With the Nissan LEAF already saving more than two million metric tons of CO2 since 2010, electric vehicles are proving to be a sustainable alternative in addressing air pollution. In Asia and Oceania, approximately four billion people – 92 per cent of Asia and the Pacific’s population – are exposed to air pollution levels that […]
This his coming weekend, Saturday the 15th of September the popular Bridgestone BMW Club Racing Series will take to the iconic Phakisa Freeway track in round 6 of their championship. They will be part of a combined Extreme Festival and Inland Championship racing event that will host a multitude of racing categories on the day including the popular Phakisa 200 race at […]
Pepper Racing is all set for the first race of the new generation Engen Volkswagen Polo Cup at the Kyalami Motorsport Festival Saturday 24 March with a leading four-car line up of highly experienced drivers. The Edenvale race team retains its two lead drivers in Shaun La Reservee and Tasmin Pepper, with Polo Cup rookies, […]
otorsport The BMW Car Club Gauteng returns to Welkom on the 9th and 10th of March for their annual Bridgestone BMW CCG Track Weekend. This weekend is an important one on the calendar where the social spirit off track is as much fun as what happens on the asphalt. This year an official round of […]
On the road to autonomous driving: Fourth leg of the Intelligent World Drive Road traffic in South Africa presents some very special challenges: different road surfaces, wildlife on rural roads and many pedestrians in the city as well as in the interurban traffic who often cross lanes completely unexpectedly. Automated and autonomous vehicles have to […]
Former Volkswagen engineer and German citizen James Liang was sentenced on Friday in a Detroit court to 40 months in prison and given a fine of $200,000 for his involvement in the Volkswagen Group’s diesel scandal. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Sean Cox and was harsher than expected since Liang, […]
The Comsol VW Challenge drivers make their way to Zwartkops for the ninth and final round of the 2016 championship on Saturday, 26 November. With the overall and all three class titles still to be decided, hard racing is on the cards. Darren Nathan (Sextrader Polo) and Nic Clarke (Central Technical Services Polo) are locked […]
The all-new Kyalami circuit hosted its first Motorsport Festival over the weekend, providing a large crowd with action and excitement from the top shelf. Friday afternoon saw opening races for three of the classes, whose second heats happened on Saturday with the main attractions on Sunday.Keagan Pottas (Advanced Pest Honda) took first ever four-wheeled victory […]
Just over two years since the Comsol VW Challenge last visited Kyalami, almost 50 drivers made their way to the Midrand circuit to experience the revamped facility on the weekend of 22 & 23 October 2016. While things didn’t go entirely according to plan, Saturday’s second race was abandoned for safety reasons and was replaced […]
You know it is Engen Volkswagen Cup racing when, at the penultimate round of the season, the championship leader finishes the day in fifth overall, second in the championship finishes third from last and the third place racer doesn’t crack a top 10 finish! Instead, the overall leaderboard after Kyalami featured competitors that were fourth, […]
Just two rounds remain in the 2016 championship for Engen Volkswagen Cup competitors. Bradley Liebenberg (12 – Ferodo) leads after the first six rounds with an 18 point advantage – with four race wins and 64 points still available for race winners, that’s not a lot at all. Those 64 points cover the spread from […]
Three rounds won. Three to go. Midway through the inaugural Sasol GTC Africa championship, the Engen Xtreme Team can look back with some satisfaction. Their drivers currently occupy first and third in the standings, with championship leader Michael Stephen totally dominating the track over the first three rounds. Stephen currently enjoys a 183-point lead over […]
Almost 50 Comsol VW Challenge drivers will make their way to the recently revamped Kyalami circuit in Midrand for the penultimate round of the 2016 championship. With just four races left in the season, the fight for points is now getting serious. Just two rounds ago Tasmin Pepper (Campos Transport / Alpine Motors Polo) had […]
