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Next Year;s DJ Run will mark 50TH Anniversary of this Commemorative Regularity Trial
Next Year;s DJ Run will mark 50TH Anniversary of this Commemorative Regularity Trial
Date: 2019-11-08
The 2020 event is open to riders on any motorcycle or sidecar combination made on or before December 1936 in line with the timing of the discontinuation of this amazing race, due to road safety concerns. A total of 20 races for solo motorcycles were staged between 1913 and 1936 with no races taking place between 1915 and 1918 due to World War I. Motorcycles with sidecars were permitted to enter in 1921 and 1922.
Next year's commemorative event will reverse the usual direction of the rally by starting in Johannesburg and finishing in Durban, as was the case with the first race in 1913. The 2013 DJ Rally, which marked a centenary since the first race was held, also went from Johannesburg to Durban.
This international event is organised on behalf of the Vintage and Veteran Club of South Africa by a team from a number of other clubs in Gauteng with Larina MacGregor as the clerk of the course for the third consecutive year.
The 2020 event will start at the historic Heidelberg Motor Museum on the morning of March 13, with documentation and scrutineering taking place the previous day. Larina, who is hoping for a number of overseas riders to take part in this special DJ Rally, says that the Heidelberg Museum is an ideal venue for the start in terms of its location and the security it offers.
The first rider will depart from Heidelberg at 09:00 and then follow a pre-determined route - following the original race route were possible - to an overnight stop in Newcastle. The second day start for the first rider will be at 05:30 and the route will take riders to the finish at Shongweni Equestrian Estate, just outside Hillcrest in Kwa-Zulu Natal, arriving in the afternoon. Prize-giving will take place at a breakfast on the Sunday.
Further information can be obtained from Clerk of the Course, Larina MacGregor at larina.macgregor@gmail.com or 084-949-0937

