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All Set for a Master Blaster Return to Kyalami
The Altech Kawasaki ZX10 Masters Cup is all set for a heated return to kyalami with a field of close to 40 riders expected. The class was a revelation last season serving up fast and furious action belying the senior status of the pilots taking part with lap times consistently improving with the top contenders posting close to National Championship times. And this on bog standard machines all with the same Bridgestone rubber for 2008. The series has moved from Club status in 2007 to a National Challenge for 2008 and with possible National Championship status for 2009 all of the contenders have upped their games serving up plenty of action in the first two meetings of the 2008 season.
This season has also seen the arrival of several new contenders and with some of the top pilots having misfortune at the first Kyalami meeting and after two spectacular crashes at Aldo Scribante in the second meeting the leader board has a rather unfamiliar look about it.
Champion Greg Dreyer finds himself in the unfamiliar position of 4th in the standings after a disqualification in the first heat at Kyalami for passing a safety car and having to start at the back of the grid for heat 2. His misfortune continued at Aldo Scribante when he and Championship rival Gavin Lightfoot had a coming together resulting in another DNF. This will only serve to make the former National Champion more determined to put matters right with a brace of wins.
With Gavin Lightfoot out of action for the next two meetings with a broken arm it will be left to another former National Champion in Gavin Ramsay to challenge Dreyer, Ramsay capitalized on the confusion at Kyalami the last time out and came away with two wins giving him a perfect start to the season, his luck did however run out at Aldo Scribante when he and Adan Du Plessis met at the Toyota hairpin resulting in both riders crashing out.