The Western Province Motor Club marshals at Killarney International Raceway stand out on the circuit all day on race and practice days, in all conditions and in all weathers, ensuring the safety of the competitors. Without them, race events would not be possible. The WPMC marshals...
Picture: Colin Brown During main-circuit events the race control office at the base of Killarney's control tower looks like a cross between an outside broadcast unit and launch control at the Kennedy Space Centre, with banks of TV monitors, computers and radio microphones. The comparison is in...
No motorsport is possible without marshals. Their flag signals warn competitors of changing track conditions, problems around the next corner, slow moving vehicles ahead of you and faster moving vehicles coming up behind you. Each post is also in constant contact with race control, to warn...
In the first of a new series about the people who make racing at Killarney possible, we take you all the way to the top. To the fifth floor of the control tower, where the commentators stand all day on race days, in a glass box...
It is with unfathomable sadness and deep regret we have to announce the passing of Donny Lamola. Donny was admitted to hospital and sadly passed away in the early hours of this morning. Donny overcame so much and was such an inspiration to so many...
Western Province Motor Club stalwart Rico Barlow has donated 500 surgical face-masks to the club to help protect the staff living on the premises, and those returning to work, as they continue with vital maintenance work and security patrols while the circuit is shut down...
The provisionally updated 2020 World Rallycross Championship calendar has been released by series promoter IMG. It will kick off at Holjes in Sweden on the weekend of 20-23 August and includes nine rounds, all but two of them in Europe. The exceptions are Rounds 7 and...
LOCKDOWN LEVEL 4 AND KILLARNEY As from Friday 1 May, South Africa moved from Risk Level 5 to Risk Level 4, by which we still have stringent restrictions in place. The complete ban on sporting events and using of sporting facilities remain in place and it...
Formula One icon Stirling Moss, who died on Easter Sunday at the age of 90, was renowned for answering all his fan mail personally. Here is his reply to a request in August 1971 for an autographed photograph, from a young fan in Cape Town named...
To all WPMC Members: The Crisis of COVID-19 and Future Plans The crisis of COVID-19 presents a situation of great uncertainty, both to our personal health and to our country’s economic well-being. The crisis is likely to profoundly affect the way of life to which we have become accustomed and...
