Before the outbreak of WWII, motor racing in South Africa had been developing strongly and, in fact, the last pre-war...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix,...
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When Jack Brabham was demobbed from the Royal Australian Air Force in 1947, even he did not realize he was...
Over the coming months we will have a series of three interviews with former BRM mechanics who worked with the...
The Crankhandle Club was founded in 1955, in Cape Town, South Africa. Today, it has its own clubhouse, in a southern suburb of Cape Town called Wynberg, within an area known as Chelsea. Looks like the real one in London. The club has over 500 members and is very active with...
The Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit and the Sports Car Club of South Africa will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the...
Zwartkops, South Africa February 3–4, 2007 The McLaren M8 of Michael Campagne.Photo: Neil Phillipson Become a Member & Get Ad-Free...
Louis Gerard. Five years after Whitney Straight’s historic trip to South Africa to take part in the First South African Grand Prix, motor racing had become an established sport in the country and during the European winters British and Continental drivers escaped the cold to take part in the ‘summer...
Carlo Chiti Emerson Fittipaldi 1 Scuderia Ferrari is formed as the Alfa Romeo factory racing team (1929). 2 Peter Gethin...
Neville Lederle, the 1963 South Africa Champion driver, has passed away at aged 80. Lederle was one of the few...
More than 80 years ago, two fabulously wealthy young American brothers, accompanied by their butler, flew a primitive plywood-based biplane many thousands of miles to take part in an obscure six-lap motor race near the southern tip of Africa. Neither of the brothers would have very long racing careers, but...
In late December 1959, Bill Jennings packed his tools, spares and suitcase into the passenger seat of his self-assembled GSM...
In January 1957, a big mustached man wrestled with a mighty Studebaker racing car on a narrow, twisty and bumpy...
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From West Coast Juniors comes word of a global celebration of the formula’s Diamond Jubilee that will begin this January...
Pat Harrington-Johnson was a South African newspaperman who covered motoring and shipping for the Natal Mercury before and after World War...
One of South Africa’s most recognizable motor sports personalities, Jackie Pretorius, died March 30, succumbing to injuries received during a home-invasion robbery. That incident was a virtual repeat of a similar break-in five years ago that took the life of Jackie’s wife, Shirley, and is thought to have been committed...