Kyalami’s inaugural race meeting is set to be a huge day for Franschhoek Bridge House schoolboy Giordano Lupini, who sets off to the Grand Prix Circuit to make a little South African racing history over the 21-23 October weekend. Fourth-generation racer Giordano (16) who usually races in the Western Cape Bold Marine GTi Challenge, will […]
Engen Volkswagen Polo Cup team Pepper Racing heads to Kyalami with a spring in its step as team leader Shaun La Réserveé looks to continue his championship charge following a strong run over through the season with a win in almost every meeting so far this year, while his rookie teammates Brad Beningfield and Daniel Duminy […]
Lee Thompson Racing is gearing up for a historic weekend as the Gauteng-based Comsol Volkswagen Challenge squad prepares for the inaugural meeting of the renewed Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit 21-23 October with its lead drivers, Waldie Meintjes and Tasmin Pepper focussed on bringing home a Class A championship 1-2 by the time the season ends in four […]
The Western Cape Bold Marine GTi Challenge has had a long break since its last race early in September and Cape Town’s favourite race series is quite literally bursting at the seams to get back on track to serve up its usual extreme action at Killarney’s October 15 Power Series meeting. And with just two […]
On Tuesday, Alessandro Zanardi (IT) started the decisive preparation phase for his maiden race in the BMW M6 GT3 with a successful day of testing in Mugello (IT). The BMW brand ambassador and BMW works driver will return to the same venue on 14th to 16th October 2016 for the season finale in the Italian […]
South Africa’s Bentley Boy Jordan Pepper ended his 2016 ADAC German GT Masters championship on a brilliant if bittersweet note as he drove the yellow Deutsche Post Abt Bentley Continental GT3 he shares with young German driver Daniel Abt up from 22nd to ninth in the 13 minutes remaining following the series finale being restarted. […]
Hyundai established a standalone performance division in 2015 to develop cars leveraging knowhow from its various motorsport programs, namely its World Rally Championship efforts.The division is called Hyundai N and the first product will be a hotted-up version of the new i30 hatchback. The i30 is the latest member of Hyundai’s Elantra range and the […]
Round six of the Engen Volkswagen Cup series saw competitors tackle three races – after completing a qualifying session followed by a super pole for the fastest six. Unlike the traditional top six grid draw, this time the fastest drivers had just a single flying lap to deliver the time that would decide their race […]
South African Bentley Boy, Jordan Pepper can’t wait for the 2016 German ADAC GT Masters finale 1-2 October, although he’d have preferred that the season was a little longer. Jordan shares his yellow #7 Deutsche Post Continental GT3 with German co-driver Daniel Abt and the duo are keen to end the season on a […]
More than 40 Comsol VW Challenge drivers will make their way to Killarney Raceway in Cape Town on Saturday, 24 September for the seventh round of the 2016 championship.Tasmin Pepper (Campos Transport / Alpine Motors Polo) will be looking to get back to winning ways in Cape Town after two disappointing rounds. Her misfortune has […]
The rejuvenated Inland Championship Roadshow will once again head to the Zwartkops Raceway for the seventh round of the 2016 racing season on Saturday 17 September. If the last event at this popular venue is anything to go by the racing is sure to be fast and furious. Championship leader Ben Morgenrood (Ford Mustang) will […]
The Bold Marine GTi Challenge once again delivered action and drama of the highest order at Killarney’s very flowery Power Series meeting in Cape Town on Saturday. But when the dust had settled, one man emerged clearly in the limelight as Class C man Bryan Morgan left the circuit with one hand tightly clenching the […]
One thing is for certain, if you are looking for excellent entertainment on Spring Saturday 3 September, then a trip to Killarney to witness the next battle in the Bold Marine Western Cape GTi Challenge war would be close to, if not on top of the list. The closest and most competitive form of racing […]
The sixth round of the 2016 Comsol VW Challenge took place at Red Star Raceway just outside Delmas on Saturday, 13 August. Although it was a new circuit for all the drivers Waldie Meintjes (LTR / Marty’s Body & Spray Polo), Nic Clarke (Central Technical Services Polo) and Shaun Crous (Ancro Building Projects Polo) din’t […]
