Former F1 driver Alex Zanardi added another feat to his inspirational story at the weekend after he finished just outside the top 10% at the Ironman World Championship using just the power of his arms. Zanardi lost both his legs and nearly his life in a horrific 2001 CART crash but has remained active in […]
Bathurst champion Chaz Mostert is looking forward to sitting down with the race highlights later this week – because he’s still baffled about how he came to be standing on the winners’ podium.And the 22-year-old has revealed he spent the night before his victory camping out at Mount Panorama to “listen to the mountain breathe.” […]
New Zealand’s Shane Van Gisbergen will start tomorrow’s Bathurst 1000 in pole position after setting the fastest time in the top 10 shootout.Second last to go in the thrilling one-lap time trial, Van Gisbergen tore around the track, driving to his and the car’s limits to set himself up with the best possible chance of […]
In the United States, many NASCAR enthusiasts oftentimes refer to the Daytona 500 as ‘The Great American Race.’ Regarded as one of the most prestigious motor races in the world, it is laced with history which dates back to its first event which took place in 1959. For 200 laps, drivers run a flat-out race […]
And the winners in this final round of the SA Rotax Max Challenge Series will represent South Africa in Spain in late November.A hard and highly competitive karting season in 2014 culminates at the Zwartkops Kart raceway near Pretoria on Saturday, October 4, with the running of the fourth and final round in this year’s […]
Young drivers from across Africa set to compete for Academy placeThe first selection event for the 2015 FIA Institute Young Driver Excellence Academy will feature 17 drivers from across Sub-Saharan Africa. They include drivers from the Scirocco R-Cup, Formula Masters China Series, Formula Ford and the South African Rally Championship. But only the winner […]
The Marriage Of Celebrities And Cool Cars Dates To Early Days Of Hollywood And The Internal Combustion Engine The marriage of celebrities and cool cars dates to the early days of Hollywood and the internal combustion engine. Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper and Tyrone Power loved their Duesenbergs, Mercs, Auburns and Jags. Elvis […]
Monster Energy Supercross Africa has announced that Motorsport South Africa (MSA) is on board as the official sanctioning body for the biggest Supercross event to be held locally to date, which will take place in the Loftus Versfeld rugby stadium on Saturday 01st November 2014. The event will feature some of the best local and […]
MSA has announced that competitors Matthew Swanepoel and Jordan Pepper have been nominated as South Africa’s representatives to follow in the footsteps of last year’s winner Kelvin van der Linde and represent the country at the upcoming Sub-Sahara African selection event for the FIA Institute’s Young Driver Excellence Academy (YDEA). This follows a rigorous application […]
The ROC’s new Caribbean venue expects to host, in ROC tradition, drivers from Formula One, World Rally, Le Mans, MotoGP, NASCAR, IndyCar, Touring Cars and the X Games, all battling head to head in identical machinery. The ROC has in recent years taken place at the Stade de France in Paris (2004-2006), London’s Wembley Stadium […]
THE Midas South African Single-Seaters (SASS) were out on track in the third-to-last round of the 2014 Super Series at Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday. Three categories of competition saw the Formula Volkswagen and Midas Formula 1600 A and B classes all jostling for position and points. What started as a 12 point difference between the […]
THE Engen Volkswagen Cup racers were involved in two “no holds-barred” races at Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday. Round six of the Super Series saw pitched battles taking place throughout the field – and a change in the championship lead. Second place overall for the day sees Sheldon van der Linde (16 – Ferodo Racing) move […]
This weekend sees the V8 Supercar series travel to the Zwartkops Raceway in Pretoria. Joining them will be the First Lady, Clare Vale, in her Liqui-Moly Mustang. The Phakisa round saw Clare have an extremely unlucky weekend, with fuel issues in race 1 and a puncture in race 2 ruining what could have been a […]
