Howsit?! Here's a story that makes me "Proudly South African"! It's about a Capetonian who not only lives in Germany now, but works and race's at the Nurbergring. And if you think that's something, what if I told you that he just won the VLN race there this past weekend! Well done Antony Ashley! We will be bringing you more info on Antony soon so keep a look out for that, but in the meantime, here's some info about Antony and how he got to P1 at the RING. [more]

Up until recently I was searching the interweb for places in South Africa that offered rally driving courses. I managed to find one place but they were up in Pretoria and I was even thinking about making a plan to go there when I visited Gauteng again. The only thing Cape Town had to offer was Fantastic Racing which is great but it’s not what I was looking for at the time. All this changed when my good buddy Ernest Page told me that he is opening a Stunt and Rally School! Whoohoo! It was time to beat around the bush... LiteRALLY![more]

Nishaam Ebrahim aka Nish is a fellow photographer and writer here at Raceweb and I’ve known him for years. Whenever I go to his place I’m always in awe of one thing, his model collection. My wife calls it toys, but I beg to differ. His collection ranges from Japanese anime figurines to Star Wars and even Lord of the Rings, but it’s the car collection that always grabs my attention every time. [more]

The Auto Trader SupaDrift Series made a third and final stop at the Dezzi Raceway in Port Shepstone on August 17th, attracting the largest crowd to visit the track yet - over 5,000 fans camped out for the day to watch SA’s top drifters compete. Among them was Motorsport South Africa’s CEO, Adrian Scholtz, who stopped by the track to show his support for the world’s fastest growing motorsport. [more]

Following hot on the heels of the FIA Institute’s announcement of the opening of nominations for the Africa regional training and selection event of the Young Driver Excellence Academy, MSA is proud to announce that Kelvin van der Linde has secured MSA’s nomination to attend this event. This followed a rigorous application process in which 25 applicants, between the ages of 17 and 23, were whittled down to a shortlist of five from which Kelvin was ultimately selected. The shortlisted drivers were interviewed by a panel which included multiple former South African motor racing champion, and ex-Formula One driver, Ian Scheckter. [more]

Here's a cool video done by Sumsaycool productions of the recently held CPi Performance Cape Town breakfast run. Great cars, awesome roads and spectacular scenery made for some good footage. Enjoy.

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Great news is that South Africa will have its very own version of this series and boy cant we wait! So far word is that it’s set to take place around mid 2014 and officially start in 2015. Yes we are also impatient, but the ball has started to roll with the production of at least one, so far that we know, concept/prototype Ford Focus V8 built by Pace Innovation in Australia featuring all the latest Australian V8 Touring Car technology. [more]