LPMPS4 KILLARNEY – WINTER 0 – RACING 1

Near perfect weather conditions welcomed the 185 entries for the fourth round of the Lime Property Management Power Series at the Killarney International Raceway. Always good to welcome more support to local motorsport Blockcoin now have the naming rights for Turn 1, Hoals Hoek, as well as representation in the Pirelli V8 Masters and APi Property Management GTi Challenge.

Bejo Trustees Formula Libre 2×10 Laps
The opening race at 08h45 was run with mist still hanging and some key regulars absent but those present certainly gave it their all. Storm Lanfear erred early on cold tyres, getting the close attention of Ari Stijlen as the 27S VW Reynard FVW clobbered the wall near the Scrutineering bay.

Dee-Jay Booysen enjoying a challenge free day in his 20S Dico / The Burner Factory / Novara Reynard FVW. Young Joshua Smit revelled in the cool conditions to bring his 83V S&S Racing Rhema 2 home second with Richard Carr somewhat surprised to be third in his 49V ERA Racing Rhema 2. Hayden Ellwood saw a potential podium disappear inside his badly misting visor and worked really hard for fourth in his 76C Wild Art Printing Swift SF92F. Damian White ran the risk of losing the front wings on his 29C Draken Racing Ray FGTi but hung on for fifth with young Eudrich Huysamen sixth in his 44V Chilli Racing Vee.

Heat two once again saw Booysen vanish into the distance with Damian White second, Joshua Smit third, Richard Carr fourth and Dexter Bruce fifth. Dexter enjoyed the most understeer possible in heat one but convinced the 17V single seater to actually turn in the dryer second heat with Nick van der Westhuizen claiming sixth in his 77V NW Logistics Forza.
Overall the order was Booysen, Smit, Carr, White, Bruce and Van der Westhuizen.

Pirelli MGA Racing Clubman – Classic SBK & Breakfast Run MC 2×9 Laps
With just eight machines on the starting grid it was something of a welcome surprise to watch the top three tussle for the entire nine laps with Jamie Hall putting his 65 Classic SBK MGA Racing Suzuki SRAD750 0.282sec ahead of Zander Taljaard on the 888 Clubman Toyota GR Racing Joubertina Honda CBR600RR and Wessel Kruger settling for third aboard his entertaining 163 Classic SBK Suzuki 750cc. Wesley Hendricks held onto fourth aboard his well ridden 55 Maxicool Honda CBR600RR with Juan Momberg fifth on his 9 Clubman Motorwise Suzuki GSXR750 and the top six completed by Gerhard Joubert on his 47 Breakfast Run Triumph Daytona 675.

Zander Taljaard turned the tables in heat two claiming the win from Wessel Kruger and Jamie Hall with Wesley Hendricks, Juan Momberg and Gerhard Joubert completing the top six. The top three changing positions throughout the race until Jamie started to struggle with overheating.

Spirit Invest Sports & GT 2×10 Laps
Sadly a number of cars were withdrawn after practice maladies with Connor Kilbride and newcomer, Garth Mackintosh, tripping over each other in Turn 4, Sarel Sweep, to eliminate both the 42A Racing Spirit BMW M3 and the Porsche GT3 Cup.
Imaad Modack on the other hand had his ex-Angel 47X Porsche GT2R ready and though this car could obviously be pushed harder there was no need and he cruised to victory in both heats to claim overall first place. Two fourth places netted second overall for Simeon Penev in his neat 77C Nioro Plastics Nissan 350Z and he was followed home by André Steenkamp in his 46C Nardini. Juan Stander keeping his 29C Old Oil Boys Ligier JS52 in good shape to claim fourth overall.

Veteran Eric Salomon home fifth in his 23C ELF S 06 and in sixth it was the good looking 74D Nissan 350Z of Brett Swanevelder. Martin Pugh looked likely to finish second overall but the 21B Shelby Can Am only lasted the first heatas did the 28C Nissan S14 of Yanni Hatzi.

Roy Obery had the senior motorsport supporters drooling in his very neat 124X Porsche 924 Carrera GT and he would eventually claim seventh overall for the day.

