Garth Waberski was in different galaxy compared to the other drivers as he won both races of the Nissan V6 powered  Vodacom Sports Prototype championship at round seven of the Vodacom Power Tour heald at East London’s Mercedes Benz Grand Prix circuit.

It was a gritty drive from the Dache Imports backed driver as a gearbox problem in qualifying forced him to start at the back of the grid in each race.

In doing so, he has virtually assured himself of the Vodacom Sports Prototype championship, especially after his only real threat, Francois Gerber (Autohaus) had two poor results after a huge practice shunt on Friday afternoon forced him to miss qualifying.

Practice also cost Jonathan Finch valuable seat time after a harmless spin turned into disaster when Ben Havenga drove into him, this after a number of other cars had managed to go around the stranded S21 car.

Melvill Priest had no problems whatsoever and took pole comfortably from Alan Eve (Powerseal Gaskets) while Ruan Pretorius (John abbot Motorsport/Nusol) headed row two ahead of reigning champion Neil Lobb (DK Woodcraft). Alan Green (DK Office) bounced back from a high speed practice off to line up fifth with Richard Benningfield ,014 sec slower.

From the start Waberski set off on his mission and it only took a lap and a half for him to pass 12 cars and take the lead. From then onwards the race was his and he cruised to 7.8 second win.

After Eve spun his chances away, Lobb got second when Priest retired with a puncture, evidently a sharp piece of kerb was slicing through tyres fitted to VSP and Wesbank V8s with alarming regularity. Pretorius went out with a gearbox problem and this allowed Green in third, his best ever result, while Gerber clawed his way to fourth ahead of Rui Campos (Carrera/Boltt) and Franz Pretorius (Nusol/John Abbott Motorsport), also his best result.