First in class, winners of the Index of Performance and fourth overall after 200 kilometres of hard racing from sunlight and into the early dark of winter at Zwartkops Raceway at the weekend in the Regional Extreme Festival event provided a just reward for ALL THINGS MOTORING’S Mike O’Sullivan and his long-time friend, sometimes on-track foe and regular endurance race co-pilot, Rob Clark.
“This was a case of age and experience overcoming youth and exuberance,” grinned O’Sullivan. “We pitted immediately the safety car came out and this gave us two laps for free. Rob did a steady stint and the results show it was a well-planned effort.”
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“The pair used Clark’s Honda Ballade for the event with O’Sullivan’s similar car (and an original works Honda Racing car) still in the rebuild stages after an unplanned meeting with the wall at Kyalami at the National Extreme Festival round.
The category in which both O’Sullivan and Clark compete is the Ferrio Energia 111 & GT Sports & Saloons including Superhatch and a field of 34 cars crossed the start line with the Containerforce Self Storage/ALL THINGS MOTORING Ballade immediately making its presence felt in Class C where it was up against the likes of Tyron Pillay (TPAS VW Golf MkIII), Anthony and Sebastian Bouillart in the Applied Heat VW Polos and Christopher Tait in his Sportex VW Polo.
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Rob Clark (left) and Mike O'Sullivan
The race was won by Louis Scholtz in the Car Care Clinic Class B Honda Ballade ahead of Wayne Robb (Ford Focus 225 ST) and Wouter Roos/Peet Visagie in the Orifen Oil VW Golf 7.
* The Index of Performance is a calculation based over the race distance that rewards absolute consistency in lap times.
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