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Privateers Chris Visser and Japie Badenhorst (RFS/Visser Transport Toyota Hilux) won the Atlas Copco Sugarbelt 400 in KwaZulu Natal on Saturday to record their second national championship off road race victory of the year.
They beat defending champion Duncan Vos and co-driver Rob Howie in the factory Castrol Toyota Hilux by just over a minute after 400 km of racing through the sugar cane fields and forests in the Eston area near Pietermaritzburg.
Anthony Taylor and Robin Houghton finished third in the second factory Toyota Hilux, more than five minutes behind Vos and Howie after running in second place earlier in the event. They had completed Friday’s 100 km prologue in second place, just one second behind Visser and Badenhorst, but fell back on Saturday’s first of three 100-km loops when they experienced a broken brake pipe.
Vos and Howie, who were third in the prologue, took up the chase and kept the winners honest right to the end.
Former champions and local favourites Neil Woolridge and Kenny Skjoldhammer, winners of the recent Toyota Dealer 400 in Mpumalanga, were fourth in a factory Ford Ranger diesel. Rounding out the top five, all of whom were in class SP bakkies, was another local hero, Alfie Cox, and Jurgen Schroder in a PS Laser Nissan Navara.
Winners of class D were defending champions Dewald van Breda and Johann du Toit, 16th and the last of the finishers in a Northam Toyota Hilux. Class E honours went to Pikkie Labuschagne and Rikus Erasmus in the 4x4 Megaworld Toyota Hilux, who were 14th overall.
The Special Vehicle category was won for the second time this season by former champion Shameer Variawa and Siegfriend Rousseau in a class A Total Motorsport Porter. Second, 1 min 31 sec behind, was the father and son pairing of Kallie and Quintin Sullwald in their BAT Spec 4. Reigning champions Evan Hutchison and Achim Bergmann were third in the Motorite Racing BAT Spec 3, a further five minutes back.
Brothers Johan and Deon Bezuidenhout (Adenco BAT) won class P, finishing fifth overall. There were no finishers in class B.
They beat defending champion Duncan Vos and co-driver Rob Howie in the factory Castrol Toyota Hilux by just over a minute after 400 km of racing through the sugar cane fields and forests in the Eston area near Pietermaritzburg.
Anthony Taylor and Robin Houghton finished third in the second factory Toyota Hilux, more than five minutes behind Vos and Howie after running in second place earlier in the event. They had completed Friday’s 100 km prologue in second place, just one second behind Visser and Badenhorst, but fell back on Saturday’s first of three 100-km loops when they experienced a broken brake pipe.
Vos and Howie, who were third in the prologue, took up the chase and kept the winners honest right to the end.
Former champions and local favourites Neil Woolridge and Kenny Skjoldhammer, winners of the recent Toyota Dealer 400 in Mpumalanga, were fourth in a factory Ford Ranger diesel. Rounding out the top five, all of whom were in class SP bakkies, was another local hero, Alfie Cox, and Jurgen Schroder in a PS Laser Nissan Navara.
Winners of class D were defending champions Dewald van Breda and Johann du Toit, 16th and the last of the finishers in a Northam Toyota Hilux. Class E honours went to Pikkie Labuschagne and Rikus Erasmus in the 4x4 Megaworld Toyota Hilux, who were 14th overall.
The Special Vehicle category was won for the second time this season by former champion Shameer Variawa and Siegfriend Rousseau in a class A Total Motorsport Porter. Second, 1 min 31 sec behind, was the father and son pairing of Kallie and Quintin Sullwald in their BAT Spec 4. Reigning champions Evan Hutchison and Achim Bergmann were third in the Motorite Racing BAT Spec 3, a further five minutes back.
Brothers Johan and Deon Bezuidenhout (Adenco BAT) won class P, finishing fifth overall. There were no finishers in class B.