APi Property Management GTi Challenge 1×8 Laps
Split into a two race format with a normal 8 laps sprint race followed by a one hour endurance race was seemingly met with some resistance from the class A brigade as only Oliver Hintenaus had entered for the day in his 76A Coastal Engineering Supplies VW Polo 6R and he duly cruised to victory in the sprint.

Faizal Jacobs second in his 40B Traction Driving Experiences VW Polo 6 followed by
Weylin Voschenk in his 52B IMC-SA VW Polo 6 and Mohamed T Khalfey in the 14B Mad Performance VW Polo 6. Zaki Hendricks hung on to finish fith in his 7B Wheel Worx Mag Repairs VW Polo 6 and the top six completed by Shaun Liebenberg in his 75B Liebentech Wine VW Polo 6R.

Class C was the normal brat pack war and Flash Finneran claiming fist spot in his 25C Blockcoin VW Golf MkI from Daniël Munna in the 33C Api Property Group VW Golf MkI and Adriano Ferroli in his Ferroli Performance Centre VW Golf MkI. Ross Schroder fourth in the 16C APi Property Management VW Golf MkI with Mark Fontini fifth in his 31C Goch&Cooper VW Golf MkI and the top six completed by Imail Davids in the 36C Cool Touch Racing VW Golf MkI.

Sharing their cars with some well known names had the one hour take on an interesting potential but eventually the top six looked much the same with Oliver Hintenaus and Nian du Toit leading Mohamed T Khalfey – Dario Busi, Weylin Volschenk – Troy Dolinschek, Zaki Hendricks – Brett Roach, Faizal Jacobs – Paul Simon and Shaun Liebenberg – Ryan van Eden home.
In class C Adriano Ferroli – Kosie Weyers led Flash Finneran – Dylan van Eden, Daniel Munna – TBC, Ross Schroder – Jarred Simpson, Connor Joubert – Dillon Joubert (53C Powder Coating World VW Golf MkI) and Devon Dreyer – Craig du Toit (68C APi Property Management VW Golf MkI) home.

Thermo Fires Clubman Saloons 2×8 Laps
MP Pretorius, 790X Pretorius Racing VW Polo, may be considered a relative newcomer to Killarney but the Namibian based youngster was driving like a veteran in heat one to pip Jaco Lambert, 29B Lambert Racing VW Polo 1.8, by just 0.1second with Michael le Sueur third in his rapid 64A New Engineering VW Golf MkI 1.8. Shane Smith right amongst them in fourth with his 22A Truckport Logistics BMW E36 Turbo. Gary Smith in fifth with his 71B Truckport Logistics BMW E36 and the top six completed by Dillon Joubert in the 444X Powder Coating World BVMW E46 330i.

Heat two saw the top four running even closer and this time it was Shane Smith ahead of Jaco Lambert, MP Pretorius and Michael le Sueur with Paul Munnik fifth and Francois van Tonder sixth. After two heats of close racing it was Jaco Lambert 0.26seconds ahead of MP Pretorius with Shane Smith third, Michael le Sueur fourth, Dillon Joubert fifth and Francois van Tonder sixth.

Overall Class A order saw Shane Smith holding off Michael le Sueur whilst Class B had Jaco Lambert ahead of Gary Smith and Paul Munnik (79B Audi VW Auto Clinic VW Golf MkI). In Class C Francois van Tonder (44C FOD Marketing VW Polo 6R) topped out over Mia Bensch (110C Virtual 5 BMW E36 3.0) and in Class D Dillon Joubert (444D Powder Coating World BMW E46 330i) ruled with Arno Michels (911D Alkom Tools & Die BMW E36 328i) second, Jemma Olen (36D Alkom Tool & Die BMW E36 328i) third, Charl Opperman (89D Monterama Plant Hire VW Golf MkI) fourth, Steve Griffin-Wintle (37D SAC Ford Escort Mk5) fifth and Anton Jacobs (39D All Scale Nissan Sentra Sti 2.0) sixth.

