Aberdein enjoys great Dutch weekend Jonathan Aberdein bounced back from a troublesome previous round when he twice straddled the podium as the FIA European Formula 3 championship visited Holland’s seaside Zandvoort racetrack over the weekend. Aberdein qualified sixth for the opening race before driving home seventh overall and third among the rookies for his first […]
A damp start, a brisk and breezy day thereafter and television sport to die for could not deter Killarney’s faithful from flocking to the Cape Town Racetrack for the Wingfield Power Tour Independence Day races on Saturday. It was worth the effort too, as they were treated to brilliant end-to-end race action, thrills and spills […]
Wet conditions throughout Friday practice gave teams enough time to prepare for a sodden Extreme Festival raceday at Port Elizabeth’s newly surfaced Aldo Scribante Racetrack, but that did not deter local race fans from turning up in their numbers to support their home heroes on their annual local home race. They were treated to racing […]
Amtec Midvaal hosted yet another round of the EV Dynamics Inland Championship on July 7, which shared the stage with two races for Historic Saloons. A good crowd was again entertained from morning till night, with some technical issues delaying the start of the day’s proceedings and adding pressure to a packed program. With a […]
Lap records and unexpected winners could typify round seven of the 2018 Extreme Festival Series at the Aldo Scribante circuit near Port Elizabeth next Saturday (July 14). The reason for the event’s unpredictability is the fact that the 2,48 kilometre Eastern Cape circuit has been fully resurfaced. Formerly known for its tyre shredding capabilities, the […]
The Sasol GTC2 Championship heads into the season mid-point with Brad Liebenberg lying second in the title race, two points ahead of Devin Robertson following the Champion MINI John Cooper Works driver’s maiden win last month. Brad, racing his Ferodo-backed MINI John Cooper Works, has racked up two victories and two additional podium finishes so […]
Cape Town FIA European Formula 3 contender Jonathan Aberdein heads to one of his favourite racetracks for the fourth round of the championship at Zandvoort on the Dutch coast over the 13-15 July weekend. Aberdein ran out of luck at the previous race weekend at Germany’s Norisring, but he is committed to making up for […]
The Western Cape Regional and Club Championship Wingfield Motors Power Series heads back to Killarney for a full program of midwinter motor racing Saturday 14 July. All classes can be expected to deliver their usual back-to-back action on two and four wheels throughout a day to remember for local race fans and with championship tussles […]
South Africa’s national championship Extreme Festival motor racing roadshow hits Port Elizabeth for its fifth round at Aldo Scribante Saturday 14 July, where the newly resurfaced racetrack is expected to challenge teams and drivers alike like never before. PE race fans can also look forward to supporting their home heroes, some of whom will be […]
Port Elizabeth race fans can look forward to a special treat when the G&H Transport Extreme Supercars take to the newly resurfaced Aldo Scribante Racetrack, Nelson Mandela Bay in anger for the first time as the Extreme Festival South African national championship motor races visit Nelson Mandela Bay Saturday 14 July. PE racegoers will be […]
After just over a month since the last round in June , AMTEC Midvaal again hosts the EV Dynamics Inland Championship on 7 July which this time will partner with the Historic Tour, to bring spectators yet another jam packed day of action. Following a commendable voluntary effort by officials and competitors, the circuit and […]
With two weeks to go before the Extreme Festival national championship motor racing roadshow hits Port Elizabeth for its fifth round at Aldo Scribante, not only do local race officials predict that the newly resurfaced racetrack will challenge teams and drivers alike like never before, but Nelson Mandela Bay race fans can also look forward […]
Not only is Port Elizabeth limbering up for the first races at the newly resurfaced Aldo Scribante Racetrack Saturday 14 July, but local race fans can also look forward to racing of the absolute highest order when six top car and motorcycle categories visit the circuit for the fifth round of the 2018 Extreme Festival […]
