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1984 Young South African Sportsman of the Year (nominated) George Robert Fouché (nicknamed Fast Fouché; 15 May 1965 – 5 May 2023) was a South African and international motorsport racecar driver and South African Formula 1 Powerboat pilot. He retired from competition in 2005. Fouché grew up on his father's brick factory, and by the age of 6 ...
The 1985 South African Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 19 October 1985 at the Kyalami Circuit in South Africa. It was the fifteenth and penultimate round of the 1985 FIA Formula One World Championship . The race was marked with some teams boycotting the event due to apartheid – the segregation of blacks and whites – and was ...
The 1977 South African Grand Prix (formally the XXIII The Citizen Grand Prix of South Africa) was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 5 March 1977, won by Niki Lauda of Austria. The race is principally remembered for the accident that resulted in the deaths of race marshal Frederick Jansen van Vuuren and driver Tom Pryce .
The 1972 South African Grand Prix, formally the Sixth AA Grand Prix of South Africa ( Afrikaans: Sesde AA Suid-Afrikaanse Grand Prix [1] ), was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 4 March 1972. It was race 2 of 12 in both the 1972 World Championship of Drivers and the 1972 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers.
The first South African Grands Prix were held on a 24.4 km (15.2 mi) road course known as the Prince George Circuit, running through different populated areas of the coastal city of East London. This was shortened to 17.7 km (11.0 mi) in 1936. When racing resumed after World War II, a permanent circuit was built in 1959 that retained the name ...
The South African Formula One Championship, was a Formula One motor racing championship held in South Africa between 1960 and 1975, including races in Rhodesia and Portuguese Mozambique . The front-running cars in the series were recently retired from the world championship although there was also a healthy selection of locally built or ...
Jody Scheckter. Jody David Scheckter ( / ˈʃɛktər /; born 29 January 1950) [2] is a South African business proprietor and retired motor racing driver. He competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980, winning the Drivers' Championship in 1979 with Ferrari. Scheckter is the first and, as of 2024, only driver from the continent of Africa to have ...
An AI-generated interview purported to be of Formula 1 racing legend Michael Schumacher has cost its publisher more than $200,000. German magazine Die Aktuelle ran a cover story on April 15, 2023 ...
Tom Pryce. Thomas Maldwyn Pryce (11 June 1949 – 5 March 1977) was a British racing driver from Wales known for winning the Brands Hatch Race of Champions, a non-championship Formula One race, in 1975 and for the circumstances surrounding his death. Pryce is the only Welsh driver to have won a Formula One race and is also the only Welshman to ...
The 1993 South African Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami on 14 March 1993. It was the first race of the 1993 Formula One World Championship . The 72-lap race was won by Frenchman Alain Prost, driving a Williams - Renault. Prost, returning to Formula One after taking the 1992 season off, took pole position and led the last ...