Aldo Scribante crowd are treated to a feast of GT car racing
Spectacular racing and unexpected winners entertained a large crowd at the Eastern Cape Aldo Scribante circuit on Saturday.
Top billing belonged to the Global Touring contingent, with 16 cars on the entry list.
Current points leader Saood Variawa (Gazoo Toyota) won the opening race from Robert Wolk (Chemical Logistics Toyota), Julian van der Watt (Investchem BMW), Michael van Rooyen (Gazoo Toyota), Andrew Rackstraw (Sparco Golf GTi) and Josh le Roux ( Vitro Frameless Audi).
Wolk won race two, chased to the flag by Variawa, Van Rooyen, Van der Watt and Nathi Msamanga (Gazoo Toyota).
Keegan Campos (Veloce Automobile SupaPolo) took both the SupaCup races ahead of Bradley Liebenberg (Hyper Energy SupaPolo), Jonathan Mogotsi (VW Motorsport SupaPolo) and Arnold Neveling (Goscor SupaPolo).
The day’s quickest lap time came in the opening G&H Transport Extreme Super Car race.
Silvio Scribante (Cemza Scribante Lamborghini Huracan) set it at 57.625 seconds en route to the race victory.
He was followed, on both occasions, by Jonathan du Toit (TAR Lamborghini Huracan), Charl Arangies (Stradale Mercedes AMG), Franco Scribante (Porsche 997) and Aldo Sribante (Scribante Concrete Lamborghini Huracan).
Universal Motorsport youngster Charl Visser took the opening CompCare Polo Cup race, leading home Anthony Pretorius (Bucketlist Polo), Nathan Victor (Summit Polo), Jason Loosemore (Security Fencing Polo) and Giordano Lupini (Tork Craft Polo).
Race No 2 (40mins), also went to Visser, ahead of Pretorius. They were followed by Lupini, Dawie van der Merwe (Nathan’s Polo) and Victor.
Julian Familiaris (Lube Net Corvette)) took the fi rst Mobil 1 V8 Supercar race from Franco di Matteo (Laude Jaguar), Thomas Reib (Agri Super Chevrolet), Mackie Adlem ( Adlem Auto Jaguar) and Larry Wilford (Fuchs Ford Falcon).
Reib won the next time out, ahead of Adlem, Di Matteo, Familiaris and Bevan Shwartz (Mobil 1 Ford).
Troy Dolinschek (Sujean Mygale) won the opening Investchem F1600 race from Jason Coetzee (Mint Mygale), Nicholas van Weely (Magnificent Paints Van Diemen) and Gerard Geldenhuys (Abacus Mygale).
The second race order was Dolinschek, Coetzee, Van Weely and Antwan Geldenhuys.
The first Sunbet ZX10 Masters Cup race went to smooth -riding Jayson Lamb (Max 4 ZX10), finishing ahead of Trevor Westman (Wayward ZX10), Greame van Breda (Stefanutti Stocks ZX10) and Brian Bontekoning (Jaguar Power ZX10).
Westman won the next time around, followed by Lamb, Van Breda, Pieter de Vos (Jongingozi ZX10) and Bontekoning.
The Gazoo Cup Yaris race went to Sa’aad Variawa, ahead of Karah Hill and Bjorn Bertholdt, while Setshaba Mashogo took the 86 class from Dennis Droppa and Mark Jones.