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PRESS RELEASE: May 2009 |
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Lobb One
Step Closer to Title
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Round three of the
Shelby Can-Am championship took place at the revised
Kyalami circuit where the removal of the notorious
chicane proved to be worth around two and a half
seconds per lap.
Qualifying belonged to Darryn Lobb (DK Woodcraft)
who's lap of 1:45.181 was almost three quarters of a
second faster than Jean-Paul Bredenhann (Bigfoot
Express). Alan Eve (Phakisa) and reigning champion
Rui Campos (Hugo Boss) occupied the second row with
the top six being made up by Sean Greve (Vulcania
Reinforcing) and Zwartkops winner Thomas Reib (Coolstar
Beverages).
Not so lucky was Brian Algar (Thuthuka Welding) who
speared into the barriers at turn two on his first
lap which left his car looking somewhat dog-eared.
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image:
Tony Alves -
www.tracksidepics.co.za |
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The
results will show that Lobb won the opening race,
but what they won't show, is that it was by the skin
of his teeth as he only took the lead from
Bredenhann at the final corner.
Another steady drive from Eve saw him narrowly beat
Greve to claim third place as Reib was a lonely
fifth ahead of Cape Town's Bertil Hoffman (IOU
Music) who was under pressure from Craig Shorter (Execuline).
Algar put in a dogged drive from the back of the
grid to claim eighth.
Campos' hopes were dashed on lap two when he got
caught out on the slippery track exiting the second
'S' which spat him nose first into the wall on the
opposite side of the track. It was a heavy impact
and fortunately he was unhurt apart from a squeaky
voice!
An indication as to just how slippery the track was
came from Dave Beattie (Dura) who retired with what
he assumed was a puncture as the car was sliding
around so much. Colin Frost (Strocam) battled with a
failing gearbox as, unbeknown to him, his gearbox
was leaking oil! |
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image:
Tony Alves -
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Race two, as is the
norm on longer circuits, was combined with the
Altech Porsche brigade and behind runaway overall
winner Toby Venter, the battle for Shelby Can-Am
honours was spectacular.
Lobb took the win a second or so clear of Bredenhann
while the ever consistent Greve was a distant third.
Fourth went to Reib while Shorter had another good
race to fifth as Capetonian Greg Walker (Bizfone)
was sixth. The big surprise was Formula Vee racer
Execuline's Alan Eustice who stood in for an injured
Hanno Pangilly (Azura Retreats) and claimed seventh
in his
Can-Am debut.
It was a race filled with drama. First moment was
the field was coming up to complete lap five. Lobb
was close behind Eve as they came past the pits and
got a bit too close which dispatched Eve into the
wall. Initially Lobb was blamed, but then there was
talk that Eve might have missed a gear. Then on lap
10 Hoffman also disappeared from the lap charts.
A lap later Algar and Campos came together at Nashua
and both were out on the spot while further round
the lap Beattie crashed heavily at the esses.
All in all it was an eventful day and Welkom's
former MotoGP circuit, Phakisa will host the next
round of the championship on 20 June. |
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Issued on behalf of Shelby Can-Am by
SA Racer |
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