After an intensive three days of tests and evaluations at the Gerotek Vehicle Testing Facility, near Pretoria, South Africa’s Kelvin Van der Linde has earned selection to the FIA Institute’s 2013/2014 Young Driver Excellence Academy. Van der Linde, 17, won his place on the fully-funded …
He set the track alight in South Africa in 2012 and in 2013 he travelled to Germany to continue his determined drive to become champion. Kelvin van der Linde became the youngest SA champion ever when he won the Engen Polo Cup title in 2012 …
There’s now only one more race to go before the end of the 2013 Scirocco R-Cup season. The excitement is at fever pitch ahead of the grand final on the Hockenheimring on 19 October. No less than three drivers are in with a chance of …
Teenage South African racing driver Kelvin van der Linde, one of the two youngest drivers in the competition, will go to the final round of the international VW Scirocco R-Cup in Hockenheim in Germany on October 19 in first places after the two-race penultimate round …
Kasper H. Jensen has celebrated his first real win in this season’s Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup. The Danish driver – who also got full points at the season’s first event in Hockenheim but was behind legend driver Nicola Larini. 1.8 seconds behind him, top-of-the-table Kelvin van …
Kasper H. Jensen unexpectedly took pole position during qualifying for the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup in Oschersleben. The Dane recorded the fastest lap time of 1:41.105 minute at the Motorsport Arena. With his time of 1:41.335 minute, top-of-the-table Kelvin van der Linde (South Africa) only finished …
Kelvin van der Linde (South Africa) outclassed his competitors during today’s free practice for the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup, the world’s only single-make championship powered by natural gas. The first test at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben had to be aborted after Michele Di Martino had an …
With the top eight finishers starting Sunday’s race two in reverse order, Van der Linde was eighth on the grid with fellow countryman Jordan Pepper on pole after finishing eighth in race one. Although he was able to work his way up to fourth place …
Runaway championship leader Kelvin van der Linde clinched his fourth successive win in the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup. The opening race at the Nürburgring had to be suspended on lap 11 of 14 following a crash involving Lukas Schreier. The German rolled several times, but was …
Early bird Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky caused the first shock of the day at the Nürburgring, surprisingly qualifying second fastest in the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup. With qualifying getting underway at 08:25, the Swedish driver flew out of the blocks to secure her best starting position of the …