Class E had Bernard Lehman (83E Opel Corsa 2.0) ahead of Peter Kannemeyer (12E Speed Precision Engineering VW Golf MkI), Chris Fersch (85E German Machine Services BMW E36 328i), André van der Merwe 123E Huguenot Vallei Mineral Water Chrysler C300), Evert du Toit 9651E New Engineering Ford Falcon) and Ley Fielding (67E BMW E36 325i). Class F owned by Adam Omar (24F VW Golf MkI).

Pirelli V8 Masters 2×9 Laps
Max was back and he was taking no prisoners. Fabio Tafani made his once off appearance for the year in the No1 Club Refrigeration APV347is to simply dominate as though he had never left. The only good element being that everyone now knows they have to improve before Tafani returns for the full season in 2026.

Mark Ridgway (%3 Gold – GetWorth) second in the first race with Alister Brown third (22 Gold – NAC Helicopters), Denis Gaiduk (9 Silver – Knorhoek) fourth, Gary Thomson (17 Gold – APV) fifth and Ken Finneran (44 Silver – Blockcoin) sixth.
Ten started H1 and ten returned for H2 with Sean Moore (73 Gold – Ziegler Logistics) taking second spot despite losing the rear of his car in Pertamina Fastron and Mark Ridgway claimed third with Stuart Spooner fourth, Ken Finneran fifth and Joshua Voget (69 Silver – Master Power Technologies) sixth.,

Overall it was Fabio Tafani from Mark Ridgway – Stuart Spooner – Sean Moore – Ken Finneran and Denis Gaiduk.

Kaltron Supercars 2×9 Laps
The first generation of the Owen Ashley Challenge saw nie cars present and in the absence of his normal sparring partner it was Glen Phillips who topped the day in the 33 Pro Oil entry with Ryan Kat driving to a fine second overall in his 11 Kaltron entry with Kyle Hallick third in his 31 Pro Oil entry. Shane Boscombe fourth for Lime Property Management in his No 18 entry with Nashrene Schloss fifth in the 24 VCIB entry. The top six completed by Brad Fenner in his 9 Pro Oil entry.
Still in need of more cars but one has to compliment the field on starting to look attractive and hopefully they will soon find themselves on the same competitive level to provide entertaining racing throughout the field.

Laude Classic Cars 2×9 Laps
PW Louw finally delivered on the promise he had shown briefly at previous meetings with PWL Konsult 81A Mazda RX7 Rotary on song to hold off a very determined Michael Hitchcock in the Cross Cape Forklift Services 67A Ford Mustang V8 Notchback, just 0.604 sec separating the two very different vehicles at the flag.

Louis Powell drove his replica Maissner 151A Ford Escort MkI as though Willie Meissner was watching to finish ahead of the Cape Eye Laser 414B Ford Capri of Jarryd Evans and the M&E Auto 1B Ford Capri 3.4 of Trevor Momberg. Keeping it blue in sixth was Brian Evans in his rapid Cape Eye Laser 441B Ford Escort MkI.

Wayne Roosser (94B VW Golf MkII GTi) and Ferdi Mouton met each other head-on in Turn 4, Sarel’s Sweep, after Ferdi had spun the Cross Cape Forklift Services 68B Ford Mustang V8 Notchback and though both finished the damage was visible.
Heat 2 and the RX7 had to give up the ghost allowing Michael Hitchcock to win from a flying Louis Powell, Trevor Momberg, Jarryd Evans, Brian Evans and Boetie van Zyl in his rapidly improving 72C Ford Fairmont GT 351ci.

Overall it was domination for the supporters of the blue oval with Michael Hitchcock, Louis Powell, Jarryd Evans, Trevor Momberg, Brian Evans and Boetie van Zyll claimed the top six positions.

Class A order Michael Hitchcock from Louis Powell. Class B saw Jarryd Evans put one over Trevor Momberg with Brian Evans third and Ferdi Mouton fourth. Class C had Boetie van Zyl leading Layne Hutchings (74C HSC Racing VW Scirocco), Theo Claassen (55C Yesterday’s Heroes Nissan Skyline 2.8 GTX), Deon Conradie (86C Toyota Conquest RSi 1.8), Jan Koekemoer (17C Mazda RX7 Rotary) and Robert Rowe (11C Veldt Reared BMW E30 325i).

