South Africa’s karting champions have descended on the Bahrain International Karting Circuit where they’re preparing to take on the best in the world when the 25th annual ‘Rotax Max Olympics of Karting’ Grand Final goes down from 29 November to 6 December.
Volkswagen Motorsport starred at the season-ending Zwartkops Top of the Hill climb over the weekend. Jonathan Mogotsi and Bradley Liebenberg delivered a giant-killing act to end up third and fourth in the Modified Class against far more powerful and exotic machinery, while the Volkswagen Rookie Cup Media Challenge thrilled to deliver an unexpected result.
The Thabazimbi Northam Zondereinde Bushveld 400, final round of the South African Rally-Raid Championship, proved another successful outing for Red-Lined Motorsport over the weekend. Red-Lined built machinery took a class win, five podiums and clinched two championships in a rewarding end to the 2025 season. Eleven of the team’s thirteen locally built race machines that started the event went on to finish to give Red-Lined an impressive 85% finishing rate.
The final round of the Hard Enduro World Championship (HEWC) Series, the iconic Roof of Africa, concluded on Saturday 22 November, with a stunning blend of high-octane racing, navigational drama, and a triumphant new champion being crowned the "King of the Roof." The challenging three-day event in the Maloti Mountains of Lesotho delivered a spectacular finale to the 2025 HEWC season.
Everest Wealth Ridgeway Yamaha Racing with Tork Craft and Dunlop closed its National Cross Country motorcycle championship season with an exceptional outing at the Carousel resort finals near Hammanskraal in the Northwest on Saturday. The Yamaha team, which returned to Cross Country Racing after a sabbatical of several years, totally dominated to clinch championships in the three Junior classes it raced in 2025 with a Masters second and a splendid fight back to third overall over the weekend too.
Everest Wealth Ridgeway Yamaha Racing with Tork Craft and Dunlop heads to the Carousel resort near Hammanskraal in the Northwest for the South African Cross Country motorcycle championship finals. But it’s not leaving anything to gamble. With three of its Juniors leading their title chases and most of the Seniors on the podium or thereabouts, the focus is purely on racing this weekend.
The South African Rotax Max Challenge karting season came to a scintillating close with the final round Western Province championships at a warm Killarney on Saturday. An entertaining day of racing ended with a delighted Matthew Wadeley crowned the Cape DD2 champion while Jarred Jordan took the Masters crown and Luca Wehrli the Senior Max title. Sebastiano Human emerged Junior Max champion while Max Boshoff topped Mini, Yaqeen Gamieldien Micro Max and Divaaj Govender is WP Bambino champion.
The 2025 Northern Regions Extreme Festival circuit racing season presented by Coca-Cola came to a spectacular end at the Zwartkops Raceway finale on Saturday. After another epic day of action, Warren Lombard emerged as the 2025 Dunlop V8 Supercars champion, Adriaan de Beer topped the ATE VW Challenge and Hein van der Merwe did the BMW M Performance Parts Series double. Wouter Roos emerged ACD Welkom 111 GT and Saloon champion to join the already crowned DOE Formula Vee double champion, Lendl Jansen.
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