Record grids and spectacular racing at Passion for Speed The 2023 Ben Morgenrood Group Historic Racing season burst into action with the biggest field in years delivering thrilling racing action throughout, at a packed Zwartkops Passion for Speed Festival on Saturday. PE visitor Rudolf de Vos celebrated 50 years on the Little Chevy Can Am with a double Sprint race win on the day, while Wernher Hartzenberg’s Porsche and Johan Smit’s Skyline shared out the Pursuit wins. Sprint: Record…
New cars, drivers, classes & rules drive record HRSA entry There’s palpable excitement in the air as Ben Morgenrood Group HRSA Historic Racing limbers up for the start of what many see as the most exciting new season in many a year at Saturday 28 January’s Zwartkops Passion for Speed. With new rules, revised classes, and a relaxed competitor entry point for 2023, something must be right, with a record 45 Sprint Race entries already in and 20 in Pursuit,…
HRSA Classes Star at Zwartkops Passion for Speed Historic Racing South Africa commenced its 2022 season in style as part of the Zwartkops Passion for Speed Festival outside Pretoria on Saturday. Conditions may have been unseasonably fresh and gloomy, but the on track action more than made up for that. Both HRSA categories began new eras, with fresh class designations. HRSA Racing’s Sports, GTs and Saloons now compete in seven joined classes, while Pursuit is back to two Fines and…
It’s all to play for as a brand new Historic Racing South Africa season kicks off at the Zwartkops Passion for Speed. New cars and drivers are all set to face up to the old guard over the 28-29 January festival of racing. They will race Historic Sports & GT, and Saloon car races that now include cars built in 1981, and the Charlies SuperSpar Pursuit series. Up front in the HRSA races, Class B GT champion Peter Bailey and…
George dominates as Bailey, Hepburn and du Plessis take titles A typical Highveld thunderstorm turned the final Historic Racing South Africa Pre-90 Sports and GT and Pre-80 Saloon championship round on its head at Delmas’ Red Star Raceway on Saturday. It delivered a surprise result and a championship twist or two, while the Charlies SuperSpar Pursuit action delivered its own share of action to close off its 2021 season. The first race went pretty much to form as Class…
It’s all to play for as Historic Racing South Africa’s 2021 championship season culminates at Red Star Raceway this Saturday 27 November. And while some top names were glaringly evident by their absence on the entry list as we wrote, the championship table suggests a fuller field will assemble, come qualifying at the Delmas racetrack Saturday morning and all three of HRSA’s Pre 90 GTs and Pre-80 Saloons, as well as the Charlies Super Spar Pursuit series. Peter Bailey’s dominant…