What Extreme Festival presented by Coca-Cola Round 4 Report
Where Zwartkops Raceway, Pretoria
When Saturday 21 June 2025
Community South Africa National
Maximum Extreme action on shortest day of year
Zwartkops Raceway lived up to its promise of the most possible racing action on the shortest day of the year when the midseason fourth round Extreme Festival powered by Coca-Cola dished up racing of the highest order across all classes on Saturday. In a day that saw several class title chases, tighten up considerably, it was also the dawning of a new era of single seater racing in South Africa with all-new Investchem MSA4.
Racing safer new state of the art South African built chassis powered by advanced turbocharged one-litre Volkswagen engines, MSA4 lived up to its promise with three cracking races. Final season Formula 1600 runner-up KC Ensor-Smith was in dominant form as he sped to the first two race wins. By 2.5 seconds over old rivals Shrien Naidoo, Renzo Ribeiro, Nicholas van Weely and Mikel Bezuidenhout in heat 1. KC was out on his own to take heat 2 from Ribeiro, Adriaan Nel, Liam Polome, Karabo Malemela and Bezuidenhout. Mikel then won the final reverse-grid race from Malemela, Polome and charging overall winner Ensor-Smith, driver of the day Ribeiro, Nel and Naidoo.
Keegan Campos’ BMW 128 sped to opening South African Touring Car victory off pole position, but Toyota Corolla man Michael van Rooyen consolidated his title advantage with second from Julian van der Watt’s Golf, Nathi Msimanga’s Corolla, Jagger Robertson’s Golf and Saood Variawa’s Corolla. The reverse grid second race had to be restarted to allow Campos and BMW teammate Andrew Schofield to be extracted from the turn 1 kitty litter, patched up and rushed back to action. Variawa then played a teammate masterclass to engineer van Rooyen into the lead for the win to consolidate his title advantage. Van der Watt was third from Msimanga, recovered Campos, Robertson and Schofield as van Rooyen took the day from Campos and van der Watt.
Jonathan Mogotsi meantime reinvigorated the SATC SupaCup championship with a double victory off pole position. Rookie teammate Jason Loosemore made it a factory 1-2 to further assist Jonathan’s championship effort over leader Tate Bishop, Charl Visser and rookie Muhammad Wally’s similar VW SupaPolos, and Dawie van der Merwe in the sole Toyota SupaStarlet. Bishop forced his way past Loosemore to pressurise Mogotsi in race 2, but Jonathan shrugged him off to win again from Tate, Loosemore, Visser, Nicolas Vostanis and van der Merwe.
Home hero Jonathan du Toit enjoyed an exceptional day with a triple Extreme Supercars driven by Dunlop victory aboard his Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO. GT3 rivals Charl Arangies’ Porsche GT3 R and Gianni Giannoccaro’s Nissan GTR R35 GT3 shared out the second places, while Class A men Kris Budnik’s Dodge Viper, Ricky Giannoccaro’s Mercedes AMG GT3 and Paul Hill‘s Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO 2 made it six different supercar makes in the top six. Wayne Roach meantime took Class B in his Lamborghini Gallardo and BMW M4 men Elwyn Steenkamp and Uli Sanne shared the Class C wins.
Rory Atkinson turned the Astron Energy Polo Cup championship on its head with a triple win off pole position. Mo Karodia, who arrived in Pretoria with a sizable title advantage, raced to second in the opening two races. Mo’s heat 3 turn 2 crash however stopped the race for the ensuing pile-up to be removed. It also cost him a pile of points when he spun out of that restarted race. Behind Atkinson and Karodia, Hannes Scheepers was third in race 1 from Dhivyen Naidoo, Judd Bertholdt and Shiren Rajpaul. Bertholdt, Roshaan Goodman, Rajpaul and Scheepers followed in race 2. Racing lass Tyler Robinson then kept Atkinson on his toes in the final from Scheepers, Goodman and Bertholdt. Wayne Masters dominated Astron Energy Polo Masters as John Kruger, Derick Smalberger and Mike Barbaglia fought over the scraps.
SunBet ZX 10 Masters king, Clinton Seller dominated with another double win over Damion Purificati, Class C winner Jayson Lamb, Hein McMahon, Adriaan van Dalen, B victor Graeme van Breda, Brian Bontekoning and Keith Agliotti. Seller beat Purificati again in race 2 with van Breda third from McMahon, Lamb, van Dalen and Bontekoning. Jason Coetzee took his customary Toyota Gazoo GR86 Rookie Cup win from Kent Swartz, while Nabil Abdool took GR Yaris Media Cup and Devon Scott GR Corolla Dealer Cup in both races. Christopher Tait and Josh Moore shared out the Volkswagen Rookie Cup wins from Mauro Da Luz and Uzair Khan each time.
The Extreme Festival powered by Coca-Cola battles head to the Border Region next, with the fifth round races at the epic beachside East London Grand Prix Circuit on Saturday 19 July. Gauteng race fans can meantime look forward to a day of Regional Extreme Festival action at the Red Star Raceway near Delmas this coming Saturday 28 June.
Astron Energy Polo Cup – Photography by: Andre Laubscher 
Extreme Supercars Driven by Dunlop – Photography by: Colin Windell 
Investchem MSA4 – Photography by: Andre Laubscher 
South African Touring Cars 
SATC SupaCup 
SunBet ZX10 King Seller – Photography by: Colin Windell 
Gazoo Racing SA Cup – Photography by: Colin Windell 
Volkswagen Rookie Cup – Photography by: Colin Windell
Issued on behalf of Extreme Festival
Photography by: Andre Laubscher & Colin Windell
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