SBK Kyalami 2010

Yes it’s that time of the year again when SBK visits Kyalami! This is one of the most entertaining and adrenalin pumping motorsport event that South Africa will see this year. Some of the best riders from all around the world come to our doorstep to battle it out through the challenging Kyalami circuit.

In Friday practice, the SBK class was averaging 152km/h which is unbelievably quick around this circuit. A lap time less than 2 minutes is a very respectable time around Kyalami. The SBK riders were achieving 1min 37’seconds. This is the fastest form of racing South Africa has witnessed since SBK last year.

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Castrol Auto Extreme Show 2010

Once again the Castrol Auto Extreme show has come, and we couldn’t miss the opportunity to take a camera along and get some great photos for everyone to see.

As usual the show was crammed full of exhibitors, ranging from car clubs, to performance experts, to visual customisation companies, to restorers, Giovanni, dvd sales, and everything in between.

Not to mention the obvious exhibitor of course, Castrol. Who were giving away a Renault Megane F1 which had some custom mods and was valued around R500 000! Of course, you had to buy a 5litre can of oil to stand a chance to win, nothing comes for free.

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Crank Motoring presents KTM at Ftv Fourways

  

 

 On Friday the 12^th of March Crank motoring teamed up with news café cedar square to display a few KTM’s in their up market lounge. On display was the RC8 1190, the 990 Super Duke as well as the 690 SMC.

 We spent most of the early afternoon setting up the display and getting everything ready for what promised to be a fantastic evening of food, drinks, and good times with friends. Indeed, as the sun set we were joined by great company and the atmosphere in News café was fantastic. Read more

Top Gear Live 2010

Top Gear live has once again visited South Africa bringing their usual stunts, humor and supercars to the audiences of Cape Town and Johannesburg. Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson visited Cape Town whilst James May replaced the hamster for the Johannesburg shows. It was nice to see captain slow finally make the trip out to our beautiful country.

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MPH Top Gear 2009

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Chris’s take:

It’s not every day you get to meet Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, and sadly, this also wasn’t one of those days for me.
Because I was right at the back doing the camera work. Whilst my colleagues gorged themselves on the free buffet and drinks – I sat at the back starving, thirsty and being rained on. Read more