This event was easily one of the strangest I have attended. It was sponsored by PortableShade, who sent down an enormous truck, shades of Formula One, containing the Honda PortableShade Bikefin team. Their five bikes made up nearly half of ...more

I have just uploaded my portfolio of single seater images from the Zwartkops International meeting last weekend.
The single seater event had an excellent and varied entry, from the BRM P261 of Richard Attwood through a variety of ...more

Five new batches of photo from this years Goodwood Revival ere now on the site.

To view them, simply select the following events:

Motorcyles:Barry Sheene m/c
F3 500cc single seater racing cars:Earl March 500cc ...more

The latest batches of uploads feature the Goodwood Revival from 15 -18 September 2011. To view these outstanding race cars, simply go to the quick search box on the right-hand side of the home page of the site and choose 'event'as ...more

In the members’ area you will find some photos of some of the members of the Turn Right Society. These are folks who raced and loved and worked at the old Kyalami; the one where they went out of the Esses, up the hill to Leeukop and TURNED RIGHT, ...more

The latest updates to the site cover South African rallies from 1978 to 1998, with most of the coverage on the 1980s.
Here you will find mostly black and white photos of all the top drivrs and navigators of the time – Sarel and Frans, Serge ...more

The additions to the website this week feature Group N cars from the Midas and Smiths Wheels sponsored series of 1999, and one each photo from 2001!
To view all the pics, simply go to the quick search box on the home page and choose event ...more

I have received a very upbeat mail about the Wings and Slicks series. There are already confirmed entries and races for these cars will go ahead in 2012.

Here are details from Greg Mills of the cars and drivers so far:
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I have been shown a proposal for a single seater category that IF it came off would bring a great deal of noise and spectacle of the glory days back.
Greg Mills’idea is to have cars from the F5000 days back on track, probably supported by F2, ...more

The latest batch of photos added to the website feature a small number of southern African riders who took part in international GPs in the 80s: Dave Petersen, Mario Rademeyer, Klaus Baller, Brett Hudson, Russell Woods and one I did not know of, ...more

Check out the latest additions to the website.
There are great photos of the 1985 Yashica and the Philips Tracer motorcycle series from 1987 and 1988.
To view them, simply go to the ‘quick search’ box on the home page and choose from ...more

Thanks to contributions from Colin Camp and Roger Pearce, I have added to the site stunning photos from the 1960s and 1970s, all taken at the much-missed Roy Hesketh circuit.
To view them, simply go to the ‘quick search’ box on the right-hand ...more

The latest additions to the website cover the 1981 Castrol 9 Hour, 1983 Castrol 1000 kms and the 500 kms races in 1986, 1987 and 1988 sponsored by Southern Suns and Yellow Pages.
Here is the quick guide to finding them:
Using the quick ...more

29 March 2011 Historic Natal race photos uploaded
The latest additions to the site are courtesy Roger Pearce and comprise a wonderful collection of old photos from the Burman Drive Hillclimb, another hillclimb venue called Scott Road which is ...more

Saloon car heaven on motoprint 21 March 2011
The latest updates to the website cover all the important saloon car series that took place in South Africa during the 1990s and even some from the 1980s, such as Group 1 and early Stannic Group N ...more

This is a listing of images, with year, track event, image numbers and highlights:
1973 Kyalami SA GP images MP1311-13116 Stewart, Oliver Shadow, Reutemann BT37, Lauda Regga BRMs
1974 Kyalami SA GP images MP13117-13121 Brambilla, ...more

A variety of photos from national races has been added to the site. Here is a listing of where they are and some of the highlights:
1962 Kyalami – Love LDS Porsche, Pieterse Lotus 21, Pfaff Aston Martin, Fraser-Jones Porsche Abarth bodied, ...more

Additions to website, from early Kyalami Nine Hours, uploaded 18 January 2011
The latest additions to the website cover Nine Hour races from 1962 to 1972. To view them just go to the ‘quick search’ box on the right-hand side of the home page ...more

Additions to website cover early SA GPs 1962 to 1972
The newest uploads to the website feature GPs at East London and Kyalami with a few real rare items. To view them, use the quick search feature on the right-hand side of the home page. ...more

Latest additions 12 January 2011
I have just uploaded to the site photos from the 1982 and 1983 Castrol endurance races at Kyalami, as well as some very interesting shots from a 1980 Oulton Park race in the UK featuring BMW M1s.
The ...more

