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Friday Practise Session Heading to Zwartkops early morning on Friday, I was wondering what had happened to winter as the weather was simply stunning. Entry for the Inland event was jammed packed with close on 35 cars which included several drivers down from Botswana and Mozambique wanting to show the local boys what they can…

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Kyalami is simply put such an amazing circuit and an absolute privilege to race on with its high-speed mine shaft and long straight entwined into sixteen challenging corners which includes the famous sunset corner.  Friday morning, we arrived early to setup our pits and gazebo to get settled in and the car ready for the…

Shield Chemicals was thrilled to have participated in the exhilarating return of Gas Motorshow 2024 at Suncoast Durban! The event offered an electrifying experience, immersing attendees in unparalleled thrills and excitement. This year, Suncoast proudly hosted one of the country’s largest automotive exhibitions, creating a secure and enjoyable environment. It celebrated our nation’s diverse automotive…

Friday morning was bitterly cold, and the team decided to make the mid-morning session which allowed us time to defrost and furthermore this would be a similar time to the race slot for Saturday. Air and track temperature makes a huge difference to the overall feel of the car, and therefore setup and tyre pressures…

After offloading the cars and setting up the pits area on Friday morning the Shield team got off to a busy start with an Interview with Dave Petersen for the Saturdays Live streaming session on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1lmTfzJCY8&t=567s I was excited to get the Golf onto the circuit as we had managed to shave off…

I am pleased to report that the Shield Golf which is sporting a new refreshed look and motor has managed a 1st in Class in the 111 series run at Kyalami on the 13th of April and a 3rd overall this past weekend in Class D of the Clubman’s held at Zwartkops Raceway. The past…

Making our way to Delmas on Friday morning the Shield Golf team had put in extra effort into ensuring the car was well prepared. Hopefully the last-minute adjustment of the back wheel alignment, which is a major job was the secret to finding a couple of seconds that was somehow lost at the Zwartkops Xtreme…

Extreme Festival Zwartkops Raceway February 2024 The first race event of the 2024 season was finally here and the drivers and crew were eager to dust off the cobwebs to see who had worked a little harder on their cars during the break. Sarel and the team at 8V Performance are still working on the…

Shield Chemicals was thrilled to play a role in the recent 27th Annual George Old Car Show, an event that celebrated not only the rich history of automotive craftsmanship but also the vibrant community of enthusiasts across Southern Africa. Held in the picturesque setting of George, this year’s show was a testament to the enduring…

Reflecting on the 2023 Season Results : 3rd Overall Class B 111 Car Care Clinic 3rd Overall SAE Kyalami Class C Silvercup 2.0 1ST Overall – Lemuna (Shield Driver in 24 Hour As 2023 draws to a close, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Shield for their support throughout the season, without…

Friday morning first thing, we had to make a detour past 8V Performance as the Shield Golf for no reason had picked up a miss fire and was battling to idle even when loading on the trailer. Sarel and the crew quickly came to the rescue and went to work bringing out all the necessary…

Shield Chemicals was thrilled to be a part of the highly anticipated Expo on the motoring calendar, namely, idle AUTO EXPO 2023. A PREMIUM OEM & CUSTOM AUTOMOTIVE EXPO FOR CARS, BIKES, 4×4’s, OFF-ROAD, AND THE AUTOMOTIVE LIFESTYLE. idle AUTO EXPO celebrated a lifestyle and an experience where the most innovative in the automotive world…

Zwartkops Race Report Shield Golf Regional Extreme Festival 24 June 2023 111 Care Care Clinic Series I am thrilled to announce that the Shield Golf was in top form on Saturday and managed a 1st overall in Class B for the day , collecting some valuable points towards the championship. Friday Practice Out the blocks…

Race Report Phakisa 200 km Endurance I am pleased to report that the Shield Golf delivered an amazing result, winning Class B be and narrowly losing out on winning the Overall 200 to Graham Nathan and Wouter Roos in a class A GTI (Our Shield Golf finished within 2 minutes of Nathan and Roos on…

Inland Series SHIELD Golf takes 3rd Place in Historic Tour 15th April 2023 Zwartkops Raceway On Track Clubman’s forming part of the Historic tour made for an awesome day’s racing and gave me the chance to relive some childhood memories of my father taking me to Kyalami to see some of our all-time greats like…

