HERO ZERO

The other stuff making us deliriously happy or horribly sad this month...

1 ROOKIE TAKES POLE 20-year old Sheldon van der Linde from South Africa became the youngest pole sitter in BMW’s DTM history. DTM’s YouTube coverage is also worth a pole-position mention. 2 NURBURGRING RECORD Renault returns to the top of FWD Nurburgring leaderboard with the 220kW Trophy-R, deposing the Civic Type R by 3.7 seconds. Does so with fewer wings and exhaust tips, too. 3 ‘EXPLODING’ AUDI R8 Latest in Fabian Oefner’s ‘disintegrating’ series is an R8 with back-end issues. Each component is photographed individually then comped together. We’re not worthy. 4 NISSAN GT-R ANNIVERSARY EDITION 50th anniversary special marks the return of Bayside Blue, the R34 Skyline’s signature colour, and one we’ve not seen since 2002. It rocks. 5 LEGO CIVIC TYPE R Anyone else gettin ng a teeny bit bored of full-size Lego cars s? No? Excellent,…

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Top Gear South Africa (Digital) - 1 Issue, July 2019

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