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THE East London Grand Prix circuit hosted the Extreme Festival last Saturday, with a huge crowd treated to spectacular racing, close competition and some unexpected winners.
Premier billing belonged to the Sasol Global Touring Car category.
Current champion Michael Stephen (Engen Extreme Audi) and Simon Moss, in an identical car, dominated the opening race.
Race two went to Gennaro Bonafede (Sasol BMW), followed by Stephen, and Bradley Liebenberg took the Ferodo Mini Cooper S to both the GTC2 class victories.
TAR Ferrari 430 driver Jonathan du Toit won the first G& H Transport Extreme Supercar race narrowly ahead of brothers Gianni Giannoccaro (G& H Transport BMW M3) and Ricky Giannoccaro (G& H Transport BMW). The Ferrari stopped with burning brakes in race two, leaving Gianni to win.
Jeffrey Kruger (Universal Health Polo) won the opening Engen Volkswagen Cup race, and Devin Robertson (Payen Polo) won the next.
Julian van der Watt (Investchem Mygale) won both Investchem Formula 1600 races.
The first Bridgestone Thunderbike race was red-flagged after seven laps when the Van Breda Kawasaki of Pierre Grobler did an involuntary wheelie in the pit straight, ran onto the grass and pitched him down the track at over 200km/h.
He was hospitalised with minor injuries.
Race results saw Dean Vos (Kawasaki) beating Shaun Vermaak (Kawasaki). Vos also won race two.
Veteran Graeme van Breda (IVID ZX10R) won the first Red Square Kawasaki Masters race.
Reigning champion Sven Grune (Kawasaki ZX10), who dropped out of race one with mechanical maladies, went on to win race two.
The opening Comsol VW Challenge went to Devon Piazza-Musso (VW Polo), followed by Stiaan Kriel (Spanjaard Polo), who took race two.