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The Langston Racing
Warehouse in South Africa is located a stones throw from the world famous
Kyalami F1 circuit.
The South Aftrica dealership started back
in 1999 purely by chance. Gerald Langston was in Europe helping his
son Grant to break into the Grand Prix scene. He started to receive
emails from friends back home in S. Africa to find hard-to-locate Motocross
parts and send them back to S. Africa. After being stopped at
Johannesburg Int'l Airport overladen with motocross "Gifts" the time
had come to turn this demand into a business. Gerald approached Hans
De Beer (Coincidentally both are were former aircraft technicians) with the
idea of having Hans run & operate the S. African side of the business.
As with most small business the first year was spent operating from Hans's
garage. As the business exceeded the capacity of the garage and
expanded into the sanctity of their master bedroom Hans's wife gave here
husband an ultimatum to either open up into a commercial warehouse or suffer
the consequences.
At this point Langston
Racing Imports was born into a closed corporation with a rented warehouse in
the Midrand area. Within a year the business had out-grown that
facility as well and at the same time Grant came in as a partner.
With the business
doing as well as it was, it was decided the next move would be into building
owned by the company. So in the later part of 2001, the business
was relocated into the current building as shown up above. Five years
later this building has also become too small and the decision has been made
to search for commercial land and build a building to match the steady
growth the company has enjoyed since its inception.
If you are interested in becoming a
Langston Racing Products Dealer in South Africa contact our partners there.
Hans De Beer – Managing Director on 011-805-5559 or email at
hans@langstonracing.co.za
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