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Anthony Taylor and Robin Houghton were in top form at the RFS Magalies 400, the nail-biting season finale to the Absa Off Road
Championship, held at the Tarlton International Raceway this weekend.
The team drove their Toyota Hilux to the second win of the season, as well as their second championship in a row. Free State crews Louw de Bruin and Riaan Greyling (Ford Ranger), and George Barkhuizen and David van Wyck (Toyota Hilux) registered career bests results with their second and third finishes, respectively.
Any hopes of the overall and SP Class championships developing into count out situations were also laid to rest when champions Chris Visser and Japie Badenhorst (Toyota Hilux) and closest challengers Hannes Grobler and Hennie ter Stege (BMW X3) were among the list of non-finishers.
Deon Venter and Ian Palmer in a Toyota Hilux were the Class D winners – and the only finishes in the class after the cars of outgoing champions Dewald van Breda and Johann du Toit (Toyota Hilux) and Cliff Weichelt and Johan Smalberger (Toyota Land Cruiser) succumbed to mechanical gremlins.
Former champions Manfred Schroder and Ward Huxtable (Ford Ranger) took the Class E honours with Schroder standing in for injured teenager Lance Woolridge, who missed out on the driver’s title. The result gave Huxtable the co-drivers championship with the Ford Ranger to be retired after winning a fifth national title.
Pikkie Labuschagne and Rikus Erasmus (Toyota Hilux) came home third behind the Ford Ranger of Gerald le Roux and Willem Pretorius. Provisional scoring gave Labuschagne the driver’s title, with Erasmus again missing the championship bus after the pair lost last year’s championship by a single point.
In the Special Vehicle championship, the father and son team of Kallie and Quintin Sullwald were the overall winners and also wrapped up the Class A championship. Second and third in Class A were Guy Henley and Warwick Goosen, and Nick Harper and Kevin Hume.
However, the top three spots were reserved for the Class P challengers of Archie Rutherford and Mile Lawrenson, who came in ahead of Mark Corbett and Rudi Balzer, and Johan van Staden and James Rossouw. This was the first time in the history of the series that three Class P cars shared the podium.
The Class B honours went to veteran Coetzee Labuscagne and his daughter Sandra, who had nearly an hour in hand over driver’s champion Bes Bezuidenhout and his son Etienne who nursed home a very sick-sounding BAT.
The first event of the 2011 championship is the Adenco 400 in the Western Cape at the end of March.
The team drove their Toyota Hilux to the second win of the season, as well as their second championship in a row. Free State crews Louw de Bruin and Riaan Greyling (Ford Ranger), and George Barkhuizen and David van Wyck (Toyota Hilux) registered career bests results with their second and third finishes, respectively.
Any hopes of the overall and SP Class championships developing into count out situations were also laid to rest when champions Chris Visser and Japie Badenhorst (Toyota Hilux) and closest challengers Hannes Grobler and Hennie ter Stege (BMW X3) were among the list of non-finishers.
Deon Venter and Ian Palmer in a Toyota Hilux were the Class D winners – and the only finishes in the class after the cars of outgoing champions Dewald van Breda and Johann du Toit (Toyota Hilux) and Cliff Weichelt and Johan Smalberger (Toyota Land Cruiser) succumbed to mechanical gremlins.
Former champions Manfred Schroder and Ward Huxtable (Ford Ranger) took the Class E honours with Schroder standing in for injured teenager Lance Woolridge, who missed out on the driver’s title. The result gave Huxtable the co-drivers championship with the Ford Ranger to be retired after winning a fifth national title.
Pikkie Labuschagne and Rikus Erasmus (Toyota Hilux) came home third behind the Ford Ranger of Gerald le Roux and Willem Pretorius. Provisional scoring gave Labuschagne the driver’s title, with Erasmus again missing the championship bus after the pair lost last year’s championship by a single point.
WINNING DUO: Father and son Team Sullwald took top honours in the Special Vehicle contest.
However, the top three spots were reserved for the Class P challengers of Archie Rutherford and Mile Lawrenson, who came in ahead of Mark Corbett and Rudi Balzer, and Johan van Staden and James Rossouw. This was the first time in the history of the series that three Class P cars shared the podium.
The Class B honours went to veteran Coetzee Labuscagne and his daughter Sandra, who had nearly an hour in hand over driver’s champion Bes Bezuidenhout and his son Etienne who nursed home a very sick-sounding BAT.
The first event of the 2011 championship is the Adenco 400 in the Western Cape at the end of March.