Golf Race Report Inland Championship   –   11 March 2023 I am pleased to report that the Shield Golf managed a 1st Overall for the day in Index and Performance which is great start to season: Saturday – Qualifying On Track Clubman’s was first out on track and after warming up the tyres and getting into…

Race Report 111 – Zwartkops Extreme Festival Round 1   – 18th February 2023 111, our first race of the season is always a hustle and bustle and exciting to say the least, as you walk through the pits seeing who has been hard at work on their cars over the holiday season. It’s quite easy…

Shield Golf Racing Report 2022 Season Results 2ND in Class B   7th Overall in 111 Series Firstly, a big thank you to the Shield team and my family for the ongoing support during 2022. Motorsport as we have all come to realise is a sport compiled of multiple facets to be successful in a season…

Redstar Raceway Delmas Thanks to Sarel and the team from 8V Performance the Shield Golf was back to full power after it had blown a head gasket in Phakisa a month ago. Arriving at Redstar Raceway and parking the trailer, I was totally surprised to notice the one trailer wheel had more camber than the…

Saturday was a jammed packed event and attended by eager car enthusiast filling the grandstands to capacity making it so much more exciting for the drivers. Race day mornings before qualifying are extremely hectic for me running in two classes and requires the pit crew to be highly effective, understandably aided by jugs of coffee…

Classic motoring nostalgia at Cars in the Park By André Kruse – article from https://www.iol.co.za/motoring/classic-motoring-nostalgia-at-cars-in-the-park Pretoria – The first time I attended a car show of any kind was when I was about 8 or 9 years old. It was the start of a Vintage Car Rally. But before the rally started there was this…

Extreme Festival Zwartkops Raceway – 11 June 2022 Saturday was going to be a jammed packed “spectator filled” event with 10 series on the programme, which included the exciting pocket rockets all the way from Mozambique. Qualifying was held Friday afternoon due to the hectic schedule on Saturday. Practise sessions as we know are critical…

Shield Golf Extreme Festival – Redstar Raceway 14 May Race Report Redstar, designed primarily as a motorcycle track and has a number of tight twisting corners to contend with and changing the rotation of the circuit every 6 months as you will appreciate becomes a challenge for us drivers to say the least. Running in…

Shield Golf is Clubmans Overall Champion for 2021 Finally, after almost a decade of racing and coming up just short on number of occasions I have finally managed to get the job done , which would have not be possible with the loyal support and ongoing commitment from the Shield team . Not only did…

Race Report Shield Golf – Extreme Festival 12 & 13th of November It’s hard to believe that we at the last race of the year and with all that’s happened during 2021 I am excited to announce the Shield Golf is leading the championship, however this puts us in an extremely vulnerable position. Any DNF…

Inland Championship –  Red Star Raceway 16 October 2021 Qualifying 1.18.5   – 3rd Redstar Raceway rotate the direction of the circuit every 6 months, which makes it extremely interesting to navigate if the last time you raced the circuit in anti-clockwise direction was almost two years ago. Qualify on the Saturday with Friday practise not…

Shield Golf Race Report September  Spring has been a hive of activity with the Clubman Historic Inland championship taking place at Zwartkops raceway on the 11th of September and the Golf GTI Cup the following week at Phakisa Raceway in Welkom. Great weather and a full field of around 25 cars as result of the…

Race Report 14 August 2021 – Zwartkops Race  Extreme Festival 1st in Class B in hat was an icy cold weekend that even saw the Polar bears staying indoors. Friday the 13th and to top it off at freezing point as it will have it, and not being overly superstitious took the car out for…

Sporting a few new stripes and some new Shield stickers on the side the golf, I was eager to get out on the track and show off our new colour scheme. When the news came in that the country was going into level 3 lock down there was a strong possibility that the event could…

Preparation Standing the slightest chance of doing well or even winning the 200 starts weeks before the event with the preparation of the car, which simply means going through the entire car with a fine-tooth comb leaving nothing to chance. The key is to first clean out the engine bay and undercarriage with a Shield…

Friday morning was an early start for the Shield Golf, making its way down to the Engen 1 Stop just after the Vaal Plaza tollgate for the crew to have an early morning “wake me up coffee and brekkie bun”, before heading out to Phakisa Raceway. Normally we leave late Thursday afternoon to get settled…

