2012
LIQUORLAND NATIONAL
ENDURO CHAMPIONSHIP
REVIEW: H-TEC LIQUORLAND NATIONAL ENDURO 16-04-2012
2nd Round of the Liquorland National Enduro Motorcycle Championship
14 April 2012 (Humansdorp, Eastern Cape)
ALTUS DE WET WON DRAMATIC NATIONAL ENDURO AT HUMANSDORP
Former champion, Altus de Wet (Brother Broadlink KTM) won the H-TEC Liquorland National Enduro, the second round of the Liquorland National Enduro Championship that took place this weekend at Humansdorp in the Eastern Cape. The final results are however under appeal and are provisional for now.
According to the starting procedures, De Wet started the race from the back of the field as he did not finish the first race of the season. The race consisted of one loop that included two racing sections, but all competitors were penalised after the first sighting lap as they did not complete it within the allowed time. De Wet received the least amount of penalty points as he finished closer to the set time. He also won the first special timed stage and provisionally claimed the E2 (200cc) Class victory.
Scott Bouverie (Comsol BELL ACR KTM) scored his first podium position and finished second overall. He won the last of the six special stages and was second in E2. He was followed by De Wet’s team-mate, Louwrens Mahoney who also won a timed stage and claimed his second overall podium position this season. He won E1 (Open) after a race where many riders found themselves in bottleneck situations behind stuck riders on the route. The organisers were also forced to cut out a section of the route in a river that was quite deep due to the amount of rain the area received just before the race.
Scholar Wade Young (Fever Criterion Yamaha) finished fourth (third in E2) after a race he described as ‘demanding’ and was followed by the Proudly Bidvest Yamaha team-mates, Marc Torlage and Jade Gutzeit. Torlage, who won E2 and finished second at the opening race, posted the fastest time after the second stage while Gutzeit, who won the opening race, was fastest after the fourth and fifth stages. He finished second in E1.
Brother Broadlink KTM team-mates, Riaan van Niekerk (E2) and Darryl Curtis were seventh and eighth respectively with Curtis rounding off the E1 podium. He finished a mere five points ahead of Gutzeit’s younger brother, Blake (Fever Criterion Yamaha) who suffered from arm pump, but posted his best result. Kenny Gilbert (EPH Plant Hire Yamaha) rounded off the top ten.
Brian Capper (KTM) was only three points behind Gilbert, but just outside the top 10 in 11th place with Nicolas Pienaar (Rad Moto KTM) 12th; Kargo Racing Yamaha’s Bradley van Aswegen 13th and his team-mate, Timothy Young 15th after drowning his bike and Gray Dick (Brother Broadlink KTM) 14th.
Chris Birch (Comsol BELL ACR KTM) withdrew during the race due to his knee injury after the crash at the first race; Michael Creevy (Brother Broadlink KTM) withdrew due to a bad bout of flu; James Hodson (Team Liquorland Racing Yamaha) crashed and did not finish the race and Stefan Oosthuysen (Nomadik Tents KTM) drowned his bike.
Defending Senior Class champion, William Gillit (Comsol BELL Yamaha) claimed his first national class victory of the season and won two of the four timed racing sections. He beat Ryan Struckman (Team Liquorland Racing Yamaha) who posted the fastest time after racing section three, but suffered a crash while the winner of the opening race, Jody Engelbrecht (Fever Criterion Yamaha) claimed third place. He won the first racing stage.
Engelbrecht’s team-mate, Bruce Gargan, was fourth with Steve Landman (Team Liquorland Racing Gas Gas) fifth after losing time due to flat tyres.
Like all competitors, defending Master Class champion, Denzil Torlage (Proudly Bidvest Yamaha) also received penalty points after the first regularity stage, but he still made it two in a row by winning the class again. He was followed by Nomadik Tents KTM’s Graydon Ilderton with Mark du Plessis (Alter Ego KTM Cape Town) third after he ran out of fuel. Kevin Bremner (KTM) was fourth and Spot Martin (Team Liquorland Racing KTM) fifth.
The Silver Class Challenge received a healthy amount of entries and JZ van der Walt (KTM) won comfortably beating Scott Woods (Rock Garden Gas Gas) and Terence Shacklady (FDBR Yamaha).
Results can change after the Appeal hearing.
The third round of the 2012 Liquorland National Enduro Championship, the KEI National Enduro, will take place in the East London area in the Eastern Cape on 12 May.
(The H-TEC Liquorland National Enduro was a Motorsport SA-sanctioned event.)
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