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Great seeing Shez<br />
Morais back in SA.<br />
Plenty more<br />
to come from<br />
Isaacs and the<br />
new BMW.<br />
Dino Iozzo in<br />
fine form.<br />
man on the move. By the end<br />
of the third lap, he was up to<br />
second, and just a couple of<br />
laps later was on McFadden’s<br />
back wheel. The pair then diced<br />
to the finish, with Isaacs trying<br />
everything he could to get to<br />
the front, but McFadden was<br />
able to hang on to take a hardfought<br />
win. Isaacs had to settle<br />
for second, comfortable ahead<br />
of Vlok with Morias and Bester<br />
in fourth and fifth.<br />
Iozzo grabbed the<br />
SuperSport 600 lead from the<br />
start leaving Schultz and Otto to<br />
fight over the remaining podium<br />
positions after Roberts suffered<br />
front brake failure. While Iozzo<br />
slowly extended his lead at the<br />
front, Otto led Schultz with the<br />
pair never more than a couple<br />
of bike lengths apart until about<br />
two-thirds race distance. A<br />
small error by Schultz allowed<br />
Otto to open the gap and<br />
Schultz decided to settle for<br />
third on his ill-handling Yamaha.<br />
In the early stages, Race 2<br />
was a repeat of the first at the<br />
front of the 1000cc class, with<br />
Seller leading the way from<br />
McFadden, although a better<br />
start by Isaacs saw him just<br />
behind the leading duo. Seller’s<br />
bike was doing its best to throw<br />
him off as the tyres battled<br />
for grip on the extremely hot<br />
track surface which allowed<br />
McFadden to move into the lead<br />
a third of the way through the<br />
heat. He went on to another<br />
win while Seller, despite the<br />
handling problems with his<br />
bike, was able to keep Isaacs<br />
behind him until the flag. Vlok<br />
had a huge crash while running<br />
in fourth, which allowed Morias<br />
and Bester to end in fourth and<br />
fifth as they did in the first race.<br />
While Iozzo’s winning margin<br />
wasn’t quite as big in the second<br />
heat, he was still comfortably<br />
ahead of the second-place man<br />
after leading from the start.<br />
Schultz was much happier with<br />
the handling of his Yamaha<br />
after some hard work by his<br />
pit crew between races and,<br />
while he couldn’t hang on to<br />
Iozzo, was comfortably ahead<br />
of the battle for the final podium<br />
position. Roberts led that battle<br />
at the start of the final lap, but<br />
experience told as Otto made his<br />
move in the final corner to take<br />
the final podium position by less<br />
than a quarter of a second.<br />
The next round of the<br />
Bridgestone supported SA<br />
Superbike series takes place on<br />
Saturday, 14 <strong>March</strong> <strong>2020</strong>, again<br />
at Zwartkops Raceway.<br />
RIDEFAST MAGAZINE MARCH <strong>2020</strong> 9 1
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