The club said the aim of the revamp is to increase the number of competitors while decreasing the entry fee where possible.
Hylton Allison, a seasoned DJ Run competitor and rally organiser, will now head up the organising committee as clerk of the course, replacing Larina MacGregor who held this position in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021. Hylton will have his brother, Gavin, and Cobus Grobbelaar as his assistants.
Other committee members for the 2022 DJ Run are: Gavin Allison (treasurer), Peter Aneck-Hahn (SAVVA steward), Eric McQuillan (club steward), Gwyneth Cronje and Elaine Cusdin (secretaries), Pierre Cronje (fundraising), Paul Koski and Bert Lopes (VVC representatives).
A recent article on the iconic DJ Run, which began as a road race for motorcycles between Johannesburg and Durban in 1913, stated that the 2022 event would celebrate 50 years of the commemorative regularity rally while this milestone was, in fact, reached in 2021 as the first of these regularity rallies took pace in 1970, with 1974 being cancelled due to fuel restrictions and 2021 not taking place due to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
