Great racing at Eston

May 23, 2008

Zululand OBSERVER

	Great racing at Eston BAT Spec 4 of Brandon Harcus and Richard Leeke enjoying the Eston countryside Inter-city Nissan Zululand staff Greg Christensen (third from left) and Tamara Thring (second from right) with Richelle and Dewald Dewaal, Taryn Christensen and Binnie Nel at the Nissan sponsored Sugarbelt 400 in Eston Eventual National Production Vehicle winner - the Nissan Navara of Duncan Vos and Ralph Pitchford under starter's orders. They finished in a race time of six hours and 38 minutes Larry Bentley NATAL Off-Road Motor Club moved the KZN leg of the Off-road National Championships to the Eston area after having held the event in Hluhluwe last year. The track consisted of two loops with three pit stops as the cars did two laps of the 190km track. The crowd-support was excellent and the drivers pushed their vehicles to the limit. Results National Production vehicles 1Nissan Motorsport's Duncan Vos and Ralph Pitchford in a Nissan Navara 2Ford Racing's Neil Woolridge and Kenny Skjoldhammer in a Ford Ranger 3Toyota Castrol Team's Mark Cronje and Chris Birkin in a Toyota Hilux 4Micaren Exel Dealer Team's Hugo de Bruyn and Jaap de Bruyn in a Toyota Hilux 5CR Visser's Chris Visser and Japie Badenhorst in a Toyota Hilux 6K van Tonder's Kobus van Tonder and Riaan Guelpa in a Ford Ranger 7Ford Racing's Mark Ferguson and Craig West in a Ford Ranger 8Nissan Motorsport's Ivar Tollefsen and Francois Jordaan in a Nissan Navara 9Toyota Castrol Team's Anthony Taylor and Robin Houghton in a Toyota Hilux 10J Visser's Jannie Visser and Joks le Roux in a Toyota Hilux National Special Vehicles 1Atlas Copco's Gary Bertholdt and André Vermeulen in a Porter 2Motorite Racing's Evan Hutchison and Achim Bergman in a Spec Three 3BL Alberts' Nardus Alberts and Collin Hunter in a BAT 2006 4J Moore's John Moore and Tom Classen in a Free Spirit Chev 5Regent Racing's Michael Whitehouse and Mathew Carlson BAT Spec One 6HW Süllwald's Hermann Süllwald and Paul Helberg in a Zarco Magnum 7J Bezuidenhout's Johan Bezuidenhout and Etienne Bezuidenhout in a Adenco BAT 8K Süllwald's Karl-Heinz Süllwald and Quintin Süllwald in a Zarco 9The Roost's Ron Bailey and Warren Manthe in a Sandmaster 10Keymax Property Developments' Jan Kraaij and Tiddo Voogt in a BAT 2006.