Tommy Johnson Jr. piloted his Make-A-Wish Foundation Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Funny Car to victory for his first win since the Auto Club NHRA Finals in 2017 in an explosive final round at the 22nd annual Route 66 NHRA Nationals at Route 66 Raceway. Steve Torrence (Top Fuel), Deric Kramer (Pro Stock) and Matt […]
Lindenberg Racing’s epic European tour South Africa’s international historic racing father and daughter duo, Peter and Paige Lindenberg closed off their International Historics Challenge tour with mixed results in the Bernie’s V8 races at the Brands Hatch American Speed Festival weekend in the south of England over the weekend. The weekend started well for […]
By: Marshall Pruett In the latest episode of endurance racing’s No. 1 drama “What Will Ford Do Next?,” the plot thickens as the Blue Oval finally makes a hard choice after months of indecision. Of the five scenarios for Ford outlined by RACER a few months ago, the prevailing wisdom — in that fleeting moment — had […]
South Africans star home and away South African motorsportsmen enjoyed another great weekend of racing at home and away, with the action going down as diverse far and wide as national motocross in Bloemfontein to Monaco Porsche Supercup, Donington British Superbikes to the Nelson Mandela Bay 500 at Aldo Scribante. The third round of the […]
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series powers back to state-of-the-art Route 66 Raceway for the 22nd annual Route 66 NHRA Nationals on May 30-June 2, kicking off a stretch of four straight races. Drivers want to start this rigorous stretch on an impressive note and the popular track provides the backdrop for a thrilling […]
Slide over, Honda Civic Type R, there’s a new front-wheel-drive lap record holder in town. This time, the French are victorious. The 2020 Renault Megane RS Trophy R lapped the 12.9-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife in 7:40.1 on April 5, which was 3 seconds quicker than the Civic Type R, according to the automaker. Honda’s hot hatch broke the record […]
Ex-Peugeot Sport director Bruno Famin joins FIA in new operations role… Former Peugeot Sport boss Bruno Famin will join the FIA in a new operational position within its sporting division.Famin, who has served as the French manufacturer’s motorsports director, will take up the newly created Director of Operations role on July 1. While leading Peugeot […]
Nostalgia returned to the Zwartkops Raceway in style on Saturday, when the venue hosted a round of this year’s Historic and Inland Championships. A large crowd witnessed close racing, great spectacle and unexpected winners. Topping the programme were two combined races for Pre-1974 Sports and Pre-1966 Legend Saloon Cars. Ricard Schuhardt (RS Botswana Porsche RSR) […]
Billy Monger has claimed his first race victory since the accident which led to the amputation of both his legs two years ago.Monger, 20, returned to single-seater racing last year in British Formula 3 in a specially adapted car. This weekend he was competing in the Pau Grand Prix, which this year is part of the Euroformula […]
Murillo Racing’s Christian Szymczak and Matthew Fassnacht took the overall win in Pirelli GT4 America SprintX series Race 2 at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in their No. 34 Mercedes-AMG GT4. Elivan Goulart (No. 27 KRUGSPEED Ginetta G55) took the lead from Szymczak, whose Mercedes had started on the pole, before the end of the first […]
Triple European Rallycross Champion Timur Timerzyanov claimed a career-first world championship victory at Spa’s inaugural World Rallycross event. The Russian driver started on the second row of the grid for the final at Spa, but led after the opening corner when pole-sitter Andreas Bakkerud ran rallycross returnee Joni Wiman wide into Turn 1, having made […]
Drivers from 11 countries piloting GT3 machinery from six of the world’s top automakers are entered for this weekend’s Blancpain GT World Challenge America double-header at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. PRO: Near the season’s midpoint, both the driver and team battles in the Pro division are heating up. Leading the latter is K-PAX Racing, its No. […]
2 & 4-wheel heroes deliver home & awayNational racing dominated the SA racing headlines while several international competitors did the business overseas this past weekend. Sheridan Morias was part of the WEPOL Yamaha team that ended fourth in the Slovakian FIA World Motorcycle Endurance 8 Hour, while fellow South African Kawasaki World SSP300 duo, Dorren […]
