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South African Short Circuit Racing<br />
Words & Pics: Eugene Liebenberg<br />
1ST Round<br />
1st round of the SASC held at the Formula K<br />
track in Benoni.<br />
Round one of the <strong>2022</strong> season kicked off at<br />
Formula-K track in Benoni with quite a bang.<br />
We sent along our good friend and well known<br />
motorsport photographer Eugene Liebenberg<br />
to get us the skinny on the days racing and this<br />
is what he came back with…<br />
The Formula-K track is one of my very<br />
favourites in the photographic sense of things.<br />
Any angle of shot can be had there and the<br />
back grounds are good and there is lots of<br />
movement and direction changes in the track<br />
layout making for many superb action photo<br />
opportunities.<br />
South African<br />
Short Circuit Series<br />
With all the rain we have been having up in<br />
Gauteng lately we were all relieved to wake<br />
up on the 26th of February to a great sunny<br />
day, giving us awesome weather for the start<br />
of this series. All the multi coloured gazebos<br />
gave the pits a very festive atmosphere, with<br />
most teams putting in a lot of effort to look as<br />
professional and as attractive as possible for<br />
the spectators. Big smiles all over the place!<br />
The good race commentary added to the<br />
atmosphere keeping everyone very interested<br />
and quite excited about what was happening<br />
out on track. The team running things at<br />
Formula-K really do put in a lot of effort in<br />
keeping the track and the facilities in general<br />
in really great condition, making it a really<br />
pleasant venue to watch motorsports for the<br />
general public.<br />
@ Formula K<br />
The racing was fantastic as usual across all<br />
classes. There was great competition between<br />
the riders in the various classes, nice clean<br />
overtaking manoeuvres and some crazy late<br />
braking into the corners to try and grab the<br />
advantage in the bends. Everybody was elbows<br />
out and rubbing shoulders at every given<br />
opportunity.<br />
However, my personal favourite will forever<br />
be the baby class… the tiny 50cc ‘s. This is<br />
the cutest class by far!!! And man do the kids<br />
love it!! Also very healthy, great to have kids<br />
outside and enjoying the sunshine, adrenalin<br />
and camaraderie that comes with competitive<br />
motorsport.<br />
In the Junior Motard classes it’s easy to see<br />
where the future SM1/X hooligans are bred...
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