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Round 1 – Classic Superbike Racing Association<br />
5 Feb <strong>2022</strong> Redstar Raceway.<br />
The old Dogs go out to play…<br />
Word – Paul Jacobs<br />
Pics- Shirley Pinkerton, Beam Promotions and Eugenes Digital prints.<br />
With stormy weather on the cards for the weekend, riders were scrambling for rain<br />
tyres during the week leading up to the first round on the CSRA Championship race at<br />
Redstar Raceway on the 5th of February.<br />
Rain was bucketing down on the way to the circuit on Saturday morning but somehow<br />
stayed away from Redstar leaving the track dry, with the exception of ground water<br />
flowing over the track at the “dog bone”.<br />
This made qualifying and Heat 1 rather exciting with riders giving their all on every<br />
corner, only to dramatically slow to cross the stream in the dog bone, before belting it<br />
around the rest of the dry circuit to put in a good quali lap.<br />
22 Riders lined up for race 1 with Invitational rider AJ Venter on the Mike McSkimming<br />
F2 1100 Katana on pole outqualifying the “newer” GSXR1100’s and FZR1000 of Paul<br />
Jacobs, Jaco Gous and Matthew Herbert.<br />
Venter proceeded to blitz the field in race 1 and ran low 2.01’s on his 35-year-old F2<br />
machine winning by over 18 seconds from second placed F1 rider Gous and Paul<br />
Jacobs, with Tom Maritz coming home forth on track and 3rd in F1.<br />
Matthew Herbert was caught out on the wet surface in the dog bone on lap 2, being<br />
launched over the highside of his FZR1000 and lucky to walk away from the huge crash<br />
with a mangled helmet and a serious headache.<br />
Sarel Pottas pipped Fergal McAdam to the line in the F2 class for 2nd and 3rd in Class,<br />
with Lionel Black on his GSXR750 coming home 4th in class.<br />
Race 2 was a similar affair with AJ bolting away ion front, Gous and Jacobs battling for<br />
2nd position and Tom Maritz a distant 4th.<br />
Newcomer Grant Mills was home next from Pottas, Dyl Pinkerton and Leon vd Berg,<br />
who returned to racing after his big crash in East London last year.<br />
As ever, the “old men” enjoyed the massive flow of adrenaline that race day brings and<br />
as usual, the “I am racing for fun” attitude vanished when the lights went out!!<br />
The Battle will commence in the Motorcycle Racing SA series, again at Redstar<br />
Raceway on 12 <strong>March</strong> – spectators are welcome so come and relive the heydays of<br />
1980’s racing, take a walk around the pits, meet the riders and see their immaculately<br />
prepared Classic Superbikes up close!<br />
For more information about CSRA visit www.classicsuperbikeracing.co.za
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