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SA SBK SERIES ROUND 1 ZWARTKOPS<br />
Words & pics: Paul Bedford<br />
Double delight for<br />
David McFadden and<br />
the <strong>2020</strong> Yamaha R1.<br />
MCFLASH IS BACK!<br />
Last year Zwartkops<br />
Raceway wasn’t kind to<br />
David McFadden, with a<br />
sixth-place the best he<br />
could manage in all of the<br />
rounds he competed in.<br />
He didn’t let that worry<br />
him at the opening round<br />
of the <strong>2020</strong> SA Superbike<br />
Championship held at<br />
Zwartkops Raceway on<br />
Sunday, 2 February. The<br />
Cape Town-based rider<br />
piloted his <strong>2020</strong> RPM<br />
Center/Stunt SA Yamaha R1<br />
to two wins on its debut. In<br />
the SuperSport 600 class,<br />
Dino Iozzo (King Price<br />
Xtreme Yamaha R6) wasn’t<br />
threatened on his way to<br />
two comfortable victories.<br />
It was defending champion<br />
Clint Seller (King Price Xtreme<br />
Yamaha R1) who was quickest in<br />
the morning qualifying session,<br />
albeit just 0.012” ahead of Lance<br />
Isaacs who was out for the<br />
first time on his new Superbets<br />
BMW Motorrad S1000RR.<br />
McFadden, who was just over a<br />
tenth further back, completed<br />
the front row. Garrick Vlok<br />
(Yamaha R1) headed the second<br />
row of the grid with the Hi-Tech<br />
Racing Kawasakis of Sheridan<br />
Morias and Byron Bester<br />
alongside him.<br />
Jared Schultz, who will also<br />
be competing in Spain this year,<br />
put his ASAP/FFC Yamaha R6 on<br />
pole, also just 0.012” ahead of<br />
his closest rival, Iozzo. Ricardo<br />
Otto (Otto Racing Yamaha R6)<br />
and newcomer Brett Roberts<br />
(Lights by Linea/RPM Center<br />
Yamaha R6) filled third and<br />
fourth places.<br />
A slow start to the first race<br />
by Isaacs, which dropped him<br />
down to fifth place, allowed<br />
Seller and McFadden to pull<br />
away at the front of the pack<br />
with Seller pushing hard to try<br />
to open up a gap. Unfortunately<br />
for him, he pushed a bit too<br />
hard and the Bridgestone tyre<br />
on the front of his Yamaha cried<br />
enough, leaving the defending<br />
champion in the gravel on<br />
the outside of turn 5. This left<br />
McFadden with a lead of just<br />
more than a second over Vlok,<br />
but it was Isaacs who was the<br />
Champ Clint Seller’s<br />
got his work cut out<br />
this year.<br />
90 RIDEFAST MAGAZINE MARCH <strong>2020</strong>
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