There was drama aplenty at a wet WesBank Super Series finale at Kyalami on Satruday in Johanensburg.

Championships went all the way to the final races of the season with persistent showers throughout the day, far from putting a damper on proceedings, doing their bit to add to the drama. The day was littered with stand out performances but, at the end of the day, it was Sheridan Morais and veterans Hennie Groenewald and Anthony Taylor who walked away with the individual honours.

Morais was responsible for the slice of South African motorsport history while Groenewald and Taylor were involved in nail biting championship finishes. When he won the first heat of the Interfile SA Superbike championship the pint sized Morais, on the Emtek Racing Kawasaki, became the first rider to win both the SA Superbike and Interfile SA Supersport championships in the same season.

Morais also made a little international history. His double makes him the first rider since the great Freddie Spencer in the 80's to win world or national championship titles in two different categories.

Morais wrapped up the Supersport title earlier in the season and en route set a world record 13 victories in a row. Going into the final meeting Morais held a 24 point lead over veteran Lance Isacs, on the PS Honda, who was the only rider in with a mathematical chance of sneaking the championship. Morais then put the issue beyond doubt with a calculated ride that gave him the win ? and the title - ahead of Isaacs.

A great ride saw Robert Portman, on the second Emtek Kawasaki, take the final podium position ahead of Greg Gildenhuys (Race Nation Honda) and Jullien Odendaal on the Mitsubishi Electric Suzuki. Gildenhuys, involved in an early skirmish with Clinton Seller (BMG Yahama), and Odendaal picked up last lap places when Team Yamaha riders Shawn Whyte and Chris Leeson both contrived to crash on the final lap.

With the championship issue settled race officials decided to cancel the second Superbike race when a heavy downpour made conditions too dangerous to race. Morais decided not to compete in the Supersport races with the wins going to Clinton Seller and Ronan Quarmby.

Seller, standing in for the injured Dylan White on the White Aluminium Yamaha, edged out Eddie Alberts (Race Nation Honda) and Ronan Quarmby (Interfile/Gallardo Yamaha) in a highly competitive race. An assured Quarmby then produced a flawless display, in tricky conditions, to win the second heat ahead of Jacques Peskens (PS Honda) and Bjorn Estment (NFB Yamaha) who took his first ever podium place.

In the closest possible finish to a championship Anthony Taylor (Afrox BMW 330) won the Bridgestone Production Car title on a count out from defending champion Johan Fourie in the Indy Oil Audi A4. Fourie arrived at Kyalami with a nine point lead but a disastrous first heat was a body blow for the Capetonian.

Taylor finished second behind Melville Priest (VMP Audi A4), with team-mate Robert Wolk third, to take a two point lead into the final race. A wet track and light drizzle all looked to have conspired against Taylor, in the two-wheel drive BMW, with all the advantages lying with the four-wheel drive brigade.

Dawie Olivier (Sasol Subaru) never put a wheel wrong to romp to victory ahead of an impressive Leeroy Poulter (SAM Racing/GP Windscreens Nissan 350Z) in another two-wheel drive car. Fourie was third, Shawn Watson-Smith (XtremeTeam Audi) fourth and Taylor fifth.

The upshot was a tie on points between Fourie and Taylor. During the season the pair each picked up three wins, and the title eventually went to Taylor who finished the season with five second places to Fourie?s three.

There was also a dramatic end to the Class T title chase. Gary Formato (Ford Racing Nando?s Ford Focus) started the day a single point ahead of arch rival Graeme Nathan in the Indy Oil VW Golf GTi. When Nathan romped away with the first heat the balance of power had shifted.

The second race was a disaster for Nathan and an early coming together put him out of the running on lap one. That left the way clear for Formato to romp away with the race and the title.

There was more last race drama to come when Groenewald, after looking dead and buried at the halfway mark of the season, completed a remarkable comeback to lift his fourth successive WesBank V8 Supercar championship from under the nose of Marc Auby. Young Auby led to championship almost from the word go but a resurgent Groenewald whittled the gap down to five points going into the Kyalami shootout.

Groenewald (Team Timken Jaguar) then held on to win the first heat, in wet conditions, from Auby and his younger brother, Brandon, with both in ELT International Jaguars. Jaco Correia (Liqui Moly Chev Corvette) and Franco di Matteo (Varta Batteries Jaguar) were fourth and fifth.

The second heat, from an inverted grid, was a winner take all scenario in atrocious conditions. Groenewald then produced an astonishing performance by going from ninth on the grid to first at the end of lap one. After building up an early cushion Groenewald then ran into tyre problems and was slowly hauled in by the two Aubys. The turning point came two laps from the end when Marc Auby spun and dropped to third behind brother Brandon. That sealed matters for Groenewald who won three of the last four races to edge past Auby in the title stakes. Fourth in race two was Mackie Adlem (Jaguar) with Deon Auby (ELT Holden), father of the two Auby boys, in fifth place.

The final championship to be wrapped up saw Mathew Hodges take the Engen VW Cup title ahead of Gennaro Bonafede. A race one win and third in race two were enough to see Hodges (PG Glass VW Polo) edge out Bonafede (Champion VW Polo) and teenager Devin Robertson in another Champion VW Polo. Hodges took race one ahead of Bonafede and Kieran Quarmby in the Interfile/Gallardo VW Polo. Engen VW Cup veteran Miguel Pasqualli romped away with the second heat ahead of Robertson and Hodges.

Jayde Kruger (Motul/First Freight FVW) had the Formula Volkswagen title in the bag prior to today?s meeting. The race one win went to Wesleigh Orr (Global/Bravo Holdings FVW) ahead of the impressive Tasmin Pepper (PG Glass/VW Racing FVW) and Tschops Sipuka in the Southern Sun Oakley FVW. Orr was a second heat casualty with Simon Moss (Southern Sun/Oakley FVW) scoring his first win ahead of Sipuka and Kruger.

Dakar Rally winner Giniel de Villiers won both VW Citi Celebrity races to celebrate 25 years of Volkswagen Motorsport. A multiple SA circuit racing champion before turning to off road, de Villiers won race one ahead of Sarel van der Merwe and Terry Moss.

Supervan and Moss then had a huge coming together in race two. That saw de Villiers lead home former SA rally champions Glyn Hall and Geoff Mortimer.

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