Finally the day had arrived for the Shield Golfs to come out of hibernation and partake in the Inland Clubman Series at the Redstar Raceway in Delmas on the 6th of March and the Extreme Festival held on  Saturday at Zwartkops Raceway,  all under strict Covid motorsport regulations. Following the 2019 season and having used…

Luckily, Shield’s Tool-in-a-Can is the little can that CAN – providing a complete multi-purpose lubricant ideal for use in your workshop and around the house (DIY dream? We think so!) It performs as a penetrating oil that lubricates and prevents rust while displacing moisture. It is non-conductive and safe for use on electrical equipment. Take…

111 CarCare Clinic Sports & Saloons Finally, race day had arrived and all the preseason testing and fine tuning on the Green Mamba was about to be put to the test. Friday, during the 1st practice and on used rubber “booties”, the car was on song and running in the low 2min18s, which wasn’t bad…

2nd Overall Class D – Modified Production Cars (Clubmans) Thank you to the Shield Team for making this all possible!  I came up just short of winning Class D in the championship by a couple of points as a result of ruling by MSA on the day. Running in a time based series makes it…

Saturday Morning Qualifying was off to a frosty start.  It is hard to believe that at this time of the year the car was covered in frost at around 7 am. Someone left the freezer door open in Delmas it seems. Qualifying, however saw things heating up and managed to get the car 1st in…

Round 7 of the MOTUL Clubman’s Championship returned to the Zwartkops Raceway fielding a full grid of 35 cars in the seven-class Index-of-Performance Spring-leg of the championship. Race 1, made up of both Modified Production Cars (MPC) and Super Saloon Cars (SSC), was determined by Saturday morning’s qualifying in cooler conditions: Qualifying Class D was…

Morning qualifying session, saw Louis Scholtz (Car Care Clinic Honda Ballade) heading Class B from Waldo Swiegers (Waldo Swiegers Photography VW Golf) and myself Wayne Lebotschy (Shield VW Golf) all within .5 of second which was going to make from some interesting racing. Heat 1 Hey …. what can I say if there is drama…

Wow the “The Winter Challenge” held at Zwartkops Raceway on the 9th of June was a challenge of note and I am sad to report that the day came to a head-on collision at the start of heat one.  This occurred after a reasonable qualifier the day before in 4th place in Class B and…

On the 17th and 18th of May, our MPC race formed part of the Historic Championship held at the Zwartkops Raceway and made for a good day’s racing. Friday’s practise went smoothly with only a few minor adjustments that needed to be made so that the car was dialled in for qualifying Saturday morning and…

It plays when you’re getting in the car to go the gym, when you’re driving to work, when you’ve got other plans but it is always there to remind you of your rusty thingamajig and grinding gizmo that needs a little bit of your care and attention. Luckily, Shields Tool-in-a-Can is the little can that…

Following on from Redstar and the Incident at Zwartkops we managed to get a 2nd and overall for the day in class with Shield MPC Golf Midvaal. Qualifying was a challenge as I only got the car back on Friday late afternoon as a result of the accident at Zwartkops in 111, which I must…

Our 2019 season kicked off with a bit of a BANG , Qualifying was hectic to say the least and I only managed a dismill 7th in class in a jammed packed field . Starting in the middle of the field in pre race paddock was a novice mistake on my behalf as this made…

Motul Clubman’s 15/16 February 2019 During the backend of last year, a lot preparation went into getting the Shield Golfs ready for battle in the Clubman’s and 111 series this year. With both MPC AND 111 series being timed based –  a decision was made to use the green Golf to start the series. This…

Water Preservation with Shield Waterless Products Shield Chemicals was recently invited by the mayor of Cape Town, Patricia De Lille, to do a presentation to the informal Car Wash sector on the encouragement of water preservation with the Shield Waterless product range and the benefits thereof. With the water crisis deepening in the Western Cape,…

Shield Chemicals sponsors the Shield MPC Golf Racing Team, with the 2017 season is well underway and I am pleased to report that the Shield Golf is laying 2nd in CLASS B and currently 4th overall in the Championship.

Take a look at these incredible photos of the Shield Racing team, photographs courtesy of Johan Niemand Photography.

I am pleased to report that we had an extremely successful  3 Hour in Bulawayo finishing  1st in Class.

Shield Chemicals is the proud sponsor of the Shield Golf GTI. Shield racing team is a local track racing and rally team with many years of experience. We raced at national and regional level in South Africa.