Your weekly South African motorsport review South African racers starred across the globe this weekend, but it was Tasmin Pepper who best caught the imagination as she delivered an epic come from behind performance to storm from sixteenth to eighth in the woman’s world championship of racing at Hockenheim in Germany on Saturday. Pepper overcame […]
V8 quartet a blast at annual hillclimbThe four V8 Masters entries to Knysna’s annual Jaguar Simola Hill Climb delivered positive results through a great weekend of racing and fun as South African rally legend, Enzo Kuun headed up a third, fourth, fifth and seventh in class ahead of his three US teammates aboard four Ford […]
Charity, fun and action all part of the dealLindenberg Racing enjoyed another great week in Knysna around the local Motor Show and Jaguar Simola Hill Climb, where Peter and Paige Lindenberg were joined by Shelby customer Charles Needham in action over the weekend. Peter enjoyed a mega bakkie tussle in the monster Savage Ranger 660, […]
It doesn’t feel like Daytona, Indy, or the Super Bowl. It feels like Death Race.BIt’s not often a story about motocross starts with a snippet of a Roman poet from the reign of Caesar Augustus, but here goes: And now a-low and now a-loft they fly,As borne through the air and seem to touch the […]
Carscoops shared this hillclimb car from Franco Scribante Racing, which posted the finished race car on Monday after sharing blurred teaser photos of it leading up to the reveal. The car will head to the Simola Hillclimb Knysna this weekend so long as it doesn’t accidentally dig a tunnel into the depths of the Earth with all of its newly added downforce. The […]
Every year, the hills within the picturesque Garden Route town of Knysna come alive with the sound of sonorous exhaust music, cheering spectators and popping champagne corks, during the Jaguar Simola Hillclimb. Alfisti and motoring fans attending South Africa’s premier motoring and motorsport lifestyle event can look forward to a fantastic spectacle of racing between 3 […]
V8 Masters entries are no strangers to Knysna’s annual Jaguar Simola Hill Climb and 2019 is no different as a South African rally legend and a trio of American racers take to the hill in four Ford V8-powered Mustang APV347s 3-5 May. Former multiple South African rally champion Enzo Kuun returns to head up the […]
Nissan will again be the marque to beat at this year’s tenth official Jaguar Simola Hill Climb in Knysna. No less than 14 Nissan models are heading down to the scenic coastal town to make an assault on the 1.9 kilometre track, led by the two reigning King of the Hill champions, Wilhelm Baard and […]
Signed for the remaining IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup events following her impressive efforts at Daytona and Sebring, Dane Christina Nielsen now has been added to Heinricher Racing with Meyer Shank Racing’s lineup for the upcoming sprint-format IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship race at Mid-Ohio. Nielsen will partner Katherine Legge in the Jackie Heinricher-led team’s No. 57 […]
Success and drama all around the worldIt’s been a busy Easter for South African racers across the globe. Hennie de Klerk and Johann Smalberger brought their TreasuryOne Amarok home sixth on Saturday’s final Morocco Desert Challenge stage as they drove onto the finishers rostrum in an academic 23rd place overall to conclude their quick but […]
Aston Martin showed off not one, but two supercars at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show and new information has surfaced surrounding the AM-RB 003. The AM-RB 003 will sit below the Valkyrie in the British marque’s supercar hierarchy, but it will rival its power rating with a rumored 1,000 horsepower, according to a Carscoops report on Sunday. […]
As they say about one of those stick and ball sports, on any given Sunday any team can win. Well it’s the same in Formula Drift. As the 16th season of the sport got underway on the Grand Prix course in Long Beach, one week before the NTT IndyCar Series and IMSA take over that circuit, Odi Bakchis beat all comers to […]
Petter Solberg, the only driver ever to win both the World Rally and World Rallycross Championships, is to appear at the 2019 Festival of Speed presented by Mastercard as he announces his retirement from top-level motorsport. Solberg, 44, clinched a total of 13 WRC victories in a career spanning fourteen years, including winning the 2003 World […]
