Race 1
Both Mark and du Toit made good starts leaving Mark in 2nd place down the back straight. Mark not able to push du Toit and it stayed like this until the safety car came out on lap 3. At the restart the lack of power saw Brett Garland and Andre de Lange surge past relegating Mark to 4th. De Lange got past Garland to take 2nd. This is how it stayed to the end.

Race 2
It is usual practice to invert the top 5, by class, for the second race, this saw Mark again 2nd on the grid. Mark really struggled off the line at the start and was passed by several cars going into turn 2. By the back straight Mark was down in 5th place and losing ground on the leaders. It was obvious that there was a problem and post-race Mark reported that the clutch has slipped from the start right into turn 2 and was then slipping out of each corner. Mark made the best of a bad situation and eventually got past Hilton van Nieuwenhuizen to take 4th, which is where he finished.

Mark was, understandably, disappointed that the car was not performing to his high expectations but accepted that things like this do happen in motorsport.

Team manager Gary Silverwood was less phlegmatic and took full responsibility for the badly prepared car. “This is our worst result in the last 5 years and the team will go flat out to ensure that the car is fully prepared for the next event”

The next round of SuperHatch racing will be at Zwartkops on 21 March.