Arie Luyendyk is a household name in motor racing, especially in Indianapolis folklore, but it was a long and arduous...
Five years after Whitney Straight’s historic trip to South Africa to take part in the First South African Grand Prix,...
Brausch Niemann had a brief but successful career in motor sport and took part in two world championship Grands Prix, but he is best remembered for his exploits with a humble Lotus 7 during the early 1960s. Some time ago, our esteemed Editor (Casey Annis) reminded us about the doghouse...
By the mid-1950s international motor racing was beginning to flourish in Africa, south of the equator. In September 1957, international...
Before the outbreak of WWII, motor racing in South Africa had been developing strongly and, in fact, the last pre-war...
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 single-seater, in a small workshop underneath the designer/constructor’s house, earned a world championship constructor’s point against a very competitive field. The giant killing Ecosse team...
On New Year’s Day of 1967 the South African Champion, John Love, was pipped at the post in the season...
In late December 1959, Bill Jennings packed his tools, spares and suitcase into the passenger seat of his self-assembled GSM...
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 in editing what was the most remarkable motoring magazine ever produced. Harrington-Johnson was born in 1912 in the Forest of Deane where his father was...
Neville Lederle, the 1963 South Africa Champion driver, has passed away at aged 80. Lederle was one of the few...
In January 1957, a big mustached man wrestled with a mighty Studebaker racing car on a narrow, twisty and bumpy...
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 of considerable skill and an ingenious designer/constructor of a range of very competitive and innovative machinery that included sports and racing cars. Sadly, world politics,...
Only four names come to mind when one recalls which drivers have driven their self-constructed cars in World Championship Grands...
More than 80 years ago, two fabulously wealthy young American brothers, accompanied by their butler, flew a primitive plywood-based biplane...
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. These days that would earn you a World Championship point. As amazing as Peter de Klerk’s effort was, however, there is no legacy points-wise for...
South Africa has a rich motor racing history, and during the 1930s a number of International Grands Prix were held...
