BMW ///M Performance Parts Race Series – Round 09 – Zwartkops Raceway – 2022-11-12 A huge 43 car entry for the BMW ///M Performance Parts Race Series required a split into two separate races for Classes A, B, and C, and Classes D and E. On a weekend when the weather held sway most of the time, drivers had to be at their most cautious and brilliant best right from the start of proceedings in Friday practice. A downpour before…
BMW ///M Performance Parts Race Series – Round 09 – Zwartkops Raceway – 2022-11-12 After a hugely successful BMW M 50 Jahre Festival weekend at Kyalami in mid-October, Zwartkops hosts the final round of this year’s BMW ///M Performance Parts Race Series on 12 November, with 42 cars entered and plenty still at stake across all 5 classes. With each driver’s worst result of the season still to be factored in, some title chases are all still finely poised. In…
BMW ///M Performance Parts Race Series – Round 05 – Zwartkops Raceway – 2022-06-11 A congested programme in Saturday’s Regional Extreme Festival necessitated that all the practice and qualifying sessions took place on Friday. The BMW ///M Performance Parts Race Series duly complied and relative newcomer Arrie van der Berg put his A&A Dealings BMW E36 M3 turbo in pole position with Fabio Fedetto (BMW F82 M4) in second spot. Another Class A regular, and the first victim of the…
BMW ///M Performance Parts Race Series – Round 05 – Red Star – 2022-06-11 The BMW ///M Performance Parts Race Series returns to Zwartkops Raceway on 11 June as part of the Regional Extreme Festival, where a full programme on the day should banish the winter blues from most fans’ minds. The Series’ first visit to the Pretoria West venue since the season opener on 29 January sees Nicholas Fischer leading the standings ahead of Andreas Meier and Carlo Garbini.…
A Friday evening of changing major components paid off for Julian Fameliaris with a fifth place in the opening race of the 2022 Mobil 1 V8 Supercars championship this past weekend (January 28-29) at Zwartkops Raceway. Friday’s practice pace saw Fameliaris heading into the Qualifying session with confidence and he posted the seventh-fastest time for Saturday’s Race 1 grid. But he retired during the session with driveshaft issues. This saw the Lube-Net Di Matteo Racing team changing components into the…