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New re-surfaced track Disappoints racing drivers

Home Front Page News New re-surfaced track Disappoints racing drivers

NEVER too old to rock ‘n roll –  never too young to dice. This message was loud and clear during Saturdays race day sizzler at the Tony Rust Track, when 18-year old Mark Sternagel driving a BMW 1800 and 50-something Jan Gous in his Mazda RX2, battled it out in the during all three heats that sent sparks flying and smoke pouring off their tyres as they pushed their cars to limit.

Guilliaume Kruger, Francois Smith, Mark Sernagel and Michel Rust were also ahead of their game to win their respective categories. G0 Kart Racing set the pace for the action early in the day, and didn’t disappoint with drivers Francois Smith and Athi Mankonkwana leading their respective classes.

Whilst the spectator turnout was nothing to rave about – racing was. And the 20 entries that lined-up at the starting grid, were serious contenders to notch up that last minute championship point before the curtain closer on December, 7.

Unfortunately the newly re-surfaced race track costing over a half a million bucks, started breaking up, causing a lot of problems for the drivers and stone chip damage to the cars. The slippery surface was no joke for the guys who had a tough time keeping their cars on the track, and racing was nearly stopped in the last heat when Tommy Nasilowsky’s VW Golf did a headlong summersault into the nearby bushes, and fortunately escaped uninjured. And he wasn’t the only one who bit the dust.

By the end of the day, portions of the race track was showing signs of distress with loose stones, and potholes appearing in the high impact areas such the corners  where hard driving was experienced. This,  coupled with heat and an expected faulty compound did not lend itself too well to super charged racing cars tearing around at high speed, and everyone was feeling it.

According to a disappointed Christiaan Liebenberg , the contractors responsible for laying the new race track, were called in immediately after the race to come and “fix up their mess”.

“We didn’t pay this kind of money to re-surfaced our race track for the benefit of motorsport,  to have a botched job,” he fumed.

Meanwhile the Open Drag races the Friday night, was a jolly affair with  over  40 cars, bikes and quads entered, which completed a total of 300 runs. Richard Slamet proved to be the ‘King of the Track’ once more, and set the fastest time of the event on his ‘rocket.’

 

 

CIRCUIT RACING

Bantams

1st Michel Rust

2nd Marius Botha

3rd Ronald Slamet

Clubmans Class B

1st Mark Sternagel

2nd Jan Gous

3rd Charl Fourie

Clubmans Class C

1st Guilliaume Kruger

Clubmans Class D

1st Francois Smith

2nd Frans Smith

3rd Tommy Nasilowski

KARTING

Maxterino

1st Rhys Cragg

2nd Matthew Strydom

3rd Richie Slamet

Junior Max

1st Athi Mankonkwana

2nd Jay-Dee Kessler

3rd Michael Strydom

Senior Max

1st Gerhard Visser

 

 

OVALS

Quads

1st Marnus Byleveld

2nd Enrico Malan

3rd Hein Genis

 

By Donna Collins