Monster Energy athlete Gennaro Bonafede will be going into the final round of the Bridgestone Production Car championship with a clear head.

With the new Ferodo backed Volkswagen Golf 6 race ready and on the pace the 21-year old Industrial Engineering student has written his last exams for the year. "It has been a tough year and its such a relief to be able to devote my days to racing again.," said the Tukkies student who was looking forward to doing some driver coaching with Jonathan Shenkman in a Ferrari 430. "It's a beautiful car to drive," he enthused.

Heading into the final round Bonafede is lying third in the class T championship table. Gary Formato leads the championship 20-points ahead of Graeme Nathan with Bonafede holding third but unable to get to Formato's total. The Volkswagen drivers had their season's disrupted by building new cars. "It hurt us as we used an older, less developed car while the Golf 6 was being built and some of the parts from my regular car were used in the new car," explained Bonafede as he pointed out that his technical knowledge and understanding of the car had grown tenfold.

"Forty six points are available on the day so second place is a possibility, albeit a remote one! I'll need a lot of luck for that. The races will be the usual intriguing two sets of back to back sprint races where tactics are important because we can't do any work to the cars between the back-to-back races," remarked Bonafede who went into the final round of last season in a similar position and went home with the runner-up trophy.

The new car, looked after by Vic Maharaj's team at VMP Motorsport, made its debut at Zwartkops where Bonafede pronounced himself happy with its 'out the box' feel. "It did everything we expected and felt very good. We had a few small adjustments to make, but it was the car's first competitive outing so I think the future is looking good. The team is very methodical and Vic analyses every available byte of data."

For the final round the Golfs and Fords will have the same size restrictors which means there performance will be more equal than they were at the previous round at the same circuit three weeks ago."