Michael Schumacher’s manager Sabine Kehm urged restraint on Wednesday as the record Formula One champion’s 16-year-old son Mick began testing ahead of his car-race debut later this month. While seven-time F1 champion Schumacher continues his recovery from injuries suffered in a ski accident in December 2013, son Mick began his first public test session […]
JUST three weeks after tackling round one of the South African Single-Seater season at Zwartkops Raceway, the Formula Ford Duratec competitors head to Killarney for round two of the 2015 championship. The Western Cape round takes place on Saturday, April 11, and will see these open-wheel racers pick up the battles from round one. […]
BBC Worldwide has come to an agreement with joint partner Brand Events to continue with the shows which will now be called Clarkson, Hammond and May Live.The future of the live events had been in doubt since Clarkson was sacked by the BBC last month following a physical altercation with a producer. Originally scheduled for […]
The Liqui Moly Legends Championship made their way to the historic Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit on Saturday 28 March for the first time in their history for the second round of the 2015 racing season. Once again this popular series showed its ever growing strength with an impressive twenty three car field lining up on […]
The Alfa Trofeo Series set out to the historic Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit on Saturday 28 March for the second round of their championship. With a number of new cars and drivers in the field, as well as a bumper twenty one car entry, the racing promised to be action packed. And the drivers in […]
One of the best-known rally cars in Australia – Possum Bourne’s ex-World Rally Championship Subaru hillclimb car – will once again be back at Race to the Sky, this time with popular rally star Alister McRae at the wheel. The Australia-based Scotsman was invited to drive the two-door Subaru WRX STI by long-time rally supporter […]
Toyota Motorsport GmgH has today announced a change in its president. Outgoing President Yoshiaki Kinoshita will be replaced by Toshio Sato from 1st April.Kinoshita will return to Japan and take up an executive position within the company. After securing the long-term future of the WEC project, winning the world championship and sealing a World […]
After a short two week break the popular Liqui Moly Inex Legends Series will head to the historic Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit on Saturday 28 March for the first time in the series history. This will also be the last time that the category will get to race on this historic track before the planned […]
Jeremy Clarkson’s contract will not be renewed after an “unprovoked physical attack” on a Top Gear producer, the BBC’s director general has confirmed.Tony Hall said he had “not taken this decision lightly” and recognised it would “divide opinion”.However, he added “a line has been crossed” and he “cannot condone what has happened on this occasion”. […]
The FIA has started work on its plans to bring back Formula 2 to act as the main feeder category to Formula 1 in the future. Friday’s World Motor Sport Council meeting in Geneva revealed that the governing body expects to have a “detailed project” complete in time for the July WMSC meeting. The FIA […]
A battle of epic proportions is unfolding in the build-up to the 2015 Jaguar Simola Hillclimb, as reigning and previous champions are set to take on a bevy of new pretenders to the highly revered ‘King of the Hill’ throne. This event is the focal point of the entire Jaguar Simola Hillclimb weekend, which runs […]
The BBC has lost 4 million viewers as a rsuspend the longtime host and cancel the remaining three episodes in the season has inflicted a massive hit in ratings, with the network rerunning “Red Arrows: Inside the Bubble,” a documentary about the Royal Air Force aerobatics team in “Top Gear’s” time slot. The rerun of […]
BMW surprised the Villa d’Este glitz-fest at the weekend with the Mini Superleggera Vision concept car. Produced in association with la famosa carrozzeria Touring, it’s like Mini’s found Doc Brown’s time machine and headed back to the Swinging Sixties. But fast forward a year or two and CAR can reveal that BMW is seriously considering […]
