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Day three Saturday It was now clear who the leading bunch was going to be, with Brett Swanepoel setting off first on his Yamaha, followed by Jarvis, Teasdale, Young, Gilbert and Gutzeit. Sherco’s Altus de Wet had quietly been gaining ground and was also in the top ten. They all looked fresh and ready to go, amazing after the conditions they had already faced and testimony to the incredibly professional sportsmen they have become. The experts, perhaps from having been up late and guarding against dehydration with lots of golden liquid, seemed to all agree…Wade will still do it, Jarvis is good for a top five, Swanepoel could be a dark horse, Teasdale could also take it and Gutzeit will definitely be done by lunchtime….in fact he probably would struggle to stay in the top ten. By service point one Wade Young was back in front, with Brett Swanepoel in close attendance, followed by Jarvis. Some minutes back, which equates to a kilometer or two, Gilbert and Gutzeit continued their battle. Service point two was a real “Gasoline Alley” in the Maluti’s and was just before the most difficult part of the Roof, where the organisers promised a lot of new terrain which would really test everyone to the limit. Once again the time taken by the leaders over the first half of the final day’s racing route took everyone far less time than expected. This was probably due to several factors. Firstly the leaders were engrossed in a battle royal, with no quarter asked and none given. The weather was hot and dry, with just a smattering of rain from the odd isolated thundershower in the late afternoon, so it didn’t really affect the leaders. Off they went up the side of a humungeous mountain, into “Mokopu Pass” and when they thought they had reached the top it went up even more! As the afternoon wore on, those tracking the race on the online app saw that Young and Jarvis had pulled away from Swanepoel, who in turn was now just ahead of Teasdale and Gilbert. Then about an hour before the final service point Jarvis made his move, and in the toughest part of the race up to that point, passed and began to pull away from Young. Slowly, but ever so surely the wily Englishman, using all his experience, pulled away from the South African champion. By the time Jarvis pulled into the final service point he was about 13 minutes ahead of Young, the biggest lead anyone had held since the start of the race. We were there – and suddenly it seemed as though the silent assassin had finally found the throttle as he screamed past on the way to the end point. Jarvis had planned his move all along, using his skill and experience in the most technical part of the race to open up enough of a lead so that he could keep ahead in the faster terrain near the end. As it turned out Wade Young and Brett Swanepoel had no answer, and just concentrated on holding their position. Jarvis actually managed to increase his lead slightly over the last 5 km of the race, and simply popped along to the end, pulling in to the cheers of a huge group of spectators crammed along the top of the natural grandstand of a Maluti mountaintop at Ha Patrick. Behind him there was still plenty of drama. Wade Young was flying to make sure the chasing pack wasn’t going to catch him, and Teasdale was right on Swanepoel’s back wheel, with Altus de Wet not far behind them. Jade G had got ahead of Gilbert, and tenaciously clung to the opportunity of using the slightest mistake by any of the trio to pass them before the finish line. Richie VD Westhuisen. Justin louwrens under the Mitas Balloon. Jade Gudzeit 26 DIRT & TRAIL MAGAZINE JANUARY 2016 1601 DT Roof 2015.indd 26 2015/12/16 9:37 AM
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