A large crowd and brilliant on-track spectacle typified the 25th Passion for Speed events at the Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday, to kick off this year’s South African circuit racing activities on a high note.  Top billing for the historic car day comprised two ten-lap heats for Legends of the 9-Hour Pre-1970 Production Cars. The opening […]

This year’s South African circuit racing activities will kick off in spectacular and nostalgic fashion at the Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria this weekend. The occasion will be the 25th Passion for Speed extravaganza which, with more than 300 participants, will be the country’s biggest motorsport event of 2026. The day’s top crowd drawcard should be […]

The 2026 South African circuit racing season gets underway at Zwartkops Raceway this weekend, 30 and 31 January, with the 25th anniversary running of the Passion for Speed. Over 250 drivers, both local and international, will be showcasing their skills at one of the biggest motorsport events of the year. The Legends of the 9 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]