The Mopar South African Endurance Series is preparing on all fronts for a return to action at the Killarney Campos 600 at Killarney in Cape Town Saturday 19 May and if last year’s Cape race and the last round of this year’s championship at Killarney are anything to go by, you would be well advised […]
Zwartkops Raceway is gearing up for its first national championship race weekend of the season when the Extreme Festival visits the Pretoria circuit for its third round national championship races and judging by the form book, it would be a very good idea to cross Saturday 12 May out of your diary right away. While […]
The Investchem South African Formula 1600 Championship takes the next step on the Road to Indy as it heads to Cape Town for the second round of the Extreme Festival at the Killarney International Raceway Saturday 21 April with an eager field of drivers with one aim in mind — to beat Stuart White. Bloemfontein […]
After a brilliant start to the season at Kyalami last month, the 2018 Engen Polo Cup championship contenders will perform at the Western Cape Killarney circuit next Saturday (April 21). The occasion will be round two of this year’s national Extreme Festival series, with the Engen Polo Cup races to play a major role in […]
Action in the 24H GT SERIES powered by Hankook continues with the inaugural Hankook 12H NAVARRA (20-22 April, 2018). Opened in 2010, the ‘Circuito de Navarra’ in Los Arcos in the Spanish Navarra region is a new venue for the CREVENTIC SERIES powered by Hankook. For the Hankook 12H NAVARRA, running from noon till midnight […]
The Killarney International Raceway hosts the second round of the 2018 Extreme Festival national championship circuit racing roadshow presented by Get Worth, Saturday 21 April. Featuring four national championship classes and a couple of regional and club races apiece, the highlight of the day is however likely to be the national challenge G&H Transport Extreme […]
Following a successful outing at the season opening VLN race last month the Hyundai N team will return to the Nürburgring Nordschleife with a pair of i30 N TCR cars for the Nürburgring 24 Hours Qualifying Race (April 14-15) and ADAC Nürburgring 24 Hours (May 10-13). The Nürburgring 24 Hours attracts vast grids and huge […]
Porsche has broken the outright lap record of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, with a heavily modified evo-spec 919 Hybrid LMP1. Neel Jani eclipsed Lewis Hamilton’s record time set in qualifying ahead of last year’s Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix by over seven tenths of a second. Jani, a WEC champion and Le Mans winner […]
The Killarney International Raceway is preparing to host the second round of the 2018 Extreme Festival national championship circuit racing roadshow Saturday 21 April — an event that Cape racer fans would be advised to diarise well in advance. Featuring four national championship classes and a couple of regional and club races apiece, the highlight […]
Stuart White started his Road to Indy dream in perfect fashion as he dominated the Investchem Formula 1600 races at Kyalami’s Festival of Motoring on Saturday. White qualified third on Friday evening but raced into the lead off the start never to be headed again as he left his rivals to fight over the scraps. […]
The all-new 2018 Engen Polo Cup season started on a high note at Kyalami on Saturday, with the turbocharged two-litre Polo race cars delivering exceptional reliability, close racing, a new lap record and great spectacle. Qualifying Saturday morning’s official qualifying session saw the times of the top six cars covered by one second, led by […]
Pouring rain greeted race fans and the regional Extreme Festival circus at the Zwartkops International Raceway’s opening St. Patricks’s Day race meeting on Saturday, with most classes qualifying in the wet, before the weather cleared through the slip and slide opening race heats to deliver an ideal track for the second races that in fact […]
Kyalami’s Motorsport Festival hosts the opening round of the 2018 Extreme Festival South African National Circuit Racing Championship at the Grand Prix circuit Saturday 24 March. Hosting the opening rounds of the Sasol GTC, Engen Volkswagen Cup and Investchem Formula 1600 championships, there will also be spectacular G&H Extreme Supercar races, a SAMCAR V8 Supercar […]
