Summarize

There’s no rest for the wicked, they say, as Killarney hosted the round 3 of the Western Cape Rotax Max Regional karting challenge just a week after the Vereeniging Nationals. With strong fields chasing the quarter-National points on the table, large fields were the order of the day, which paid very well for dominant winners in most classes.

Jason Coetzee continued his imperious form from last week’s Vereeniging National to deliver a triple win over the duelling Sebastian Boyd and Joseph Oelz and take premier DD2 honours. Matthew Wadeley was best of the rest from Anwil April, Ethan Stier and Tony Auby.

An exception on a day of domination, the Rotax DD2 Masters entertained all the way. Former Durbanite Jonathan Pieterse, Jared Jordan and Conor Huges shared out the wins, but it was Pieterse who took the day from Hughes and Jordan in the end. Brother Michael Jordan beat ex-V8 racer Jimmy Auby in the battle for fourth.

Rotax Senior Max was the other exception. William Marshall won two races to Charl Visser’s one to take the day. They left Luca Wehrli to edge Jude Stuart, Jordon Wadeley and Keagan Beaumont for third, with Jesse Swart next ahead of the returning Storm Lanfear in eighth from Matthew Carter and Reece Ward, off a packed 12-kart grid.

It was a day of the triples across the board in the school kid classes, however. Sebastiano Human once again sped home to win all three high school Junior Max heats. Aiden Beaumont was best of the rest from Michael Danks, newcomers Raffaele Musso and Andrew Retter, Ashaan Reddi, Zach McAuley, and Troy Pieterse.

Max Boshoff was imperious in under-13 Rotax Mini Max. He stormed to a hat trick of wins to claim the top step of the podium. He left Jayden van der Merwe to second from, Liam Wharton, Zac Hindley, Kiaan Reddi, newcomer Jose Slamet, Qaaint Doudie, Zac Boshoff, Justin Milleskie and Mia Hermanus in a huge 15-kart pack.

Logan Roehrig dominated an otherwise most competitive at Rotax Micro Max day. Yaqeen Gamieldien and Radhi Harris fought it out for the second in the under-11 pack from Michael O’Mahoney, Jake Steyn, Caleb Lingeveldt, Slater Smith, Ebrahim Khalpey and Lehan Fourie.

Divaaj Govender continued his Cape baby Bambino domination with another triple. Emelee Adriaans and Ashlyn Beaumont fought it out and tied for second as Adriaans took the second place trophy on a count back to the first race second place. Aleena Doutie was just a point behind in fourth from Ryder Roehrig and Yaseen Pilay. 

“Rotax Max karting  is enjoying something of a purple patch in South Africa in 2025,” Rotax South African karting boss Ed Murray concluded. “We used to be content with this many entries at national level and now we have record fields in Cape regionals.” 

It’s a three week break for the WP gang before round 4 back at Killarney, the same day that a Gauteng Northern Regions round happens up at Zwartkops. Round 3 of the 2025 Rotax Max South African Nationals follows at iDube in KZN, Saturday 14 June.