This article outlines the history of stock-car racing in South Africa’s capital city until 1968. By reconstructing the histories of two raceways in Pretoria, it shows how stock-car and oval-track racing helped to (re)inscribe the cityscape. It draws attention to the contentious, at times symbiotic, relationship between the city council and the sport of stock-car racing in the context of shifting ideas around the respectable consumption of automobiles. It also analyses the entwinement of this history with other pastimes/subcultures. Finally, it shows that involvement (whether as participants or spectators) in oval-track racing created the conditions necessary for the production of alternative yet completely viable scripts of how to be white in Pretoria during the 1950s and the 1960s. Evidence is drawn from archival sources, popular print media, and ethnography.

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“ Asbaanjaers RigOëOp Pretoria”：南非首都的赛车历史

本文概述了南非首都直到1968年的赛车运动的历史。通过重建比勒陀利亚两个赛道的历史，它显示了赛车和椭圆形赛车如何帮助（重新）刻写了城市景观。它引起了人们的关注，即在围绕可观的汽车消费转移观念的背景下，市议会与股票赛车运动之间存在争议的，有时是共生的关系。它还分析了这一历史与其他消遣/亚文化的纠缠。最后，它表明参与椭圆形赛道（无论是作为参与者还是作为观众）为在1950年代和1960年代在比勒陀利亚制作白色的替代但完全可行的剧本创造了必要的条件。证据来自档案资料，流行的印刷媒体，