South African Single-Seaters return to Zwartkops for close competition THE Midas South African Single-Seaters (SASS) tackle round six of their 2014 championship at Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday, 30 August. This race meeting is one week after their international counterpart, Jayde Kruger, tackled the Knockhill round of the Dunlop MSA Formula Ford Championship in Fife. Kruger […]
The Comsol VW Challenge returns to the highveld after a coastal excursion to the historic East London Grand Prix circuit. Kyalami is a firm favourite with the VW Challenge drivers and at least 30 of them should line up for the sixth round of the 2014 championship. James Hurley (The Starter Pack Company Polo) had […]
The Motocross stars of tomorrow were out in force this weekend at Lierneux in Belgium for the 2014 edition of the World Junior Motocross Championship which saw KTM riders dominating the competition and sweeping the podiums in both the 65cc and 85cc classes. Close to 300 enthusiastic young riders tackled the hard pack surface that […]
When I saw this specific picture of the One-Man-Band again for the first time in 31 years, I think, I could not help but smile. I love thinking back over the years, doing my best to sidestep the ever-present heaps on the lawn, called politics and backbiting. There are great memories of the different […]
The South African round of the FIM Superbike World Championship, provisionally scheduled to be held at Phakisa Freeway in the Free State on October 19, will now no longer form part of the 2014 series but could be included in the 2015 calendar, possibly as early as March. This was announced today by GAS Sports, […]
78 views Corvette continues to dominate in the GT-Le Mans and Viper takes its first win in GT-Daytona.It was one of those near-perfect days for the OAK Morgan Nissan, with driver Gustavo Yacaman and Olivier Pla holding off three Chevrolet Corvette Daytona Prototype cars, scoring a solid victory for the handful of P2 entries that […]
Tom Sykes says he can go into the summer break feeling ‘very relaxed and very motivated’ after exceeding his own expectations by extending his World Superbike Championship lead at Laguna Seca with an eighth win of the season. Starting from pole position after demolishing the lap record during qualifying, though onlookers might have assumed Sykes […]
Kelvin van der Linde has won the Driver of the Year award for the 2014 Young Driver Excellence Academy.The 18-year old was presented with the trophy at the graduation ceremony, held at the end of the final workshop, which took place at the Paul Ricard Circuit in France this week Van der Linde impressed […]
Extreme sports and racing fans are sure to be excited when Red Bull Global Rallycross comes to Nassau Coliseum on July 19th and 20th. Global Rallycross (GRC) is a high-octane race between 2500 lbs small production-based cars that have been enhanced to reach 600 horsepower, accelerate from 0-60 mph in under two seconds, and withstand […]
The Comsol VW Challenge gets back on track after an eight week break on 19th July 2014 when the series heads for the historic East London Grand Prix circuit for the fifth round of the 2014 championship. With a large contingent of competitors making their way down to the coastal circuit from Gauteng, East London’s […]
Long Pond – Thirteen years, nine months and 20 days. That’s how long Juan Pablo Montoya went between visits to the IndyCar “Victory Circle.” On Sunday, the Colombian made his return to IndyCar all that much sweeter when he won the Pocono IndyCar 500. Granted, Montoya has spent his time between victories indulging his passion […]
IN East London it was Masters competitor Mathew Hodges (M3 – ITR Africa / 959 Panelbeaters) who set the pace in the Engen Volkswagen Cup championship, showing the younger racers how it should be done. Hodges showed that being a Master is not just about age, but also about racing skill. With overall victory on […]
Romain Dumas is overall winner; Roy Richards drives Honda Fit EV to class win The Honda effort was highlighted by Romain Dumas, who scored his first overall Pikes Peak title. Roy Richards also came up big in his Honda Fit EV, winning the Electric Production class with a record run of 12 minutes, 55.591 seconds. […]
Sean Nurse is the latest winner of the Bridgestone/SA Guild of Motoring Journalists’ Steve Dlamini Award for excellence by a young motoring journalist. The 23-year-old from Johannesburg, who received a floating trophy and a cash prize, is a writer with Auto Dealer, the weekly motoring supplement carried in Caxton’s community newspapers. The award, which is […]
