2024 Regional Festival racing circus starts at Zwartkops Saturday
The 2024 circuit racing season finally gets under way when Zwartkops Raceway hosts the opening Regional Festival round this Saturday 2 March. As always, an eclectic mix of Gauteng’s favourite race series will thrill fans, but with new men, women and machines at play, there’s always that extra bit of early season intrigue too.
Probably the fastest and most dramatic action will come from the thunderous Mobil 1 V8 Supercars. Champion Julian Fameliaris has switched to a Jaguar XKR for ‘24, where he takes on Thomas...
2024 Regional Festival racing circus starts at Zwartkops Saturday
The 2024 circuit racing season finally gets under way when Zwartkops Raceway hosts the opening Regional Festival round this Saturday 2 March. As always, an eclectic mix of Gauteng’s favourite race series will thrill fans, but with new men, women and machines at play, there’s always that extra bit of early season intrigue too.
Probably the fastest and most dramatic action will come from the thunderous Mobil 1 V8 Supercars. Champion Julian Fameliaris has switched to a Jaguar XKR for ‘24, where he takes on Thomas...
Record pole, fastest lap on way to win with Adcock, Jensen
Reigning South African Polo Cup champion and Volkswagen Motorsport SupaCup factory driver Charl Michael Visser destroyed the records as he stepped up to his sports prototype racing debut alongside international LMP3 regulars Nick Adcock and Mikkel Jensen in Adcock’s Adjust4Sleep Nova Proto NP02 at Zwartkops on Saturday.
Visser obliterated the outright Zwartkops lap record and became the first man to ever lap the Pretoria racetrack in under 57 seconds, as he put the NASCAR Ford V8-powered machine on pole position...
Record pole, fastest lap on way to win with Adcock, Jensen
Reigning South African Polo Cup champion and Volkswagen Motorsport SupaCup factory driver Charl Michael Visser destroyed the records as he stepped up to his sports prototype racing debut alongside international LMP3 regulars Nick Adcock and Mikkel Jensen in Adcock’s Adjust4Sleep Nova Proto NP02 at Zwartkops on Saturday.
Visser obliterated the outright Zwartkops lap record and became the first man to ever lap the Pretoria racetrack in under 57 seconds, as he put the NASCAR Ford V8-powered machine on pole position...
Brace, Pretoria! The National Festival is coming to town!
The National Extreme Festival descends on Pretoria, making Zwartkops Raceway the place to be on Saturday 18 April. Headlined by the flying Extreme Supercars and wild South African Touring Cars, backed by SupaCup, Polo Cup and Formula 1600, and bolstered by SunBet ZX10 Masters bikes and the Toyota Gazoo Cup, this is not one to be missed!
The Extreme Supercars Driven By Dunlop have proven a tortoise and hare tale of late, but are there enough Zwartkops straights to help Franco Scribante’s rapid Porsche stop Stuart White and...
Brace, Pretoria! The National Festival is coming to town!
The National Extreme Festival descends on Pretoria, making Zwartkops Raceway the place to be on Saturday 18 April. Headlined by the flying Extreme Supercars and wild South African Touring Cars, backed by SupaCup, Polo Cup and Formula 1600, and bolstered by SunBet ZX10 Masters bikes and the Toyota Gazoo Cup, this is not one to be missed!
The Extreme Supercars Driven By Dunlop have proven a tortoise and hare tale of late, but are there enough Zwartkops straights to help Franco Scribante’s rapid Porsche stop Stuart White and...
Zwartkops Set For Pabar VW Challenge Car Wars
PABAR VW Challenge ready for Pretoria VW Challenge warfare
The PABAR VW Challenge is locked and loaded for its midseason fourth round at the Pretoria Zwartkops Raceway's Dunlop Winter Festival on Saturday 8 June. Race fans can expect nothing less than car wars on the twisty confines of the popular racetrack.
It’s a case of sibling rivalry in Class A, where brothers Bevin and Wayne Masters lead the way. Wayne’s Performance Masters Polo 6R is however looking to make up a little lost ground on Bevin’s CPS Warehouse version. Wayne has the...
Zwartkops Set For Pabar VW Challenge Car Wars
PABAR VW Challenge ready for Pretoria VW Challenge warfare
The PABAR VW Challenge is locked and loaded for its midseason fourth round at the Pretoria Zwartkops Raceway's Dunlop Winter Festival on Saturday 8 June. Race fans can expect nothing less than car wars on the twisty confines of the popular racetrack.
It’s a case of sibling rivalry in Class A, where brothers Bevin and Wayne Masters lead the way. Wayne’s Performance Masters Polo 6R is however looking to make up a little lost ground on Bevin’s CPS Warehouse version. Wayne...
Zwartkops Raceway is gearing up for one of the coolest days on its calendar when the Historic and Inland Tour visits the Pretoria circuit for a cracking race meeting on Saturday 24 August.
Zwartkops Raceway is gearing up for one of the coolest days on its calendar when the Historic and Inland Tour visits the Pretoria circuit for a cracking race meeting on Saturday 24 August.
Volkswagen Motorsport driver Jonathan Mogotsi stands to make history as he leads the South African National SupaCup championship to the Zwartkops Extreme Festival finals on Saturday 19 October.
The 2024 South African Touring Cars championship came to a crunching end at a Zwartkops Extreme Festival finals red-flag fest on Saturday. Saood Variawa and champion Robert Wolk shared the race wins, while Jonathan Mogotsi clinched the SATC SupaCup championship, despite title rival Keegan Campos winning both races.
Gauteng will crown the majority of its 2024 circuit racing champions at Zwartkops’ Regional Extreme Festival finale in Pretoria this Saturday 16 November. While one or two class champions may already be crowned, the rest of them, and all those aiming to be overall champions in the five categories, still very much have it all to do.
Changing conditions, epic action on track and a new crop of Gauteng racing champions were all part of the deal as Zwartkops closed off the 2024 Northern Regions Extreme Festival in fine style on Saturday.
The Gauteng ATE Brakes VW Challenge is ready to roll with a new series sponsor, new technical regulations and back to the regular three class structure for the 2025 season opener at Zwartkops on Saturday 01 March.
