The 25th Passion For Speed set to be a motorsport feast for fans Zwartkops Raceway is pulling out all the stops to start the 2026 local motorsport calendar with a feast for fans at the 25th anniversary of the Passion For Speed event at the end of this month (30-31 January). The de facto local motorsport season opener has established itself as a showpiece event on the national calendar. However, this year’s edition will provide additional reasons to celebrate the… Read More
South Africans have always been “special” builders. Post-war, it was more a case of necessity being the mother of invention. In the early sixties, it was more a matter of belief that anything you do can we can do better. However, by the mid-sixties, motor sport was becoming not only commercialised but single-seater and sports racers were becoming complex in design and construction. By this time, the motor industry had also learnt the immense publicity value out of race-track performance.… Read More
The name Smokey Yunick conjures up all sorts of emotions in American Motor Racing folklore. “He was a womaniser, heavy on alcohol and a rule-dodging adventurer who once tried to catch the largest anaconda in the Amazon”. He was also rated as the cleverest racing engineer who lived in the 1960s and operated out of the garage by the name “THE BEST DAMN GARAGE IN TOWN”, very close to the greatest oval of them all, Daytona. He was a genius… Read More
Jack Holme must surely go down in the history of motor sport as one of the most remarkable gentlemen. Not only did he start motor racing at the age of 49 and then went on to develop and race one of the fastest Lotus Elans ever, he also built his own sports racing cars, the Ecosse with which he won the South African sports car championship in 1968. The first Ecosse was built in 1966 out of Jack’s Formula Junior… Read More
Named “Lolette” — “Lo” for Lola (Eric’s wife) and “Ette” inspired by the Chevrolet Corvette. Eric built the Lolette to compete in South African sports car racing. It made its debut at Kyalami in 1962 The chassis was a Protea chassis, number 14 or 15, built by John Meys for his short production run using Ford Anglia components. Originally, the Lolette was fitted with a Studebaker three-speed gearbox and a De Dion rear axle. The car proved to be highly… Read More
‘Ford Forever’ was the theme and prime focus of the Golden age of racing in the 1960s… Ford gave us the engines and the cars that produced the greats of motor sport in the age when the war babies grew up and a generation of participants and liberationists were on the world stage. We will be celebrating 65 years of Ford in action at Zwartkops in January 2026 as we embrace the action that captured the imagination of yesterday, and… Read More