Investigators are closing in on the identity of the individual attempting to sell Michael Schumacher’s stolen medical file. Bild newspaper reports that the dossier, reportedly a doctor’s letter outlining the F1 legend’s precise condition prior to his recent transfer from Grenoble to Lausanne, is being touted to media outlets for about $65,000 The report said […]
Former IndyCar driver and current pilot for the DeltaWing in the Tudor United SportsCar Championship Katherine Legge is the first female driver and the 11th driver in total confirmed to race in the new all-electric FIA Formula E Championship. Legge will drive for the newly rebranded Amlin Aguri Formula E team. Legge is the first […]
The FIA has issued this image showing the special workshop groups in action at last week’s FIA Sport Conference in Munich. Amongst the many subjects discussed was the need for a driver pathway for young drivers and, it was noted, female competitors. One ASN recently admitted that only 8% of its licence holders were female. […]
Rallying “most popular pursuit” in motorsport The FIA is slowly opening the shutters and lifting the blinds on its sporting debates and activities, and although full openness and disclosure of the type enjoyed in Western democracies is not yet part of the offering from the governing body, there are signs of change. It does […]
The fact that Honda is making a return to Formula 1 with the McLaren team is possibly the biggest piece of news that we’ve heard in recent times. It’s a move that has made Honda fans around the world very happy, especially since it revives a legendary partnership between Honda and McLaren. The partnership that […]
Tim O’Neil, the 1990 Mt. Washington Hillclimb overall winner and record holder, will be driving EVSR #02, a 100% electric race car, during the 2014 Subaru Mt. Washington Hillclimb set for June 26-29 at the Mt. Washington Auto Road in Gorham, NH. It will be the first fully electric race car to ever compete in […]
Jannie Kuun, one of the best known rally drivers in South Africa passed away yesterday 10th June 2014. He was especially well known in the Pretoria Motor Club of which he was one of the longest standing members. He was one of the few very lucky rallyist who were able to drive in International events […]
Business as usual in the end… sweeping the gravel on Friday, and only ninth after the opening stage that day, but Sébastien Ogier, World Champion and Championship leader wins 2914 Rally Italia Sardegna They finished: Ogier, Østberg, Latvala, Mikkelsen, Evans, Prokop, Solberg, Kubica, Bertelli, Al-QassimiI.t’s Ogier’s 20th WRC win, taking his level with the French […]
Marco Melandri gets the better of Aprilia team-mate Sylvain Guintoli to complete a double win in Sepang The Italian out-foxes his counterpart during a thrilling final lap showdown Tom Sykes retains WSBK lead with run to third after his race one DNF Marco Melandri has reignited his World Superbike Championship title hopes with a mighty […]
Not this time, Ed Carpenter said. He was not going to let another Verizon IndyCar race get away from him because of someone else’s problems. After winning a lengthy duel with Will Power, Carpenter survived the final test, a re-start with two laps remaining to win the Firestone 600 on Saturday night at Texas Motor […]
The crews entered the final three stages of the rally this morning.. The first was the 14.0km run at ‘Castelsardo’ and this was quickly followed by the slightly longer ‘Tergu-Osilo’ stage that measured 14.88km. The last stage of the rally was the ‘Cala Flumini Power Stage’ where extra championship points were awarded to the fastest […]
Jari-Matti Latvala’s afternoon went from bad to worse on SS13. Having lost time to Sebastien Ogier on the previous stage, SS13 was where he lost the rally lead. The Finn stopped 8km into the stage to change a rear wheel and lost 1m 58s to his rival. He eventually finished the stage 2m 13s slower […]
Those that survived the morning’s 59.13km ‘Monte Lerno 1’ stage had to tackle it again in the afternoon. The test featured the legendary ‘Micky’s Jump’ that never fails to disappoint as the cars are launched high into the Sardinian sky. This test followed the shorter ‘Monte Olia 2’ stage. As soon as Jari-Matti Latvala returned […]