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!
...more

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