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Louwrens Bardenhorst and the<br />
ever-improving Michael Barth on<br />
his Kawasaki ZX10R.<br />
The Dunlop SA TT Classic riders<br />
were up next and in the F1 class it<br />
was Dunlop D213 shod AJ Venter<br />
who picked up the win ahead of<br />
2019 champ Paul Jacobs and James<br />
Barson. The F2 class saw Fergal<br />
McAdmas take 1st overall ahead<br />
of British based SA rider Philip<br />
Atkinson and Mike McSkimming.<br />
Onto the most exciting and<br />
action-packed classes of the day<br />
where over 25 1000cc Superbike<br />
and 600cc Supersport machines<br />
lined up to do battle with some of<br />
SA’s finest going head-to-head. AJ<br />
Venter on his Lekka Racing Suzuki<br />
GSXR1000 machine was pushed<br />
hard in both heats by Morne<br />
Geldenhuys on his Yamaha R1. Too<br />
National rider Garrick Flok was<br />
also in the mix along with Dylan<br />
Barnard and Damion Purificati.<br />
It was AJ in the end who took<br />
both wins in the SBK class with<br />
Geldenhuys settling for 2nd and<br />
Purificati in 3rd. Our editor Rob<br />
Portman ended up 4th overall in<br />
the Ducati SA V4 racer. More on<br />
that in the following pages.<br />
The Supersport 600cc battle<br />
was in true style spectacular with<br />
top youngsters Jared Schultz and<br />
Riccardo Otto. Cape Town star and<br />
Spanish Supersport bound Schultz<br />
took the overall win ahead of Otto<br />
with the very impressive 2019<br />
Supersport 300 champion, Ryno<br />
Pretorius in 3rd in his first outing in<br />
the 600cc class.<br />
It was a spectacular days racing<br />
with plenty of smiles throughout.<br />
Round 2 heads down to the Aldo<br />
Scribante track in PE on the 7th of<br />
<strong>March</strong> with round 3 taking place<br />
at Phakisa on the 9th of May.<br />
For more information check out<br />
the Monocle Motorcycle Series<br />
Facebook page or website www.<br />
motorcycleracingseries.co.za.<br />
Exciting<br />
Announcement!!!<br />
Pirelli and Monocle<br />
have partnered for the<br />
remainder of the <strong>2020</strong><br />
race season.<br />
Pirelli is proud to be partnered<br />
with the well supported and<br />
professional series, and look<br />
forward to the rest of <strong>2020</strong> season;<br />
there are a couple things that you<br />
Taric van der<br />
Merwe<br />
need to know going forward:<br />
• Pirelli will be the only tyre that is<br />
allowed to be sold at the events<br />
themselves from Friday to Saturday<br />
for race meetings.<br />
• Lekka Racing is the official race<br />
tyre fitment service for the race<br />
weekends, and part of the Pirelli<br />
service will be the free fitment of all<br />
Pirelli tyres, and will have Pirelli’s<br />
for sale on the day.<br />
• Other tyre vendors selling Pirelli<br />
are welcome to join, however they<br />
cannot offer fitment on the day, but<br />
Lekka racing will fit for free.<br />
• Special pricing for Monocle racers<br />
only will be offered. Deals will be<br />
released shortly on the Monocle<br />
Facebook page.<br />
The battle at the front of the<br />
SBK 1000cc class.<br />
Ducati boss man<br />
Jos Matthysen<br />
Ewoud Pienaar in the<br />
Streetbike class<br />
Chris-Marie<br />
Schlebusch
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