Adrian Newey’s son Harrison will partner Michael Schumacher’s son at Van Amersfoort Racing in this year’s German Formula 4 series. Harrison Newey, the son of Red Bull F1 design guru Adrian, will race in six of the eight rounds of the championship alongside Schumacher, who was confirmed at the Dutch team earlier this month. Van […]
Jeremy Clarkson’s suspension from Top Gear followed claims he punched a producer in a row over catering while filming on location in Newcastle upon Tyne.Clarkson, 54, is reported to have hit Oisin Tymon, 36, after being told no dinner had been laid on for the presenters after they finished filming for the BBC2 show one […]
Motoring and motorsport enthusiasts are once again in for an action-packed, adrenaline-fuelled automotive feast when the Jaguar Simola Hillclimb descends on Knysna from 14 to 17 May this year. There will be plenty to get pulses racing, starting off with SuperCar Thursday, followed by the iconic Classic Car Friday. But it’s the King of the […]
New Porsche 911 GT3 RS unveiled: the definitive track car for everyday use The new Porsche 911 GT3 RS, which is announced today, once again blurs the boundary between road-going sports cars and race cars. It is equipped with the maximum degree of motorsport technology currently possible in a street-legal 911, yet retains supreme suitability […]
Michael Schumacher’s son Mick is set to drive in Formula 4 this year after making the step up from karting.Schumacher will race in the German ADAC Formula 4 championship this season for Van Amersfoort Racing, the same team that ran Max Verstappen in F3 last year. The 15-year-old Schumacher finished second in the German junior […]
It was a case of experience and old age overcoming youthful exuberance at Saturday’s opening round of the South African National Karting Championships in Port Elizabeth, when triple SA production Car champion Michael Stephen and SA GP3 exponent Roman de Beer dominated the top steps of the podium of the first ever national IAME X30 […]
Following a winter’s worth of testing and development, Bentley Team Dyson Racing is prepared for a full season of racing with the goal of bringing Bentley its first North American sporting title. In the course of a half-season in the 2014 Pirelli World Challenge, the team demonstrated the competitive potential of the Bentley Continental GT3 […]
Red Bull KTM’s Jonny Walker won one of the toughest of Hell’s Gate Hard Enduros in recent memory on Saturday, battling not only the usual hellish course conditions but also very bad weather. Riders had to battle against heavy rain and ultimately snow at the event in the Tuscan Mountains above Lucca in Italy. Mario […]
All-new Supercar Thursday event added to roster Limited spots for Classic Car Friday and King of the Hill events Jaguar media challenge returns to find SA’s fastest journalist Entries for the 2015 edition of South Africa’s pre-eminent gentlemen’s racing event, the Jaguar Simola Hillclimb, are now open – and bound to sell out quickly. […]
Reiter Engineering owner Hans Reiter is convinced that after many weeks of intensive work that the KTM X-BOW GTR will be ready in time for the “BOP” of the SRO, and indeed “Ready to Race”. “First of all I have to compliment all those who have been involved at KISKA, at KTM Technologies and the […]
“GOOD MORNING SIR, HOW ARE YOU….” The question “Good morning sir, how are you” is quite common in South Africa and irritates the hell out of me, but after many hours at the psychologist, the local preacher and my barman I am coming to terms with having to give a financial and health report […]
Vic Elford, considered one of the fastest race-car drivers of the Sixties and Seventies, was honored by the Road Racing Drivers Club with the 2015 Phil Hill Award. RRDC president Bobby Rahal made the presentation at a dinner prior to the running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, the season opener of the 2015 TUDOR […]
Sussex classic enthusiast Roger Winfield is shipping eight motorcycles, two spare engines and a 20-strong crew to Australia in a factory-sized operation to contest the Phillip Island Classic races on January 23-25. Former Island Classic winner Jeremy McWilliams and John McGuinness, winner of 21 TTs, lead the Team Winfield attack during the four races […]
The gods of offroad rallies decided the race could continue today. Even though the weather was not really on the participants side yesterday evening during the briefing, it finally changed this morning. As a result, the 433km long stage between Chami and Amsaga happened with a slight delay of an hour, enough time for the […]
