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Rally of South Africa Sees Full Strength Castrol Team

The Castrol Team Toyota rally team is back at full strength with Johnny Gemmell supported by regular navigator Drew Sturrock once again. Sturrock travels down from his native Scotland for each round of the Sasol South African Rally Championship and had his travel plans for the last event disrupted by the Iceland volcano ash cloud [...]

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Home Turf Team Looking Forward to Sugarbelt 400

The Castrol Team Toyota Off Road team will be looking to succeed on ‘home’ turf in the Atlas Copco Sugarbelt 400 that takes place on the 21st and 22nd of May. The event, considered one of the tougher and more popular events in the eight event ABSA Off Road Championship, takes place in the Eston [...]

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Solid Start to Rally Season

The 2010 rally season started well for Toyota Motorpsort with Mark Cronje taking his brand new Toyota Team Castrol Auris S2000 to third place overall with two special stage wins in the Total Tour Natal Rally, the first of eight rounds in the championship.  Japie van Niekerk, New Africa Developments Auris S2000, added to Toyota’s [...]

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Day of the Champion

Zwartkop Raceway owner Peter du Toit’s choice of the name “Day of the Champion” for the motorcycle section of his annual historic motor racing extravaganza certainly proved true on Sunday. It was the third staging of this event which is dedicated to the two-wheel fraternity and it continues to grow in both stature and numbers. [...]

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Oil Spill Drama at Zwartkops

A major oil spill, following an engine blow up, resulted in the pristine, silver, 1964 Ford Shelby Mustang of Franco di Matteo skidding off on the resultant oil slick and hitting the Armco barrier very hard after 28 minutes of the Castrol Edge SA Tourist Trophy at Zwartkops Raceway, west of Pretoria, on Saturday. This [...]

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Golden Age of Motoring

Castrol, the global lubrication specialists with a long heritage in motor sport, will continue with its support for the annual Golden Age of Motoring international classic car and motor cycle races, which take place at the Zwartkops circuit, west of Pretoria on January 30-31. Castrol will sponsor two car races and co-sponsor the motorcycle events [...]

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Jenson Button Ranked Worlds Top Driver

Formula 1 legend David Coulthard today unveiled the Castrol Rankings for motorsport – the world’s first driver rankings system to measure and compare the performances of every driver across the world’s major motorsport disciplines. It will, for the first time, enable fans to compare the finest racers across the full spectrum of motorsport. Castrol has [...]

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