5 January 2011
Latest additions to motoprint: Porsche Turbo Cup and Formula Atlantic/Sigma Series
Just uploaded to the site are photos from the 1988 and 1989 Porsche Turbo Cup races: these are numbered MP12627 to MP12657 and can all be ...more

RIP Kyalami Nine Hour 10 December 2010
Another Nine Hour retro has come and gone, and in between nobody seems to have noticed. It seems historic cars, endurance races, Kyalami and spectators do not mix.
This years’ event had a ...more

I am currently working my way through over 900 colour slides taken from 1958 right through to the 1983 Castrol 1000 endurance race at Kyalami.

Over the next few weeks (months!) I will be adding many of them to the site.
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Saloon car heaven 1 December 2010
For all endurance racing fans, photographs from the 1975 and 1976 Wynns 1000 at Kyalami have been uploaded onto my website.
To view them all, simply click the year and event, Wynns 1000
The ...more

The most recent uploads to the site are selections from national races at Kyalami, as well as driver portraits taken at the 1967 Nine Hour.
The images from national events include a good number of drivers in LDS cars: Serrurier himself, Van ...more

Latest SA GP and Rand GP additions 30 September 2010
There are 81 new images of South African GP action on the site.
To simplify the viewing of them, they are listed below by year and by image number.
1962 Rand GP including ...more

Yesteryear programmes 12 September 2010
• Serious motor sport researcher?
• Needing a retro race poster?
• Or just keen to see your name in print?
I have added to this site over 100 motor racing programme covers, from ...more

motoprint news 25 May 2010

My latest additions to the website are more SA GP photos. These cover the 1981, ’82, ’83, ’84 and 1993 events. The photos were given to me by an amateur photographer friend and are not all of top-class ...more

Lionel Rowe Collection
Lionel is a legend in the Eastern Cape, with a racing career on bikes and cars starting in the 1950s and not over yet. He drove a FF Hawke in the PE round of the Springbok Series Revival in November 2009.
He has ...more

MORE SA GP and KYALAMI 9 HOUR ADDITIONS TO THE SITE
I am pleased to announce that there are a further 17 photos of the 1971 9 hour race on the site and 13 additions to the 1972 portfolio. Among the 1971 shots you will find local saloons, the ...more

I have just added 181 images of South African Grand Prix racing to the site. These are from the collection of Ken Stewart, the author of what has become almost a cult publication, Sun on the Grid. The images I have been given to add to my website ...more

motoprint news 22 January 2010
SA GP photos added to the website
To complete the file of the 1983 SA GP, photos of the top three finishers, Patrese, De Cesaris and Piquet, on the podium, have been added as well as some photos of their ...more

motoprint news 19 January 2010
With the Zwartkops and Killarney international sports car series just around the corner, it’s appropriate to add to the site images from the original events at Kyalami.
There are now ADDITIONAL photos of ...more

The Best of 2009

Another good year of historic motor sport has come to an end and I have once again chosen 36 of the best for free download for motoprint members. For me the World Superbike and Supersport meeting at Kyalami provided ...more

In anticipation of the Execuline Springbok Series, 9 Hour Retro and a host of other motor sport attractions due in high summer, I needed to do some cleaning up of all the pics taken at lesser events recently, enjoyable as they were. ...more

EXECULINE SPRINGBOK SERIES

Bright and early, this excellent news was announced at a small gathering on 10 September up in Gauteng (Transvaal to those involved in the original series).

It will be a four ...more

FOR SALE

• Signed prints by Paolo D’Alessio on art paper
• Illustrating Ferrari cutaways from 1949 to 1999
• Prints are 49 cm x 34 cm
• To view some examples only, go to www.motoprint.co.za home page ‘Quick ...more

Not much news on the historic front this month, unless you regard the petty and grubby machinations of FNone as historic. It never ceases to amaze me that supposedly rational news hacks gets themselves in a froth over every ‘crisis’ ...more

Restoration news Chevron B29

I have placed in the members’ area photographs of Formula Atlantic Chevron B29, chassis number 29-75-15.

