Folks of SA, the penultimate stage of our automobile spectacular featuring a smidge of fire, a hint of tyre smoke and some drifty lunacy kicks off today in Jo’burg for the 1st time. Jeremy, Richard and James will be the ringmasters of our own motoring zoo, and we’ve pulled together some extraordinarily guest stars certain to roast your auto spuds. David Coulthard will pilot one of Red Bull F1′s autos through the weekend, while South Africa’s own Formula One world champ Jody Scheckter who took the title in 1979 will help celebrate fifty years of the Kyalami GP circuit’s existence. And because Jody is a nice guy, he is bringing along a collection of his classic F1 automobiles for you lot to ogle, photographs of which are being caught by his son Hugo. There are far more car greats to spear your gherkin : five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell, BBC F1 pundit Eddie Jordan, Pink Floyd’s own Nick Mason, previous TG man Quarrel Needell and even the ‘Ring master herself, Sabine Schmitz, will all be attending. Oh, and let’s never forget his Stiggyness too There’s going to be drag racing, power tests, time trials, off-roading, rallying and a spot of drifting, all under the expert supervision of your ambitious-but-not-actually-rubbish hosts. As Jezza expounded : It should be just brilliant.
If you are heading down, why not take some snaps and share your glee with our TopGear.com community? Send your images in to editortopgear.com, and we’ll publish the best.The Top Gear Festival hits Kyalami, Johannesburg from seventeen to twenty March 2011.
