The Volkswagen Group emissions scandal will not affect the automotive giant’s motorsport activities, according to new boss Matthias Muller.Muller, who moved over from chief executive officer at VW subsidiary Porsche to take the top job after the resignation of predecessor Martin Winterkorn, said the scandal would not result in the cancellation of any of the […]
Four-time Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel put in a stunning performance to eclipse 19 fellow stars of motor sport and win the Race of Champions for the first time on a thrilling afternoon of action at London’s former Olympic Stadium. Following Team England 1’s triumph in Friday night’s ROC Nations Cup, all cooperation went […]
Fast-forward 43 years, and Kawasaki has done it again with the absolutely ludicrous Ninja H2 street bike and H2R track weapon. Determined to once again stake its claim at the top of the super bike totem pole, Kawasaki unveiled the two supercharged machines last year. The numbers associated with the H2R in particular are like nothing […]
As most readers would already know, Paul Walker, famous for his role in the Fast and the Furious movies, died in a single-vehicle accident involving a 2005 Porsche Carrera GT almost exactly two years ago. Walker was the passenger in the Porsche supercar, which was driven by his friend Roger Rodas. Investigators determined the car […]
Sebastien Loeb has admitted he was surprised to be dropped by Citroen, because he expected to contest next year’s World Touring Car Championship with the French manufacturer. Citroen announced on Thursday that Jose Maria Lopez and Yvan Muller will be the only two factory C-Elysee drivers next season in the WTCC, while Loeb departs for […]
The penultimate round of the 2015 Liqui Moly Legends Championship was held at the rustic Midvaal Raceway on Saturday 14 November. The traditional ball draw for grid positions would keep things interesting as always. Willie Erasmus (Pro) drew pole position ahead of Justin Robertson (Master). Morne Stoltz (Pro) drew third position with Johann van de […]
South African karters once again excelled at the Rotax Max Challenge Grand Finals, finishing the 2015 event in second place behind the USA, at a fantastic karting complex at Portimao on the Algarve coast in southern Portugal. The 10-member South African team scored 1013 points to place second behind the USA, the winning Nation on […]
Although it may not be included in the 2015 GT Asia Series calendar for the first time in five years, the entry list for the inaugural FIA GT World Cup includes a big selection of the top teams and drivers from the region’s leading GT series. Typically the Macau event has been the closing round […]
The 2015 season of the Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo one-make race series is almost over, with only the World Final event left to go. It takes place at Florida’s Sebring International Raceway between November 20 and 22 and no less than 66 raging bulls will be lining up on the grid. The Lamborghini Blancpain Super […]
The South African Single-Seaters saw the national Formula Ford field tackle their final round of the season at Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday. The championship favourite for the season, Robert Wolk (41 – Chemical Logistics Mygale) ensured he did exactly what was necessary in order to claim the national title for 2015 – making it his […]
The Eurasia Motorsport Oreca Nissan completed the podium in third, one lap back. Clearwater Racing also continued its undefeated streak in GT, with the Rob Bell, Weng Sun Mok and Keita Sawa-driven McLaren 650S GT3 cruising to a one-lap victory over the No. 91 Team AAI BMW Z4 GT3, which featured Dirk Mueller on the […]
*A case of Déjà vu as a Conti-shod VW Polo-Golf team, in classic livery, takes to the track in Port Elizabeth in the annual 3-Hour Endurance Race. Fifteen years ago local tyre manufacturer, Continental Tyres, made history becoming the only South African tyre manufacturer to manufacture racing slicks for local racing. Engen VW Polo Cup […]
The buzz around Ford ‘s Mustang is huge right now, with the 2016 model due for launch a week before The2015 Classic Car Show, show, making it the first Mustang in 50 years to be sold from Ford dealers with right-hand-drive, here in South Africa. But although the Mustang has never been freely available in […]
Macau comes alive every autumn with the roar of sports car and motorcycle engines, as drivers, riders and enthusiasts descend on the former Portuguese enclave for one of the world’s most exciting sporting events. The Macau Grand Prix takes place on the Guia Circuit on the third weekend of November each year, and is the […]
Competing in the inaugural season of the TCR International Series is “a mixture of business and emotion” according to Top Run Motorsport General Manager Renato Russo. The outfit made their début in the TCR International Series with their brand new Subaru STi TCR car in September, having announced plans to build cars to the series’ […]
The Bridgestone BMW Club Racing Series made history on Saturday 1 November as the first tin top series to host an event at a very hot and humid Red Star Raceway just outside of Delmas in Mpumalanga. A healthy field of cars turned out for the final event of the year with the class B […]
Just a little less than two months from the start of the AFRICA ECO RACE 2016 edition, which will be held in Monaco on December 26th and 27th, registrations are still arriving. René METGE and his team just returned from final recognitions and they are now preparing the road books, a press conference is in […]
Final round action in the South African Single-Seaters (SASS) will see the national Formula Ford competitors tackling their last two races for 2015 at Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday, November 7. At this point in the championship, with seven rounds completed, it is Robert Wolk (41 – Chemical Logistics Mygale) that is the obvious favourite to […]
Zwartkops Raceway was the venue for the ninth round of the 2015 Liqui Moly Legends Championship. With three of the series regulars on international duty in America at the Legends Cars Road Course World Finals at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and a few cars being out of action due to repairs a slightly thinner […]
Jeffrey Kruger clinched the title in the final race of the Volkswagen Golf Cup Poland. A third and a second place at the Poznan Circuit (PL) proved enough for the South African to win the championship. Kruger’s closest rival, Dylan Pereira of Luxembourg, won both races on the 4.083-kilometre circuit, but ultimately finished 26 points […]
