Vale rocks the Rock

Benoni’s Clare Vale competed at a packed Rock Raceway, at the high energy Rockmania event on Saturday, July 13.

The motorsport festival is held at the Rock Raceway, in Brakpan, three times over the year, to showcase all their different racing categories, and includes a spectacular stunt.

This time the stunt featured a magnificent Yak aerobatic aircraft, which performed in front of packed grandstands.

The event was supported to the extent that the gates had to be closed when the circuit reached its full capacity.

The crowd loved the powerful RAM V8 Mustang and, although Vale didn’t get through to the Top 8, there were many calls for a “one more time” from her.

Speaking after the event, Vale said: “Rockmania was incredible.

“My RAM Mustang was in awesome form and our leading run was one of our best ever.

“I’m still getting to grips with reining in all the horsepower behind a slower car, though, so unfortunately I lost points by straight lining while following Fred Cooper Jnr.”

She added that she still has plenty of time to work on that problem before the next event, which is the next Japan Auto drift meeting, at The Rock Raceway, on August 3.