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the actual race. Talking of the “Round the Houses” race, this was originally the actual time trial used to determine the starting order for the first race day. When cars still took part as well it was an even more spectacular event, with some of South Africa’s top racing drivers of the time like Paddy Driver and Eddie Keizan storming around the streets in 800hp V8 trucks! The “Round the Houses” is a traditional part of the Roof, and there is now talk of timing the event again, and making it part of the Thursday time trial. Paul Van Aswegen gets boosted by the cheerleaders... Time Trial: The rumours of the time trial being very tough and designed to thin out the field on the first day proved to be unfounded when most competitors completed it considerably faster than expected. In fact most riders arrived at the finish line smiling and looking pretty fresh, despite the very hot and dry weather. It seemed that the most difficult part of the route was choking dust rather than the track. Wade Young (KTM) arrived first as expected, although he faced a strong challenge from local rider Charan Moore (KTM), Brett Swanepoel (Yamaha) Graham Jarvis (Husqvarna) and to every one’s surprise, the out of retirement Jade Gutzeit, also on a Yamaha. He had not raced off road at all for almost three years, and although having a reputation as a fearsome rider, this layoff, kept him off the pundits’ radar. Whilst the riders disappeared early on Thursday night, and the service crews worked late preparing the bikes for an early start in the morning, the experts ( 2500 of us scattered all over that side of Lesotho), sagely discussed the results of the time trial and confidently predicted the leaders for the next day, and the entire race. Some of the predictions were spot on… most of the experts said Young, Swanepoel, Teasdale, Gillet and Gilbert and few others would be up front. The end of Friday’s racing section, where they predicted Gutzeit and Jarvis weren’t up the pace set by the young guns, proved to be completely wrong. 22 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016 1601 DT Roof 2015.indd 22 2015/12/16 9:37 AM
2 legends, Jade and Richie... PEOPLE AT THE ROOF Adventure riders come from all over to spectate. Beta’s Sean Kirk Clint Rieper the COC with Thabo the route marker... Bronson louw pulls the chix... Future Roof Racers... Francois and family from Wild West. Kenny G moves to Husky this year. We think Yamaha will miss him... DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016 23 1601 DT Roof 2015.indd 23 2015/12/16 9:37 AM
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