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This Toyota Gazoo Racing Week 33 is a golden one for South African motorsport, highlighted by major international race wins for Kelvin van der Linde in the German Touring Car championship and Steven Odendaal on two in World Supersport.

Kelvin van der Linde became the first DTM German Touring Car double winner of the season as he consolidated his title advantage with another lights-to-flag win off pole position at Zolder on Saturday. Kelvin beat Audi teammate Mike Rockenfeller and Red Bull F1 refugee Alex Albon’s Ferrari to victory. Little brother Sheldon van der Linde had a tougher day to end 14th in his BMW M6. Sheldon bounced back to beat Kelvin to seventh on Sunday as Marco Wittmann’s BMW took the win. 

Steven Odendaal rode his Yamaha to another victory over Manuel Gonzalez in the opening World Supersport race at Most with championship rival Dominique Agerter fourth. Odendal then delivered a brilliant comeback to end up second behind Aegerter's Yamaha on Sunday. Another SA rider Sheridan Morais was 15th on Saturday but had a tough Sunday. Toprak Razgatlioglu’s Yamaha scored a double Czech World Superbike win before Scott Redding’s Ducati took the final race.

SA hero Brad Binder delivered a splendid race to fourth from 16th on the Styrian MotoGP grid on his KTM. Jorge Martin's Pramac Ducati won the race restarted after a fiery incident from Joan Mir’s Suzuki and Yamaha man Fabio Quartararo. Younger Binder brother Darryn made best of a brave decision to start a damp Moto3 race on slick tyres to come home sixth on his Honda. Pedro Acosta’s KTM took the Moto3 win and Valentino Rossi protege Marco Bezzecchi won Moto2. 

In other international racing, former F1 driver Marcus Ericsson survived an airborne shunt en route to his second IndyCar win in Nashville ahead of Scott Dixon and James Hinchcliffe. Felipe Nasr and Pipo Derani’s Corvette took the Road America IMSA sports car win from Oliver Jarvis and Harry Tincknell’s Mazda and Kyle Larson took another step toward 2021 NASCAR Cup title with another win over Chase Elliott and Martin Truex Jr. in a Toyota.

Closer to home, the weekend’s Cape regional races were reduced to one heat per class at a foggy Killarney. Class A, B and C Championship leaders Jurie Swart, Eden Thompson and overall leader Kyle Wiltshire consolidated their respective cheapercars GTi Challenge title advantages with race wins. Nian du Toit led a BMW 1-2-3 over Faizel Coetzee and Imaad Modack in the new Thunder Saloon Class.

Another BMW man Nieyaaz Modack beat Alex Johnson’s Audi and Mansoor Parker’s BMW in Mike's Place Clubmans, while Fabio Tafani came back from a first turn slip to beat Rui Campos and Sean Moore to the V8 Masters win as Richard Scheuder took Silver honours. Glen Phillips beat Silver class winner Alton Steyn to Makita Supercars honours and Franco Donadio’s wieldy Ford Escort beat Michael Hitchcock’s Mustang and Charles Arton’s Datsun 240 Z to the SDC Classic Car win. 

Dee-Jay Booysen won a red flagged Formula Libre race from Byron Mitchell and Class B winner James Beaumont. Josh Broome's Radical took Sports & GT from Steve Humble’s Mallock and Gary Kieswetter in a Porsche. On two wheels, Kawasaki trio Kewyn Snyman defeated Slade van Niekerk and Trevor Westman in the increasingly popular Powersport Motorcycles. Wayne Arendse’s Kawasaki beat Zobair Adams’s Yamaha and Nasief Smart on a Suzuki to the Clubmans bike win. 

Gauteng Rotax Max karting returned to Zwartkops for Rand Kart Club meeting, where Niko Zafiris took a maiden DD2 win over Nick Verheul and race 3 winner Wayland Wyman. Muhammad Wally, Kian Grottis and Wian Boshoff scored triple wins in Senior, Junior and Mini Max respectively. Reagile Mailula beat heat winners Cristian Verheul and Rafael da Silva to Micro Max honours and Matthew Shuttleworth did the same over Santi Frade and Maddox Mason in baby Bambino.