This coming weekend, April 12, 2025, the Laude Classic Car category will compete in round 3 of the WPMC Lime property management Powerseries. With the seasons slowly changing and the temperatures slowly dropping around this time of the year, lap times are likely to be affected, especially among the top contenders, resulting in the competition getting hotter.
Class A is slightly thin, with Michael Hitchcock (Cross Cape Forklift Services Mustang V8) heading up the class A field together PW Louw (PWL Konsult RX7) and Louis Powell (Engine Hero Ford Escort Mk1). With Michael knocking on the door of a class breakout during the last event, this could be a tight one up front, keeping Louw and Powell at bay.
Class B should offer some exciting racing between Trevor Momberg (M&E Auto/All Scale Ford Capri V6) and Jared Evans (Cape Eye Laser Ford Capri V6) along with dad, Brian Evans, in his rapid Kent-engined (Cape Eye Laser Ford Escort Mk1). Not to be outdone, Ferdi Mouton (Cross Cape Forklift Services Mustang V8) will keep his fellow competitors honest as he has something to show these feisty lot. Old stalwart Robin Forbes (Corvette Stingray) will make a welcomed return and add some V8 muscle car action, while Bruce Avern-Taplin (Toyota Corolla) and Wayne Rosser (Mk2 Golf GTi) will complete the class B lineup.
Class C is where anything can happen on the day and will see the beautifully prepared RX7 of Jan Koekemoer, along with fellow competitors Theo Claassen (Yesterday’s Heros Nissan Skyline), Charles Arton is immaculate Porsche 914, Deon Conradie (Flat Four Racing Toyota Conquest RSi), Wayne Lotter (Lotspeed Ford Escort Mk1), Jaco Oosthuizen (Ravenol/GT Wraps Toyota Conquest) and Rob Rowe (BMW) filling up the field.
Class D has a great lineup of entries with Grant Fourie (DGG Laser Designs Golf GTi Mk2) taking up the challenge to Robert Senekal (EMI Group Ford Escort Mk1), Stephen Manual (SLJ Auto Body Centre Nissan Skyline), Jacques Blom (Speed Bandit Cosworth Sapphire), Dave Rowly (Flat 4 racing VW Beetle) and Malcolm Pheiffer (Intellibus Alfa GTAm). Expect to see some good dices among this class.
Class E is headed up by Mister Ever Consistent, Calvin Beekman, in his well-prepared Rob Tissington Morris Minor with Germain Bedien (Bedien racing Datsun 1200 GX) giving chase in class.
Class X, which is reserved for all new driver/car combinations before being allocated to a class after posting an official lap time, will see some interesting machines taking to the track. Many may have forgotten the big ‘Yellow Banana’ (Ford Fairlane) formerly raced by Ferdi van Niekerk Jnr in the Legends category of Peter du Toit who has decided to take off the covers and again take to the track and hopefully put on a great show for the spectators. Not to be outdone in the big boys’ club, Boet van Zyl in his 5.8-liter V8 (Fairmont GT) will also make his debut in this immaculately prepared beast. One for the books must be the change in the father-son duo line up of Trevor and Layne Hutchings who have swapped cars with Trevor now behind the wheel of the previously raced Layne Hutchings’ Pre-90 HSC Racing Mk2 Golf, making his debut. At the same time, Layne takes over the office seat of the previously raced HSC Racing Jeigermeister Scirocco Mk1 of his father. Not to be outdone in the Scirocco lineup, keep an eye out for the new driver/car combination of Ian Richards, who will also be out for the first time in an immaculately built Berg Cup Scirocco Mk1. JP Engelbrecht in his 1600 Escort Mk1 will also debut as well as old stalwart Trevor Fisk, who will race on invitation in his 16 valve Ford Escort Mk1. Daniel Lotter (Globetrotter Industries Ford Escort Mk2) while Shaun Bester 1275 (Bestune Fabrication Leyland Mini) will complete the class X brigade.