For anyone wanting an introduction to Engen Volkswagen Cup racing, the event on Tuesday at Zwartkops Raceway would have been the perfect introduction. One corner completed of the first lap of race one and there were two different incidents involving four competitors. For Gary van Heerden (M4 – Nutritech / Motul) and Shaun La Reserveé […]
The Comsol VW Challenge competitors head east for the sixth round of the 2016 championship which takes place at Red Star Raceway on Saturday, 13 August. The four-kilometre long circuit just outside Delmas will be a new experience for most of the drivers and could possibly throw in a few surprise results. With five of […]
Tuesday, 9 August, marks the start of a new chapter for South African Motorsport. At Zwartkops Raceway, the Terry Moss Racing Engen Xtreme Audi A3s of Michael Stephen and Simon Moss will contest round five of the Extreme Festival – in a brand new national championship series. Stephen and Moss will compete in the Sasol […]
The first round of the Global Touring Car (GTC) championship races into action at Zwartkops Raceway on Tuesday, August 9. For Volkswagen Motorsport, this means four competitors will enter the newest motorsport competition in South Africa. “Two Volkswagen Jetta GTCs and two Volkswagen Golf GTI GTC Production entries will take the start line at Zwartkops […]
Woman’s Day Tuesday 9 August is an important one for local motorsport as the Zwartkops meeting ushers in a new racing era, but it’s business as usual in the Engen Volkswagen Polo Cup where Pepper Racing’s Shaun La Reservee intends to make it four wins in a row. Pepper Racing teammates Brad Benningfield and Daniel […]
The fifth round of the 2016 Inland Championship took place at the Zwartkops Raceway this past weekend with an action packed day proving to be one of the best events of the year.The first race for the INEX Legends Championship was red flagged on the opening lap after a turn one incident. Keagan Wessels (Pro) […]
Team Novadriver claimed a podium finish at the third race weekend of the TCR Portugal in Portimão (P). The Portuguese duo of Francisco Abreu/Manuel Gião alternated at the wheel of the Volkswagen Golf GTI TCR in the four races at the 4.692-kilometre racetrack in the south of Portugal. Gião finished an impressive second in race […]
Round four of the Engen Volkswagen Cup championship took place in East London on Saturday. While the race day is complete, the echoes of this event might still haunt the championship later in the season. Typical of this circuit, the racing was high-speed, exciting and not without incident. Things started out in pretty standard fashion […]
Tasmin Pepper set for a one-off Polo drive alongside La Réserveé & Beningfield in Port Elizabeth Pepper Racing confirmed Wednesday that Tasmin Pepper will return to the Engen Volkswagen Polo Cup field when she steps in to drive Rookie Daniel Duminy’s car at the East London Grand Prix Circuit this weekend. A regular Polo Cup […]
East London hosts the Engen Volkswagen Cup championship on Saturday, July 9. This will be round four of the national championship, following on from their last round in Port Elizabeth in early June.Just like the Port Elizabeth round, Keagan Masters (18 – Champion) again enters the event as the championship leader. Masters didn’t win any […]
East London hosts the Engen Volkswagen Cup championship on Saturday, July 9. This will be round four of the national championship, following on from their last round in Port Elizabeth in early June. Just like the Port Elizabeth round, Keagan Masters (18 – Champion) again enters the event as the championship leader. Masters didn’t win […]
Thursday, 16 June 2016 will see the Comsol VW Challenge competitors make their third visit to Zwartkops Raceway this season for the fifth round of the 2016 championship.At her last visit to the Pretoria circuit, Tasmin Pepper (Campos Transport / Alpine Motors Polo) had a perfect outing, taking pole position and both race wins and […]
Ian Hutchinson equalled the late, great Mike Hailwood’s tally of 14 wins when he dominated Wednesday’s delayed second Monster Energy Supersport race at the 2016 Isle of Man TT Races fuelled by Monster Energy. The CAME BPT/Team Traction Control Yamaha dominated from start to finish to take his third win of the week and his […]