Tag: motor sport


  • Passion for Speed and the S.A. Tourist Trophy 2018

    Well certainly it wasn’t the Passion for Speed from 5 years ago but let’s not take it away from the boys and girls who did make it all the way down to the southern tip to show us their craft and their toys. Highlights from the day included a ridiculously stunning Ferrari (what?… no classic…

  • Rider Profile – Ronald Slamet

    Certainly a tough man to pin down but we eventually managed to find a slot in the Western Province superbike champs busy schedule to bring you the fourth rider profile of the series. Risk assessment,strategy planning,hostile take-overs….it's all business for this ex rugby player who sees his career and his career in motorcycles as a…

  • Rider Profile – Aran van Niekerk

    Time to meet the guy who came to within a hair's breadth of the 2013 Western Province superbike championship,Aran van Niekerk. It was a season filled with thrills and spills and Aran was always at the forefront.His new Kawasaki meant that he could compete on level ground where in previous years his slightly aged (in…

  • Rider Profile – Wessel Kruger

    In no particular order,the first in our series of profiles on the players in the Western Province motorcycle championships.Meet the current W.P.M.C. clubman champ…Wessel Kruger. Date of Birth– 4 March 1985 Hometown: Initially from Gauteng,my family relocated to Cape Town in the early 90’s, after this I grew up at the foot of the Tygerberg…