Sprint Car Racing - South African Style 

Looks fun. Glad to know there are sprint cars in South Africa

In the 1970s My Dad used to take me to many a Friday night Hotrods V8s at Wembly Raceway. Buddy Fuller the promoter. SA drivers vs the USA Teams. Was great fun . Remember No 28 Dirty Harry van der Spuy ( the Best ) Boet Eckhout in his Pink Car. Alan Saffy Red car. Clive broker think yellow car. The last race of the night being the stock car racing where anything was allowed. Good old Great days miss them ...

The wheels look SO small compared to the US sprints. And the track is SO short.

this is briiliant...I used to watch this at the Old Allan Ford stadium..the smallest oval track in Africa....tight and hight concentration needed..special skills needed...

Nice vid :) Looks like its at Mahem??? My dad use to race there in the 80s when he was still alive. The best part is when the privateers come and crash their cars against that concrete wall... funny stuff to see some of them who think they can drive having to walk home.

but true i agree tracks are tiny tiny everywhere else check out some of the dirt modified races from australia pete brittain an australian is a multi time champ there and now races in the u.s with the super dirt car series big block modifieds but dirt racing is huge down under

NO 5 is Wild Willie Zurich i supported him since i can remember. . . he used to drive the blue Mild to Wild sprint car and Midget and after that the Prolong Sprint car!

I love sprint car racing as much as anyone, but tracks like that are just too small. We have pit lanes wider then that place. It seems like tracks outside the U.S. are flat as a pan cake. I love racing on banked tracks myself, it's just so different then what "normal" driving is like. Salem Speedway is 32 degrees, and Anderson Indiana is a ball to race on to. But any track beats no track, that place puts a premium on aggressive racing. Around here that means a lot of fighting afterwards.

what type of differentials do these cars run? i have a sprintcar that i want to turn into a bitumen car but can only get off-set axles for a winters diff, some of them look spaced out on the right, do they just run normal sprintcar axles and off-set the rims?

What happened to Willie Zurich, was he the one with the Beetle engine midget back in the day?

concrete? why! so much more fun on dirt.

So did you think we only raced on Lions and Cheetahs? Oval racing has been is South Africa for more than 50 years buddy. BTW this is one of our smallest tracks, we have mach larger Tar & Dirt tracks across the country.

We are also mad about Sprint car racing

Wat was die race stands op hierdie race. Wie was al die racers en watter plekke is deur watter land gevat?

Willie Zurich also had a midget powered by a 1600 twinport beetle motor, smoking the V8 fuelers

Shane carlson

not much of a chance of passing on such a narrow track and is so short you can't open up the v8s and yeap wheres the dirt mate

waste of methanol being on a tiny track like this with cars like that, but im in more shock there is an oval track in south africa, never mind sprint cars lol strange, what else you gonna tell me they have, NHL hockey team lol

yeah thats what i thought u raced, you got me..... i guess that makes me a racist!

that no dang south afrcan style go saa

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