Herman de Kock (69D Ford Escort MkI) claimed victory from Trevor Hutchings (71D HSC Racing VW Golf MkII GTi), Piet Matthee (944D Porsche 944) and Stephen Manuel (62D SLJ Auto Body Nissan Skyline 2.8). Calvin Beekman (42E Rob Tissington Morris Minor 1293) claimed Class E from Rob Senekal (50E EMI Group Ford Escort MkI).
Zane Schonknecht a welcome visitor from the Border in his 121X Chalk Air VW Beetle.

Kaltron Fine Cars 2×9 Laps
The weather almost changed when12 Kaltron Fine Cars arrived on the grid and on pure pace it was Dewald Lambert (58 Lambert Racing VW Beetle) who won overall from Arnold Lambert (111 Lambert Racing VW Jetta 2.0) and Dave Alexander (44 PiriPiri Racing Morgan Plus 4) with Melani Lambert (90 Lambert Racing VW Fox) fourth, Günther Appelgryn (13 Appelgryn Trading VW Golf MkI 2.0) fifth and Natasha Tischendorf (285 VW Jetta CLi) sixth.

On Index of Performance the result saw Dewald Lambert (97.02%) win from his father Arnold Lambert (96.86%) and sister Melani Lambert (96.86%). Do not know whether there had ever been a family podium of this nature in racing at Killarney? Melani also celebrating her birthday on Saturday.

Stephen Whitehead (96.70%) fourth in his little 156 Leyland Mini GTS 1275cc, Justin Brown (96.63%) fifth in the Rob Tissington 41 Austin Healey Sprite and in sixth it was Natahsa Tischendorf (96.48%).

Also rare if not unique to see no less than four lady drivers involved with Melani Lambert, Natasha Tischendorf, Sandra Bekker and Di Dugmore driving.

Pirelli / Seal Pro Winelands SBK / SBK Challenge / Masters / 600cc MC 2×9 Laps
Damon Purificati made it worthwhile tovisit Killarney by taking victory in heat one aboard his 88 Andalaft Racing BMW 1000RR with Slade van Niekerk forced to accept second aboard his 111 Project 60 Kawasaki ZX10R. Ronald Slamet third on his 68 RSRA Yamaha R1 with a mighty Jonny Towers fourth aboard his 17 Missile Motorcycles Honda 600 CBR. Ryan van Nieuwkerk fifth on his 11 Andalaft Racing Yamaha R6 with the top six completed by Michael du Toit on the 99 Quickpos Yamaha R1.

The visitors certainly bolstered the entries to a strong 17 and kept the local riders more than just honest as they were proving to be more than just competitive. However this was Killarney and the locals do not enjoy being beaten on home turf. Slade van Niekerk posting a 1min12.584 fastest lap to win heat two from Ronald Slamet with Damon Purificati third, Jonny Towers fourth, Lubabalo Ntisani 953 LB Auto Kawasaki ZX10R) fifth and Deon Ebel (27 Honda CBR1000 RR) sixth.
Overall Slade van Niekerk managed to defend local honour with Damon Purificati serving notice in second place and Ronald Slamet third. Jonny Towers fourth, Michael du Toit fifth and Lubabalo Ntisani sixth.

BMW CCCT Series 2×9 Laps
Mansoor Parker cruised to victory in his 46B Jive BMW E46 M3 Turbo with Anwar Levy second in his 45C Jive BMW E46 M3 Turbo and third place going to a highly motivated Baby Jacobs in his 42C Executive Decisions BMW M3. Marco Retter fourth in his 50 Progress Precision Engineering BMW E36 328i and in fifth it was Dillon Joubert in his 444E Powder Coating World BMW E46 330i. The top six completed by Ernest Page in his 19E CRA Racing BMW E36 328i.

Weylin Volschenk unfortunate to disappear from Pole on the opening lap when his 52C IMC-SA BMW E30 Turbo whilst Zac Laden certainly proved that he was quite comfortable in both FWD and RWD, driving the 64F Incledon BMW E36 328i in a most entertaining style.

P.S. Wishing Brian Dark a full and speedy recovery after his unfortunate accident In Pertamina Fastron on the final lap in his 2222X Orchid Engineering BMW E36 328i

Published by: Patrick Vermaak

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