To catch up with what the media is saying check out the video interviews, press clipings  and more about Gavin Cronje. May 2010 Cronje and Schoeman out of luck in Rally SA   Gavin Cronje’s baptism in the Sasol National Rally Championship continues to be a frustrating affair, but the talented and versatile motor sportsman refuses to let the cold water dampen his enthusiasm.   His latest outing, with co-driver Van Aardt Schoeman in the Season in Africa class A7 VW Polo, was in the Rally of South Africa in Mpumalanga last weekend.  It ended even before it had started when a crank sensor failed on the way to the start of the first stage on Friday.  The engine kept cutting out and there was no prospect of the pair making it through the stage in good time. April 2010     Heartbreak for Cronje and Schoeman on Sasol Rally Reigning international Formula Le Mans sports car champion Gavin Cronje’s dramatic baptism in the Sasol South African Rally Championship continued at the weekend when he and co-driver Van Aardt Schoeman rolled out of the Sasol Rally in the Mpumalanga Lowveld on the second stage.   Cronje and Schoeman had started the two-day third round of the championship in confident style, winning the first stage on Friday by almost 15 seconds.   “We were looking good in stage two until I misjudged an adverse jump into a left-hander about six kilometres in,” said Cronje.  “The landing unsettled the rear and I couldn’t get the car back in line for the corner on the loose gravel.  I thought we’d be alright when I saw an escape road, but it dropped away sharply and the VW’s nose dug into the soft sand at the entrance to the road and the car went over.”     March 2010 Dramatic second rally for Gavin Cronje His second ever national championship rally could not have been more dramatic and incident-filled, but Gavin Cronje and co-driver Van Aardt Schoeman completed the Toyota Dealer Rally run over 11 stages and 180 km in the Western Cape at the weekend.   The result was a lot better than in the recent Total Tour Natal, where Cronje and Schoeman lasted just two stages before being forced out with mechanical problems.  This time they challenged for the lead of class A7 in their Volkswagen Polo, winning two stages on Friday and one on Saturday and leading the event until four stages from the finish on Saturday.  Gavin Cronje enthusiastic about rally championship debut Gavin Cronje’s debut appearance in the Sasol SA Rally Championship didn’t last long – two special stages to be exact – but it was enough to get his adrenalin going and convince him that he’d made the right decision.  One of South Africa’s most versatile motor sportsman, he is a past national karting and Formula Volkswagen champion and international karting and sports car champion and the closest he’d come before to rallying was a season in national championship off road racing in a bakkie. December 2009 Gavin Cronje tests Le Mans Series LM P1 at Paul Ricard Gavin Cronje, a South African motor sport champion in international competition in 2009, completed a successful LM P1 prototype sports car test with French Le Mans 24 Hours winners Team Oreca Matmut AIM in the south of France this week.  The test, which saw the 30-year-old from Johannesburg joined by three other Formula Le Mans winners in a two-day programme at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet, was Cronje and Belgian co-driver Nico Verdonck’s prize for winning the inaugural Formula Le Mans Cup.  The other two drivers, Valle Makela of Finland and Mathias Beche of Switzerland, were the runners-up. September 2009 Cronje and Verdonck dominate Formula Le Mans at Magny-Cours It was another great motor sport weekend for Johannesburg’s Cronje brothers, Gavin and Mark. While Gavin, 30, and Belgian co-driver Nico Verdonck were dominating the sixth and final round of the Formula Le Mans Cup for prototype sports cars at Magny-Cours in France, Mark, 31, and co-driver Robert Paisley won the seventh and penultimate round of the Sasol national rally championship in the Western Cape. Gavin and Verdonck, who clinched the inaugural FLM Cup at Silverstone in England the previous weekend, won two of the three races that made up round six in France in their DAMS entry, taking their tally for the series to a remarkable nine victories in 12 races. Cronje and Verdonck win Formula Le Mans title South African Gavin Cronje and Belgian Nico Verdonck clinched the inaugural Formula Le Mans Cup Championship for prototype sports cars at Silverstone in England on Saturday when they won the first race of the fifth and penultimate round. Driving an entry from the French DAMS team, the South African/Belgian combination has been the pair to beat in this new feeder series to the established long distance Le Mans Series and claimed their sixth victory from eight races in Saturday’s opening 34-lap race around the Silverstone grand prix circuit in the English Midlands. August 2009 South African Gavin Cronje a winner in Formula Le Mans in Germany Gavin Cronje and Belgian co-driver Nico Verdonck continued on their winning way in the Formula Le Mans Series at the Nurburgring in Germany on Saturday, winning both races for prototype sports cars. It was their fifth win in six races and extended their lead in the championship. Gavin Cronje second in Formula Le Mans Cup in Portugal South African Gavin Cronje and his Belgian co-driver Nico Verdonck finished fourth and second in the two races making up the third round of the Formula Le Mans Cup series for prototype sports cars at Portimao in Portugal at the weekend.  They placed second overall and increased their lead in the inaugural championship for single-make sports cars. June 2009 Cronje wins on Le Mans debut South Africa's Gavin Cronjé is proving to be one of the stars of the new Formula Le Mans Cup series for prototype sports cars. The 30-year-old from Johannesburg and his Belgian co-driver Nicolas Verdonck won the second round in France on Saturday in a 12-lap curtain-raiser to the famous Le Mans 24-Hour race around the 13,629 km Le Sarthe circuit May 2009 Gavin Cronje in dream debut in Formula Le Mans sports car series at Spa  Gavin Cronje flew the South African flag proudly at Belgium’s famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit last weekend when he and his Belgian co-driver Nicolas Verdonck won both races in the opening round of the brand new Formula Le Mans Cup competition for prototype sports cars. Verdonck and Cronje heroic in the Ardennes Nico Verdonck and Gavin Cronje’s weekend at Spa-Francorchamps has been a very exciting one turning from a nightmare to a fairy tale! Between their big accident on Friday in qualifying and today, the DAMS team’s two drivers have experienced very different sensations. But what they will remember from the first Formula Le Mans Cup meeting is their double victory. Cronje is the new kid on the block Reigning South African Formula Volkswagen singleseater champion Gavin Cronje has taken to European sports car racing with great success in recent weeks.The former karting world champion and South African A1GP team rookie driver is competing in this year’s Formula Le Mans championship. This is a feeder series for the Le Mans World Sportscar series. Final countdown to the Formula Le Mans Cup The second weekend in May will forever remain an historic date for the Formula Le Mans Cup. It will see the first round of this new championship in the world of motor sport, the brainchild of the ACO and Oreca. The field for the first event of the season will be made up of six teams. Among them, DAMS will be there in force with three cars. Wolfgang Kaufmann from Germany will team up with Italian Luca Moro, while South African Gavin Cronje will partner promising young Belgian Nico Verdonk. A third car is entered for Stéphane Lemeret and Vincent Vosse.

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