The large crowd that turned out to watch eleven hours on non-stop racing action were treated to a masterful performance in the Klinicare PE 200 Motorcycle Endurance race when 17 year old Paarl based rider Tristin Pienaar announced his arrival to the big time in dominant fashion on Saturday. From the moment the lights went out to start the 40 lap endurance event around the 2.48 kilometre circuit the large crowd knew that they were in for something special. Riding a 600cc Yamaha R6 against a whole bunch of 1000cc machines, Pienaar stamped his authority on the race to come home in first place to claim the Woolavington Cup by a winning margin of 26 seconds from Jacques Ackermann on a Kawasaki ZX10 in second and Pienaar’s father Clinton and his partner Hilton Redelinghuys on a Ducati 1098 in third.

When interviewed Pienaar had the following to say “the magnitude of winning the oldest race in the country and getting my name engraved onto the massive Woolavington Cup hasn’t set in yet, but to be sharing the podium with my dad who finished third with Hilton has to be the best feeling in the world”. 

The PE 100 podium positions all went to out-of-town visitors with Max Munton on the top step of the podium alongside Abigail Bosson in second and Keegan Wasserfall in third. Local lad Ethan Diener put in an impressive display to finish in fourth place overall just 28 seconds behind race winner Munton. Diener, riding a KTM 390 finished second in the index of performance with a score of 91.64% with local lass Jessica Vermaak third with 90.83%.

On four wheels there was no stopping Nick Davidson who certainly enjoyed his action packed raceday firstly by debuting his little Ford Escort and mixing it up with a couple of powerful V8’s in the Bennett Plumber Coastal Challenge that saw 30 Classic & historic cars take to the circuit, then taking overall honours in the Celso Scribante Memorial 3 Hour Endurance Race supported by Syrabix. Davidson shared the 3 Hour drive with his Red Bull Air Racing brother Patrick and they produced a masterful performance winning the race by 5 laps to claim their fourth win in the 3 hour race. Hennie Trollip & Jimmy Dunn returned to Scribante with their impressive Lotus 7 and finished in second overall and first in the Lotus class with Stephan Aucamp & Henco Booysen coming home in third in a BMW E36. Trollip & Dunn also won the index of performance award with a score of 94.65%, narrowly beating the Davidson brothers who scored 94.10% with Aucamp & Booysen on 93.84%.

In the sprint races for the historics & classics Rudolf de Vos came out with guns blazing to take the overall as well as class A win in his very quick Chevrolet Firenza Can-Am as he continues to be unbeaten so far this season and he’ll hoping to continue his impressive form at the upcoming Border 100 in East London on the 9^th December. The overall Bennett Plumbers Coastal Challenge Championship went the way of Darryn Vice in his Ford Anglia who was just points behind Rane Berry in his Nissan Skyline going into this event. Berry was plagued by differential issues during qualifying and started on the back foot but was just not quick enough to catch to nimble little Anglia. Chris Nell in his Ford Capri Perana won class A in the championship, Vice won class C (and overall), Rob Halgreen in his Ford Escort won class D and Barry Spriggs in his Ford Anglia won class E.

The VW Rookie Cup Championship ended on Saturday with young Capetonian Kyle Visser winning the title and the coveted prize of a full VW backed factory drive in CompCare PoloCup for next season.