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Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit (from Khaya lami, My home in Zulu) is a 4.529 km (2.814 mi) motor racing circuit located in Midrand, Gauteng, South Africa, just north of Johannesburg. The circuit has been used for Grand Prix and Formula One races and has hosted the South African Grand Prix twenty times.
The Nine Hours of Kyalami is an endurance sports car race contested at Kyalami, Midrand, South Africa. The first races were held from 1958 to 1960 at a circuit at the Grand Central Airport near Midrand before moving to Kyalami in 1961. The event was a mainstay until the late 1980s; however, it was only held three times between 1989 and 2018.
The 2023 Kyalami 9 Hours (commercially titled 2023 Joburg Kyalami 9 Hours) was an endurance event that took place on 25 February 2023 at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Midrand, South Africa. The event was the second round of five in the 2023 Intercontinental GT Challenge .
British driver Nigel Mansell won his second consecutive Formula One race and his teammate Keke Rosberg stormed around the track after 2 pitstops to take 2nd, completing a 1–2 for the Williams team. [ 8 ] 1985 was the final South African Grand Prix until the end of apartheid, with FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre announcing days after the ...
The race was held on a Saturday, similar to the Dutch TT. [2] In 1984 the races were plagued by bad weather conditions, resulting in many accidents. [ 3 ] The race in 1985 was the final to be held at the old Kyalami circuit before it was removed for the 1986 season due to the Apartheid policies which were in place in the country at the time.
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 1984 South African motorcycle Grand Prix was the first round of the 1984 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 22–24 March 1984 at the Kyalami circuit. Classification
The 1970 South African Grand Prix, formally titled the Fourth AA Grand Prix of South Africa (Afrikaans: Vierde AA Suid-Afrikaanse Grand Prix [1]), was a Formula One motor race held at Kyalami Circuit on 7 March 1970.