2018 Regional Extreme Series starts with a bang at Zwartkops

2018 Regional Extreme Series starts with a bang at Zwartkops

The weather was not kind at Zwartkops on Saturday, during the opening round of this year’s regional Extreme Festival series. But, those who braved the cold and sometimes wet conditions were rewarded with a full day of spectacular circuit racing. The opening race for autObarn Super Hatch cars saw a huge dice for the lead […]

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Extreme Festival to kick off at Zwartkops Raceway - 17 March 2018

Extreme Festival to kick off at Zwartkops Raceway – 17 March 2018

The Regional part of this year’s Extreme Festival circuit racing Festival will get underway in varied style at the Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria this Saturday (March 17). The St Patrick’s Day Festival of Racing will cater for nine separate racing disciplines on four and two wheels, set to tackle a total of 18 races during […]

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SKF Pre-1966 Legends of the 9 Hour Production Cars - Photograph by Paul Blackburn

Legends Newsletter 01 – 2018

The 2018 Passion for Speed Zwartkops Raceway/ Killarney The 2018 Passion for Speed drew 24 International Historic Car and 8 Classic TT Motorcycle competitors.                                                The 17th David Piper/ Passion for Speed event at Zwartkops was an enduring weekend of action with cars, bikes and importantly the interaction of people, young and old, with cars, heroes, […]

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Large crowd treated to brilliant racing in Passion of Speed spectacle at Zwartkops - 2018

Large crowd treated to brilliant racing in Passion of Speed spectacle at Zwartkops – 2018

Saturday’s 17th international historic Passion for Speed event at the Zwartkops Raceway provided brilliant racing, a large crowd and some unexpected results. The event, which traditionally opens the South African circuit racing season, saw mostly historic car racing spectacle, intermingled with some really quick modern-day Supercar action. The biggest crowd drawcards were certainly the SKF […]

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Mick Grant – The Great No.10

Here’s To Our Heroes!

Together with Mike Hailwood, Barry Sheene, Agostini… there was Mick Grant who won more Isle of man TT’s than Hailwood.  We South Africans have lost count of how many times he has graced our shores.  It started in 1973 with the SA TT at Roy Hesketh and then Kyalami on Grand Prix day in March […]

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