What 18 October Rotax Max Karting Report
Where Zwartkops & Killarney
When Saturday 18 October 2025
Community Gauteng & Western Cape Regional
Brilliant Rotax Max kart racing at both Zwartkops and Killarney
Rotax Max Challenge karting was on regional double duty on Saturday. The sixth and final Gauteng round crowned the 2025 Northern Regions champions at a wet and slippery and Zwartkops in Pretoria, while the Cape Rotax crowd caught up with a rain date for their cancelled August round 6 in splendid spring conditions in its penultimate races at Killarney in Cape Town.
Young guns Anwil April and Matthew Wadeley shared out the Cape Town DD2 wins to deliver a new look to Killarney DD2 racing over Tony Auby and the troubled Ethan Stier and Rafe Taylor. Jared Jordan took a dominant DD2 Masters win over Conor Huges, Michael Jordan, Jono Pieterse and Johan Hamman. While they did not race, Dusan Radojevic was crowned Northern Regions DD2 champion over KC Ensor-Smith and Bradley Liebenberg, with Justin Rogers the Masters champion.
Zwartkops however delivered a splendid three-winner Senior Max show as final race winner Kent Swartz bounced back to take the day by a point to wrap up that title with the final win over first heat winner Jorden Moodley and the consistent Jonno Wilson. Tristan du Plessis ended fourth from middle race winner Tayla Scrimgeour and Gianna Pascoal. Jordon Wadeley benefited race 1 and 2 winner Charl Visser not starting the final race to win and take the Cape Senior day from Keagan Beaumont, Jesse Swart, Luca Wehrli, Storm Lanfear and William Marshall off an impressive 12 kart grid at Killarney.
Munsanje Mukosa shook up the Zwartkops high school Junior Max establishment to win the second and third heats to take the day from opening heat winner Cristian Verheul, Ruvan Maritz, Tshepang Shisinwana, Connor Macintyre and Reagile Mailula, wo did enough to take the title in sixth in an impressive 15-kart field. Sebastiano Human went unchecked down in the Cape from Michael Danks, Aiden Beaumont, Zach McAuley, Rafaelle Musso and Mikko Arries.
Three second places were enough for Liam Wharton to take Killarney under-13 Mini Max honours from Race 1 winner Michael O’Mahoney and race 2 and 3 winner Ruhan Victor. Jayden van der Merwe was fourth from Alanzo Dias and Justin Milleskie. Up at Zwartkops meantime, Declan Jurgens drove the day of his life to take the first and final heats to secure the Mini Max win from middle race winner Rafael De Sousa, Kireev Chetty, Luhan De Wet, Christian Naidoo and Diego Antunes. The absent Renaldo Koen had however already done enough to secure that title.
Adriaan Steyn beat second heat winner Luke du Toit two races to one to take the Zwartkops under 11 Micro Max day and the ’25 Northern title. Raidyn Reddy ended third from Callum du Toit, Aston Verheul and Jordan Jurgens. Yaqeen Gamieldien meantime overcame a troubled second heat to win the other two races and take the day in the Cape on a count back over middle race winner Jake Steyn, with Radhi Harris, Slater Smith, Lehan Fourie and Ebrahim Khalpey in chase.
Divaaj Govender continued on his dominant Cape Bambino ways with another Killarney triple over Ashlyn Beaumont, Aleena Doutie, Yaseen Pillay and Emelee Adriaans. And nobody would stop 2025 NR champion Alonzo de Oliveira from running away with the Northern Regions Bambino triple over Yerhu Malabie, Tiyani Malabie, Zwothe Magoda, Muhluri Ngobeni and Yinhla Makhubele off another 15-kart Zwartkops grid.
“Rotax Max has delivered another epic season of regional kart racing and we congratulate our Northern Regions Champions for 2025,” Rotax SA karting boss Ed Murray concludes. “The Western Cape champions will be crowned in a few weeks after more great racing at Killarney on Saturday, before it’s the big one, when the National Team heads to the Grand Finals. What a season!”
The Western Cape finale goes down on 8 November, before the National team heads to Bahrain for the 2025 Rotax Max ‘Olympics of Karting’ Grand Finals over the first week of December.
Issued on behalf of Rotax Max Challenge
Photography by: Abri de Bruin & Motorsport Fanatix
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