Clinton Bezuidenhout bounced in style by racing his Glyco Engine Expertise Polo to a double podium at the fourth round of the Engen Polo Cup series, putting the disappointment of the last round firmly behind him. Altan Bouw, the youngest member of the team, enjoyed his best qualifying and race since joining the multi championship-winning […]
The new Engen Polo Cup title chase visited the ultra-fast East London Grand Prix circuit for the first time, to entertain a huge crowd as part of the 2018 Extreme Festival series on Saturday, June 16.The ultra-fast venue and extremely windy conditions challenged drivers and cars to the full, with an unexpected winner emerging. Official […]
Julian van der Watt heads to the sweeping, undulating and twisty Road America road course in Wisconsin, keen to make a mark on the fourth round of the 2018 United States Formula 2000 series June 22-24. Van der Watt was the victim of an accident at the previous round at the Indianapolis Lucas Oval following […]
A combination of Historic, Endurance and Motorcycle racing kept a sizeable Zwartkops crowd fully entertained on Saturday, when the venue hosted its 2018 Winter Challenge event. Topping the offerings was a four-hour race – round three of this year’s Mopar Endurance championships for sports and saloon cars. Spectators who stayed for the second half of […]
Two-time Bathurst 1000 winner John Goss has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal as part of the Queen’s Birthday honours. The 75-year-old received the OAM for ‘services to motor sport’, the announcement of the award highlighting his pair of Bathurst 1000 wins and his Australian Grand Prix victory. John GossGoss began his Bathurst career […]
Andrea Caldarelli completed one of the greatest race of his career in Red Bull Ring, for third 2018 ADAC GT Masters round. The Italian Factory Driver for Lamborghini Squadra Corse, at the wheel of #63 Huracan GT3 ORANGE1 by GRT climbed from P25 to 2nd place in Sunday race. Alongside regular teammate Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea […]
The new Engen Polo Cup championship category will visit South Africa’s fastest racing venue this weekend (June 15 and 16), with the East London Grand Prix circuit hosting round four of the 2018 Extreme Festival. Going to the Eastern Cape, this year’s Engen Polo Cup title chase is as close as it has ever been. […]
The fourth round of the Wingfield Motors Power Tour woke up to wet conditions on Saturday morning to treat a surprising number of race fans to brave the conditions to a stunning day’s racing at Killarney. Then the weather cleared before it rained again to dish up unexpected results, thrills and spills. Kosie Weyers made […]
Team boss Peter Lindenberg was the only Lindenberg Racing entry in Saturday’s Zwartkops SKF Legends of the 9 Hour Little Giants historic saloon car races, where he enjoyed a great day’s racing to come away in the championship lead after a true battle of the legends. Lindenberg was initially second in the opening race, before […]
The Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria will host a wide variety of competition on four and two wheels, including the circuit’s only Endurance race of the year, this Saturday (June 9). The races for SKF Pre-1966 Legend Saloon Cars should see Jonathan du Toit (Chev Nova) and Jeffrey Kruger (Chevelle) fight for podium places Top billing […]
Toyota is no stranger to motorsports. Both on-road and off, Toyota serves up racing products that compete strongly all over the globe. Here in America, the premier road-racing series has a somewhat unconventional, conventional Toyota entry: the Camry. Toyota has raced a Camry in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and Monster Energy Cup Series (including previously […]
Lee Thompson Racing heads to East London’s fourth round national championship Extreme Festival races keen for a strong set of results following a few difficult rounds of late. Charl Smalberger is keen on two good results in Sasol GTC2, while young Delon Thompson is after more good progress after a stirring run last time out […]
Pepper Racing heads to East London’s Engen Polo Cup races Saturday 16 July with one thing in mind and that is to come back in an even better championship position that it heads there from. Tasmin Pepper dominated to win both races at Zwartkops last time out and she heads to the Border just one […]
