by
Roger McCleery

The brothers Auby, Brandon (17) and Marc (ELT International Jaguars) took a win apiece in a drama packed pair of WesBank V8 Races at Killarney on Saturday.   This puts them first and second in the championship points standing after 3 rounds. 

In a series that is fast turning into an Auby family show, father Deon (ELT International Lumina), took a 2^nd place behind his younger son in Race 1 and an 8^th in Race 2 to go 4^th overall, just 1 point behind young East Londoner Wade van Zummeren – (Border Towing Mustang), who lies 3^rd in the Championship. 

The first race was all about 3-times WesBank V8 Champion, Hennie Groenewald (Team Timken Jaguar), who after winning two races in America in the last month, needed to get back to scoring points to start moving up the points table after a disastrous start to his WesBank Season.   He made no mistake from start to finish in Race 1 and finished .3 seconds ahead of Brandon Auby with Deon 3^rd and Marc Auby 4^th at the flag. 

Then came to a shock to the Timken Team when Clerk of the Course, Piet Swanepoel, penalised Groenewald 30 seconds for taking up pole position on the starting grid after Hennie had stopped out on the circuit with a loose wheel on the out lap from the pits on his way to line up at the start.   He took up pole position  as instructed by the start line officials before coming under starters orders.   The penalty dropped him to 10th position and left the Auby’s in the first three positions, which must be a first in South African Motor Sport History. 

Wade van Zummeren came home 4^th after Groenewald’s penalty with Franco di Matteo (Varta Battery Jaguar), Danie Correia (LiquiMoly Corvette) from Welkom, his brother Jaco in another Corvette, Richard Pinard (Team Timken Jaguar) and a returning Mackie Adlem (Mackie Adlem Racing Jaguar) fighting out 6^th place in close company, which could have gone to any one of them. 

The inverted grid used for the second race saw Clare Vale (Gatorback / RAM Mustang) lead for a couple of laps before Richard Pinard took over, until Marc Auby and Adlem steamed past with a few laps to go to finish 1^st and 2^nd.   Pinard was 3^rd.   Groenewald made good progress from 9^th to 5^th after two laps until his engine lost power and he cruised home to finish 7^th and a poor helping of points.

RESULTS

RACE 1

1.  B. AUBY   2.  D. AUBY.   3. M. AUBY.   4. W. VAN ZUMMEREN.  

5.   F. DI MATTEO

RACE 2

1.      M. AUBY.   2. M. ADLEM.   3. R. PINARD.   4. B. AUBY.   5. J. CORREIA

6.      W. VAN ZUMMEREN 

POINTS POSITION  -  After 3 Rounds

1^st        M. AUBY                        77

2^nd       B. AUBY                         52

3^rd        W. VAN ZUMMEREN         42

4^th        D. AUBY                        41

5^th        D. CORREIA                    38

6^th        F. DI MATTEO                 37

            J. CORREIA                     37