Are you ready for Round 3 at Tarlton?
'Spectators will be guaranteed some awesome competition runs'.
Race enthusiasts can prepare themselves for an explosive day of action packed racing as we reach the halfway mark of the 2015 SA National Drag Racing Championship when Round 3 takes place at Tarlton International Raceway on Tuesday 16 June (Youth Day).
Spectators will be guaranteed some awesome competition runs amongst some of the fastest Drag car competitors in South Africa as the Top Eliminator Category showcases drivers like the A-Class Dragster pilots, Dalmain Hattingh and Deon Swanepoel (Whiplash) along with the Top Alcohol Funny Car Pilot, Nico van Rensburg (Lethal Weapon) while they devour the asphalt with some spectacular racing on the Day.
These Top Eliminator beasts are known for posting monstrous times of 6 – 7 seconds at over 300 km/h over the quarter mile.
Bringing everything to the fight will be Gavin Wilkins (SpeedNSound/SpeedPro/SKF Mustang) to gain a championship points lead over the rest of the “SKF” Senior Eliminator arsenal. Joining the crusade, multiple SA National Champion, Nico van Rensburg in his Supercharged Ford Thunderbird along with Hannes Minnaar with the Twin Turbo 2JZ Corolla, Pieter Lombard with the (RacingBoys) Rotary powered Turbo Rustler and Sybie Coetzee with his Turbocharged Nitrous fed Datsun.
Topping the Super Competition Leaderbords are, Leon du Plooy (Nissan), Mark Slooten (Camaro) and Louwtjie van den Berg (Corvette). Following in close persuit is Eziel Esterhuysen (Honda) and Rudi Prinsloo (Nissan).
Fighting to keep the points lead in Competition Eliminator will be drivers such as Riaan Esterhuysen (Honda), Dennis van Loggenberg (CanAm) and Shaun Wilkins (Ford). Hot on the leader’s tails will be drivers such as, Quentin Boylan (Honda), Wouter Havenga (Ford), Michelle Taylor (Celica), Andre de Beer (Datsun), and Kalen Arumugam (Opel) along with many more.
Street Eliminator will have two brackets racing on the day, Super Street with a race bracket of 11.00 to 14.00 seconds will see drivers such as Ugan Naidoo (VW Golf), Chris Foley (Corolla), Henk Bannink (VW Polo), Dino Singh (VW Golf) and Elise Havenga (BMW) while in Modified street, which have a race bracket of 13.50 to 17.00 seconds, will see lady racers like, Ester Cloete (VW Golf) and Nasjki van den Berg (BMW) fight it out along the male drivers such as Francois Weydeman (VW Golf), Jannie Weydeman (Nissan), Andries Naude (Chev) and Dev Bhikshu (VW) to name but a few.
Biker fans will also be spoilt with most of the country’s quickest and fastest street and drag bikes with riders like Wayne Heasman (Suzuki), Jerry Lombard (Suzuki), Zafar Hoosen (Suzuki), Shaun and Bertus Breedt (Suzuki’s) will offer stiff competition in the SS-Bikes Class while in the SB-Bikes class, Peter de la Rey (BMW S1000RR), Jesaja Lombard (Suzuki), Peet Viviers (Suzuki) and Leonard Roberts (Suzuki) will battle it out amongst the bikers field to gain maximum points for the day.
Learning the ropes, will be the new popular Juniors Class. Racing the Junior dragsters will be Marco Pretorius, Wynand Conradie, and Michelle van Rensburg. Joining the Junior cars class will be Jaydin Lombard and Ricardo Pretorius. On the 2 wheel side, we will have Zander Strydom, Danika Niewoudt, Hanro Saaiman and Mikayle Cloete. This is where the future starts and definitely not to be missed.
Joining in the Exhibition fun will be Marius Coetzee in the Leyland Matador, 12litre Twin Turbo V8 Drag Truck along with Deon Swanepoel in the Turbocharged Ford Cargo V8 Drag Truck.
Topping off the day will be exhibition runs by Nico van Rensburg in the Famous, Tarlton J34 Westinghouse Jet Dragster. This beast of machine is capable of reaching speeds in excess of 400 km/h over a quarter mile which you cannot afford to miss.
Tickets are on sale at Tarlton’s main gate on the day at R110 for adults and R60 for kids (ages 6 to 12). Tarlton offers plenty of free parking and take-away food and refreshments available at the venue. The gates will open at 7am and racing is set to start at around 8am.
Should the event rain out, it will be re-scheduled for Sunday 21 June.
• Details: Contact Nico van Heerden on 011 762 5431 or 083 309 8461 or follow the event on www.facebook.com/tarltonraceway or add 083 309 8469 to your contacts to receive whattsapp broadcasts. (Note this is NOT a chat group, it is purely informative.)
