Kelvin van der Linde with his parents Bernadine and Shaun van der Linde in Le Mans. (Supplied, Shaun van der Linde)
From racing legend Sarel van der Merwe, who took to the podium in the early 1980s at this event, to Greg Hills, Jonathan Aberdein, and Dave Perel, South African racing drivers are nothing new to the grid at the world’s most challenging endurance race. However, two brothers from South Africa have never raced at the same prestigious event at the same time.
Kelvin and Sheldon van der Linde might come from a rich history of legendary drivers. Still, these two young men have been waving the South African fly high for quite some time on the international stage, specifically the German Touring Car Masters, better known as DTM. They are incredibly talented, and their hard work from an early age has certainly paid off.
Like Brad Binder, our MotoGP hero, the Van der Linde brothers deliver outstanding performances in every race, often making the podium in a different genre. Kelvin races for the ABT Sportsline Audi team in the DTM series, but this weekend, he gears up to drive the Lexus RC F GT3 for the Akkodis ASP Team with Russia’s Timur Boguslavskiy and Frenchman Arnold Rubin as his teammates.
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