Port Elizabeth is geared up for the return of the PE 200 motorcycle race this weekend. The race will form part of a jam-packed day of motorsport at the Aldo Scribante raceway tomorrow.
More good news is that the PE 200 will go international next year, days local organiser Terry Moss.
"Next year the race will be held on January 21, two months after the 2011 event, but will host a number of historical international competitors, apparently about 20 of them in total. We are currently planning this event," said Moss.
The SA Classic TT Revival Series will start off the 2012 classic and historic racing motorcycle season in the best way possible.
The first round of the three-event series, won this year by past TT and GP star Mick Grant on a 1983 Suzuki RG 500, will be held on January 21 in Port Elizabeth.
Moss and his team have decided that the 2012 PE 200 will become "round one" of the racing series.
Round two of the series will be the "Day of the Champion" on January 30 at Swartkops, where the competition is more fierce than any of the modern classes.
The third and final round will be on February 4 and 5 at the tough Killarney circuit in Cape Town.
The series will be run on the same format as the past two years, with three classes catering for historic and classic racing bikes up to 1988.
In addition, there will be a full programme of historic and classic bike parades and demonstration events showcasing some fast riders on some famous and exotic racing machinery, both local and from overseas.
For 2012 the emphasis is going to be on many of the famous South African riders of the past.
In the opening round in PE, one of these will be multiple MX and enduro champion Robbie Wicks, who has a great collection of old race bikes.
Most of them are off-road and MX machines, but he intends to enter Tiny Marriner on a 1962 BSA 250 GP racer.
Wicks will ride his father's 350 Manx Norton.
Many past SA champions and national class riders will be seen at each of the three venues on a fabulous array of restored race bikes.
An interesting entrant at Zwartkops will be Professor Hein van der Walt, on a storming Vincent 1000 V-twin, the "Hayabusa" of its day.
A fabulous bit of nostalgia is the Keith Petersen Presto Parcels Ducati Pantah on which he used to dominate local production racing.
The biggest formal group out on the track will be the Historic Motorcycle group, who dedicate themselves to racing bikes up to 1975, and feature a lot of classic British machinery.
Team Incomplete, the classic racing bike collection belonging to Ian Groat, will be out in force as well, with some priceless British race bikes ridden by some famous names such as Jim Redman, Jimmy Guthrie, Paddy Driver and Peter Labuschagne.
Groat will also take to the track and he is no slouch.
Some of the international riders are Yoshiaki Nakamura, president of Honda South Africa, on a Honda GP bike and
alongside him will be two real British bobbies, Carl Tiffany and Nigel Rigg, enjoying a holiday in the sun.
They will be on two really fast ex-Honda Britain NC 32 Четыресто's. Scotsman Robbie Burns (descendent of the poet) will bring a factory Suzuki XR69 F1 bike, complete with Heron Suzuki colours made famous by Barry Sheene and Grant.
International Scottish golf star, Steve Maxwell, is also bringing out a fast Suzuki XR 69. He finished third overall in the last classic racing series behind Grant and second-placed Marius Botha, from the East Rand.
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