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2026 SEASON

SAES 6 HOURS OF KILLARNEY

1 AUGUST 2026

We welcomed the new look for the MJR Porsche 991.2 GT3R. It had a good first outing in Cape Town, a few bumps and bruises later but a P4 overall in the 1 Hour Dash. It’s now back to the workshop for some TLC then on to the next race.

Another successful weekend for Ian Howell and the MJR Motorsport customer program. P3 in Class A of the GT Cup Series and P11 overall in the 1 Hour Dash.

It wasn’t without its challenges. A number of incidents throughout the weekend kept the mechanics busy and unfortunately impacted our final results. But that’s racing—you take the good with the bad, learn from it, and come back stronger.

SAES 6H KILLARNEY

1 hour dash

P4

DRIVERS

marius jackson

 

car

Porsche 991.2 GT3R #81

gt cup

gt cup

1 hour dash

P3

p11

DRIVERS

ian howell

car

Porsche 992 gt3 cup #82

6H ABU DHABI

10 January 2026

6 hours. 3 drivers. 1 team. 24H Series — 6 Hours of Abu Dhabi,
What an experience. 
Our first international race and what a track to do it at. Driving with HRT Performance and their Porsche 992 GT3 Cup.
 
It was a busy 2 days at the Yas Marina Circuit. A lot of setup changes in practice to get the car feeling good. During qualifying, setting faster and faster times for each lap, unfortunately another competitor spun out with 5 minutes of the session remaining, resulting in a red flag ending the session. Placing us quite low on the grid.

A very relaxed and clean race day, putting in the seat time over the long 6 hours racing into the dark under the Abu Dhabi lights. At the end of it all we came out at the end with P30 overall out of 60 cars! And P11 in the AM class. Not a fantastic result, but for the first international race for MJR Motorsport, we count that as a reason for celebration!

6H Abu Dhabi

overall 

AM CLASS

P30

P11

DRIVERS

Marius Jackson

Giovanni Nucera

Gregg Gorski

 

car

Porsche 992 GT3 CUP

TEAM

HRt Performance

SAES 4H ZWARTKOPS

21 FEBRUARY 2026

It was a fierce battle of the heat at this round of SAES. The temps in Pretoria were extreme all weekend, and of course the AC in the GT3R chose the perfect time to stop working. The drivers and pit crew worked incredibly hard through the heat and brought home a P3 overall.

4H ZWARTKOPS

overall 

P3

DRIVERS 

 

Marius Jackson

Joe Ellerine

car

Porsche 991.2 GT3R #81

SAES 5H ALDO SCRIBANTE RACEWAY

11 April 2026

SAES 5 Hours Of Aldo Scribante.
We had a few technical problems with the car over the weekend giving us P4 overall. Not the result we would have liked but we are learning the tricks of the car more and more each race. 

A winning start to our customer program
Our first customer race weekend in the Porsche 992 GT3 Cup ends with a class victory in the GT Cup A class. Put a driver in the right car and results follow. Amazing work from the team on the setup and management of the car. A small incident in the last race of the day caused a bit of mechanical damage for us but that’s racing! Parts can be replaced.
A big congrats to Ian Howell on a great racing debut

5H ALDO SCRIBANTE

overall 

P4

DRIVERS 

 

Marius Jackson

Joe Ellerine

Leyton Fourie

car

Porsche 991.2 GT3R #81

gt cup

gt cup

Class A

P3

p1

DRIVERS

ian howell

car

Porsche 992 gt3 cup #82

Extreme supercars ZWARTKOPS 23 MAY 2026

overall 

class a

P7

P2

DRIVERs

Marius Jackson

car

Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II #80

ACI Italian GT Endurance Championship monza

21 June 2026

Monza, one of the most iconic racetracks in the world. That is a big tick off the bucket list. An amazing experience with an amazing team and super fast and supportive co-drivers. It wasn’t a super long race, but it was still absolutely worth it! Putting the South African Motorsport’s name out there along with quite a few fellow South African drivers and teams on the grid. We will definitely be back for more! Next time we will pick a date that isn’t in the middle of a heat wave.

With days rising into the high thirty degrees Celsius, it was a huge challenge for us South Africans coming from winter time, but we made it work. It wasn’t just the people struggling with the heat. The cars too were struggling; with just 30 minutes left of the 3 hour race, the team decided to retire the car for overheating issues. A big shame, as we would have gotten a P1 in our class, but even with a DNF, it was still an amazing experience

A big thank you to Attempto Racing for having us and our co-drivers Marco Cassarà and Sebastian Ogaard for their amazing work behind the wheel and support.

Italian gt endurance 3 hours Monza

overall

DNF

DRIVERS

 

marius jackson

Marco Cassarà

Sebastian Ogaard

car

Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II

team

Tresor Attempto Racing