Extreme Festival Presented By Coca-Cola At Zwartkops Raceway

Extreme action at Zwartkops as racing lights up the night

The past weekend’s (16-17 May) Extreme Festival Presented By Coca-Cola at Zwartkops Raceway saw the tour’s regional roster entertain a sizeable Pretoria crowd with an exhilarating racing programme that continued past sunset. The headline race of the day was the 2025 ATS Motorsport Zwartkops 200. The two series that made up the field for this endurance race, the Ferro Energia 111/GT Sports & Saloons and SuperHatch categories, also started the day’s race programme with an eight-lap sprint. The race was… Read More

Louis Scholtz in his Car Care Clinic Honda Ballade won Saturday's Zwartkops 200 event, the season’s only endurance race for the Ferro Energia 111 Sports and Saloon Car category. Photograph: Paul Blackburn

Night-time spectacle, close racing and sizeable crowd at Regional Extreme Festival

Night-time spectacle, close racing and a sizeable crowd typified Saturday’s fourth round of the 2025 Regional Extreme Festival presented by Coco Cola at the Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria. Heading up proceedings was the annual Zwartkops 200 event, the season’s only endurance race for the Ferro Energia 111 Sports and Saloon Car category. The 84-lap race brought the great spectacle of night competition, plus the drama of pit stops against the clock to the event. Add close racing and unexpected winners,… Read More

Wayne Robb (Ford Focus ST) should be contender for podium places in Saturday’s Zwartkops 200 endurance race. Photograph: Dave Ledbitter

ATS Zwartkops 200 to feature at Extreme Festival round coming weekend

The Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria will host a round of the 2025 Regional Extreme Festival Presented by Coco Cola on Saturday, with the event to include one of inland competitors’ annual highlights. The highlight will be the ATS Zwartkops 200, the season’s only endurance race for Ferro Energia 111 GT Sports and Saloon Cars. The 200-kilometre race will include a mandatory three-minute pit stop, during which teams have to change at least one wheel on their cars, without the use… Read More

Action-till-late as Extreme Festival Presented by Coca-Cola returns to Zwartkops Raceway

Pretoria’s motorsport fans are in for an action-packed Extreme Festival Presented by Coca-Cola this coming weekend (16-17 May), with the racing set to continue until after the sun sets on Zwartkops Raceway. The action will continue until after dark because this event, featuring the Tour’s regional roster, will be headlined by the annual ATS Motorsport Zwartkops 200 endurance race, which will run into the early evening. Before that, however, the Ferro Energia 111 & GT Sports & Saloons, including SuperHatch… Read More

Regional Extreme season kicks off at a cloudy Zwartkops

The Extreme Festival Presented by Coca-Cola got its 2025 racing programme underway at an overcast Zwartkops Raceway on Saturday, 1 March. Despite threatening to fall all day, the rain stayed away until the day’s on-track action ended, much to the relief of the event officials, spectators and most of the competitors. It was a case of the rookie challenging the master at the front of the ATE VW Challenge filed. 16-year old Jayden Goosen (Ferro Energia/ AA Certified Pre-Owned VW… Read More

Thomas Reib (Café 9 Chev Lumina) and Warren Lombard (Pepboys Automotive Mustang) took turns to win the two respective V8 Supercar races. Photograph: Dave Ledbitter

Coco-Cola Regional Extreme Festival kicked off 2025 activities in fine style at Zwartkops

This year’s Coco-Cola Regional Extreme Festival kicked off its 2025 activities in fine style at the Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria on Saturday. Topping the programme in front of a sizeable crowd were two races for Ferro Energia 111 GT Sport and Saloon Cars. George Economides (Wealth Avenue VW Golf Turbo) won the opening race from Mark du Toit (TAR BMW Z4), Marius du Plessis (Forklift Mining Nissan Primera), Wayne Robb (Ford Focus ST), Wouter Roos (Origen Oil Golf 7) and… Read More