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Twice WesBank
V8 Champion, Hennie Groenewald (Team Timken Holden) bagged full
points after two wins at Kyalami on Saturday to take his score
to 8 wins in the 12 races held so far this season.
In the first race Robert
Briggs (Team Timken Jaguar), led the way for 3 laps with
Groenewald on his tail until he squeezed through to the front.
The two of them were opening up a gap on the other sixteen cars
in the field.
Deon Auby (Meta Forge
Corvette) father of three racing sons in International and
WesBank racing, took a popular 3rd place from son
Mark (Jonnesway Tools Holden), with veteran Willie Hepburn
(Project Orange Corvette) 5th. Hepburn, was yo-yoing from 7th
at the start down to the 11th, and then fighting back
to finish 5th.
Race 2 and the inverted grid
saw Darren Gudmanz (Crazy J’s Corvette) start on pole position
with Groenewald way back in 15th place with lots to
do. Gudmanz led for one lap until Deon Auby from 8th
spot took over the lead on lap 2, which he held to the end with
Groenewald a few seconds behind and in front of Hepburn. Auby
was judged to have jumped the start, which put him back 30
seconds to 9th position. Hepburn taking over 2nd
place behind Groenewald, advanced him to 2nd overall
in the championship, 1 point ahead of Robert Briggs, who retired
after pulling a stack of pylons under his car, and Mark Auby,
who is 4th on the championship log.
RESULTS.
RACE 1.
1. Groenewald; 2. Briggs;
3. D. Auby; 4. M. Auby; 5. W. Hepburn; 6. Wade van
Zummeren.
RACE 2.
1. Groenewald; 2.
Hepburn; 3. Jaco Correia; 4. Franco di Matteo; 5. Roelf du
Plessis; 6. Danie Correia
POINTS.
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Groenewald
– 157
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Willie
Hepburn – 94
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Robert
Briggs – 93
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Mark Auby
– 89
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Larry
Wilford – 62
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J. Correia
- 62
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