Gqeberha’s motorsport fans were treated to an action-packed Extreme Festival Presented By Coca-Cola this past weekend (9-10 May) at the Aldo Scribante Raceway.

The second round of the Volkswagen Rookie Cup started Saturday’s race action. In Race 1 of the all-Volkswagen Polo Vivo GT series, Josh Moore took a lights-to-flag win from Uzair Khan. Luke Hill rounded out the podium after he passed Mauro da Luz just before the halfway mark.

Hill had the early lead in a tight battle at the front in Race 2, but at the end of Lap 6, Christopher Tait and Khan passed him, heading on to the main straight. A lap and one corner later, Hill ran wide and onto the grass, resulting in him falling to the back of the field, while Moore picked up third place.

Defending SunBet ZX10 Masters Cup champion Clinton Seller (King Price Xtreme) rose to a somewhat self-inflicted challenge in the second round of the all-Kawasaki ZX10 series. In the second of Friday’s qualifying sessions, he missed a mandatory post-session parc ferme procedure, which resulted in him being forced to start from the back of the field.

Race 1 was red-flagged on the opening lap immediately after Lubabalo Ntisana came off his machine, a mandatory step being taken in all motorcycle races regardless of the severity of the incident. From the full restart, it only took Seller one corner to slot into fifth place and another lap to move to the lead. Damion Puricati (Amalgum Welding Shop) and Graeme van Breda (Stefanutti Stocks) jostled for the final two podium spots, with Purificati finishing as runner-up. This saw Seller take the Class A win from Purificati, while fifth-placed David Enticott (Ravenol SA) completed the class podium. Van Breda took the Class B win, ahead of Dieter Huysamen (Adventure Extreme) in 11^th and 13^th-placed Tyron Piper (Pumpelec). Fourth-placed Jayson Lamb (Tyremart EL) won Class C from Brian Bontekoning (Jaguar Compressors) and Johan le Roux (Avidan Trading) in eighth and ninth, respectively.

Seller made it two race, and Class A wins for the day, with Class B Winner Van Breda second and Class C winner Lamb third, the latter pair also taking double wins. In the various classes, Enticott, fourth, finished as Class A runner-up from fifth-placed Purificati. Van Breda again beat Huysamen, 10^th in the race, in Class B, with Reginald Seale (HX Consulting Services), 12^th, completing the podium. Le Roux and Bontekoning, seventh and eighth, completed the Class C podium.

Mohammed Karodia (Fast 5 Motorsport) notched two wins in the all-Volkswagen Polo GTI Astron Energy Polo Cup. In Race 1, Charl Smalberger (Sabertek) held the lead for a significant portion, but on the final lap, the pressure applied by Karodia saw the latter force his way through. Roshaan Goodman (Team Red) passed Hannes Scheepers (Dainfern Dental Studio) for third place a few laps prior.

Smalberger again joined Karodia on the podium in Race 2, but this time, the reigning Volkswagen Rookie Cup champion Judd Bertholdt (Volkswagen Rookie Cup) took the runner-up spot.

Wayne Masters (Performance Masters) took the opening Masters Class win, with Derick Smalberger (Sabertek) beating John Kruger (Habot Lubricants) to second. The latter won Race 2, with Masters second and Mike Barbaglia third.

Jason Coetzee won both the Gazoo Racing Cup Driven By Netstar GR 86 Class races from Mbuso Ngwenya and Justin Rogers.

The GR Yaris Class saw Nabil Abdool take a double victory. In Race 1, Phuti Mpyane and Kyle Kocck completed the podium, with the pair swopping places in Race 2.

Mario De Sousa won the GR Corolla Class in both races. Werner Venter and Riaan de Ru completed the podium in Race 1. In Race 2, Paul de Vos took second, with Venter third.

Keegan Campos (Campos Campos Trucking BMW 128ti) notched up his second-consecutive South African Touring Cars win, beating Michael van Rooyen (SVR Steelworks Toyota Corolla) and Julian van der Watt (Chemical Logistics Volkswagen Golf 8 GTI) in Race 1.

Race 2 provided some of the day’s most fiercely contested action. Saood Variawa (Toyota Gazoo Racing Corolla) beat Van Rooyen this time, with Campos taking third.

The SATC SupaCup saw Tate Bishop (ANGRi Racing Volkswagen Polo SupaCup) win both races. Jonathan Mogotsi (Volkswagen Motorsport) featured on both podiums. In Race 1, he beat Muhammad Wally to second place, while Charl Visser (Charl Engineering) took the runner-up spot in Race 2.

The next outing for the national roster of the Extreme Festival Presented By Coca-Cola will be at Zwartkops Raceway on 20-21 June, the same circuit that will host this coming weekend’s (16-17 May) regional roster showdown.