Legends Newsletter 5/2015

Legends of the 9 Hour

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The Passion for Speed – Killarney 7th of February 2015

Castrol SA Tourist Trophy Pre 1966/68 Le Mans Sports & GT Cars.

Castrol Magnatec
The closest finish ever
Despite a high attrition rate in practice and in the event the SA Tourist Trophy was of the most exciting finishes ever! The blue GT40 of Ross Lazarus crossed the line 0.4 of a second ahead of the Lola T70 Spyder of Mark & Jono du Toit. These two fought tooth and nail the entire race with hardly more than a second between them. The SA Tourist Trophy has always produced exciting finishes through the years but on Saturday 7th of February it was the closest and an exciting event, a flat out sprint , in third was the Swedish Ford GT40 of Kennet Pearson and Kurt followed by the mighty Corvette of Michiel Campagne. The GSM Dart of Chad Ten finished a remarkable seventh overall.

 

The biggest heart stopping moment was when a rear stub axle broke on the Lazarus Daytona at the end of the pit straight at full speed. Peter L was extremely lucky to come away from this accident with a severe shaking but a wrecked Daytona.
The disappointments of the event was Marc Lauths’ magnificent blue Lola T70mk3 Coupe which broke a gearbox and Craig Shorters’ GT40 with overheating problems.
 

SKF Pre 1966 Legends of the 9 Hour

SKF Racing
These big bangers and the icon Mini Coopers were a huge spectator attraction.
The big red Galaxie with Sarel van der Merwe behind the wheel was simply magnificent. It was however slowed by a slipping clutch which took a second or two off the ‘big reds’ lap times, but the large crowd cheered the show on.

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Up front it was the orange Mustang of Franco Scribante challenged by the Keith Hinckleys’ Fairlane driven by Larry Wilford until he went wide when attempting to pass Franco which gave second to Jono du Toit in the Nova, behind Sarel and closing was Mark du Toit and strongly challenged by Jacques Mouton in the Silver Hawk.
Colin Ritchie one of the few ‘LITTLE Giants’ who ventured to the Cape, really impressed the local establishment with a beautifully prepared Mini Cooper. Colin Ritchie won the ‘U2’ category.

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International Sports Racing Prototypes

Castrol Magnatec
For Pre 1974 Sports and GT gave Franco Scribante a run way victory when his prime opposition fell away.

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The Dutch Chevron B19 broke its chassis, the Lola of Colin Clay retired with gearbox issues, the Porsche 917 of Rui Campos broke its steering etc
Full results on the www.mylaps.com website

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Ross Lazarus wins the South African Tourist Trophy Series for Pre 1966/68 Le Mans Sports & GT
Ross Lazarus won the 2015 South African Tourist Trophy championship with a magnificent win at Killarney on Saturday the 7th of February.
We hail the champion
1958 / 1974 The Great Years of South African Motor Racing.

1966 Legends of the 9 Hour Production Cars
Pre-1966/68 Le Mans Sports & GT
Pre-1974 International Sports Prototypes
Pre-1966/68 Little Giants Production Sports & GT Cars
Pre-1966 under 2 litre Production Cars
Pre-1971 Campion of Champions Production Cars