Before the outbreak of WWII, motor racing in South Africa had been developing strongly and, in fact, the last pre-war South African Grand Prix, held… Read More...
In the 1974 World Sportscar Championship for Makes at Kyalami, South Africa, a small racecar, built from the chassis of a 10-year old, formula two… Read More...
On New Year’s Day of  1967 the South African Champion,  John Love, was pipped at the post in the season opening South African Grand Prix… Read More...
In late December 1959, Bill Jennings packed his tools, spares and suitcase into the passenger seat of his self-assembled GSM Dart sports car and drove… Read More...
Pat Harrington-Johnson was a South African newspaperman who covered motoring and shipping for the Natal Mercury before and after World War II and he was involved… Read More...
Neville Lederle, the 1963 South Africa Champion driver, has passed away at aged 80. Lederle was one of the few privateers to score a world…
In January 1957, a big mustached man wrestled with a mighty Studebaker racing car on a narrow, twisty  and bumpy hillclimb at Krugersdorp in South… Read More...
Heinz Melkus was born in 1928, in Dresden, and from an early age developed a passion for cars. Heinz was to become a racing driver… Read More...
Only four names come to mind when one recalls which drivers have driven their self-constructed cars in World Championship Grands Prix. Jack Brabham, Dan Gurney… Read More...
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… Read More...
Imagine driving your homebuilt special, powered by a modified production car engine, in two World Championship Grands Prix and finishing 10th in the second one.… Read More...