Namibia’s biking champion Ingo Waldschmidt arrived in France on Sunday ahead of his participation in the 6,337 km long endurance ‘Africa Eco Race’ which kicks off on Tuesday from Nador in Morocco. “Ingo has arrived in France today (Sunday) a few hours later than anticipated as his plane from Windhoek to Frankfurt, Germany experienced a […]
Five-time Dakar champ, Cyril Despres, might have made his name in the dirt, but the Frenchman, and former mechanic, takes a lot of pride in riding classic street motorcycles. And now that he’s retired from two-wheel competition, he’s chosen to occupy some of his time by putting together the Andorra 500 Classic Moto Road Regularity Rally. The event […]
Tomorrow some 200 cars, bikes ans trucks will start the six e4dition of the Africa Eco Race (AER) from the French coastal city of St. Cyprien. The event was established in 2009 after the Dakar moved to South America and it basically follows the traditional routes of the Dakar. The event is organised by, Rene […]
Marc Marquez has ended a spectacular year in style by winning Saturday night’s Superprestigio DTX in Barcelona.The MotoGP World Champion came out on top following an entertaining battle with reigning AMA Grand National Champion Jared Mees, as Kenny Noyes completed the podium. A star-studded lineup consisted of no less than ten World Champions from various […]
Susie Wolff will make motorsport history later this month when she becomes the first female to compete in the Race of Champions.The traditional end-of-season event features drivers and riders from all forms of motorsport, both four wheels and two, racing in a number of different vehicles. Wolff, last week named as Williams test driver for […]
World RX frontrunner Toomas ‘Topi’ Heikkinen will return to Andros Trophy ice racing action this winter, driving a Mazda.The runner-up in the World Rallycross Championship – driving a Marklund Motorsport-run Volkswagen Polo RX Supercar – and 2013 Global Rallycross champion will undertake a Andros Trophy programme with the official Mazda France team. The 2015 Andros […]
South Africa has won the Nations Cup in the 2014 Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals in Spain, beating 58 competing countries! The blistering performance of the 10-driver SA team throughout the six-day event ensured that South Africa won this prestigious trophy, ahead of Australia and host-nation Spain. And in a nail-biting finale on a rain-soaked […]
*Durban’s Cristiano Morgado is aiming for his fourth successive World title in the DD2 Masters Category.*Over 280 drivers from more than 60 countries will compete *Each driver gets a free-of-charge, brand new kart, engine, tyres, fuel, oil, kart trolley and tools to compete – a unique system to ensure absolute parity of equipment, so it’s […]
Swedish racer Felix Rosenqvist has firmly established himself as a future star in single seater racing after winning the legendary Macau Grand Prix F3 race.However, it was not without drama as a huge first lap pile up saw the race get red flagged and result in the retirement of Esteban Ocon and Tom Blomqvist, both of whom […]
Nico Rosberg held off team-mate Lewis Hamilton for a crucial victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix after a race-long battle at Interlagos. Having led away from pole, Rosberg seemed set for a comfortable victory when Hamilton spun at Turn 4 when pushing hard during the second pit stop period, but Hamilton closed a gap of over […]
It has been 50 years since the last Studebaker was produced at the automaker’s plant in South Bend, Ind., but the marque has made a comeback of sorts in the vintage racing world. The cars have become consistent winners in the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico, a grueling seven-day road rally. The winning team this year […]
WHEN the Formula Volkswagens take to Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday, 1 November, it is going to be for two very demanding races. The leading racers in the series are identically matched on points for the season and it will demand a focused approach for the driver hoping to claim the title the season. Robert Wolk […]
The Race Of Champions is to feature its first female competitor as Susie Wolff has signed up for ROC 2014 at the Bushy Park Circuit in Barbados on December 13-14. Originally from Oban in Scotland, Wolff spent seven years racing in Germany’s DTM touring car series before taking over as development driver for the […]