South African Rotax Max Challenge - Vereeniging
16.06.2008
Kevin
De Wit |
Vereeniging’s recently repaired Bridgestone Adrenalin
Raceway hosted an enthralling round of the South African
Rotax Max Challenge on Saturday.
It was one of those meetings that had everything from
close racing to controversy but at the end of the day
there were no real surprises in the results.
van
der Linde won Mini Max |
Kelvin van der Linde was on top of the Mini-Max class
as he won the Pre-Final and Final to give CRG the verdict
ahead of a hungry Birel pack lead by Dewald Brummer, Ryan
Frost, Liam Venter and Nicholas Surguladze as PCR mounted
Bevan Williams grabbed sixth.
Jnr
Max belonged to Jeffries |
Junior Max belonged to Castrol Toyota’s Axcil Jefferies
who won each race aboard his Birel with Sam Tingle (Sodi)
following him across the line each time. Third place belonged
to the ever improving Eckhardt Briedenhann (CRG) who ended
the day with two third places.
Eddie le Roux (CRG) pipped Naomi Schiff (Tonykart) for
fourth by two points Ricky Hill (Rigidek CRG) went well,
but was only sixth after being penalised for a jump start.
Matthew
Hodges |
Max Challenge was awesome. At the end of the day it was
Birel driver Duke Ridgway who won with Kevin de Wit taking
the runner-up slot for CRG as Fabienne Lanz (PCR) got
the bronze medal.
Fourth went to Chad van Beurden (Birel) just ahead of
Devin Robertson (Sodi) and Rory Atkinson (Birel) got sixth
despite being tied on 71 points with Richard Napier.
Neveling
made a welcome return |
Talented Arnold Neveling made a welcome return to the
South African scene and walked the DD2 class for CRG,
his task made much easier after the withdrawal of fellow
CRG racer Ralph Odendaal with sore ribs.
Runner-up was Birel’s Ian Young. Not the fast but
erratic, happy-go-lucky Ian we all know, but this is the
new improved consistently fast version. Third went to
Trent Williams (Sodi) with PCR driver Justin Allison only
one point behind. Rounding off the top six were Ronnie
Baptista (CRG) and DD2 Masters contenders George dos Ramos
(Birel) who was tied on points with Gary Marais (CRG).
Third in the Masters class was Rocky Gush on his familiar
CRG.
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