Aldo Scribante Raceway gears up for bumper weekend

Local motorsport enthusiasts are in for a treat next weekend as Algoa Motorsport Club readies itself to host one of their biggest motorsport weekends of the year with a wide variety of classes converging on the 2.480 kilometre that celebrates its 50th anniversary later this year on the 29th November.

Pictured: Featured Ford: Chris Nell put his well-prepared Capri through its paces at Scribante.  
Picture credit: Darryl Kukard

A host of different classes will taking part in what promises to be an action packed affair catering for all petrol heads. Leading out the charge will be the API Property Group backed GTI Challenge for VW’s that is considered to be the closest thing to “war-on-wheels” and is the fiercest and most competitive saloon car class in the country with a broad mix of drivers from experienced national competitors to rookies mixing it up in three different classes dependant on engine power output. Primarily a club class based at Killarney International Raceway in Cape Town this series is guaranteed to have the Scribante crowds on the edge of their seats with their bumper to bumper and door to door racing. Hoping for a good weekend on his home circuit will be local multi-talented racing driver Jeandre Marais who along with Summit Racing team mate Nathan Victor will be competing in class A for cars that produce a maximum of 163 kilowatts of power. 

The penultimate round of the VW Rookie Cup Interprovincial Championship for young go-kart stars stepping up to saloon car racing and all driving matching VW Polo’s is another welcome addition to the race program. Durban’s Dhivyen Naidoo has a narrow four point lead over Judd Bertholdt with Gqberha karting ace Josh Moore currently in fourth place in the championship standings.

Ford & Friends is certain to be one of the highlights of the weekend in what is set to be a North versus South battle of the Escorts as Cape Town based Franco Donadio in his lightning fast Mk1 Cosworth Escort will be hoping for a change of fortunes after having not finished a race in his four previous visits to Aldo Scribante Raceway. He will have his hands full against local favourite Nick Davidson in his recently reworked Mk1, East London’s Wayne “Tiny” Botha in his immaculately built Mk1, Cape Town’s Brian Evans and Louis Powell in their Mk1’s and the local Mk2 Escorts of Barry Spriggs, Tiaan Kleinhans, Carl Fantham and Ron Scott.

This event is also sixth round of the Algoa Motorsport Club Regional Championship so all of the familiar classes will be catered for with regional modified saloons, Stu Davidson & Sons Coastal Challenge for historic, classic, retro and open-top cars, open motorcycles and CBR 150 motorcycles. Drivers from East London who will be joining in the mix of modified saloons in their BMW E36’s are Shaun Gradwell, Mark Els and regular visitor Paul Berry who will have their work cut out keeping up with Cape Town’s Niaan du Toit who has what is probably the fastest BMW in the country at present.

Adding to the mix will be the Masterdrive Classics, the Boxer Group Classic Automotive Parts sponsored All Fords Allcomers Race and the Thermo Fire Clubman cars

With entries for this event closing on Monday 9th it seems that there will be approximately 60 entries from out of town that will be participating in what will be a motor racing day of epic proportions, rounded off by the Origen Oil sponsored 45 Minute Endurance car race for all-comers.

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