The name VSP derives from “Vodacom Sports Prototype”, in recognition of the sponsor who had most generously funded the creation of the class, and supported it until the end of 2005. It was Vodacom who masterminded and funded the purchase and importation of 28 Shelby Can-Am open single-seater sports cars, and swopped , car for car, with the owners of cars in an existing local sports car class known as Sports 2000. Thus it was that overnight two new sports car classes were created, the VSP class and a development class for previously disadvantaged individuals using the Sports 2000 cars. This event was unprecedented in the annals of South African motor racing.