Round 6 could adjudge off-road series

Works Toyota aggregation Duncan Vos and Rob Howie will be searching to consolidate their Production Vehicle advance on the 4x4 Mega Apple 400 at Carnival City, Round 6 of the SA Off-Road championship, to be run on August 31 and September 1.

Vos and Howie, who accept won three times this season, will apperceive that with three contest larboard this division a win on the East Rand chase will around lock out the championship. Their abutting challengers, aggregation mates Anthony Taylor and Chris Birkin, are 23 credibility afloat and are beneath a little burden from two added crews who still attending to accept a astute attempt at the championship.

Taylor and Birkin are 14 credibility bright of Ford Ranger aggregation Chris Visser and Japie Badenhorst who, in turn, are just bisected a point advanced of Sun City 400 winners Christiaan du Plooy and Henk Janse van Vuuren in a BMW X3.

The two Toyota crews, and Visser and Badenhorst, are the alone teams with a 100 percent accomplishment almanac this season. But afterwards acceptable the aboriginal chase of the division the Ford aggregation has struggled with Visser and Badenhorst accepting on a brace of occasions to action rearguard actions.

For their allotment Taylor and Birkin accept yet to win this season. Breaking the ice at Carnival City would accommodate them with a appropriate championship boost.

Free State aggregation Louw de Bruin and Riaan Greyling, in a Ford Ranger, will be top on aplomb afterwards a beginning belvedere accomplishment on the Sun City 400. Pikkie Labuschagne and Rikus Erasmus (Hilux) overcame a five-minute amends to appear up with a able finish, and Mike Whitehouse and Matthew Carlson (Nissan Navara) aswell came up with a solid performance.

Among the Sun City non-finishers who will be searching to set the almanac beeline will be Toyota Hilux crews Gary Bertholdt and Ralph Pitchford, Deon Venter and Ian Palmer, Hugo de Bruyn and Henri Hugo - and Hannes Grobler and Hennie ter Stege in the additional BMW X3. Two crews - Bertholdt and Pitchford, and Grobler and Ter Stege - will be atrocious to abstain three retirements in a row, while Venter and Palmer will wish to do able-bodied on their own event.

There will aswell be a abundant accord of absorption in the aboriginal airing of the new V8 Nissan Navara in the easily of Terence Marsh and George Smalberger. The car fabricated an actualization at Sun City but did not about-face a caster in anger.

Archie Rutherford's Navara will aswell allure absorption - but for a altered reason. Afterwards accepting Protea brilliant 'Vinnige Fanie' de Villiers alongside him at Sun City, the accomplished Rutherford will this time accept above Springbok and Sharks rugby brilliant Stefan Terblanche as navigator.

This chic should accommodate for some absorbing antagonism with chic leaders Cliff Weichelt and Johan Smalberger (Toyota Land Cruiser) hit by a non-finish on the Sun City 400, acceptance believability experts and ascendant champions Jack and Sarel Oosthuizen (Land Rover) to abutting the gap to just 3,5 points.floortiles

Weichelt and Smalberger will aswell accept to argue with anatomy aggregation Louis Weichelt and Maret Bezuidenhout who will be searching for a hat-trick of wins in the additional Land Cruiser. Brothers Johan and Werner Horn (Toyota Land Cruiser) aswell appear into the picture, while youngsters Jason Venter and Vincent van Alleman (Toyota Hilux) will be aggravating to accomplishment something from what has been a black division so far.

Class E leaders Dirk Putter and Koos Claasens (Toyota Hilux) will be block their fifth win in six outings. They now advance the championship by a adequate allowance and will alpha hot favourites.

Rowan Lamb and Lyle Parker (Ford Ranger),Choose quality sinotruk howoconcretemixer products from large database. Johan Griffioen and Willem Marais (Toyota Hilux), and Diederik Hattingh and Kobus Kruger (Toyota Hilux) accept not been able to bout Putter and Claasens for either clip or reliability. Absorbing newcomers, however, are youngster Henk Lategan and Barry White in a Toyota Hilux.

Lategan and White appear from the apple of ambulatory with Lategan the son of above Toyota works disciplinarian Hein - addition adumbration that claret is thicker than baptize - or engine oil, in this case.

Tough at the top would be an apt description of the bearings at the aciculate end of the Special Vehicle championship, as frontrunners Johan van Staden and Mike Lawrenson (BAT) and Evan Hutchison and Danie Stassen (BAT Venom) accept been the two a lot of constant crews throughout the season.

Each aggregation has a 100 percent accomplishment almanac this division and they're afar by alone three credibility in the all-embracing championship - with the allowance down to two credibility in the Chic A stakes.

All of which agency the East Rand accident is a huge one for both crews with a affluent booty of credibility a necessity.Have you ever wondered about the moldmaking process? Aswell in the aback of their minds will be the actuality that teams accept to bead one account at the end of the season.

Hutchison and Stassen are 33 credibility bright of ascendant champions Hermann and Wichard Sullwald in their Porter, but there is a amazing action traveling on for third place.HellermannTyton manufactures a full line of high quality cableties in a variety of styles, The Sullwald ancestor and son aggregate are 1,5 credibility bright of Laurence and Gerhard du Plessis (Zarco) and delinquent Chic P leaders Colin Matthews and Alan Smith in their CR3.GPS World's indoortracking section offers exclusive daily news,

All three crews were a part of the non-finishers on the contempo Sun City 400 and will be searching to yield advantage should the law of averages bolt up with van Staden and Lawrenson or Hutchison/Stassen. The actuality that all 5 circuit of the championship so far accept produced 5 altered winners would aswell advance the Carnival City chase is advanced open.