Racing followers could have an pleasure overload when the SAGT National Championship hits Gqeberha for the following three rounds of the title chase which varieties a part of the Southern African Endurance Series Spring Motorsport Festival on 30th September and 1st October.
The change in venue is a results of the Phakisa Raceway not being as much as customary for endurance racing.
Bringing additional innovation to the South African racing panorama, SAES is introducing a night time race for spherical eight on Friday night and internet hosting a rock live performance after sundown on Saturday with large names like Jesse Clegg, GoodLuck and DJ Zain SA taking centre stage.
Just six factors separate the highest three drivers within the championship standings, two of whom are from Port Elizabeth. Add perennial fan favorite Michael Stephen, fourth on the log, and race followers might be spoilt for selection relating to supporting their favorite native driver.
Topping the chief board after seven rounds is Silvio Scribante with a slender five-point lead after powering his Cemza Cement Lamborghini Huracan GT3 to 2 race victories in East London again in July. Knowing his residence monitor just like the again of his hand places him in pole place so as to add extra silverware to his assortment because the season heads to a dramatic conclusion.
Second-placed Dayne Angel (Autohaus Angel Ferrari 488GT3) has different plans, together with including extra victories to the 2 that the Cape lad has racked up thus far alongside together with his two further podiums.
One level adrift of Angel is the extraordinarily constant Aldo Scribante (Scribante Concrete Lamborghini Huracan GT3) who has claimed one win and 4 podiums to stay within the hunt for the inaugural National title.
A 3rd Scribante Lamborghini Huracan GT3 has been entered for the workforce’s patron Celso Scribante which might be shared by newly topped SupaCup Masters Champion Nick Davidson.
Michael Stephen is again! Having missed the final spherical (and three races) Stephen might be in motion in SAES Chairman Izak Spies’ model new Ultimate Outlaws Audi R8 LMS GT3. The a number of SA champion is very adaptable and performs on the high stage in each automobile he sits in.
Spies, in the meantime will race fellow SAES Shareholder Xolile Latlaka’s Into Africa/Africa Race Together Lamborghini Huracan GT3 which boasts a daring new livery.
Fifth on the factors log, and a single level behind Stephen is the Autohaus Angel pairing of Marcel Angel and Jason Ibbotson of their normally-aspirated Ferrari 458 GT3. The pair took victory in spherical seven and might be out to savour the style of champagne as soon as extra and retain their grip on the ProAm class lead.
Charl Arangies and Arnold Neveling have arguably been the quickest pairing this 12 months – however luck has evaded the Pagid/Stradale Motorsport Audi LMS GT3 duo. A brand new engine has been put in within the Audi and fireworks are more likely to fly because the #1 Audi pairing look to get their marketing campaign again on monitor.
Great information from the Bigfoot Express Freight camp is the arrival of a second Mercedes-AMG GT3 and the return of Andrew Culbert which is able to make its debut this weekend. Sun Moodley is gaining in confidence with each lap he completes, making his method steadily in direction of the sharp finish of the grid and additional progress will be anticipated over the following three rounds.
Teenage racer Kwanda Mokoena might be again behind the wheel of his Into Africa/Amandla Coal Audi R8 GT4. Mokoena’s racing efficiency has been spectacular this 12 months, successful twice within the SAGT sister collection, the SA Endurance Championship, which he leads general.
Rounding out the SAGT entry is the Toys-R-Us boss Mo Mia who’s loaning Marius Jackson’s MJR Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT3. Mia is not any slouch, as he claimed a podium alongside Mokoena in spherical two of the SA Endurance Championship earlier this season.
There is loads of monitor motion on Friday for followers of racing supercars with a minimum of 5 official follow classes after which spectators will have the ability to meet the drivers in a one-hour autograph session at 14h00.
The all-important qualifying session begins at 15h20, adopted by spherical eight which begins at 18h00.
After the chequered flag falls at 19h00, followers can keep for the Dash for Cash Drag Racing spectacle which runs for 3 hours beginning at 20h00 with DJ Zain SA taking part in a gig for the followers.
Saturday’s rounds 9 and ten begin at 09h40 and 13h10 respectively.
Tickets are accessible at https://saeseries.com/shop beginning at R50 for Friday’s motion with varied packages – beginning at R100 – accessible for Saturday’s jam-packed day of racing and music, meals, drink and kiddies leaping citadel village.
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