The 2018 Investchem Formula 1600 championship, which paves its champion’s Road to Indy, heads to the classic East London Grand Prix Circuit for its fourth round on Workers Saturday 16 June with a tight championship tussle developing at the head of this year’s title race. And with the winner earning a trip to the annual […]
Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Earl Bamber will be on double duty at the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 after landing a drive in the Dunlop Super2 Series round at Mount Panorama. The New Zealand sportscar ace will team up with Super2 rookie Brenton Grove in the Grove Racing VF Commodore for the second tier […]
Cape Town driver Jonathan Aberdein once again redeemed a tough weekend in the FIA European Formula 3 Championship when he bounced back to score points against the odds in the final race of the Hungoraring’s second round weekend outside Budapest on Sunday. Aberdein, who also scored on his debut at Pau in France last time […]
Three weeks ago, Midrand race driver Jordan Pepper did not even know he would be racing as one of the Bentley Boys in the factory team’s new Continental GT3 at the Blancpain GT Series Paul Ricard 1000 endurance race. Come Saturday evening and Pepper was standing on the French Riviera racetrack’s podium to collect the […]
Bloemfontein’s Stuart White only found out he was travelling to Belgium for the second round of the French Formula 4 championship at Spa Francorchamps on Tuesday, but the SA Investchem Formula 1600 championship leader came back home with another race victory in his pocket come Sunday afternoon. “The Winfield Racing School called us on Tuesday […]
BMW Motorsport ambassador Alessandro Zanardi will make his DTM debut at the seventh round the season at Misano in a specially adapted BMW M4 DTM. The Italian lost both legs in a horrific crash at the Lausitzring whilst racing in Indy Car 17 years ago but went on to make a returned to motor racing […]
If you happen to be in the Eastern Cape, or if you’re looking for a good reason to get away over the Youth Day weekend, then it may very well be worth your while to consider diarising that day for the fourth round of the 2018 South African Extreme Festival National Circuit Racing Championship roadshow […]
Killarney’s fourth round Wingfield motors Power Series kept Cape Town race fans on the edges of their seats throughout the day and into the night as excellent local racing followed by a home victory in the South African Endurance Championship Campos 600 delivered racing of the highest order throughout. The Cape’s Burly Pro GTi Challenge […]
Clear weather, that clouded a little through a crisp Pretoria autumn’s afternoon, set the backdrop for a most entertaining afternoon of national championship Extreme Festival racing at the Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday. In a meeting set apart by record lap times, Michael Stephen and Daniel Rowe shared GTC wins and Bradley Liebenberg and Keagan Masters […]
The Pau Grand Prix has always been an extreme exercise of survival — the tight street circuit through the Pyrenean foothill town leaves no room for error and the race has a long tradition of crashes and drama, not quit the ideal venue for any driver’s FIA Formula 3 debut. That’s however what faced Cape […]
Drama, a new winner, a new lap record and spectacular racing typified rounds five and six of this year’s Engen Polo Cup Championship at the Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria on Saturday, May 12. Since the series participants had spent two days testing at Zwartkops prior to the start of the season, everybody was wise […]
The Mopar South African Endurance Championship returns to action at the Killarney Campos 600 at Killarney in Cape Town Saturday 19 May to provide local race fans with an epic weekend’s racing alongside a full program of local classes at the home of Western Cape racing. If last year’s race was anything to go by, […]
South Africa’s Jonathan Aberdein cannot wait for the long break to be over before he takes to the track for his FIA European Formula 3 debut at the series’ opening round at the Pau street circuit in France over the 11-13 May weekend. 2017 Formula 4 UAE champion Aberdein last raced in the ADAC German […]
Stuart White will be foremost on all of his rivals minds when the Investchem South African Formula 1600 championship heads to the Zwartkops Raceway in Pretoria West for its third round races Saturday 12 May, even though the Bloemfontein teenager will be absent from this round. White has made no mistakes in his quest to […]