Durban Rocks Top Gear Festival SA 2014

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Durban ROCKS Top Gear Festival SA 2014!

23 June 2014 | News, Top Gear Festival

What a weekend! The third instalment of Top Gear Festival SA definitely exceeded all our expectations! Thousands of people descended on the stadium to get their annual motoring action fix and to leave their footprints on the world’s most famous live motoring festival. A host of South African action sport stars and famous personalities such as Jack Parow, Gareth Cliff, Nick de Wit and more joined in on the fun, adding some local flavour and showing the international Top Gear crew that fa...

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Gear up for an all new Top Gear!

02 June 2014 | Events, News, Top Gear Festival

The dates are set, the stadium is raring to go and this time around, the show is going to be faster and louder than ever before. Fasten those seatbelts, Durban! For the third year running, Top Gear is heading your way! In less than 4 days, the entire Moses Mabhida Stadium precinct will be transformed into a petrolhead’s paradise, and will burn up the stadium tracks on 21 and 22 June. If you saw Jezza, the Hamster and Captain Slow in 2012 and 2013, there’s no doubt those stunts blew your min...

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Sell your Dad out this Father’s Day and WIN!

27 May 2014 | News, Top Gear Festival

Dad’s are awesome. That’s why we celebrate them! What’s even more awesome, are the things Dad’s say. Everyone’s Ballie has shared tidbits of knowledge and wisdom with them at some point in our lives. Maybe it’s been the best advice ever, incredibly funny, or maybe it was the worst advice if you’ve ever received - and totally embarrassing! Either way, we want to hear your #best or #worst Dad Advice. How to enter: All you need to do is share your Dad’s #best or #worst advice ...

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It’s the final countdown…

23 May 2014 | News, Top Gear Festival

If by now Top Gear Festival fever hasn’t gripped you like it has the rest of the country then you must be living under a rock! Everyone’s favourite and biggest automotive festival is less than a month away from rocking the socks off your Fathers Day gift list this year. Just in time for Dad’s everywhere, and in the best weather Durban has to offer all year round, it’s sure to be the highlight of 2014, with all the big boys coming down to make sure that the third installment is the bigges...

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Top Gear’s Clarkson on Durban – It’s a love affair

03 July 2013 | News, Top Gear Festival

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson clearly has a thing for Durban. “God, I love being in Durban,” he tweeted to his 1.9 million followers on the weekend during the Top Gear Festival. This tweet wasn’t a once off either, after arriving at the Moses Mabhida Stadium on Thursday night, Clarkson tweeted again, “The greatest stadium in the world, and our home for the next five days.” By 4pm on Monday, his tweet had been re-tweeted 924 times. Ethekwini speaker Logie Naidoo was very del...

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Introducing: the Red Bull athletes

04 June 2013 | News, Top Gear Festival

This year Top Gear and Red Bull really have a treat for you! The Red Bull team are coming to Top Gear Festival and they're bringing the crème-del-crème of their Red Bull athletes! But it gets better: they're bringing not one, not two but FOUR of their most craziest athletes to join the already incredible line-up, all for your viewing pleasure. Introducing: Brian Capper This TEN time Supermoto champion is ranked as a legend in the motocross world, and death defying stunts are part of hi...

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Infiniti Redbull racing highlights

27 May 2013 | Top Gear Festival

Undoubtedly one of the highlights of last year’s event, Top Gear Festival is proud to announce that this year motoring fans will once again be treated to an epic Formula 1TMdisplay! This time around fans will have the pleasure of an experience like no other with the triple World Champions Infiniti Red Bull Racing and its hugely successful, record-breaking RB7 car Tipped as one of the hottest young talents in motorsport, the RB7 will be driven by highly acclaimed Red Bull Junior Team member...

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The Stig hits Durban!

16 May 2013 | Top Gear Festival

Top Gear’s mystery racing driver, The Stig, was caught checking out our Durban roads including the Moses Mabhida Stadium, as he tested the route for this year’s new look street circuit Wednesday afternoon. The Stig pushed a BMW M6 and Birkin 7 to their limits in the grounds of the Stadium demonstrating his legendary driving skills to a select few including Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion Chad Le Clos, Durban’s very own sweet-talking DJ Fresh and stunning actress Hayley Owen....

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Richard Hammond to join TopGear Festival crew

29 April 2013 | Top Gear Festival

BREAKING NEWS TOP GEAR FANATICS Top Gear fans will be ecstatic to hear the news that Richard Hammond has just been confirmed to join his co-presenters at this year’s Top Gear Festival. Hammond was determined not to miss out on this year’s show and re-arranged his schedule so he could join Jeremy Clarkson and James May, as well as the mystery driver and infamous 'The Stig', for the highly anticipated event.  Thousands of fans will have the chance to see the boys live as they take to th...

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Top Gear Festival 2013 show times

17 February 2013 | Top Gear Festival

Top Gear Festival powered by Shell V-Power is an extension of the Top Gear Live global tour, offering an exceptional Live Stadium Show and exhilarating Durban Street Circuit. A first of its kind in 2012, the event returns to the Moses Mahbida Stadium and its surrounding precinct on the 15th and 16th June 2013. Venue Moses Mabhida Stadium Dates Saturday 15th June – Sunday 16th June 2013 Festival Times 09h00 – 20h00 on Saturday 15th June 2013 09h00 – 20h00 on Sunday 16th June 2013...

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