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Home hero Julian van der Watt heads to Killarney’s sixth South African Touring Cars round in a 24 point championship advantage. Should he add another ten points to that tally, Julian will make the short drive home with a maiden SA Touring Car Championship in his pocket.

It’s never that easy however, as van der Watt well knows. So a good step forward will also suffice for the We Buy Cars Investchem WCT Volkswagen Golf GTI man. It’s an even simpler task in the SATC SupaCup, where Jason Loosemore carries a handy 41-point advantage to Killarney. Two more points added to that tally will clinch that title. A good bet, perhaps?

Both men must however first shake the targets off their back to get that job done. Van der Watt, for instance, has rookie teammate KC Ensor-Smith as his closest rival. The African Heating Investchem WCT Volkswagen Golf GTI youngster will be pining for another win since his debut victory in the very first race of the season at Killarney.

Ensor-Smith’s major concern is in his mirrors. Fellow rookie, and now double reverse grid race winner Jason Coetzee and his Gazoo Toyota Corolla teammate, champion Michael van Rooyen are breathing down his neck. And late starter Keegan Campos closing in rapidly on them all in his Veloce Campos Chemical Logistics FAST BMW 128ti.

Andrew Schofield is another 2026 race winner in his FlySafair Chemical Logistics FAST BMW 128ti fifth. But multiple former South African Touring champion Robert Wolk is perhaps the greatest threat to the championship frontrunners and ready to play interference as always in his Chemical Logistics WCT Volkswagen Golf GTI.

Moving on to the all-Volkswagen SupaPolo SATC SupaCup, it should be a formality for former Astron Energy Polo Cup champion Loosemore to wrap it up in his Renegade Nathans SupaPolo. His Polo Cup champion successor Rory Atkinson, Union Power Energy lad Judd Bertholdt, Niko Zafiris, Nicholas Vostanis, Paulo and Rick Loureiro and Jared Rossouw may however have other ideas. So as they say, it’s not over, ‘til it’s over…

South African Touring Cars and SupaCup are among the star attractions of a full  National Extreme Festival roadshow in Cape Town on Saturday. See you at Killarney!