Aldo ' s remarkable racing legacy
A family with tremendous Eastern Cape racing heritage. For the Scribantes, the Eastern Cape Time Attack is a true home race and homage event.
Eponymy can be a burden. But for the Scribante family, it ' s a mark of pride and purpose. Scuderia Scribante is one of South Africa ' s most renowned privateer teams, having developed some of the world ' s most renowned hillclimb and time attack cars. For Scuderia Scribante, the Eastern Cape Time Attack event is a true home race, with the Aldo Scribante circuit named after the family ' s racing founder.
Generational motorsport creates dynasties, and the Scuderia Scribante team proves it. The team traces its history back to 1961, when founder Aldo Scribante started it to compete in South Africa ' s emerging F1 championship. In 1975, Aldo gave Eastern Cape motorsport its most important legacy infrastructure gift: a circuit named after him.
In its current era, Scuderia Scribante has embraced time trial-style racing. They have drawn crowds at the Simola Hill Climb for years, bringing some of the most interesting, over-engineered cars to the Knysna motorsport spectacle.
Spectacularly crowd-pleasing cars Even in a world with many modified, competition-grade Nissan R35s, Franco Scribante’ s R35 GT-R is renowned.
Any team can pour resources into a dedicated hill climb and time attack build project, but motorsport history is littered with examples of ambition
A POWERFUL LEGACY
Aldo ' s son, Celso, and grandsons, Aldo and Silvio, were all inspired to pursue their own dedicated amateur racing journeys. They competed in everything from karts to motorcycles, and several circuit racing formulae, from the 1980s to the present. The Scuderia Scribante team now has fourth-generation Scribante family drivers emerging.
With such a rich South African motorsport history and proud Eastern Cape heritage, the Scuderia Scribante team finally has a ' home ' time attack event. At the circuit their family created.
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