NORTHERN REGIONS RMC CHAMPIONS CROWNED

RMC SA THRILLS with Brilliant Rotax Max kart racing at both Zwartkops and Killarney

Rotax Max Challenge karting was on regional double duty on Saturday. The sixth and final Gauteng round crowned the 2025 Northern Regions champions at a wet and slippery and Zwartkops in Pretoria, while the Cape Rotax crowd caught up with a rain date for their cancelled August round 6 in splendid spring conditions in its penultimate races at Killarney in Cape Town.

DD2 & DD2 MASTERS

Young guns Anwil April and Matthew Wadeley shared out the Cape Town DD2 wins to deliver a new look to the Killarney DD2 races over Tony Auby and the troubled Ethan Stier and Rafe Taylor. Jared Jordan took a dominant DD2 Masters win over Conor Huges, Michael Jordan, Jono Pieterse and Johan Hamman. While they did not race, Dusan Radojevic was crowned Northern Regions DD2 champion over KC Ensor-Smith and Bradley Liebenberg and Justin Rogers Masters champion.

Senior MAX

Zwartkops however delivered a splendid three-winner Senior Max show as final race winner Kent Swartz bounced back to take the day by a point to wrap up the title with the final win over first heat winner Jorden Moodley and the consistent Jonno Wilson. Tristan du Plessis ended fourth from middle race winner Tayla Scrimgeour and Gianna Pascoal. Jordon Wadeley benefited race 1 and 2 winner Charl Visser not starting the final race to win and take the Senior day from Keagan Beaumont, Jesse Swart, Luca Wehrli, Storm Lanfear and William Marshall off an impressive 12 kart grid at Killarney.

Junior MAX

Munsanje Mukosa shook up the Zwartkops high school Junior Max establishment to win the second and third heats to take the day from opening heat winner Cristian Verheul, Ruvan Maritz, Tshepang Shisinwana, Connor Macintyre and Reagile Mailula, who did enough to take the title in sixth, in an impressive 15-kart field. Sebastiano Human went unchecked down in the Cape from Michael Danks, Aiden Beaumont, Zach McAuley, Rafaelle Musso and Mikko Arries.

MINI MAX

Three second places were enough for Liam Wharton to take the Killarney under-13 Mini Max from Race 1 winner Michael O’Mahoney and race 2 and 3 winner Ruhan Victor. Jayden van der Merwe was fourth from Alanzo Dias and Justin Milleskie. Up at Zwartkops meantime, Declan Jurgens drove the day of his life to take the first and final heats to take the Mini Max win from middle race winner Rafael De Sousa, Kireev Chetty, Luhan De Wet, Christian Naidoo, and Diego Antunes. The absent Renaldo Koen had however already done enough to secure the title.

MICRO MAX

Adriaan Steyn beat second heat winner Luke du Toit two races to 1 to take the Zwartkops under 11 Micro Max day and the ’25 Northern title. Raidyn Reddy ended third from Callum du Toit, Aston Verheul, and Jordan Jurgens. Yaqeen Gamieldien meantime overcame a troubled second heat to win the other two races and take the day on a count back over middle race winner Jake Steyn, with Radhi Harris, Slater Smith, Lehan Fourie and Ebrahim Khalpey in chase.

BAMBINO

Alonzo de Oliveira dominated baby Bambino with a triple victory as he left Zwothe Magoda to fight Yerhu Malabie, Che Makhubele, Tyler Stanyer and Tiyani Malabie off for second on another encouraging Northern regions grid.

“Rotax Max has delivered another epic season of regional kart racing and we congratulate our Northern Regions Champions for 2025,” Rotax SA karting boss Ed Murray concludes. “The Western Cape champions will be crowned in a few weeks after more great racing at Killarney on Saturday, before it’s the big one, when the National Team heads to the Grand Finals. What a season!”

The Western Cape finale goes down on 8 November, before the National team heads to Bahrain for the 2025 Rotax Max ‘Olympics of Karting’ Grand Finals over the first week of December.