Some unexpected winners in Delmas
Round two of the 2022 Inland Regional Extreme Festival tour at the Red Star Raceway near Delmas produced brilliant spectacle and some unexpected winners on Saturday.
Heading up proceedings were two races for the BMW M Performance brigade.
BMW tuning guru Sav Gualtieri (Savspeed BMW M3 Turbo) led race one throughout but outbraked himself on the last lap and went farming.
That left Adrian Dalton (Xtra Clothing BMW M3 Turbo) to win from Gualteiri, William Einkamerer (BTAS BMW 335i), Fabio Fedetto (BMW M4) and Andreas Meier (#tradeamateurs BMW STC).
Dalton won race two as well, followed over the line by Einkamerer, Fedetto, Carlo Garbini (Kimnbo BMW 328i Turbo) and Jagger Robertson (Big Boss Auto 328i Turbo).
Rory Atkinson (BHIT Polo) won both the PABAR VW Challenge races, while Wayne Masters (Performance Masters Polo) and Stiaan Kriel (Design Hut Polo) swapped the second and third places, respectively.
The first Car Care Clinic 111 race went to Lenard Archer (ACD Welkom Honda Type R), followed by Kobus Brits (Pragma Polo) and Adrian Dalton (Xtra Clothing Golf 1).
Archer won race two as well, leading home Dalton and Francois Henning (Selectreg.co.za Polo).
Lenard Archer (ACD Welkom Huyndai Getz) took the opening Car Care Clinic SuperHatch race from Francois Henning (Selectreg.co.za Polo) and Devon Piazza-Musso (Hot 102.7 Polo).
Henning took race two, leading home Archer and Piazza-Musso. The first Lotus Challenge heat went to Thomas Falkiner (Taylon), leading home Rudi Barnard (Birkin) and David Coetzee (Birkin).
Falkiner failed to start race two, leaving Barnard to win from Mackie Adlem (Adlem Auto Birkin) and Andre Human (Adlem Auto Birkin).
Kobus Brits (Pragma Polo) won both the On The Track Clubmans races from Dirk Lawrence (JDM Tuning Honda Ballade) and Wayne Perrera (Grange Golf GTI).
Lawrence won race two, finishing ahead of Perrera and Brits.
On both occasions Deon du Plessis (BPT KTM X-Bow) won the Sports Car category, which started behind the Clubmans cars, from veteran Klippies Krige (Lotus Replica).
Devin Robertson (Big Boss Auto Legend) took the first Liqui Moly Inex Legend race from Jagger Robertson (Liqui Moly Legend) and Gerhard Roux (Inex Legend).
Both races two and three went to
Jagger Robertson, from Roux and Tyler Robertson (AF
Fans Legend). The next round of this year’s Inland Extreme Festival will be held at the Free
State Phakisa Raceway on Saturday, 10
September.