Hot weather, great spectacle at 2026 Regional Extreme Festival opening round

Hot weather, great spectacle and lots of really close racing boded well for this year’s inland circuit racing on Saturday, when the Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria hosted round one of the 2026 Regional Extreme Festival.

Heading up proceedings were two races for Digit FMS 111 GT and Class X cars.

The first GT heat went to Lenard Archer (ACD Welkom BMW E90 335i), leading home Jared Rossouw (AXON Sparx VW Polo), Marius Truter (Strategic Gear & Diff VW Polo) and Mark du Toit (Trans Africa BMW Z4M).