What South African Rally Championship Round 3 Report
Where Outeniqua, WP
When 28-29 August 2026
Community South Africa National
SA rally-raid class win as Red-Lined leads two classes
Red-Lined Motorsport returns from the midseason Century Racing Outeniqua 400 with a class win and leading two of the South African Rally-Raid Championship classes, following a gruelling weekend at the delayed Southern Cape race. Nielen Marx and Rickus Hattingh took a maiden national T1 class win in their Red-Lined VK50, while Red-Lined REVO SA T1+ teammates, Johan and Sean van Staden, and Philip Botha and Andries Mynhardt consolidated their title advantage with further podium celebrations, finishing second and third in the T1+ class.
“As expected, Outeniqua was a really challenging weekend but a good weekend nonetheless for us as a team,” Red-Lined Group CEO Terence Marsh summed it up. “We come away with a T1 class win, two podium finishers in the SA T1+ class and then five out of our six race cars entered completing what was an extremely tough and demanding event. And then most importantly, we continue to top the championship tables in both the T1 and SA T1+ classes with just two rounds of the 2026 national championship remaining.”
The highlight of the weekend was 18-year-old Nielen Marx and Rickus Hattingh storming home to take their maiden T1 class victory in their Red-Lined VK50. The result sees them close the gap on VAPS HCV Red-Lined VK50 team mates Peet Victor and Van Zyl Jonck in the 2026 South African Rally-Raid T1 championship chase.
KEC Racing father and son Johan and Sean van Staden, and Penta Motor Group crew Philip Botha and Andries Mynhardt meantime fought a flat out battle throughout the Outeniqua 400 to end up second and third in the SA T1+ class in their similar V8 powered Red-Lined REVO T1+ race machines. The result sees the van Staden’s close the gap a little more on Botha and Mynhardt as the teams continue in their head-to-head battle for the national class championship.
South African Rally Raid fans also had their first experience of the Red-Lined developed DKR Evo T1+ racing on local soil. Dutch crews, Dave and Tessa Klaassen and Herman Jasper and Markus Laan brought their DaklaPack Rallysport machines home fifth and sixth in class on debut in the SA T1+ class.
“With just two races left to run, we remain under pressure as we lead both the SA T1+ and T1 classes, so as a team we will need to be on top of our game as we enter these final two rounds of the championship,” Terence concludes. “It was once again a great team effort this weekend, so well done to all but now our focus will need to move the final two events as we try and wrap up these championships!”
*Red-Lined Motorsport competes with premium strategic partners, the Penta Motor Group, VAPS HCV, BFGoodrich, Motul, Dragon Energy, MFC, OMP and Ingco South Africa.
Issued on behalf of Red-Lined Motorsport
Photography by: Andre Schoeman and Waldo van der Waal
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