US driver Chris Miller, drove the JDC Miller Motorsports Hi-Tide Red Line ORECA Chevrolet to third in the WeatherTech Prototype Challenge race […]
Former Formula 1, and more recently WRC driver, Robert Kubica, turned up in Corsica – as a spectator! He explained the dilemmas of his motorsport career. KUBICA RACING ON THE TRACK “The way this year has developed, it was not the best for driving. I am missing rallying, but the rallying I did last year […]
After what can only be described as an epic season of the GT Asia Series, the final event of the year approaches with 13 drivers, seven teams and four marques still in with a mathematical chance of outright championship victory.So far there have been six different winning combinations across the ten races so far, and […]
South African Audi Sport TT Cup star Sheldon van der Linde moved back into the lead of the series’ rookie standings and third in the overall championship in Hungoraring’s penultimate round in Budapest, Hungary over the weekend. “I wasn’t too happy with my first race,” 17-year old van der Linde admitted after finishing fourth. “I was not fully […]
Stephen Simpson is keen to end off his double-2016 US IMSA season where he started at the series Petit Le Mans finale at Road Atlanta in Georgia 1-2 October. Simpson and his teammates won the season-opening Rolex Daytona 24 Hour in the PC class and he and regular teammate Russo-Canadian Misha Goikhberg won again in […]
Zwartkops Raceway was the setting for the seventh round of the 2016 Inland Championship this past weekend with non-stop action highlighting another brilliant race day.As usual the INEX Legends series kicked off proceedings with an action packed first race. Divan Myburgh (Pro) took an early lead ahead of Clinton Bezuidenhout (Young Lion) and Seef Fourie […]
Former winners Shado Alston, Denver Biggs and Reg Gurnell lead the list of entries for this year’s RFS Auto Bike Econrun on Friday and Saturday. One of the most important events on the annual South African motorsport calendar, the econorun highlights the fuel efficiency of motorcycles available on the South African market and has drawn […]
Alex Zanardi is not a devout man, but as he absorbed the reality of back-to-back Paralympic gold medals he could not help but entertain the idea of divine intervention. “Normally, I don’t thank God for these things – God has far more important matters to worry about – but when I finished and I was […]
Le Mans legend Tom Kristensen and reigning FIA World Rallycross Champion Petter Solberg have become the latest driving greats to join the line-up for the first Race Of Champions on American soil – inside Miami’s Marlins Park on January 21-22, 2017. Denmark’s Kristensen is acknowledged as the finest endurance racer in motor sport history. Known […]
Over 15 teams from all over the world have joined the first edition of the Balkan Classic Rallye, the eight day endurance rally on gravel and dirtroads in Bulgaria held from 10 to 18 september 2016. Starting on the main square in front of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and finishing on the beach of the […]
South Africa’s Eugene Denyssen ended his rookie British Formula 3 season on a high at the Donington season finale in a weekend that saw the Somerset West youngster score his first pole position and stand on the podium for the first time after he finished second in the second race. “I am absolutely delighted […]
In what has been the most competitive season in the history of the FIM Motocross World Championship, Honda Gariboldi’s Tim Gajser has locked up the MXGP world title in his rookie year at the tender age of nineteen years old. What’s even more impressive is that the Slovenian star has now gone back-to-back titles […]