The participation of Acciona’s revamped 100% EcoPowered vehicle in this year’s Morocco Rally represents the first time an EV left the start line in a championship race within the world rally calendar. Currently under way, the race runs over a route over 2,200 kilometres long, divided into five stages. 300 participants from 27 countries […]
Based on the humble Lancer sedan, the Evo cars are stripped down, turbocharged, all-wheel drive rally-fighters that are just civilized enough for the street. They get more powerful with every iteration, while still staying affordable enough for the common man. They only came as far west as Europe until 2003, when after years of hearing of incredible […]
The penultimate round of the Bridgestone BMW Club Racing Series saw this popular one make series head to the Zwartkops Raceway on Thursday 24 September for another action packed Extreme Festival public holiday event. A strong field of twenty seven cars took to the track for official qualifying with the various championship contenders in each […]
BERLIN — Car manufacturer Volkswagen (VW) on Tuesday said a scandal over falsified US vehicle emission tests could affect 11-million of its cars worldwide as investigations of its diesel models multiplied, heaping fresh pressure on CEO Martin Winterkorn. It said it would set aside €6.5bn in its third-quarter accounts to help cover the costs of […]
The eighth round of the 2015 Liqui Moly Legends Championship saw this ever popular series set out to the Midvaal Raceway in Meyerton on Saturday 12 September for three more heats of action packed racing. An impressive twenty one car field ensured that the racing was nothing less than spectacular! The traditional ball draw for […]
Honda has shown off its new MotoGP V4-powered Project 2&4 concept this week ahead of an unveiling at the Frankfurt motor show.Revealed as the winning design of a Global Design Project held across Honda’s styling offices, the Project 2&4 is presented as a compact open-wheeled racer. The concept’s styling is inspired by the Honda RA272 […]
Castrol Team Toyota’s Leeroy Poulter and navigator Rob Howie have an opportunity to clinch the 2015 Donaldson Cross-Country Championship this weekend, when they line up for the Vryburg Endurance – Round 5 of the six-round national championship. The pair have won all but one round of the championship this year, though they also won the […]
A subsidiary of Geely, which owns Volvo, is the new owner of Miller Motorsports Park.Back in May, we expressed concern that Miller Motorsports Park was seeing its last days. The home of the Ford Performance Racing School was on the brink of closing, despite collective protest. However, as KUTV has reported, China’s largest automaker, and […]
Jeffrey Kruger is finding himself really well on the Sachsenring venue and was able to achieve yet one more success winning the first race of Volkswagen Golf Cup. This time however, the driver from South Africa had more work to do behind the wheel and for a while we had a really fierce battle between […]
Don’t lift, don’t shift “Don’t lift.” That’s been the mantra of race-car drivers, basically since the beginning of race-car driving. The physics being, if you lift midcorner when your mind tells you to, the weight comes off the back end, possibly sending it around in an uncorrectable and uncontrollable skid. With the 2016 Shelby GT350, […]
Boxer announces purchase to the world on (where else?) Instagram. Boxer Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr., though ridiculously, ludicrously, insanely rich, is just like us. When he has the money for a Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita, he buys a Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita. From his Instagram, verbatim: My new 4.8 Million dollar car. $4,800,000.00 Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita supercar […]
IndyCar driver Justin Wilson died Monday night from a head injury suffered when a piece of debris struck him at Pocono Raceway. He was 37. IndyCar made the announcement at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Wilson, a British driver who lived outside Denver in Longmont, Colo., was hit in the head during Sunday’s race by piece of […]
At the US circuit of Virginia International Raceway, victory in Race 1 went to championship leader Romain Monti. The Frenchman claimed the opening race in round four from Lino Curti, who missed out on the chance to grab his maiden Maserati Trofeo win. The Italian’s error came on lap 15 when, holding a healthy lead, […]
CONSIDERED a “driver’s circuit”, the challenging Phakisa Freeway lived up to its reputation on Saturday. The sixth round of the South African Single-Seaters (SASS) championship kept the racers on their toes as they each dealt with the challenges before them. Although not amongst the top overall achievers at this event, Dewald Brummer (11 – Anglo […]
Team Germany will have an all-Formula 1 line-up at this year’s Race of Champions (ROC) after Nico Hulkenberg was confirmed as Sebastian Vettel’s partner.Vettel won six consecutive Team titles from 2007 until 2012 with seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher, but he will team up with Le Mans 24 Hours winner Hulkenberg this year. “I’ve had […]
Maxterino Class steals the karting show at Idube, KZN ,as the DD2 field swells to nearly 30 karts. The two stand-out features at Round Three of the 2015 SA Rotax Max Challenge karting championship was the biggest entry in over a decade seen in the top-tier DD2 Gearbox class, and the closest racing seen in […]
For the second year in a row, the Virginia International Raceway will stage the Maserati Trofeo World Series event. The US track will host round four on the weekend of Friday, August 21 through Saturday, August 22, 2015.This marks the second round in the US for the Maserati Trofeo series shortly after June’s event at […]
The Bridgestone BMW Club Racing Series will once again return to the Free State mining town of Welkom for round six of the 2015 Championship on Saturday 22 August. The series will join the popular Extreme Festival series yet again for a day of nonstop racing action. With more than thirty entries expected, the competitors […]
The Alfa Trofeo Racing Series will head to the dusty plains of the Phakisa Freeway circuit in Welkom on Saturday 15 August for the sixth round of the 2015 championship. The new sprint racing format continues to gain interest amongst competitors, with the new classes allowing everyone a chance of walking away with some silverware […]
The Goodwood Road Racing Club (GRRC) announced the 74th Members’ Meeting will be held on the weekend of March 19-20, 2016, at Goodwood Motor Circuit. The Members’ Meeting was revived in 2014 for members of the GRRC to continue the tradition of the 71 club motor sport events held at Goodwood from 1949-66, and has, […]