New format a huge success
A new South African motorsport concept was successfully launched at the Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria over the weekend.
CLOSE STUFF: The TK Imports Thunderbike races produced exciting racing.
Picture: Paul Blackburn.
The two-day Hankook Extreme Festival on Friday and Saturday provided a large variety of speed related activities, and even adverse weather conditions did not deter a large crowd from attending. The event’s wide spectrum included car and motorcycle circuit racing with more than 300 competitors, a skidpan competition, drifting, karting, live music, a flea market, a Show and Shine competition, a Sound-off competition and a hillclimb.
The on-circuit activities were headed by three races for dotsure.co.za Supercars, with 19 exotic vehicles taking to the tarmac. Friday’s two races were won by Charl Arrangies (Motul Dodge Viper ACRX) and Deon du Plessis in the X-Cars KTM X-Bow. Arrangies returned on Saturday to win the category’s single heat in his massively powerful Dodge.
Stewart MacLeod (SEW Eurodrive ZX10R) won both Red Square Kawasaki Masters races. He was followed by Paul Jacobs (SEW Eurodrive ZX10R) and Tony Klem (Frontier Diamonds ZX10R) in the overall classification.
WINNER: George Bezuidenhout on the way to winning the 111 Sports and Saloon event.
Picture: Paul Blackburn.
The TK Imports Thunderbike races saw youngster Anthony Shelley (Full Throttle Kawasaki) emerge as the weekend’s overall winner, leading home Jannie Odendaal (Performance Centre Kawasaki) and Richard Carmody (Kawasaki). Terence Cooke (Frequency Automation Kawasaki) took the TK Imports Brunch Run Challenge victory from JB Schoeman (Tysica Laser Kawasaki) and Robin Harrison (Honda).
Brett Garland (Jonnesway Honda Civic) was the overall Goldwagen Super Hatch victor ahead of Hilton van Nieuwenhuizen (ASAP Peugeot 206) and Chris Davison (Opel Superboss).
Scott Temple (Ferodo Rhema) took the overall Hankook Formula Vee garlands beating Alan Holm (Laserprint Rhema) and Greg Wilson (Reflex Solutions Rhema) in the process.
The Imperial Mitsubishi Modified Production Car category went overall to Brendan Hall (Vaal Timbers Honda CRX) followed by Dirk Lawrence (JDM Tuning Honda Ballade) and Jannie van Rooyen (Goldwagen Roodepoort VW Scirocco).
Dawie Olivier (Toyota Corolla Turbo) took the overall Imperial Mitsubishi Super Saloons victory leading home Vaughn Murphy (Turbo Evolution Nissan Skyline) and Tarry Wilford (Fuchs ford Mustang).
The weekend’s quickest lap time – one minute 2,01 seconds – was set by Verron Pappas in his Arma Gear Rotax Superkart. He took the overall Superkart victory finishing ahead of Andrew Greenslade (Four Q 2 PVP) and Tyron Davis (AVL Africa PVP).
The top Spitronics Silver Cup accolade went to Jose Sardinha (JS Honda CRX). He led home Adrian Dalton (XTRA Shoes (VW Spaceframe) and Elton Fuchs (Capital Group VW Golf).
EXOTIC: The dotsure.co.za Xtreme Supercars saw 19 expensive exotics on the circuit. Picture: Paul Blackburn.
Veteran George Bezuidenhout (The Forkman Nissan Primera) won the 111 Sport and Saloon Car category overall. Hebeat Harry Arrangies (Porsche 944) and Jacques Viljoen (C3 Consulting Porsche 911).
The overall Formula Monoposto accolade went to Paul Schultz (Knottsberry Food VW GTI), followed by Nico Beets (M&S Supply Speads) and Louis van der Merwe (www.yorkies.co.za Swift 92).
Finally, the R5 000 on offer for the weekend’s Skidpan Challenge where anybody beating a driving instructor’s time would pocket the cash was not won. The Zwartkops organisers donated the prize money to Reach for a Dream.
