After an thrilling debut season final 12 months which noticed CAR journal’s digital editor Alex Shahini end second within the GR Cup media problem championship, the reigns have now been handed to our street check editor Kyle Kock for a brand new season! The motion kicks off at Killarney this weekend. 
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Kyle Kock will take to the GR Yaris for seven rounds within the 2025 Nationwide Excessive Pageant.
Stated Kyle Kock: “We have been all happy with Alex’s debut race season and his second place within the GR Cup media problem championship amidst stiff competitors. And although I head into the primary spherical of this 12 months’s problem at Killarney Worldwide Raceway with a home-ground benefit, there’s an immense weight in my shoulders as that is additionally my debut race season”
For the previous three years, drivers within the GR Cup media problem have loved the chance to drive completely different fashions within the Toyota GR mannequin vary; specifically the GR Yaris in 2022, the GR86 in 2023 and the GR Corolla in 2024. For 2025, Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa has earmarked the usage of the up to date new GR Yaris, with a newly developed 8-speed automated transmission and 12 kW and 40 N.m extra for this 12 months’s championship.
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Toyota’s promised that the self-shifting Yaris will arrive domestically by the tip of the primary quarter, which theoretically would make race-prepped variations accessible for the second spherical that occurs on 12 April at Kyalami. For the primary spherical at Killarney, Kyle and the remainder of the GR Cup media contingent will make use of the identical GR Yaris manuals that debuted in 2022 and have been serving on circuit since.
“Killarney, at simply 3.267 km isn’t a really lengthy circuit, with 9 turns that may be damaged down into simply 5 correct corners. However with its bumps, late apexes and even banking on flip 5, it will likely be a technical problem. I want the entire GR Cup discipline, together with the sellers racing the GR Corollas and personal entries within the GR86s, the entire absolute best for the opening spherical of the Excessive Pageant.”
You should purchase tickets to the Excessive Pageant, of which the GR Cup is an element, on the gate at Killarney Worldwide Raceway at 6 Potsdam Highway, Cape City for R150 per grownup and R50 for 12-16 12 months olds. Children beneath 12 enter totally free. Or buy on-line at Webtickets and pay simply R115 per grownup and R40 for 12-16-year-olds.
