Robert Wolk set the new Top Of The Hill Challenge record this past weekend (21-22 November), piloting his Investchem 2005 Gould GR 55 in his first outing at the annual event held at Zwartkops Raceway. Wolk, a multiple South African Touring Cars and Single-Seater champion, set the pace on Friday against his Single-Seater & Sports Cars rivals, 2024 winner JM Gerber (2007 Formula M Van Dieman), and Josef Kotze (Top Products 2023 Birken S3), but was confident that he could… Read More
This coming weekend’s (21-22 November) The Top Of The Hill Challenge at Zwartkops Raceway is nearly upon us, and with a star-studded entry list ready to take on the course, everyone is eager to see who will be the champions in 2025. One of the biggest battles in South African motorsport in 2025 is expected to be for the Modified Production Car title. Reghard Roets (BB Motorsport 2014 Nissan GTR R35) is the reigning champion, but Pieter Zeelie (Zeelie Accountants… Read More
As South Africa’s 2025 motorsport season draws to a close, Zwartkops Raceway is preparing to host the second Top Of The Hill event later this month (21-22 November) following 2024’s successful inaugural event. Course time attack events have indeed found prominence on the South African motorsport calendar, with 2025 seeing four major events, the upcoming The Top Of The Hill Challenge being the last. Not only do more events offer more opportunities for competitors to race in these often purpose-built… Read More
Hillclimb competition paid the Zwartkops circuit near Pretoria a successful visit on Saturday, with the 2000 Metre Top of the Hill Challenge event producing ultra-close competition, brilliant driving performances and happy spectators. Tackling the Zwartkops circuit anti-clockwise is by no means easy, and experts predicted the event would be dominated by seasoned hillclimb specialists. And so it proved. Long-time saloon car expert Reghard Roets emerged as the overall King of the Hill, blitzing the BB Motorsport team’s Nissan GTR R35… Read More
Reghard Roets recorded the fastest Shootout time in the past weekend’s (4-5 October) inaugural 2000m Zwartkops International World of Motoring Top of the Hill Challenge, an event hailed by many as a significant success. Roets’ (BB Motorsport Nissan GTR R35) time of 53.257 seconds also saw him win the Modified Production Car Shootout after clinching the Class B5 victory earlier. The second-placed Pieter Zeelie (Zeelie Auditors Toyota MR2) final run saw him only 0.38 of a second adrift, having tied… Read More
Motorsport with a difference will come to the Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria this weekend. The venue will host a hill climb, with the 2000 Metre Top of the Hill event to accommodate 58 cars. Competitors will tackle a two-kilometre route one at a time, running anticlockwise from the track’s Turn Four, around the Hairpin, through Turn One, past the pits, through Turn Seven and through the Table Top section, with the finish line halfway down the hill. The event has… Read More