MOTORSPORTS

Daniel Pienaar Technical High school in the small town of Kariega, made history last year, not only for being home to the oldest technical school in South Africa with motorsport as an official school sport, but also significantly, for Motorsport South Africa scooping the prestigious international FIA  President’s Equality, Diversity, ...

Ahead of this Saturday’s race around Sao Paulo’s iconic Sambadrome, Formula E on Friday  announced a new multi-year technology partnership with Google Cloud. The partnership will leverage Google Cloud technologies to help drive powerful on-and off-track performance in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship. The collaboration will involve Formula ...

                Formula E has announced its integration into the Asphalt 8: Airborne video game with the launch of its GEN2 race car – in special edition Asphalt livery – to the game’s 6 million monthly active users. Users will be able to race the ...

Formula E on Friday announced a 140% increase in participants for Season 9’s FIA Girls on Track programme, presented by Hankook, including a 25% increase for the first two events of Season 10, reaffirming its commitment to education and gender inclusivity in motorsport. Last season Formula E delivered five events ...

In a landmark moment for motorsport, Reem Al Aboud – the pioneering Saudi Arabian female racing driver – clocked a faster 0-60mph acceleration time than the current Formula 1 benchmark, highlighting Formula E’s commitment to innovation and diversity in the lead-up to International Women’s Day. Driving the GENBETA electric race ...

South African-born James Barclay is set on conquering the world’s top electric racing series. Barclay is the team principal of Jaguar TCS Racing, who currently sit top of the teams and drivers championships in Season 10 of the FIA Formula E World Championship. After a strong start to the season, ...

Season 10 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship kicked off to an absolute flyer in Mexico City last week! Despite the all-electric series not returning to Cape Town in the 2023/24 season, there’s still so much to look forward to for South African fans. So, before the season ...

Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit, 14 March 1993. It’s the opening race of the 1993 Formula 1 World Championship. It is just the second year since F1 has begun to race again in South Africa, after the series withdrew from South Africa in 1985, due to apartheid. There was no Nigel ...

In another proud moment for South African motorsport, Roshni Gajjar from Gqeberha, has been announced as one of the first four recipients of the prestigious Global Research Scholarship, awarded by the FIA in support of its United Against Online Abuse (UAOA) campaign. The four scholars selected will carry out Masters ...

FIA President, Mohammed Ben Sulayem, has lauded the first African Karting Cup which took place this weekend at Zwartkops,  as an overwhelming success saying, “Congratulations to all competitors who took part in the first Africa Karting Cup in collaboration with Motorsport South Africa. ‘‘Thanks to the vision and commitment of ...