About Team GFP

Brandon Staffen started racing in May 2013 at Round 2 of the Short Circuit Racing series at Killarney in the Honda NSF100 class, where he won his first-ever race he entered and won 2/3 races that day to take home 1st overall in his first outing.
2013 proved to be a fantastic racing year, winning nearly every race and ending as the Honda NSF 100 champion in his first year of racing.

2014 was a carbon copy for Brandon, taking nearly every race win and his 2nd Honda NSF100 Championship in a row.  Brandon got his first taste of away races in July 2014 when he visited the Idube Kart track in Durban for a training camp, where he took all 3 race wins on the day.
Mid-way through 2014, Brandon joined the highly-competitive Honda CBR150 Junior Championship category where he fired off the bat with race wins in his first Round.

2015, Brandon started off his National-Racing career onboard a new KTM RC390 in the brand new Super Junior National Series joining the SuperGP Champions Trophy, as well as a full year of the Honda CBR150 Junior Championship category. Brandon started off the year with a double-victory at Zwartkops Raceway in Round 1 of the SuperGP National series and went on to take multiple National wins that year missing out on the Championship win with a late crash in the season.

A perfect year on the Honda CBR150 saw multiple wins and ended the year off as the Honda CBR150 Junior champion and Rookie of the year.
Brandon ended 2015 with a Killarney Regional Powersport debut onboard a Suzuki SV650 at the well-known All-Bike race day where he finished on the podium from pitlane.

2016, Brandon competed in the KTM RC390 Superjunior for the 2nd year in a row, opening the year with double victories in both Round 1 & 2 at Red Star Raceway and Zwartkops Raceway respectively. Brandon also competed in the Killarney Regional Powersport series onboard a Suzuki SV650 where he took many wins throughout the year and finished 2nd in the championship. Brandon also received a wildcard opportunity to race in the British Superbikes Santander Consumer Finance KTM RC390 Cup at Donington Park, where he took 2/3 wins on the day. While at the British Superbike Round he received a late invitation to attend the MotoGP Red Bull Rookies trials in Spain 2 weeks later, where he made it to the final round going against the best juniors in the World.
Brandon’s National championship lead was lost with a double DNF due to engine failure with 1 round to go in Port Elizabeth costing him the National Championship.

2017, Brandon stepped up to the Super600 National Category and Killarney Regional Superbike category onboard a Triumph Daytona 675 where he struggled to get to grips with the excessive torque of the Triumph, a mid-year switch to a more competitive Kawasaki ZX6R saw drastic improvements.

2018, Brandon’s Killarney Regional Superbike 600cc year consisted of consistent Top 3 finishes with his primary focus on National Racing. A competitive year in the Super600 Category saw Brandon fighting within the top 5 taking podiums as the year progressed, unfortunately, multiple crashes towards the end of the year spoilt a good Championship result.

2019, Brandon started off the year onboard his Kawasaki ZX6R where he fought for Top 5 finishes against the very strong New Yamaha R6’s with top National riders riding them, a mid-year switch to the Yamaha R6 saw Brandon improve his Personal Best at Killarney by 0.4 of a second during testing, giving him the package he required to win.

Sadly during August, Brandon developed Compartment syndrome in his forearms requiring surgery and putting a premature end to the years of racing.

2020/2021, were sadly dull racing years due to the difficulties of the Covid 19 Pandemic, Brandon raced his last national in March 2021 where he took 1st and 2nd place in the Super600 category.

2022, Brandon’s relocation from Cape Town to Johannesburg has his sights set on a comeback to Superbike racing during the course of the year.