South Africa in the 1960 was F1 and sports GT racing. All the leading teams and drivers of the world raced in South Africa. Formula one world championship the Springboks Series and the original Kyalami 9 Hours. South Africa was in the midst of it all. In 1962 Eric Broadley of Lola cars, built Lola […]
A salute to our Champions At Zwartkops on the 1st February 2020 we can all experience what South Africans achieved in the early 1960’s. South Africa ruled in modifying and developing Alfa twin cam engines which in many instances beat the engines of the day (Climax Borgword) and then proceeded to build cars which challenged […]
From 1962 to 1965 South Africa had a National Formula One Championship. All the International names of the day came and raced in South Africa. We had the Rand Grand Prix – Kyalami, Cape Grand Prix – Killarney, Natal Grand Prix – Westmead, Rhodesian Grand Prix – Bulawayo, and the big daddy of them all […]
Built for Speed Once Eric Broadly gave up on Ford, he returned to Slough in the UK and set about building the Lola T70. They appeared in 1965 in open sports car form. They were hugely successful with John Surtees winning the 1965 Can-Am championship. In 1966 Roy Pierpoint entered the 9 Hours with a […]
The Shelby Daytona Supercoupe Probably the most provocative Cobra ever… Never saw the light of day. The Ultimate Cobra – the final serpentine from Shelby America. Pete Brock began the design late in 1963 on the successor to the Daytona Coupe with a 7-litre engine, designed especially for the Le Mans Mulsanne straight to achieve […]
2020 The Golden Age of Motor Racing! The “Theatre of the Passion for Speed” at Zwartkops – 1st and 2nd of February 2020 And Killarney – 7th and 8th of February 2020 The James Dean Generation of the fifties gave us the greatest theatre of Motor Racing… The Swing sixties The world war babies of […]