For those who aren’t familiar with it, the MINI Cooper seems an unlikely contender on a Formula One race track or the posh international rally circuit. But as the British automaker prepares to launch the MINI John Cooper Works GP in 2020, with a four-cylinder turbo engine, more than 220 kW/300 hp and motor racing […]
Emma Gilmour can draw on rich and varied experiences going into this year’s Otago Rally, but is also trying a few new things, Catherine Pattison writes. Offering to run as the zero car for the Otago Rally committee 18 years ago, Dunedin’s Emma Gilmour had no inkling she was on the slippery slope to becoming […]
Team gives Cape fans a day to remember Q4 Fuels Husqvarna Racing left Cape Town’s Zone 7 still in the lead of the TRP South African National 65cc and 500cc MX1 Motocross Championships after another dominant performance by the team’s 11-year old sensation Neil van der Vyver and a heroic ride by Maddy Malan, while […]
Pikes Peak record-breaking EV will run up a 99-turn mountain road – and gamers will set the time to beat Volkswagen ID R The Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road Volkswagen will showcase its record-breaking ID R electric motorsport car on the 99-turn Tianmen Shan Big Gate Road in China later this year – and will stage […]
Stephane Peterhansel, the most successful competitor in the history of cross country rallying, will take his place in a star-studded line-up for the 29th edition of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge powered by Nissan. Driving an X-raid Mini John Cooper Works buggy the Frenchman, who has won the event five times as a driver and […]
Q4 team wants more success in the CapeQ4 Fuels Husqvarna Racing heads to Zone 7 in Cape Town 30 March, looking to continue its winning form in the PE TRP Distributors South African National Motocross Championship opener in February. Cape local Neil van der Vyver leads the 65cc Junior class after a dominant display, Maddy […]
Dave Molyneux and passenger Harry Payne have secured backing from Carl Cox Motorsport for 2019 taking on the Isle of Man TT and British F2 sidecar championship as the international DJ confirms his sidecar support plans. 17-time TT winner Molyneux shapes up both on the roads and circuits with the A&J Carl Cox Yamaha LCR […]
SA Motocross ready to rock the Cape The 2019 TRP Distributors South African National Motocross Championship heads to Cape Town for its second round Saturday 30 March, when the sandy and tortuous Zone 7 welcomes the cream of the local crop to fight it out over longer race formats. The new twenty-five minute open class […]
Every automotive enthusiast has a special car they have dreamed about from a young age, and usually aspire to drive or own. Whether it was the fleeting sight of an evocative Jaguar E-Type speeding past, hearing the thundering roar of the Le Mans-winning Ford GT40, or growing up with an iconic Porsche 911 in the […]
Ever since primary school I have been telling anyone who was willing to listen that I wanted to be a racing driver. It was all I thought about and nothing else made sense besides going around in circles at a race track. When I left high school I assumed that I would simply jump on […]
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing sponsors drift driver Daigo Saito who will drive the GR Supra*1 at the Monster Energy presents D1GP All Star Shoot-out to be held in Odaiba, Tokyo for a couple of days, March 23 and 24. Saito, internationally known as a professional Japanese drift driver, has competed in the D1 Grand Prix*2 since 2004, […]
The most successful driver in NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series history looks to hit a historic number at one of the biggest races of the 2019 season: Sixteen-time Funny Car champ John Force is after his 150th career win at the 50th annual AMALIE Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals at Gainesville Raceway on March 14-17. […]
Southern Cross Safari full route details announced • Epic 19-day adventure set in enthralling Kenya and Tanzania • 2250 miles of spectacular driving through game reserves and National Parks • The magic of Kilimanjaro, Treetops Lodge, the Serengeti and Masai Mara • Entries now open for experienced and amateur crews in pre-1976 cars When launched […]
Reigning champions in Classic Car Friday and King of the Hill return to defend their titles An amazing line-up of 28 marques represented in Classic Car Friday across eight classes Three King of the Hill titles up for grabs with 30 vehicle brands on the entry list, driven by some of the biggest names in SA […]