Sheldon heading home for the Kyalami 9-hour
South African racing driver will be competing in the 9-hour, Intercontinental GT Challenge race taking place later this year at Kyalami.
Sheldon van der Linde which currently compete in the BMW DTM series on international circuits will be representing BMW Team, Schnitzer in a BMW M6 GT3 at the final Intercontinental GT Challenge race. The race which will be taking place on the 22nd and 23rd of November this year at the Kyalami Grand Prix circuit in Johannesburg is the last race of the 2019 IGTC season and promises to be one for the history books. Two BMW M6 GT3 vehicles will be competing for first place with Sheldon sharing one of the vehicles with co-pilots, Augusto Farfus from Brazil and German, Martin Tomczyk. The Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 will be piloted by Dutchman Nick Catsburg, the Danish, Mikkel Jensen and Christian Krognes from Norway.
“It is something incredibly special for me – probably even the highlight of my season. Some of my family, like my grandparents, has never seen me compete in an international race live. Now they will finally be able to at Kyalami. I’m expecting the atmosphere to be awesome since it has been quite a while since a major international race has been held in South Africa so it will be something new for the fans and they will be excited. And there will be other South African drivers starting alongside me, among them my brother Kelvin. I’m looking forward to the whole event,” Sheldon van der Linde, BMW DTM driver.
