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@langston.co.za
