Dear enthusiast

This new motoprint website and online
store are still being completed, updated, made user-friendly and optimised for
mobile.

Please note that many of the almost 60,000
photos from my database are still being uploaded.

I invite you to enjoy exploring these
new pages, but if you don’t find what you’re looking for, please email me at
david@motoprint.co.za to tell me what you need. I’ll find all the relevant
photos in the database and email thumbnails of them to you to choose from.

Regards

David Pearson

Welcome to Motoprint! 

Our massive collection of almost 60,000 historical motor racing images is unique. Here you can find photos dating from the early 1950s until recently, mainly of events in South Africa. Our collection spans motorsport in all its forms and classes, and features many different locations.
We have a wealth of colour photos from an era when most images in the media were still black-and-white. Dive in an discover our intimate and unusual photos of famous and little-known drivers.
You can quickly and easily find what you are looking for, because each image is identified with details of the driver, marque, class, event, race track and other information. The sophisticated search facility will show you a specific image and a range of photos.

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The home of unique historic motor sport photography

Reliving the magic of yesterday’s motor racing with today’s technology

Our images are grouped by year and include photos from many events, race tracks and all the following categories (with abbreviations shown in brackets):

Single seaters (SS, GP)
Wesbank V8
Formula 1 (F1)
Production
Formula 2 (F2)
Group 1 (Gr 1)
Formula 3000
Group N (Gr N)
Formula 5000
Stannic
Formula Atlantic (Atl, FA)
Bankfin
Sigma Series
Clubman racing  
Formula Ford (FF)
Formula Vee (FV)
Motorcycles (Bikes, IOM)
Formula GTi
Grand Prix bikes (Moto)
Superbikes (SBK)
Sports cars (SP)
Supersport (SSP)
Endurance (Nine Hour, 9 hr, 6 hr, 3 hr)
South African production bikes
Springbok Series
South African historic bikes
South African Championship (SA)
Yellow Pages 500 km
Rally and offroad (OR)
Historic Series
South African Championship
Historic race meetings  
International Championship
Roof of Africa
Saloons (SL)
Safari
Touring cars (DTM)
Onyx
Programmes
Star Modified (Star prod)
Year
Wesbank Modified
Event

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