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ENDURO RACING Written by Elza Thiart Botes AND THAT IS ANOTHER NATIONAL ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP WRAP! Whew, what a final! The recent Liquorland Winterberg National Enduro hosted by the Rover Club and held outside Port Elizabeth, was a real humdinger and it was not only the front runners who felt the pressure, but as this was the season finale, everyone wanted to better their position and score the last points in the 2015 Liquorland National Enduro Championship. When competitors got to the venue the day before the race, it was extremely wet and certain sections of the route had to be altered or removed due to the amount of rain that fell early on Friday morning (before Saturday’s race). The race still consisted of three Special Stages (one was shortened) and E1 and E2 competitors had to complete 11 stages; Senior Class, High School competitors and Silver Class riders were in for eight stages while Master Class riders did five. One of the class championships where the tension was especially high, was the Senior Class. Before the race, Bruce May (Team AgriSales Peak Yamaha) was leading Jody Engelbrecht (Yamaha) by a mere two points, but May fell ini some old truck tyres on the first Special Stage and lost 45 seconds. He raced hard to play catch-up, but it was not enough and he finished a mere eight points (seconds) behind Engelbrecht who E2 Champion Wade Young walked away with the SA national title. Graham Hedgcock (KTM Cape Town) finished in a close third place and was followed by local PE hero, Juan ‘Bollie’ van Rooyen (Brother Leader Tread KTM), a former ‘Winterberg’ winner who competed in the national enduro series for the first time this year. Steven Carr (Roost KTM / EC Security) rounded off the top five. Steve Landman (Team Liquorland Yamaha Racing) was sixth; Ryan Pretorius (KTM) finished seventh and Chris Lindhorst (KTM) was eighth. The defending title holder, William ‘Wild Will’ Gillitt (May’s team-mate) could not compete due to his knee injury and he had to settle for the fifth place in the final standings. The young guns were at each other’s throats in the E1 Championship where the Pietermaritzburg scholar, Travis Teasdale (Brother Leader Tread KTM) and Ballito rider, Brett Swanepoel (Proudly Bidvest Yamaha) both aimed for their first (senior) national enduro title. After a neck to neck season, Teasdale led Swanepoel by only two points before the race, but it was not a good day for Swanepoel who crashed twice on the first lap. He eventually had to settle for second place behind Teasdale who claimed his fifth E1 victory and the 2015 national title. Teasdale’s team-mate, Dwayne Kleynhans, finished third (he suffered from food poisoning the previous day and was even admitted to hospital – and he checked himself out!) with Kyle Flanagan (KTM) fourth and Brandon Warwick-Oliver (Team Liquorland Racing Yamaha) in fifth place. Richie van der Westhuizen (Yamaha) finished not too far behind in sixth place despite a huge crash towards the end of the race. Michael Pentecost (Kargo Racing Yamaha) was seventh; Dylan Barker (Pa Ma Racing Yamaha) finished eighth, only 13 points ahead of Chayse Orsmond (Ihobe International KTM) with Kyle Erasmus (Kargo Racing Yamaha) a single point behind Orsmond in tenth place. Marc Torlage (Roost KTM / EC Security) was back in his happy place and doing well until a crash caused the clutch master cylinder to break on the ninth of the 11 Special Stages. (News is that Marc is back with Proudly Bidvest and on Yamaha for next year!) Wade Young (Brother Leader Tread KTM) and Flanagan were involved in a mugging incident in Umtata on their way to the race, but this did not stop him from claiming his sixth consecutive victory and his first E2 title (he won the E1 / 200cc title in 2014 and 2013). Kenny Gilbert (Proudly Bidvest Yamaha) finished in a solid second place. Young’s team-mate, Scott Bouverie, had a careful race as he will be undering a knee operation and finished third. He beat Altus de Wet (Altus de Wet Racing Sherco) by a single point (second). Bronson Louw (ABE Midas Husqvarna Factory Racing) was fifth while his team-mate, Mark Garland who has not competed this year, finished ninth. Roan Lindsay (D&H Engineering Works Yamaha) was sixth followed by Nick Wade (Team Liquorland Racing Husqvarna); Sage McGregor (KTM) eighth and Riaan van der Walt (KTM) tenth. Hilton Hayward (Proudly Bidvest Yamaha) went to the ‘Winterberg’ with five victories in the Master Class championship behind his name and the 78 OCTOBER 2015 1510 DT Nat racing.indd 78 2015/09/18 10:47 PM
PAGES BROUGHT TO YOU BY: title was within his reach if he kept it all together. Well, the suspension guru did just that to claim a sixth consecutive victory and the 2015 SA National Championship title. He was chased by his teammate, Denzil Torlage, who finished second after beating the defending champion, Alfie Cox (KTM), by a mere six points (seconds). Shaun Kirk (Beta Liqui Moly Racing SA) finished fourth with Gideon Malherbe (Eddy2Race KTM) fifth; Steven Botha (Team AgriSales Peak Yamaha) was sixth and Carl Rohrbeck (KTM) finished seventh. Like Young and Hayward, there was also a sixth victory for Eduan Bester (NUTS Racing / KTM Centurion) who took the High School Class win and bagged the title – his second consecutive national enduro championship title as he won this class last year after it was introduced into the championship for the first time. He had to fight for it though as he crashed during the first lap of the race and lost valuable time. Daniel van Zyl (Pa Ma Racing Yamaha) finished second on the smaller 125cc bike with Dean Lindsay (D&H Engineering Works Yamaha) rounding off the podium. The youngsters had to stand their man in some really testing Special Stages this season, but they proved that they can race with the best. Bryce van Heerden (KTM) finished fourth with Keegan Eich (KTM) fifth; Max Jordaan (KTM) was sixth; Carl-Reinhardt Cronje (KTM) was seventh and Grahamstown scholar, Joshua Thorburn (KTM), in eighth place. The Silver Class Challenge might not be a championship class – it is a challenge – but the winner gets free entries into next year’s national enduro season. The young Matatiele scholar, Lloyd Kirk (Pa Ma Racing Yamaha) confirmed his ‘prize’ by claiming a sixth victory this year (his teammate, Dylan Barker, who is from neigbouring town, Kokstad, did the same last year when he won all six rounds of the 2014 national series). Stuart Gregory (FDBR Racing) was second with Sonwabile Eddie Mdodana (Mens Clinic KTM) posting his best result of the season by finishing third. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS E1 Travis Teasdale Brett Swanepoel Dwayne Kleynhans Kyle Flanagan Brandon Warwick-Oliver E2 Wade Young Scott Bouverie Kenny Gilbert Altus de Wet Bronson Louw HIGH SCHOOL Eduan Bester Daniël van Zyl Keegan Eich Dean Lindsay Carl-Reinhardt Cronje SENIOR CLASS Jody Engelbrecht Bruce May Graham Hedgcock Steven Carr William Gillitt MASTER CLASS Hilton Hayward Denzil Torlage Shaun Kirk Steve Botha Garth Prost SILVER CLASS CHALLENGE Lloyd Kirk Reghardt van Nieuwenhuizen Kirsten Landman Stuart Gregory Sonwabile Mdodana MANUFACTURERS Yamaha KTM Husqvarna E1 Champion Travis Teasdale High School Champion Enduan Bester Master Class Champion Hilton Hayward Silver Class Challenge Winner Lloyd OCTOBER 2015 79 1510 DT Nat racing.indd 79 2015/09/18 10:47 PM
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