This car was entered in 1975 UK races by Steve Choularton under the SDC banner for ...more

Jackie Pretorius update 24 March

I went to Sunninghill yesterday. Jackie was again dozing and this time I got a very frosty reception from the staff. I think I stepped into the middle of someone else’s bad hair day!
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This morning I visited Jackie Pretorius in Sunninghill Hospital.

He was dozing and still looks so badly injured that I was reluctant to disturb him, but the staff said it was OK, he would respond.

Although we are not in ...more

In August last year I posted a news item on the sole Alfa Zagato TZ imported into South Africa.

To refresh memories, the car went to Emmott Barwell and, much later, to Robin Ellis, who raced it in historic events in the Transvaal ...more

Jackie Pretorius

Especially sad news has just reached me today. Jackie Pretorius, one of the most colourful characters SA motor racing has produced, and a driver in several SA GPs in the 70s, was attacked in his home a few ...more

The Best of 2008

It’s that time or thereabouts when TV channels, magazines and yes, www.motoprint.co.za choose their best, worst, cheapest, richest whatever.

We have chosen 36 of our best motor sport photographs from ...more

motoprint news 5 January 2009

Sam Tingle

Another link with a great age of Southern African motor racing has been broken with the death of Sam Tingle on 19 December. I am not an avid reader of local newspapers or a ...more

I have added some free downloads to the members’ area of my site. Please remember these are for members’ private use only and the ownership and copyright remains with David Pearson/www.motoprint.co.za

Enjoy them all. ...more

motoprint news 16 December 2008

And now for something different

Living as I do in 1972 or so, and Kyalami not being as spectator-friendly as I think it could be, it came all of a sudden that the World Superbike teams ...more

A personal view

My last visit to Kyalami was for the inaugural ‘revival’ last year. The entry was not bad, and included David Piper and Mike Knight from the UK.

Kyalami is by no means a spectator-friendly place. Where ...more

Motoprint news 9 October 2008

My email has been buzzing with messages about the fate of the former Grand Prix at East London. As you may know, its origins go back to the 1930s as the Prince George Circuit, when it was a formidable ...more

motoprint news 6 October 2008

Raging Bull

If you wish to spend a few hours being terrified out of your skin, there is no better way than to watch Superbikes, or MotoGP and the 125 and the 250 supporting races. ...more

motoprint news 28 August 2008

F1 at Zwartkops

Well, kind of.

Apex Motorsport is located down behind the circuit hairpin and the skidpan and sell and race prepare a fair number of delectable Porsches. ...more

motoprint news 12 August 2008

Alfa Zagato TZ 750017

Those of you with long memories AND are rabid Alfistas may recall this car as the only Zagato ever imported into South Africa. It was brought in by Emmott Barwell Auto ...more

motoprint news 21 July 2008

Sportique is THE place for exquisitely crafted model cars in various scales. Phone 011 455 5778, cell 082 923 0512. And if there is something there that you fancy but would like it in a scheme seen locally, ...more

motoprint news 20 June 2008

Zwartkops Track Day 31 May 2008

I happened to be at Zwartkops on this Saturday (once a public holiday, Republic Day, I hear the sound of one hand clapping) hoping to see a certain car. ...more

Motoprint news 29 May 2008

DP note: I am sure many of you will pick up well-known names and personalities in the entry list. One that surprised me and may well surprise a few more was number: 47 Ove Andersson. It is THE Ove Andersson, ...more

Continental Milligan Vintage Trial

Entry list

Number Driver Navigator Car

Group A

1 B Marais P Bulbring 1916 Chev Tourer
2 G Hayward D Hill 1930 Austin 12
3 S ...more

motoprint news 22 May 2008

• I have heard from Roger McCleery, who knows most things, and is always happy to talk enthusiastically about them all, that a gathering is being planned at the site of the old Westmead circuit in KZN. ...more

Motoprint news 5 May 2008

Two issues that I find tough to deal with are Zimbabwe and copyright, especially my copyright!

And in a fashion both are on my mind now; I have been shown some programmes of Rhodesian race ...more

And now for something completely different. The Continental 2008 Milligan Vintage Trial takes place from Sunday 8 June to Thursday 12 June. The concept is a spider rally, with competitors based in George and the cars going out from there each day on ...more

Yesterday the overseas TV channels were full of eyewitness reports of an executive jet coming down on houses near Biggin Hill.

Today I read that Richard Lloyd and David Leslie were among those killed. Both were stalwarts of the UK ...more