It took four rounds and eight races for the Toyota GR Cup to produce an on-track battle that is going to be hard to topple for the rest of the season.
And this four-way scrap in Race 2 at Aldo Scribante Raceway in Gqeberha last Saturday wasnt even for a place on the podium. It was just a good honest tussle between four of the six motoring reporters that applied all their learnings from the first part of the season to put up an exhibition for the ages.
Watch Toyota GR Cup videoThe day started in familiar fashion with runaway leader Sean Nurse ( AutoTrader ) securing pole position during qualifying for Race 1, followed by Alex Shahini ( Carmag ) and The Citizen Motoring . Hannes Visser ( Lat Wiel ), Kumbi Mtshakazi ( Kumbi-M on Cars ), Toyota exec John Thomson and Bernie Hellberg ( Driven ) completing the grid.
Nurse went on secure his seventh win in seven Toyota GR Cup starts, followed by Visser, Shahini, The Citizen , Mtshakazi, Hellberg and Thomson. Despite finishing the first outing in last place, Thomsons vast racing experience paid off and he put up the second fastest lap behind Nurse to secure P2 on the grid for the second race.
Visser started third, followed by Shahini, Hellberg and Mtshakazi. The Citizen Motoring was dead last in seventh.
