London – South Africa could return to the Formula 1 calendar “within two years” as Bernie Ecclestone hints that a Cape Town GP is “weeks away” from getting the green light… at least from him.
Wheels24 reported earlier in 2011 that Formula 1 boss Ecclestone hinted at a South African Grand Prix and that a proposed Cape Town circuit was outlined.
The government’s new road safety plan has resulted in 34 000 unroadworthy vehicles being impounded in the past six months, Transport Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has announced.
Almost nine million vehicles had been stopped at roadblocks, 3.5-million fines issued and 13 877 allegedly inebriated drivers arrested, the transport department claimed. Its National Rolling Enforcement Plan was implemented in October, 2011 in an effort to stop and check a million vehicles a month as a way to reduce road deaths.
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Karts, classics, slot cars and soapboxes get the Knysna Speed Festival under way this weekend
The first events of the inaugural Knysna Speed Festival take place this coming weekend. Friday 13th May sees preparations for the first Knysna Kart Grand Prix, an innovative and spectacular race to be held the following day, 14th May, on the town’s historic Thesen Island, which will provide a unique karting street circuit atmosphere. Counting for both the Western Province club and Eastern Province regional karting championships, practice for the GP starts on the Friday at 14h00 and ends at 19h00. On the Saturday there will be a warm-up from 14h00 to 15h00 followed immediately by qualifying and racing, which ends under lights at 21h30.
Porsche’s Cayman has never been the performance machine that enthusiasts had hoped for – largely because Porsche never wanted it to cannibalise its own 911.
When the Boxster-based compact mid-engined coupe was first launched in 2005, its 3.4-litre six-cylinder boxer engine made a mere 217kW in Cayman S form but since then it has been raised to 235kW and there’s also the race-inspired Cayman R that makes 243kW.
Looks like the South African Police Force / Flying Squad will be taking to the roads in their new Audi S3′s… 100 to be exact! Nice to see our Government spending in the right places (NOT!)… so watch out guys I am sure these cars have all be remapped with decent software and will be a little quicker then expected.
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Following his miraculous escape last weekend when he wrecked a R2-million supercar outside Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, controversial businessman Gayton McKenzie already has his eyes on a multi-million rand Maybach limousine.
McKenzie, the chairman of Kenny Kunene’s growing nightclub empire ZAR, was travelling in a convoy of flashy cars on the R61 to Ngcobo when his white Audi R8 Spyder flew off the road, crashed through a fence and came to a stop in a field.
Eddie Keizan’s shrewd investment of the R3000 prize from winning a South African motor-racing championship in buying Tiger Wheels for R14000 in 1972 saw the company grow to among the top 10 alloy wheel manufacturers worldwide, with a peak annual production of seven million wheels. By 2006, Tiger Wheels had a market capitalisation of R1.3-billion and turned over R3.8-billion.
After judging, scoring and evaluating the contestants for this year’s South African Car of the year, the winner has finally been announced and it is quite a surprise.
There was stiff competition between this year’s contestants and even some controversy, as many of the judges believed one of the vehicles up for consideration didn’t belong in the competition.
It looks like a futuristic Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe, that’s not a bad place to start since these iconic Cobra’s have ruled many a race track and made even more modern supercars scamper away with their tails behind their legs.
We are told by Mike Bruce that this beauty will be sold with exclusive rights by Investment Cars in SA. The vehicle will be manufactured in the armpit of South Africa, P.E and will be available as early as June/July this year.
It was only a few months ago that we heard Durban’s announcement of it’s intended grand prix circuit and a return to the F1 calendar. That wasn’t very long after a similar announcement about a Cape Town city grand prix, which itself came hot on the heels of a lot of hot air about Kyalami returning South Africa to the grand prix calendar, which itself came after the Cape Town Airport GP track promise.
Now it seems there’s a fresh move afoot for a Cape grand prix as Monday’s Cape Argus reported that the Cape Town Grand Prix Bid Company is one of three different organisations chasing for Cape Town to host a Grand Prix! The latest idea is the brainwave of Capetonian Igshaan Amlay that follows ‘a 12-year research and development phase’ and which its purveyor hopes to present to F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone in the coming weeks.
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