The South African National Investchem Formula 1600 Championship kicks off at Kyalami’s Festival of Motoring Saturday 24 March with a field of most exciting South African young guns chasing a brilliant new championship prize of the chance to drive in the Mazda Road to Indy Shootout in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in December. “We are delighted […]
Saturday’s season opening Historic Tour races proved a happy hunting ground for Lindenberg Racing at Red Star Raceway, where team patron Peter raced to overall victory in his Shelby GT350 Mustang, daughter Paige hustled her monster Fairlane to fourth in class and seventh overall, and Djurk Venter brought his Escort home 14th overall and 3rd […]
South Africa’s Julian van der Watt enjoyed a positive start to his US Formula 2000 road to Indy campaign at the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg Miami, US over the weekend. Camps Bay Cape Town’s reigning South African Formula 1600 champion qualified a respectable 11th in his first-ever street race before driving up to […]
Saturday’s Killarney International Raceway’s second-round Wingfield Power Series races proved a day of contrasts as changeable and occasionally damp, cool conditions at the Killarney International Raceway saw to some spectacular racing on the one hand and some dominant performances on the other. The pick of the day was the BurlyPro GTi Challenge, where Jano van […]
Excitement is mounting in anticipation of the start of the 2018 Extreme Festival South African National Championship at Kyalami’s Motorsport Festival in two weeks time. The Saturday 24 March races come among much excitement as teams and drivers prepare for that all-important opening meeting, while the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit is pulling out all the […]
Zwartkops Raceway’s Extreme Festival racing season kicks off with a packed nine-class race program Saturday 17 March including no less than six saloon car classes. A wide variety of tin tops will see the Motor Mart Volkswagen Challenge, AutObarn SuperHatch, Big Boss Auto Super Saloons, Car Care Clinic 111 Sports and Saloons and Motul Modified […]
Western Cape race fans have a full and hugely entertaining day’s racing to look forward to at Killarney’s second round Wingfield Motors Power Series meeting Saturday 10 March, if the fraught track action last time out was anything to go by. With all of Cape Town’s regular main circuit classes racing on the day, there’s […]
It may yet be a month away, but the 2018 Extreme Festival South African National Championships will come to life on Saturday 24 March and where better to start a race season than at the home of South African motorsport? The Kyalami Motorsport Festival will host the opening rounds of the SA National Championships for […]
Saturday’s Wingfield Motors Killarney Power Series action was great throughout the day, but if any class produced consistently extreme action, it was the Brat Pack of Class C in the BurlyPro GTi Challenge. Among the most competitive of any classes racing in South Africa in 2018, this baby class of the popular Western Cape series […]
Killarney’s 2018 racing championships exploded into action as a dazzling display of crunching racing kept a sizeable crowd entertained throughout a perfect Cape summer’s day at the opening Wingfield Motors Power Series meeting on Saturday. The action was fraught on track as cars and bikes produced spectacular dicing, while red flags flew to stop the […]
“The first round of the EV Dynamics Inland Championship draws competitors and spectators alike, and sets the bar pretty high for the season ahead. Midvaal Raceway hosted the first round of this year’s EV Dynamics Inland Championship on Saturday 17 February and 19 races spread over 9 different categories kept a large crowd entertained throughout […]
The 2018 Mopar South African Endurance Series kicks off with the Mopar Phakisa 6-hour at Phakisa Saturday 24 February with a strong entry already in place at the time of writing and as many as 30 cars expected on the grid in Welkom come race day. As always, it is never over until the fat […]
A new title sponsor, new drivers and cars, and a new engine in the class C cars will all be on display at Midvaal Raceway in Meyerton on Saturday, 17 February when about 30 cars will line up on the grid to get the 2018 MotorMart VW Challenge underway. Class A looks like it is […]
