What Historic and Inland Tour Report
Where Zwartkops Raceway, Pretoria
When Saturday 20 September 2025
Community Gauteng Regional
A full day of historic racing in perfect Pretoria springtime
Zwartkops Raceway’s third Historic and Inland Tour of the season thrilled the Pretoria cognoscenti with a full roster of classic fields on a great day of racing in fine spring weather on Saturday.
Seef Fourie Junior took victory in the opening Le Mans Prototype, Sports, GT and Trans-Am race with Jonathan du Toit‘s Chevron B8 and Larry Wilford’s glorious Lola T70 Coupes in chase after Niel Lobbs similar car faded. James Temple’s Daytona coupe followed from Peter Bailey’s Porsche 917, Warren Lombard’s Cobra, Porsche man Andre van der Merwe and Mark du Toit and Djurk Venter’s Daytona Coupes. Wilford bounced back to take heat 2 from Jonathan du Toit, Bailey, Lombard and van der Merwe. Mark du Toit followed from Venter, Ten Doeschate and the delayed Temple and Fourie.
Ben Morgenrood’s Mustang was in imperious form as he thundered to a pair of Marlboro Crane Hire Legends V8, Little Giants and U2 wins from Jonathan du Toit’s Chevy Nova. Colin Ellison’s Thunderbolt was third from James Temple’s Capri Perana, Alistair Simpson, Mark du Toit and Paige Lindenberg, U2 winner Jonathan Needham and Legends winner Robbie Frank. Temple was third in race 2 from Simpson, Mark du Toit and Lindenberg, while Needham did the U2 double and Sophos Pantazis won the Legends dice.
Invitation racer Nicky Dicks beat Peter Bailey’s B car to a Evapco HRSA Sprint Porsche 1-2 with C winner Werner Kotze’s Mazda third from Andre ten Napel’s Scirocco. D winner Jannie van Rooyen’s Scirocco followed from Terence Ladner. Sophos Pantazis took Class E, Mike Bishop F and Wesley Duffey Class G. Dicks then beat Bailey and Andre van der Merwe to a Porsche 1-2-3 in race 2 while ten Napel beat Kotze to Class C and van Rooyen and Pantazis, Bishop and Duffey did the class doubles.
Rob Clark’s Ballade won the opening Evapco HRSA Pursuit race from Tim Crossland, Loraine Botes, Escort man Rob van Aarle, Mike O’Sullivan’s Honda and John Simpson’s Alfa Romeo. Van Aarle took the second heat from Clark, Gerhard Henning, Johan Gouws, O’Sullivan, and Gary Stacey. That before any handicap breakouts were applied.
Ben van der Westhuizen won both Historic Single Seater races while Des Hillary and Paul Richardson shared out the second places from Steve Venter each time. Colin Clay followed from Robbie Frank, Michael Kernick, and Tony Beecher in heat 1, and from Frank, Kernick, and Blane de Meilon in the second race.
Formula VW duo, Paarl visitor Dee-Jay Booysen beat veteran Allen Meyer to both Monoposto race wins with Formula M men Damien Archer third from Kennedy Torres, Aidan and Hylton Morrow, Simphiwe Mohlahlo and Damian White. Torres completed the second race podium ahead of Archer, Steve Venter and Herman Krige, Hylton Morrow, Damian White, Jannie Geyser, and Bruce van Niekerk.
Rudi Barnard took the first Lotus Challenge race from JP Nortje and David Jermy before Nortje took the second from Barnard and Chris Gable and Barnard beat Nortje and Jermy to the final. Nick Hodgson won two Locost class heats to Andrew Fulton’s one. Gavin Botha won INEX Legends heat 1 from Richard van Heerde, Tyler, Posthumus and Sebastian Venkov. Posthumus beat Venkov, Botha and Richard van Heerde in race 2, before Venkov did the double in the finale over Botha, Posthumus and Dylan Fourie.
Class C trio Kobus Brits, Eugene Gouws’ BMW and Dirk Lawrence’s Honda topped the Clubmans races shared with the National sportscars, which wins Dean Wolson and Gerald Wright. Rodney Kruis’ Honda took Class D from Theo Bohnen in the first race and Pete Walters in the second. Seef Fourie Sr. and Johan Coetzer Sr. shared the Midvaal Historic class wins and Ian Schwabsky won both Alfa Trofeo races.
Giulio Airaga’s Corsa frame beat Jared Rossouw’s SupaPolo to win a re-started opening SPS Silvercup race with Marius Truter’s Golf 1 third from Marnus du Plessis’ Sentra, Paul van Niekerk, Faudo Sidique and Chris Cronje. Shaun Lamprecht followed from Petrus van Oordt and Riaan Draper. Truter turned the tables on Airaga, Draper, van Niekerk, Rossouw and van Oordt as Sidique, Cronje, Johan Minnaar and Quentin Duvenage closed off the top ten.
It’s the big one next as the National Extreme Festival comes to a head to celebrate a quarter century of racing at Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday 25 October.
Issued on behalf of Zwartkops Raceway
Photography by: Colin Windell
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