Williams lights up Zwartkops
HE RECORDED THE FIRST SUB 60 SECOND LAP IN HIS 250CC ANDERSON Gualteri took the honours in both Bridgestone BMW Club Racing cars events.
The Zwartkops Raceway near Pretoria hosted round six of the 2017 Inland Championship on Saturday, with a large crowd entertained by a full programme of spectacular on-track action.
Spectators also got to witness the setting of a new overall Zwartkops lap record.
Topping the day’s offerings were two races for Bridgestone BMW Club Racing cars.
The opening heat saw Lorenzo Gualtieri (SavSpeed BMW 328i Turbo) lead for three laps, before slowing with electronic bothers.
That left Julian Fameliaris (Lube-Net BMW 328i Turbo) to win from Dino Familiaris (BMW 328i Turbo) and Paulo Loureiro (J&K Customs BMW M3 GTS).
Gualtieri returned in style to win race two, finishing ahead of Julian Fameliaris and Loureiro.
The new overall lap record came courtesy of the 250 Superkart brigade.
Trent Williams took the category’s opening race with his Anderson 250.
He was chased past the flag by Dayne Angel (Autohaus Angel PVP 250) and Sean Moore (Ziegler PVP 250).
Bevan Williams, whose Anderson dropped out the first time, returned in race two to make Zwartkops history.
En route to victory, he blasted his 250cc projectile around Zwartkops in 59.86 seconds – a new official overall Zwartkops lap record.
It was also the first officially recorded Zwartkops lap of under one minute.
Williams finished ahead of Angel and Trent Williams.
George Economides won the Yokohama Modified Production car races in his Martini Golf Turbo, chased to the flag both times by Evert Seyffert (Cable Solutions Chev Firenza).
Jeff Langeveldt (Prostaff Honda CRX Turbo) and Dirk Lawrence (JDM Honda Civic) took turns in the respective third places.
Brendan Parker (Datsun GX Coupe) led the opening race for Midvaal Historic Saloon Cars, before being slowed by a puncture.
That left Rene van Rensburg (SVTech Ford Escort) to win from Parker and Keegan Ward (Escort Mk 1).
Parker suffered no misfortunes the next time, leading the race from start to finish, ahead of Van Rensburg and Jackie Morrison (Extreme Salvage Escort).
Richard Upton (RJ Legend) took the first Inex Legends race, leading home Charl Roux (Rubro Legend) and Alton Bouw (Bat Supplies Legend).
Race two went to Jordan Larsson (N&S Legend), followed by Anro Stadler (Legend) and Upton.
Larsson also took the day’s final victory, chased home by Upton and Stadler.
Amos Cockerham Junior (Hoosier Jaguar V8) won the opening Big Boss Auto Super Saloon Car race, ahead of Karel Stols (Rotrix Mazda RX8) and Marius Jackson (MegaFibre Audi TT).
Cockeram took the next race as well, this time leading home Marius Jacobs (AAA Recovery Opel Tigra) and Jackson.
Both of the day’s Formula Monoposto single-seater races went to Nicolas Zavallone (Speads RM08) from Dee-Jay Booysen (Dico Formula M) and Tiago Rebelo (Formula Ford).
The next round of the 2017 Inland Championship will be held at the Red Star Raceway near Delmas on Saturday, August 19.