GTi Challenge set for scorching season opener Be prepared to get up our of your comfy spectator’s seat when the WP Burly Pro GTi Challenge 2018 explodes into action at the Killarney International Raceway’s season opening Wingfield Motors Power Series this Saturday 17 February because the series is bound to have you on your feet […]
It all started in April 2017, at last year’s Grand Prix of Long Beach — Bryan Herta, former IndyCar racer and current team owner with two Indianapolis 500 wins to his credit, mentioned at a luncheon with executives at Hyundai that if the company ever decided to return to motorsports in the U.S., Herta would […]
BurlyPro GTi Brat Pack the maddest of the lot If someone were to ask which class in South Africa is the closest and hardest fought of all in motorsport, you’d probably be excused for drawing a blank until you came down to the likes of the Polo Cup or Formula 1600, all of which is […]
Cape Town race fans will be happy to learn that the 2018 Wingfield Motors Power Series kicks off at the Killarney International Raceway Saturday 17 February. The opening round of the Western Province regional circuit series promises a brilliant program of top notch races set to deliver a spectacular day of end-to-end motor racing, with […]
The all-new Electric GT Championship has been sanctioned by the governing body of world motorsport, the FIA, ahead of the start of its inaugural season this year. The series, in which a field of 20 drivers will battle it out driving a race-prepared Tesla Model S P100D, currently has eight races scheduled for the 2018 […]
The 29th edition of the Race of Champions (ROC), which will take place from February 2-3 at the King Fahd International Stadium Abu Dhabi Racing (ADR) drivers Sheikh Khalid bin Faisal Al Qassimi and Khaled Al Qubaisi will be seen in action at this weekend’s 29th edition of the Race of Champions (ROC), which will […]
Peter bounces back in style as team shines Peter Lindenberg kicked off his return to racing in fine style on Saturday when he drove his Shelby Mustang to victory over Sarel van der Merwe’s Chevelle in the opening Legends V8 race of Saturday’s Zwartkops Passion for Speed classic racing festival. It was also a great […]
Classic motorcycles thrill Zwartkops fans The Day of the Champion, Sunday’s second day of Zwartkops’ 17th Passion for Speed festival of historic racing weekend thrilled motorcycle fans with international classic superbike action, historic racing motorcycles on track and an action-packed supporting act of local two wheeler races. Unlike Saturday’s slippery car races, Sunday dawned a […]
Saturday’s 17th international historic Passion for Speed event at the Zwartkops Raceway provided brilliant racing, a large crowd and some unexpected results. The event, which traditionally opens the South African circuit racing season, saw mostly historic car racing spectacle, intermingled with some really quick modern-day Supercar action. The biggest crowd drawcards were certainly the SKF […]
Gauteng race fans are in for a time warp treat over the weekend of 27 and 28 January when the Zwartkops Raceway presents its glorious 17th Passion of Speed races for cars on Saturday and Day of the Champion motorcycles on Sunday. And not only will the weekend of wheels boast a race program brim […]
South African youngster Daniel Duminy has been selected out of over 120 applicants from around the world to race in the 2018 Audi Sport TT Cup. The Ballito, KwaZulu Natal teenager, who has raced in the prestigious Engen Volkswagen Cup over the past two seasons, will step up to among the world’s leading one-make series […]
The annual and popular Passion for Speed will take place at Zwartkops Raceway on the weekend of 26 to 28 January 2018. The war babies of the sixties focused on love not war, except when it came to the “Passion for Speed”. There were no restraints. It was the go go go generation of foot […]
Despite the comments recently by the newly appointed member to the Women in Motorsport Commission, Carmen Jorda, that women racer can’t compete against men and should have their own championship, young New Zealander Chelsea Herbert has proven her wrong. At the recent round of the BNT New Zealand Touring Car championships the 19-year-old became the […]
Lee Thompson Racing ended it’s hectic 2017 race season off in style with a championship win, a runner up position and a generally positive day at a sodden Zwartkops Raceway outside Pretoria on Saturday. Thompson’s team ran seven cars over three championships through the year, with veteran Iain Pepper emerging as Class A Volkswagen Challenge […]